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Produce => Drink .... => Topic started by: bionear2 on July 23, 2007, 20:56:19
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All these descriptions of sloe-gin are making my mouth water!
I have a tree full of greengages on my old lottie, coming along nicely. Even after a feast of fresh, and a pile in the freezer, there :P :P will still be lots.
Any offers for a spirit based concoction? :P
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My friend made Damson Vodka last year - washed and pricked the damsons and then covered them in vodka, I am sure you can do soemthing similar with greengages.
I am sure you could use them to make wine but they may not have enough flavour on their own to make a good wine, maybe if you used them with something else but I am not sure what.
Personally I would just stuff as many of them as possible in my fat face while they are frsh and ripe (and make sure I had extra toilet rolls available ;) )
Enjoy
Helen
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I have done damson, plum, sloe and bullace gins and vodkas. Afraid I don't make my own wine, but this is a challenge I have set myself for next year! ;D I fill my huge kilners with fruit, as much as I like, cover with chosen booze, shake daily for a while, then weekly, then forget about it until I am ready to bottle, around Christmas time. I then make a sugar syrup and add little by little, testing as I go. A tough job but someone has to do it! I don't like my drinkies to sweet. The damson is prefered by my family to the sloe. Me, I loves them all. ;D
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Not greengages, but -
Last year I was given a lot of mirabelles, small yellow plums, and they made a wonderful drink using white rum. I only made one bottle and it's long gone! I used a small amount of sugar, I think 2 oz, to begin, and added a bit more later as it was a tad tart for our taste.
So may be worth the experiment with your greengages?
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I'm going to follow this thread with interest, as I only discovered yesterday that the tree at the back of my plot which I thought was a damson turns out to be a Greengage.. 8)