Sloe Gin Recipe

We should have done this when we picked the sloes, then it would have been ready for Christmas. As it is they have been sitting in the freezer waiting to be dealt with and they will perhaps be ready for my birthday in February.

Fill a jar 1/3 full of sloes (best picked after the first frost or put in the freezer for a while or pricked with a fork)
Weight the sloes and add 2/3 of the weight of sugar (eg for 300g sloes add 200g sugar) to the sloes in the jar
Top up with the strongest (and cheapest) gin you can get
Leave for at least 2 months then strain off the liquid from the fruit.
Drink straight away or will improve with keeping.

I used 300g of sloes and 200g of sugar in a 1l jar with 75cl of gin. It all just fitted in.