Autumn Foraging
We walked Missy this evening and went and had a look at the crab apples. There are a few and I hope to go for these tomorrow. There are also cones, teasels and rosehips. There was also a lovely surprise. The golden load of sloes. I have never seen so many together. I aim to pick these as well as there is so much you can do with them and then pop them into the freezer. That way round I can use some and then save some for a later batch of sloe gin or sloe and crab apple jelly or sloe and apple jelly, sloe whisky, apple and sloe sorbet, slider, (sloes in cider), sloe gin chocolate, sloe port, sloe vodka, sloe gin jelly, sloe gin and chocoloate pudding, sloe chutney, and there are so many more combinations beside including a cranberry and sloe gin sauce. So it looks as though I am taking my basket with me tomorrow to harvest some of the contents of the wild larder. Always adds an element of surprise to the pantry especially on a c...