Instead of letting them go to waste, locals mellow out the berries with sugar and use them to make jam or sloe gin. Read more ...

Soak the berries in sherry overnight and incorporate sloe gin into both the mixture and sticky jam sauce for a sophisticated ...

Preserve them as sloe gin, sloe wine, sloe jelly, sloe syrup, and sloe plum cheese. A spoonful of sloe jelly can be added to plum pies or used in sponge cakes. Traditionally, sloes used for sloe ...

So you like gin, hey? Well, you might like drinking it (us too), but do you know your Sloe Gin from your Old Tom? Ladies, it’s time to become a connoisseur. Although we respect your right to ...

I just saw a good opportunity.' But the sloe gin, chocolate and whisky that he is producing, in no way compromises the wildlife in the hedgerows - in fact it enhances it. 'Ethical farming is an ...

Making sloe gin is slow but not laborious. There's no cooking required, just patience as the sloes steep in the gin. Prick the tough skin of the sloes all over with a clean needle and put in a ...