Anyway, i gathered as much as I thought I could process only to find that I had run out of jam jars, disaster! So what to do with all the fruit gathered, well there's always damson gin and I did have a couple of large jars available and the required sugar and gin, so that solved the problem for about 1kg of the crop...
ready for shaking |
ready for freezing |
Easy, Peasy Damson Gin
Take 450g of damsons, prick with cocktail stick, and pop into a clean sterilised jar. Cover with 225g sugar and then pour in 600ml of gin. Seal the jar and shake vigorously. Store in a cool dark place and shake every day for about 8 weeks. Taste a couple of times during this period and add more sugar if required. After about 10 weeks strain and bottle.
Note: Try to keep the gin as long as you can; it will definately improve with age, so make some this year for Christmas 2012.
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I made some damson gin, vodka and white rum last year with damsons donated by a friend and it was amazingly good. I plan to make some more this year if I'm luck enough to be given any again.
I just wondered what you do with the remaining fruit after you have bottled the gin? I've seen various recipes including using on ice cream, in puddings or drying for use in Christmas cake. My better half wouldn't eat them on desserts so I'm wondering could I bottle them in a fresh sugar syrup...? Any ideas?
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