Went for a walk along the edge of a lake, knowing that there are various wild fruits to harvest. The target is hawthorn berry and sloe. Hawthorn berry is to add to my hawthorn flower tincture, for a tonic drink in winter that is good for the heart in traditional medicine.
Sloe is a wild plum, very small with near black skin. It has more intense flavour than using cultivated plum to make jam, especially when none of the plum trees in the garden produced any fruit this year.
It is a bit of work to get the stone out, should rename it as ‘slow’ jam.
Cover sloe with water (I used apple pear juice as I have a lot of them), bring to boil to soften fruit. Wait until cool down, than one by one squeeze out the stone in the fruit. Use blender to turn to puree, add enough brown sugar to sweeten.
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