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[Ygerna]

I was down in Somerset for the weekend, and on Saturday we all went blackberry and sloe gathering. Top day for it, glorious weather, sunny and warm.

 

So, I am getting my sloes ready for the gin, I've been googling a recipe (as you do) but wondered what your favourite recipe is on here? I did do a search but, got lots of hits but no recipe

 

TIA

[The Dogmother]

I don't really have a recipe, just bung sloes in a kilner jar to about athird full, pour some sugar in on top, then add the gin. Shake it daily for the first month, then weekly until about 3 months is up, the sieve off the sloes and strain it through a coffee filter paper.

[ClaireG]

I just do what my Dad has always done!! Prick the sloes with a fork, layer them up in a large container (eg kilner jar) sprinkling caster sugar between each layer until you reach the top of the jar. Then pour over the gin. Shake the container every day for a couple of weeks. Leave for as long as possible but at least 3 months. Strain and decant into bottles then drink!

[henny penny]

Hi

I have made several fruit vodkas/ gins - I am in a waste not phase_ what do people do with the fruit once decanted eg for rhubarb schnapps or sloe gin or blackberry whisky for instance

[Ygerna]

Hi

I have made several fruit vodkas/ gins - I am in a waste not phase_ what do people do with the fruit once decanted eg for rhubarb schnapps or sloe gin or blackberry whisky for instance

 

I *think* it was Poet who made some boozy jams I am sure she will be along at some point to either confirm or deny that

[The Dogmother]

Every year, I use the raspberries out of the raspberry voddy to go in the centre of a delicious pavlova for dessert at Christmas lunch

 

[Cinnamon]

I remember once posting a recipe for a sloe gin chocolate thing, that used up the gin sloes - will try to do a search.

 

EDIT - viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8353&p=168773&hilit=+sloe#p168773

[BeckyBoo]

I'm the same as Claret, but don't forget they're apparently better after a night in the freezer - sweetens them up! Then 18 months later, if any are still whole dip them in melted chocolate and eat - just don't plan anything for the 24 hours after that!!

 

BeckyBoo

[The Dogmother]

I'm the same as Claret, but don't forget they're apparently better after a night in the freezer

 

Thanks for reminding me Becky - you're supposed to pick them after the first frost so that they get bletted (softened) by the cold, but they've usually all gone if you leave them that long. I pick mine as soon as they are ripe and freeze them first as Becky recommends

[chickencam]

Oh picked some today that were really squidgy and we have made loads, went to the supermarket and came out with 3 bottles of gin and some sugar I wonder what they thought . The sugar was for marrow rum. I now have a strange thing hanging in tights from my kitchen curtain rail and my OH is strangely excited

[Ygerna]

I froze mine over night too, and they indeed did go squidgy. I may have been a little over excited when harvesting them though. I've made a HUGE batch AND given the rest of the sloes left over to a neighbour

[Alis girls]

if you freeze them - you dont have to prick them - will look out recipe for you I use later