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Blackthorn - planting, pruning and harvesting sloes at just the right moment

Blackthorn or sloe bush is a fruit tree that offers cute berries, sloes. They are edible and can be cooked. Here is how to grow and prune your blackthorn.

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Sloe berry recipes that go beyond sloe gin cocktails

Three skilled chefs explain why they love the autumn harvest of sloes, and recommend how to use them in sloe gin cocktails and beyond

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Prunus Spinosa

Blackthorn/Sloe Vintage botanical

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Sloe Berries

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sloes – Kate Wilson

Posts about sloes written by kate wilson

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Sloe Berries Prunus spinosa The Blackthorn is native throughout the British Isles and grows to around 4m if left uncut. The white flowers appear in early spring before coming into leaf, standing out against the black twigs. Blackthorn spreads with suckers and has strong thorns so is often used in hedging to create a stronger barrier. Many birds nest among its branches and the fruit, sloes, are made into jam, wine and used for flavouring gin.

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How to Use Sloes 3 Amazing Ways - Sloe Syrup, Juice & Jam

Want to learn how to use sloes, namely how to make sloe berries tea, sloes syrup, sloe juice, and sloe jam? Continue reading.

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Sloe Berries

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Sloe Berries

Fruit of the wild blackthorn (Prunus spinosa). The abundant plum like fruits or sloes are too bitter to eat fresh, but were traditionally used to make gin, and still are by many country folk. You may not believe it but deep in the Herefordshire countryside you can still find hillbilly types with home made stills ;)

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Homemade Blackberry Syrup Bottle

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It's going to be a bumper year for sloe berries

An unseasonably wet summer has led to a glut of sloe berries

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Elderberry Peach Jam

My Sloe & Apple Jam recipe is made with just 3 ingredients and no pectin or jam sugar. Wonderfully tart yet sweet, sloes and apples make the perfect pairing in this exquisite jam. Plus check out my sloe pitting hacks! #sloejam #sloeberryjam #sloejamrecipes #sloejamjelly #sloeandapplejam #hedgerowjam

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How to Make Sloe Gin

How to Make Sloe Gin: How to make Suffolk sloe ginIntro: This is an old country recipe from Suffolk, England. It was handed down from my neighbour's great aunt, who lived on the Suffolk/Norfolk border. It's not really a recipe, more just a loose set of instructions. The …

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Foraging for sloes: 'Are we not actually closest to Nature, valuing it most, when we pick it — when we are inside the food chain ourselves?'

On his annual October sloe-picking harvest, John Lewis-Stempel admires redwings, greenfinches and wood mice gathering their haul of autumn’s bountiful berries.

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Homemade Sloe Juice - Sew Historically

Delicious, healthy juice for free - what's better than that? Homemade sloe juice is easy to make with just two ingredients: sloe berries and water!

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Sloe Berry Meringue Pie - Wild Foraging - Sew Historically

A flaky, buttery pie crust topped with meringue and filled with sloe berry custard with freshly picked sloe berries - doesn't this sound delicious? Sloe berry meringue pie - an unusual twist on the traditional lemon meringue pie!

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Wild Blackberries On A Branch

Sloe berries in the garden

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Winter Warming Sloe Treacle Tart - Wild Walks Southwest

A dark, rich and mysterious sloe treacle tart. Recipe by forager Rachel Lambert for a wild treacle tart using blackthorn fruits.

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