What to do with sloes...

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...after you’ve made the sloe gin? I’ve seen recipes for sloe chocolate, jam, and port. Any other suggestions?

More gin?
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I already have a batch of last year’s sloes in the freezer for the next lot! And I might have just had a bit of last year’s gin as I decanted it. God I love sloe gin.

The best sloe gin I ever had was the one mum and I lost. Did our annual trek around the quarry for blackberries and sloes, made four bottles of sloe gin (and a fuckload of crumble!) and put them in the garage. Come Christmas, when we always crack them open, we could only find three bottles. We came to the conclusion we must have misremembered and there had only ever been three.

Dad redid the garage floor last year and cleared everything out. The fourth bottle had got knocked over and rolled under a chest of drawers. I moved out 12 years ago! It was the smoothest, most divine thing I have ever drunk!

My suggestion would be make more gin and 'lose' some for a few years

Captain I want your sloe gin!

Sloe chutney!

Has anyone ever made cake or biscuits with them?

Synecdoche I don’t like chutney but maybe I’ll pass them on to my mum and she can make it.

God I love sloe gin.

^^ This is your answer. More gin

The gin is already in the cupboard doing its thing.

I made a syrup with some extra berries one year and produced an amazing sloe ripple ice cream.

Oh my goodness, Urbane, that sounds wonderful!

Now THAT I want to try.

Give them to unsuspecting children and watch their facial expressions.

Dip them in chocolate first Jane?

I made some apple and sloe gin jelly/jam with ours. Trying to decide if I want to go foraging again for another bottle....

I’ve decided to try the sloe port option, entirely because it takes no effort at all.

A friend who knows about such things told my daughter that sloes shouldn't be picked until after a good hard frost. I said "would putting in the freezer accomplish the same thing?" but evidently it wouldn't - they need to be on the bush for the sugar to migrate into the fruit. Or something

Round my way (the warm, wet west) if you waited until the first frost they would be well past their best, or all gone to the birds. And there wouldn't be any gin for Christmas...

Last night I opened up the (very large) jar of sloe vodka I made last year and then forgot about. It is divine. Like a very good rum.

The sloes are still in it, but I am thinking of draining them and stuffing a duck with them.

Slider - gin sloes soaked in cider

Dip them in chocolate first Jane?

Nah. Dipping children in chocolate is too much work. Stick to the gin.