As
the recipe for the damson gin said, shake every day for a week. Day
4 through to day 7 the colour becomes darker and cloudier as the
sugar, fruit and alcohol does their thing!
The
stash has now been “put to bed” in the cool, dark garage.
Watch
this space - later on in the year it will be filtered and then left
to settle in time for the Christmas holidays.
Finally
the damson harvest figures … I knew it was going to be a good year
but this was beyond anything I'd had in previous years. Indeed for
the last couple it had been sparse and hardly worth harvesting at
all.
I'm
glad that I decided to keep a check on how many kilos of fruit I
picked. It made sense to bag it in kilos – it made life easier
whichever recipe I chose. Thank goodness I have like minded friends
who were delighted to receive a small gift – the total came to
28kgs! That total does not include windfalls - I could not keep pace
since the weather took over and storms and strong winds won – it
would have been more.
I
now have a stash of jam, ready to deliver when I can. A freezer full
of roasted damsons to use as the mood takes and a supply of Asian
plum sauce for stir fries too.
I
love it when a plan comes together!
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