[Sam Cree]

Sloe Gin Recipe

Pick your sloes from blackthorn hedges in October or November when they are most ripe - probably after the first frosts. Take a litre bottle of gin, and drink half a litre

Cut or prick the sloes and drop into the half-empty bottle so that they displace the remaining gin to near the top.

Add one wine goblet of sugar (approx 150g). All you have to do now is turn or agitate the bottle daily for a week, then weekly for a month or two ... by which time it will be ready to drink (but it is really best kept until the next winter).

[HairOfTheDog]

Very good post!

Though I wouldn't know a sloe if it ended up in my butt balm ;~D Is it a nut?

[Corin Stormhands]

If I drink half a litre of gin, will I remember the rest of the recipe?

(where do you get sloes?)