There's something about sloe gin in the cool, country air which is just perfect. |
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I pick bags of them to take back home, to be converted into potent sloe gin for Christmas. |
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Sloe gin is flavored with sloe berries instead of juniper, the flavoring in regular gin. |
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To make the syllabub, combine the sugar, lemon juice, brandy and sloe gin in a large bowl and whisk for about a minute to dissolve the sugar. |
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Along the way you pass little old quarries, thickets and deep sloe hedges, and you might just catch the sound of gunfire. |
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Take a swig from your hip flask of sloe gin, whisky or red wine and you'll be laughing. |
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Ruby-red in colour, this sloe gin is a real snuggle-up-on-the-sofa drink, delivering a moreish palate with flavours similar to black cherries. |
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Every year, the two ex-teachers picked sloe berries from the same place, and made their own brew of sloe gin. |
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Last year the business sold 12,000 bottles of sloe gin and 20,000 boxes of sloe liqueur chocolates. |
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This really took off and now we are selling sloe gin to farm shops, at farmers' markets and to 80 delicatessen shops throughout the country. |
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Unfortunately a field of sunflowers were over, but we had the fruits of autumn, sloe, elderberry and powerfully scented crab apple. |
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Felt very country-girl, particularly when we stumbled across some sloes and decided to pick them too to make sloe gin. |
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Wild fruit jellies, such as elderberry, rowanberry, sloe or crab apple, also make a great accompaniment. |
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We then realised that we had all the sloe fruit left from the gin-making process so decided to go in for chocolate making. |
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And with the big chill now on, the reader in search of a heart-warming stirrup cup needs to know that home-made sloe gin is the best there is. |
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Their list last fall, for instance, included a mix of dark rum, sloe gin, passion fruit liqueur and fresh lime juice. |
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Other members of the genus include the apricot, peach, sloe, and cherry. |
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The tart bluish black fruit is a drupe, about 2 cm in diameter, and is used to flavour sloe gin. |
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Erosion rated, Harry pauses at a blackthorn to collect a pocketful of sloes for his next batch of sloe gin. |
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He warned me that the long thorns that surround sloe berries may inflict a wound upon you that will go septic. |
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The duke happily attached his name to a hamper, retailing at £499, containing sloe gin, sausages and chutney. |
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The cookbook called for white instead of red wine in the coq-au-vin, with just a drop of sloe gin 15 minutes before serving. |
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Aside from Mayonnaise, that was invented in Mahon, Minorca has three big products: fish, cheese and sloe gin. |
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A deep lively red robe with a nose of ripe sloe, fresh fig and a spicy touch in the background. |
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The thorns of the sloe or hawthorn will disappear under corymbs of white flowers. |
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The aromas of raspberry, red currant, sloe, blackberry and blackcurrant are clothed in spicy and mineral notes. |
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To make an Alabama Slammer, pour the amaretto, lemon juice, sloe gin and southern comfort into a mixing glass and stir. |
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Star anis, cardamom or allspice are delicious as well. To prevent colds you may add some elder flower or sloe syrup. |
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There are currently 65 rooms, all extremely comfortable, with thematically correct black-and-white bathrooms and mini decanters of estate-made sloe gin to ease your arrival. |
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I finished down an arched spine of a ridge, village in view, and sloe tree scrub and birch, menacing fly agaric funghi, and a flashing flock of goldcrests. |
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The leaves of tea are mingled with sloe leaves and other abominations. |
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His mission is to find as many sloe berries from blackthorn hedges as he can this autumn to expand his booming sloe gin and liqueur chocolate production business. |
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Approx. 40 different types of fruit are processed, including regional products such as sloe, elder, quince or plum, but also exotic fruits like the North American cranberry or the pineapple from Hawaii. |
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The maquis of Bar's coastal area is comprised of the following: oak, holm oak, laurel, myrtle, Spanish broom, oleander, hawthorn, sloe, thorn, butcher's broom, asparagus etc. |
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Autumn invites you to stroll and relax, to collect the wild mushrooms that abound in the woods and meadows, and the select the best sloe berries to make pacharán, the typical liqueur of Navarre. |
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There is no need to add sloe brandy, as Larousse suggests, to round out the sauce, because the acidity is already balanced by the natural sweetness of the wine. |
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Political comic Will Durst thinks Bush is making less sense than a polar bear sipping a sloe gin fizz on a lawn chair. |
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The Sloe Fair, a funfair that dates back to the 12th Century, is held annually on 20 October in the city's Northgate car park. |
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