{"id":2211,"date":"2014-09-26T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2015-01-28T22:38:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:38:20","slug":"damson-gin-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/26\/damson-gin-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Damson Gin: Time to make another batch."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2212\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2150.jpg\" alt=\"Damson gin\" width=\"800\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2150.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2150-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2150-150x107.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2150-600x431.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lyth Valley Damsons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Damson Gin I made for Christmas last year was such a success that I just had to make some more. My Dearest wants two bottles for us and the rest for gifts. I have three 2 Ltr Kilner jars at the moment each of them containing nearly a kilo of fruit and a bottle of gin. I can assure you that we won&#8217;t be drinking 2 out of the three of this particular brew, but I&#8217;ll break it to him gently, once the other bottles are gift wrapped and given away. He thinks My Damson Gin is delightful, so do I but not two bottles- that&#8217;s just greedy, and besides, there are people I know who now know there will be more Damson Gin this year, how could I not share?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2213\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2154.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2154.jpg\" alt=\"Damson gin\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2154.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2154-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2154-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2154-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2ltr Kilner Jar, sugar, Gin<br \/>damsons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>last Saturday, the sun shone unexpectedly and so we took my little sports car for a spin. We drove to our favourite place for buying Damsons in the Lyth Valley and bought 4 kilos. Most of them went in the gin, there were some which were too ripe, they got eaten just as they were. The rest were cooked with a little sugar, and put in the fridge to be eaten with yogurt for breakfast, they tasted wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>So this year I have put 900 grams of Damsons pierced all over with the tip of a sharp knife, in each Kilner clip top Jar with a 75cl bottle Gin, and covered with a 400g of caster sugar, and sealed the jars. I have given them a good shake every day till the sugar dissolved.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2214\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2302.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2302.jpg\" alt=\"damson gin\" width=\"800\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2302.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2302-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2302-150x143.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1-IMG_2302-600x572.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gin sodden damsons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Damson Gin will sit in a cool dark place for 3 months and then the contents will be strained and the gin bottled, ideally I&#8217;m told we should allow it to mature for another 6 months, but I doubt it will Survive Christmas.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Damson Gin I made for Christmas last year was such a success that I just had to make some more, my Dearest wants two bottles for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,11,335,5,735,447],"tags":[566,818,979,567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}