I made damson gin in 2023 and kind of forgot about it. I strained out the fruit after several months, but it sat in the jars until today.
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Final strain today and bottled. 2.7 litres! It's really good ; perhaps a little sweet? I tried two different gins: a good mid-level ALDI gin and a very cheap Tesco gin. The better gin is worth it.
The jars will be straight back into service as we have more damsons and also trying sloe this year.
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#TodayInMyKitchen Reaping the rewards of some freezer spelunking last night.
Found some already-prepared damson puree from last year, & whipped up a batch of my damson ice-cream in just 10 minutes.
So happy breakfast ice-cream is a thing. 😋
Damson jam
Our damson tree had an unusually large crop of fruit this year, so I decided to make a batch of jam. The recipe below details what appears to have worked well. It was adapted from a plum jam recipe found in a the book Jams & Chutneys, although the original recipe was for about half the quantity and gave the preparation time as a implausible 20 mins…
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Our damson tree had an unusually large crop of fruit this year, so I decided to make a batch of jam. The recipe below details what appears to have worked well. It was adapted from a plum jam recipe found in a the book Jams & Chutneys, although the original recipe was for about half the quantity and gave the preparation time as a implausible 20 mins…
Finally made some Damson gin with the last of the frozen Damsons we picked in September. I had already cooked them and remove the stones when I decided to give gin a try, so it's rather an unorthodox way of doing it. Will see how it goes in a few months. Thanks to @derickr for the suggestion and to my mate Steven who shared some very good damson gin with me which clinched it (and then contributed a spare bottle of gin for this!)
A colander full of ripe sweet plum #damsons , picked #today .
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I was wondering if UK #damsons or plums could be used to make Japanese style #umeboshi, seems https://twitter.com/StevieParle/status/375977883883565056 asked this back in 2013, and replied later in 2017 saying damsons worked:
"Think I did standard but washed with gin instead of sake and layered with nettles instead of shiso. Works well."
Something to try if our tree gives fruit...
#5k run done, now it's time to get some damson jam made - using frozen fruit, which I know divides the jam-making world, but I've always been known as a bit of a maverick. Was a good, if very early, year for foraging, so we've got plenty of jam to make.
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