tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623297510187244.post3559466588034727856..comments2024-02-23T03:26:11.779+00:00Comments on Growing Things and Making Things: Foraged Food Friday: RosehipsRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16619866897155085499noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623297510187244.post-82865792372269987032013-10-21T10:07:10.427+01:002013-10-21T10:07:10.427+01:00Don't worry, I always feel free to ignore sugg...Don't worry, I always feel free to ignore suggestions - I only try those that sound like good ideas. As I said, I'm fairly sure the reason for failure this time was leaving the apples to get too ripe before I used them.<br /><br />As for sloes, I have a bucket of sloe wine on the go and yesterday evening I drank a couple of glasses of last year's batch. It's strong (for wine, though not compared with gin) and sweet and notably lacking in juniper. I consider it one of my more successful experiments. I think I missed out the elderberries last year, and it's still good. It will feature as a Foraged Food Friday, but rather too late to be any use with this year's sloes. Here's where I wrote about the first batch: <a href="http://growingthingsandmakingthings.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/sloe-wine.html" rel="nofollow">sloe wine</a>.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16619866897155085499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3388623297510187244.post-21921070041920205342013-10-20T19:37:25.164+01:002013-10-20T19:37:25.164+01:00Rachel, sorry that you had trouble with your fruit...Rachel, sorry that you had trouble with your fruit leather/sweets feel free to ignore my suggestions in future! When I make it I use apples fresh off the tree and when cooked I leave it to set a little and then spread the mixture out on lightly oiled baking parchment. When it has dried enough to still remain flexible but not yet brittle I then cut it into small rectangles and roll it up into tubes, somewhat like fat cinnamon sticks. I'm not going to pretend that this works every time and can be fiddly but that's what I aim for. The fruit sticks are great chipped or grated into your porrage and are used in my mulled wine Christmas drink.<br />Perhaps you could suggest a use for sloes other than making perfectly good gin taste like dental mouthwash!?Johnnoreply@blogger.com