Yesterday's Discoveries (contains alcohol)

[muninnhuginn]

I finally got round to making this year's sloe gin. M had gone out to buy the gin as the ancient bottle of Gordon's was insufficiently full. I'd told him, since I was going to contaminate the gin with fruit and sugar, not to go to anything too upmarket (both gin and vodka seem to come in much more interesting forms these days -- and sometimes even organically produced). He came home with this. Now, I'm not actually particularly fond of gin. But opening the bottle released the most amazing botanical bouquet, nothing like your bog standard Mother's Ruin. It wasn't, apparently, more expensive. So, organic gin, organic golden caster sugar, sloes picked on an organic farm -- organic sloe gin!

Less usefully, due to my not looking at which soft drinks bottle I was picking up, I diluted my Highland Park with a splash of Tesco's sparkling water with apple and raspberry flavour. Not the choice I'd have actively made. Nor one I'm going to repeat. Very strange (well I couldn't really tip a decent Scotch down the sink) and definitely requiring a second to drink, this time with the correct Canada Dry, to wash away the taste.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Organic sloe gin - fantastic!

We used to regard Glenfiddich as the 'cooking whisky', but ended up making Glenmorangie butter one Yule as that was the cheapest spirit in the house...

[muninnhuginn]

Umm, interesting. Whisky butter as opposed to rum. Wouldn't do: rum's the tradition.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

This was instead of brandy in a brandy butter recipe!

I should have clarified that we had no non-whisk(e)y spirits in the house after shops closing time on Dec 24.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

My mother always made whisky butter, not brandy.

I can't say I cared for either, but I wouldn't say the whisky one was worse.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm a complete spirit butter push-over :-)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

*scribble*scribble*scribble*

OK, noted.

[muninnhuginn]

Well, if I was to only have one variety of spirit in the house over the holidays, I'd rather it was whisky. How was the butter? I imagine it would be a little more delicately flavoured than either brandy or rum.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Exactly so - it was lovely!