Picking Sloes (for people of a certain age and sadness)

[Guy Fawkes]

So today is a sloe news day.........





* Gets coat

 

[Mackenzie]

I won't be picking them until after the first frost.

Is the correct answer.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Or bullaces. We have both sloes and bullaces out our way and they look very similar. Check the difference by tasting. If it is utterly repellent, it's a sloe. But that won't detract from the fact that, after a few weeks steeped in sugary gin, sloes are utterly transformed.

Agree Lord B. Bullaces also make excellent gin, and they don't have a thorny problem of picking 'em.

I once made some sloe jam from a load of bushes near the reservoir above Polegate. It was revolting.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Didn't have any Gin so I used Vodka. Don't.

Yes and I made the mistake a couple of years ago of trying to make cherry gin. A definite no-no.

 

[Norman Potting]

So today is a sloe news day.......


* Gets coat

Winner of the internet for today

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Some say I need to get a life, but the excitement of finding the Sloe bush of all Sloe bushes sent a tingle up my spine! 3lbs in 20MINS!! And have made my first litre of sloe gin!

As I can't really drink beer any more and I likes me a drop of gin, last Christmas I was very eager to try some sloe gin. I really thought I would like it ..... but I didn't. I really didn't, and was v disappointed. Pah.

 

[Chris001]

I'm doing a blackberry wine!
Thinking of giving sloe gin a go too.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Smoke the sloe's before making the gin.

 

[gregbrighton]

I used to go sloe picking where I grew up in the Chiltern Hills, along with erlderflower/elderberry picking. Good times.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

because I don't know what they look like (I'm a bit sloe today.... fwnar fwnar fwnar)

 

[vegster]

I won't be picking them until after the first frost.

Given the combination of global warming and the recent renewed interest in Sloe Gin in the last few years, you probably won't have any left to pick by then.