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Something American about what? I live in Warwickshire! You've made a good start on your Personal Space. h2g2 is about the Community as well as the Guide - welcome once again, Holly.

Whoami?

I have used the sloe gin recipe in the past with great results but I seem to remember a similar recipe for sloe gin liqueur which meant adding more sugar and a couple of drops of almond or vanilla extract, the problem is I can't eremember which one.

Can anyone help with the recipe?

Cheers

Colin

I'm afraid I haven't seen any recipes that added almond or vanilla extract. But the quantities of sugar in the recipe above are large enough to give quite a syrupy type of drink already! I can't imagine using much more sugar than this.

Azara

This is all new to me. I make orange and lemon and lime and lilac liqueurs (actually called "wines" but they are, I suppose, alcoholic infusions, really--some Provençcal recipes) and have just discovered sloes growing in the neighborhood. First we had to demand the name of the fruit (which we suspected) from the neighbors--"endrinas", in catalan, "escanyagats", finally, after exhausting our dictionaries we find they are sloes in English, so I've hunted up recipes and find myself her. The commercial liqueur in Spanish is called IRATI and is mostly a product of the Basque country and Galicia. But the sloes are there, so we'll nip out for a kilo or two tomorrow, and launch ourselves into "sloe business". One recipe I found seemed to suggest about seven months needed before drinkability, but your "Hallowe'en to Christmas" scenario is more to my taste. Will report, if I can remember my passwords after all the hassle of registering. What fun!

hi there researcher 204etc.,

interesting posting... but don't worry about passwords 'n' stuff.

1. write it down somewhere handy.

2. Your PC can probably 'remember' your sign-in name and p-word if you tick the box. You don't even have to type it each time. This is less certain if it is a work pc on which others also work, but if it is at home, you should be fine.

As for the slow gin, good luck with it... and...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
cya
spiff

Thanks for the comments, Researcher 204683!

One suggestion you might consider (if you're in sunny Catalonia!) is putting the sloes in your freezer for a week or two, to mimic the effect of the frosts which are supposed to make the sloes sweeter. Another commentator on the entry made this suggestion recently, and I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but it might speed up the process for you.

I'd be very glad to hear from you again, with a progress report...

Azara

I was amused by your comment - I too had the same problem as you. I bought a 750ml bottle of gin, picked 300g of sloes, added the 150g of sugar and of course I had 250ml of gin left over - whatever should I do with it - easy: pour into a glass, add ice cubes and ginger beer, take out into the garden on a warm evening and enjoy !!
What did you do with yours - did I read gin and tonic ?

I too have the same problem remembering passwords etc - especially if I have been tasting the slow gin !
I have made some for Christmas from the h2g2 recipe. I am going to pick some more after the first frost in October and try the Halloweeen to Christmas scenario too - happy drinking !!