Looking forward to foraging

TravellingAbuela

[QUOTE=
so this afternoon ive been and picked two huge ice cream tubs full of blackberries for a recipe i spotted in nigellas new book 'kitchen' - blackberry vodka so am off tomorrow to go and buy a preserving jar and a cheap bottle of vodka to start recipe number 2!![/QUOTE]

Last winter I just made sloe gin and we loved it. My son made an all-sort-of-fruits vodka and that was lovely too. He put in blackberries, raspberries, blackcurrants.

I have a spare freezer now packed with all the berries we have foraged (bilberries, blackberries, elderberries, rowanberries and sloes) - not to mention boxfuls of crab apples and pears - so once I have finished making all my jams and chutneys I am going to experiment with a few different fruit vodkas and gins which should just be ready in time for Christmas :beer:

emiff6

little_miss_welsh wrote: »

ok, so i sat on the sofa this afternoon with a corn on the cob skewer stabbing all my sloes.

Cor, you've got patience! I did that the first yr I made sloe gin, and thought blow this for a game of soldiers. Now I put the sloes in a plastic bag and whack them a bit with the rolling pin or the meat tenderiser to split the skins. Works just as well, and so, so much quicker!

neverdespairgirl

I tend to sit at my mother's kitchen table and chat to her while we both do it. More fun to do things like sloe pricking in company.