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Sloes/damsons (slightly OT)
In article , David in Normandy writes: | | Thanks Nick. I've just eaten a few berries and yes they are quite bitter | but with a definite plum taste / texture. Crunching a kernel I could | also definitely taste marzipan/almond. So it looks like a 100% match to | your description. | | My mouth is still quite dry now, several minutes after eating them. They | are quite moorish in a strange savoury sort of way. They have that effect - now join the very select club of people who like to eat sloes raw :-) | So it just leaves the question of whether to pick them now or let them | ripen a bit more. They seem "nearly" ripe being quite flesh but they | resist being pulled. I guess leaving them longer would probably mean the | birds eating them first. Maybe. The birds typically don't go for them until quite late, as they don't contain much carbohydrate. I would pick them as and when convenient - traditionally, they were left until the first frost, but that isn't essential. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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