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Sloes are dripping from the trees in Gloucestershire this year. Mine came from the Bourton on the Water area and were picked for me (thanks Marjorie and Connie!)
posted by Gill at
4:11 pm
A record of my journey towards "An elegant sufficiency, content, retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, ease and alternate labour, useful life" Not there yet. Some way to go!
I knit, I sew, I embroider, I paint and draw and occasionally keep a journal. I do funny things with paper, paint and glue, I make books and other stuff. Not much of this is of any use (with the possible exception of the socks I knit) but I find fun in everything I do. I love colour, texture, pattern and want to do it all perfectly - preferably in the next five minutes. When I'm not making stuff myself, I'm teaching someone else how to do it (or teaching someone else to teach someone else to do it)
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5 Comments:
Oh, sloe gin! Lovely!
I'm tempted by the shawl in your last post too, but mine may be defiantly red.
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MandellaUK, at 5:47 pm
Are they bluets? Is that what sloe gin is? Gin with distillate of blueberries? How neat!
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kt, at 4:17 am
I'm don't think a bluet and a sloe are one and the same...a sloe comes from the blackthorn tree - have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackthorn for a good picture.
Sloe gin is simply sloes steeped in gin for several months (in my house, a year) with sugar to sweeten. Wonderful warming drink for the winter months!
You can make a similar liqueur with damsons and maybe blueberries would work as well? I am, however, more of an expert drinker than a maker!
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Gill, at 8:03 am
I thought you had to wait for the frosts before one picked sloes????
wrong again?
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Zaz, at 6:34 pm
2 crates please!!! post haste to Sweden!
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Zaz, at 6:35 pm
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