Lots more wine
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:05 am
I was chatting to a good friend of mine who has no idea about fresh food or healthy eating (i've tried she doesnt seem to hear), now she knew i was making wine/ jam/ chutney etc etc, but it hadnt occured to her to mention the 2 massive pear trees, the apple tree and the plum tree in the family, or the fact that no one ever ate ANYTHING!!! off them, they just fell and rotted
Well you can imagine i arrived seconds later with pickers and buckets
I roped her in and made her taste eveerything (she was suprised they were better than the supermarket, but still claimed 'i dont have time to pick or prepare them???)
When id finished with enough of each to make a good few gallons, i noticed a few purple berries on a bush, lo and behold a 2 1/2 acres field edged by sloe bushes not touched for at least 30 years she couldn't understand the joy i was expressing and kept telling me i was a bit mad and was i really going to pick all those now! (we're all used to this eh!!!)
Anyhow now i have additionally on the brew
a gallon of Pink apple wine(these were in hindsight probably too sweet to use for wine)
a gallon of Pear wine
a gallon of Varley Plum wine
a gallon of Sloe wine
4 lots of sloe gin (2 standard, 1 with brown sugar, 1 with cinnamon and cloves)
a gallon of sloe and pear wine (making it up as i go along)
and enough sloes to make jam or another 6 litres of gin, hmmmm what should i do
Isn't it odd how amazingly delirious these kind of finds can make you, and the complete horror of those who witness it but just don't get it
Happiness *sigh*
Well you can imagine i arrived seconds later with pickers and buckets
I roped her in and made her taste eveerything (she was suprised they were better than the supermarket, but still claimed 'i dont have time to pick or prepare them???)
When id finished with enough of each to make a good few gallons, i noticed a few purple berries on a bush, lo and behold a 2 1/2 acres field edged by sloe bushes not touched for at least 30 years
she couldn't understand the joy i was expressing and kept telling me i was a bit mad and was i really going to pick all those now! (we're all used to this eh!!!)Anyhow now i have additionally on the brew
a gallon of Pink apple wine(these were in hindsight probably too sweet to use for wine)
a gallon of Pear wine
a gallon of Varley Plum wine
a gallon of Sloe wine
4 lots of sloe gin (2 standard, 1 with brown sugar, 1 with cinnamon and cloves)
a gallon of sloe and pear wine (making it up as i go along)
and enough sloes to make jam or another 6 litres of gin, hmmmm what should i do
Isn't it odd how amazingly delirious these kind of finds can make you, and the complete horror of those who witness it but just don't get it
Happiness *sigh*
