Damsons and Sloes ....

urbanwellies

Want to make sloe and damson gin and damson jam to sell and donate money to Pakistan... . need FRUIT!! any advice .. North Dublin? Any donations? Where to find ?
many thanks

Muckit

I don't know much about damsons or sloes but there are oads of blackberries starting to ripen aswel on hedgerows...... might be another idea maybe? :rolleyes:

Make jam or crumble....yum! Are you going selling through a farmers market?

Best of luck with it, I hope you do well. A great cause and

urbanwellies

Thanks for reply; as a 'newbie', my ego flattered by your single reply!!
Will sell to network of family& friends , if I get the fruit. I have made blackberry jam before and it is delicious , but would love to try my hand at damson, which is sublime. Also, the sloe and damson gin will fetch a few more euro for the cause!!
S:)till looking for fertile blackthorns for sloes and damsons ..

Tora Bora

urbanwellies wrote: »

Thanks for reply; as a 'newbie', my ego flattered by your single reply!!
Will sell to network of family& friends , if I get the fruit. I have made blackberry jam before and it is delicious , but would love to try my hand at damson, which is sublime. Also, the sloe and damson gin will fetch a few more euro for the cause!!
S:)till looking for fertile blackthorns for sloes and damsons ..

Proceeds for Pakisatan, eh :D:D

Muckit

Tora Bora wrote: »

Proceeds for Pakisatan, eh :D:D

Like the Tayto ad.............. "there's always one"........:rolleyes:

Muckit

urbanwellies wrote: »

S:)till looking for fertile blackthorns for sloes and damsons ..

I'm ashamed as a country person to ask (really should know this:o) but are sloes those red 'balls' you see on blackthorns, or whitethorns??? So they are not poisonous??

I seen that 'what to eat now' series last year on da telly where they made sloe gin and got me interested!

Let me know how you get on and if you've a recipe for the concoction (we'I see if we can beat tesco's €1 a bottle for Millar!!:D:D:D)

BTW...... made lovely blackberry and apple crumble from blackberries on the farm and 3 cooking apples from our own trees in the garden and do ya know it was tasty! You can't beat fresh home grown(or wild) produced food. At least you know it's not laced with chemicals!:rolleyes:

reilig

Sloes are on blackthorns and are the colour of a plumb when ripe - no way poisonous.

Haws on whitethorns - not poison either. Contain tannins, flavonoids, pigments and vitamins. An infusion of hawthorn is used to treat various heart and circulatory problems and to support digitalis therapy. (if you're into herbalism)

Muckit wrote: »

I'm ashamed as a country person to ask (really should know this:o) but are sloes those red 'balls' you see on blackthorns, or whitethorns??? So they are not poisonous??

I seen that 'what to eat now' series last year on da telly where they made sloe gin and got me interested!

Let me know how you get on and if you've a recipe for the concoction (we'I see if we can beat tesco's €1 a bottle for Millar!!:D:D:D)

BTW...... made lovely blackberry and apple crumble from blackberries on the farm and 3 cooking apples from our own trees in the garden and do ya know it was tasty! You can't beat fresh home grown(or wild) produced food. At least you know it's not laced with chemicals!:rolleyes:

BeeDI

reilig wrote: »

Sloes are on blackthorns and are the colour of a plumb when ripe - no way poisonous.

Haws on whitethorns - not poison either. Contain tannins, flavonoids, pigments and vitamins. An infusion of hawthorn is used to treat various heart and circulatory problems and to support digitalis therapy. (if you're into herbalism)

Damsons are the basic ingredient for "Slivovitz", a kind of Brandy, produced in the Balkans, etc.
I have a rake of damson trees on my land. Four of five years ago, I employed a lad from Slovakia, for a few months on the land to do a bit of tidying up. When he saw the damsons, around the place, he started drooling at the prospects of what could be done with them.
Asked me if he could pick them. No problem, I said. He came with a few mates one Sunday, and went in the evening with 2 sack fulls of damsons.

A few months later when he had long since left me, he arrived to the house with 2 bottle of moonlight he had made :D. Jeez, it was pure petrol:pac::pac::pac: :cool: