I often resolve to do things and just don't get around to them. Printing out photographs and framing them, baking and icing a Christmas cake, sitting down and playing the piano for 10 minutes in a day. However, making elderflower cordial - long on the list - can be proudly ticked off this June. I … Continue reading A Little Taste of Summer
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The Simple Art of Sloe Gin
Alan has been making a lovely Sloe Gin for the past couple of years. Blackthorn trees are plentiful in the Burren and so their fruit - the beautiful, round, black sloe - is usually abundant by late August. This Autumn it felt like there were sloes dripping out of every corner of every ditch and … Continue reading The Simple Art of Sloe Gin