Well after a slow start the hedgerows around here are finally coming alive with wild fruit. Blackberries in particular are my favourites, pies, crumbles take your pick!
However the last couple of years blackberry vodka has become something we have started making in time for Christmas. Some we make and give as presents, but most of it we drink as a warming nip on a cold or wet evening!
Simple as anything 1Lb Blackberries, 1Lb sugar, 1 Bottle of Vodka (75cl). Wash the blackberries, put in a container. Add the sugar and the vodka. Seal and give it a shake daily for about 6 weeks or until all the sugar has dissolved. Bottle it and serve. This makes about 1.5 bottles of blackberry vodka.
We do the same with Sloes and in fact this is an adaptation of a recipe for Sloe gin as given to me by my dear friend Anne mentioned in previous posts. Slainte Anne!
Doing the picking and all the preparation makes me feel somehow closer to nature and to the way things should be and makes me feel closer to the roots of my beliefs about God and nature being in harmony and that every season has a purpose.
