Great minds think alike!

I made a tiny jam sample this very morning. Presence of astringency
confirmed suspicions that the "damsons" are indeed sloes.

I now have six little jars of sloe cheese! Sampled it with sausages
tonight...delicious!

-- Sue W.
Derby, England.

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"echinosum" wrote in message
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Sue;749515 Wrote:
Might damsons trees in a hedgerow have the odd thorn or two? This
morning we
picked what we think are fruits -too -big to- be -sloes but there were
a few
long thorns on some of the branches. I plan to jam them but if they are

sloes they may not yet be sweet enough so they may have to be "ginned"

instead!
I made a small sample of jam from what I believed to be wild damsons,
and found it had a sufficient hint of sloe-bitterness that I did not
wish to eat it. I suggest making a small sample and tasting it before
you make 10kg.

I have a suspicion that sloes and wild damsons tend to interbreed,
resulting in a range of things with intermediate levels of thorniness
and bitterness. So it is possible that not everything I picked was 100%
damson.




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echinosum