Nov 09 08 |
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When we woke up this morning it wasn’t raining. We stayed in bed for a bit , watched Andrew Marr, a cartoon or two, and it still wasn’t raining. In fact, by midday, there was blue sky and sunshine.
There was only one thing we could do – go out!
We decided on a local walk up through the fields and around Craggy Wood.
We had armed ourselves with plastic bags because we knew we’d be passing a backthorn bush. We thought we were probably too late, but we found the bush still full of big fat juicy sloes.
Lots of sloes...
Not wanting to be greedy, but I just had to get the ones higher up.
... but the best ones are always just out of reach.
The sloes are now in the freezer, waiting until I get a spare hour or two when I can add the all important ingredients of gin and sugar.
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Lovely weather – still, it’s not often better than down south, so best enjoyed whilst you can. Sunday down here was windy, wet & cold.
My book says that sloes are better when they have been frosted and the skins have burst open. So it may not even be too late for us to go collecting. I just asked Richard if he wanted a collecting stroll up the road, but he’s succombed to the central heating (for the first time this year) and his laptop
Yeah, they are supposed to be better after the first frost. But there’s a cheat; just put ‘em in the freezer before you use ‘em.
But we’ve collected them before the first frosts too and they were okay. Not sure if the ones Dave & Fiona collected in August won’t be a bit too bitter though! Maybe in need of a little extra sugar?
We’ve had a couple of frosts now, so those we collected on Sunday should be great!
Poor show Richard, imagine putting your feet up with a
You could combine the collecting with a run…
good booklaptop in a centrally heated house over getting out to sort out your supply of sloe gin for Xmas! I thought you were a super fit kinda guy!If the skins aren’t split, it is recommended to prick them. I have spent at east 2 hours in the past pricking all he sloes with a needle. Tough work.
Have you finished all the sloe gin from last year and previous years??
Mine is ageing nicely – well, ageing anyway – but I plan to try sloe jelly when I can get to a shop that has gelatine.
Ooooh, sloe jelly sounds nice.
I want to try that.
We have maybe half a litre left of sloe gin from last year. That’ll just take us up to when this next batch will be ready.