nettie
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It's Sloetime.......here in Essex! The little beauties are plump and turning slightly soft, it's just the right time to pick 'em and bung em in the freezer.
Happy gin-making 
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jema
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Re: It's Sloetime.... | nettie wrote: | ...here in Essex! The little beauties are plump and turning slightly soft, it's just the right time to pick 'em and bung em in the freezer.
Happy gin-making |
Good luck, we will be buying about 30 bottles og GIn in a few days to do ours!
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2steps
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Haven't seen any here. when I was growing up there were sloe trees (maybe they were damsons? they were like tiny plums) in a car park on our street and we use to pick and eat them. we thought they were tiny plums
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nettie
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I'm sure they were damsons, 2steps. Sloes are so sour they would have peeled the gums back off your teeth!
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2steps
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must of been. they weren't sour or at least no more sour than plums sometime are
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Bugs
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We've found and cooked my first damsons ever this year...in fact we've just had a bowl of home made icecream with this as a topping. It is so nice I will be going to any lengths next year to get my hands on as many as possible.
Sloes though...hmmm. Maybe we ought to get a cupful and have a go at something just so that we know we aren't dismissing them.
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cab
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Our sloe gin is on. Smelling and tasting good already, been on about a week or so. Should be a good vintage this year!
All of the wild Prunus have had a tremendous year.
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nettie
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They sure have. My freezer's full of the buggers and I don't know what to do with them all!!! Chutney, anyone.......?
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sally_in_wales
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Stew em, strain out the stones, then freeze in small amounts to add to rich meat stews, adds a really nice fruity element without making it 'sweet'
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jocorless
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Well I'm feeling heartedly cheesed off - Just been for a walk upto our regular sloe bushes and found that they've all been chopped down by the council in their infinite wisdom
I wouldn't mind so much but they were on the top of Warton Crag and I've got a bad chest infection so we walked up a very steep hill with much wheezing and coughing for nothing plus I don't know anywhere else around here where there are sloes - so no gin for us this year  unless we buy it
One very cheesed off Joanne
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