I was cleaning out the freezer when I came across 550g of these bad boys. Wild damsons rather than sloes which they are often mistaken for. They will make a lovely gin. Not as ruby in color or as full on in taste as the sloe but good nevertheless. I think this is what you had on your country estate @flattythehurdler
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No, it’s on blackthorn in my scrubland Fagan. There’s heaps of blackthorn there.
Those photos were poor enough, and, it was a month too late. Im pretty sure they’re sloes, though I’m always open to correction
Spent the morning bottling last autumn’s sloe gin. This is the prize exhibit, made with late season sloes picked in the Wicklow mountains.
It will be a gift
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I got a gift of a bottle of sloe Gin recently, lovely tack. I’d usually have a glass before bed and some of the dreams you’d have in the hours after are off the wall. Fighting on horse back last night with only a half hurl as my weapon, travelling a savage pace.
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It’s the fairies that live beneath the blackthorn bush that are the cause of those dreams
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Fagan
What gin did you use ?
How do you make this stuff Fagan? (apologies if you’ve already posted the recipe)
Pick the sloes from late September on But leave some for the fairies
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Would you bother with a chilli Fagan. I find it gives a great lift, with the possibility of Mexican fairies
Never thought of that but sure why not?
One or two birds eye chilli’s is plenty, I really messed up a bottle with too much- I’m now blending it in judiciouslyish
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I believe you were proven right here.
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First haul of blackberries there this evening.
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Why is there few mushrooms around?
Indeed he was and they are very plentiful at the moment.
They are fabulous .
Mushroom season has passed?
There was plenty of them around 3 weeks ago
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I was moving a few heifers this morning and had a few of these @Fagan_ODowd,the ripe ones were unrale
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I have 2 and a half pounds of these beauties in the freezer that I’ll be turning into jam as soon as I get a bit of time.
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