sloe gin / vodka, soaked fruit

[kayativa]

Hi very new to all this - the forum and making our own , have made some amazing sloe gin and vodka and now I have some boxes of the soaked fruit in the fridge, any recipie ideas please? do not want to loose this as I m sure there must be something I can use it in Mincemeat did cross my mind??

[Two_Sheds]

People will say make this, make that, but: all the juice has come out of the fruit and into the gin.
Leaving tasteless lumps, only good for compost heap, imo

[smallblueplanet]

There are a couple of sloe gin threads about on the forum - some post that they make another drink from the 'ginned' berries by adding cider. I've posted similar but I like to use sherry on ours - we have some big jars of 'sloe sherry' in the kitchen cupboards atm. I use a pale dry sherry or a medium amontillado, use more fruit than 1st time round for the gin, maybe add sugar maybe not, and leave them for about a month. Then rack them off and throw away the berries this time... Hi btw!

[rustylady]

Ah, but surely not all the juice has come out. Leaving fruit soaked in alcohol. My idea would be to remove the stones, and whizz the remains in a blender. Resulting sauce could be poured over icecream maybe?

[Scottishnewbie]

I'm using mine in the christmas trifle

[Glutton4...]

The first time I ever made Sloe Gin, I mixed the resulting soggy alcoholic sloe pulp into melted Chocolate, and spooned it into sweet cases. My Sister helped, and we kept 'sampling' them to make sure they were OK . Needless to say, we got quite tipsy on them, and the rest of the family only got a few...

[jackyspratty]

Great idea, I'm just about to strain and bottle my first batch of sloe gin and was wondering what to do with the fruit! Problem solved, many thanks!

[jackyspratty]

OOh, not so sure now! Have just tried sloe berries after straining off gin. To say that they made my mouth pucker is putting it mildley!! Don't think I will use them this time around and don't want to brave the ice to get sherry etc! I can imagine that raspberries etc would be lesspuckering!

[Glutton4...]

Try it with the choccie - you'll be surprised They are VERY rich though, you'll either get pie-eyed or sick if you eat too many!


Just a thought - you could add a little sugar to the fruit before stirring it in to the choccie...

[kayativa]

this sounds the best - well most sinful!! dark or milk chocolate ?
Yum yum glad Ive got trip to the shops planned tomorrow, thank you

[Glutton4...]

Whatever you prefer! I used a mixture of (I think) Bournville and Dairy Milk, neither of which I can stomach now, so next time it'll be Green & Black's

[Bigmallly]

Have just started some Manderin Vodka to keep in for guests. Not sure how it will turn out.

[lettucegrow!]

Like the sound of these. I've always reluctantly thrown the pulp away. What about adding something crunchy ie. broken biscuit or nuts to lighten them a bit?

[sarraceniac]

I'm using mine in the christmas trifle

I just used (and tasted) the fresh pineapple from my pineapple vodka (after removing the bit of peel you put into the vodka to give it a golden colour). I used a pannetone as the sponge and made a zabaglione custard to go on the top figuring that the marsala and the vodka wouldn't clash. I was right. It's delic.

[maryding1969]

sloe vodka. after your finished straining the berries. put the berries in 3ltr of cider and leave for 3 months. remove the berries and put the gass back into the cider with a soda stream. somebody will have one. the cider tastes really fruity and you no youve had a drink strong?