{"id":718,"date":"2009-10-03T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=718"},"modified":"2009-10-03T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T17:37:10","slug":"saturday-post-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Post Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

We made sloe gin. After harvesting the sloes I can quite see how Colleen’s son mistook them for Blueberries<\/a> as they are a superb shade of blue and the bloom on them is quite similar.<\/p>\n

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We used this recipe<\/a> and I especially enjoyed pouring the sugar in through a makeshift paper funnel. The sound of this task was fantastic, as was the murky white light display in the glass bottle.<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed rather less the task of pricking all the sloes individually with a pin, but – if memory serves me correctly – it does help the juices to seep flavoursomely into the gin!<\/p>\n

In other happy news, the kitchen is now filled with the gentle glug-glug sound of Cider fermenting contentedly over in the warm corner.<\/p>\n

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…and the rhubarb gin we made last year turned into something so drinkable that between socialising last night and sending Emmylou home with a small bottle of the stuff, we have drunk it all.<\/p>\n

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It is not as good as sloe gin and tastes better if left for about a year, but it has a nice, fragrant flavour and tastes best with a little tonic water.<\/p>\n

I am hoping that all the joyous Cider fermentation in the corner will have a positive effect on my somewhat lagging sourdough starter. I confess I was a slatternly mother to this small puddle of yeasty life as I failed to feed it every single week. It appears to be lacklustre in its leavening powers and somewhat fatigued. A warm corner, plus some extra special flour and the effervescent presence of the Cider will – I hope – restore its former mojo and give it the Vavavoom it had back in the glory days<\/a>. I’m sure the cold doesn’t help.<\/p>\n

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Finally, Mark has harvested all his beans and we are saving them to plant again next year. They are a Berkshire-specific variety of runnerbean. Scooping the pleasingly hard little beans out of the silky, dried husks provided a very happy half an hour’s amusement and those bean pods sound fantastic.<\/p>\n

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I have put them in a jar, saved to plant next year.<\/p>\n

I hope you too are all having a lovely weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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