Re-jarring, can I do it?

Er I'm not sure - when you initially made them, you'd have created a sterile environment by using clean jars and potting up when the contents were also hot, enabling the lids to create a vacuum seal.

By opening the jars, you're re-introducing a non-sterile atmosphere and I don't know whether sterilising the new jars would be enough to prevent the contents going off after re-potting.  Or whether you'd need to re-boil the contents too during the re-potting process.

Hopefully Val or someone else will come along soon who knows what to suggest 

That's what I was afraid of!

Ah well, maybe the Christmas gifts wont all be the same size then

Jenny

Sometimes I've had to re-do jellies that didn't set properly and its almost back to square one to do so - melt what I have, add a bit more pectin, into clean jars and reboil to seal. The chutneys could be re-jarred but would have to be re-heated to heat the chutney then waterbathed to properly seal the jars. Without heating the chutney itself first, you'd never get a proper bottle seal.