StillSmart

Hi all, In september i bought 5kgs of damsons to make this vodka

1 kgs damsons

1/2lb sugar

3lts 60% base spirt

destone fruit, place in a demmy john or large jar add sugar and spirt. then leave for a couple of months, giving it a stir once a week.

I tried a glass last night its very very nice, you can make this with most types of fruits. its good made with frozen black currant or jars of morrello cherrys fron lidl

try it i think youl enjoy alan

I have a litre of much the same as your recipe Alan it will be 4 months soaking come xmas am going to bottle it then also got 2ltrs of morrello cherry,what i have done with this is to put a kilo of cherries in and let them soak for a month then seive them out and put another kilo of cherries in repeated this 3 times,the cherries that have been removed make an superb dessert with some ice cream

Optic

I like that idea i think ill add some of the damsons to achristmas pud. alan

If I could track down the damsons, I\'d give it a go as well.
Though it occurred to me that the method is very similar to sloe gin, except all the sloe gin recipes I found just said that the fruit needed to be pricked, or it can be frozen as that has the same effect.
So I did just that i.e. froze the fruit.
It\'d certainly save on the hassle of de-stoning the fruit....

My fruit was all frozen a good place to buy frozen fruit is farm shops/garden centres,you will find some have freezers selling it loose,there are several near me in the south east.