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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Amyw » Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:57 pm

What is a bullace? :lol: Never heard of them before ? I’m loving the sound of the spiced pineapple vodka

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Hickybank » Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:12 pm

Amyw wrote:What is a bullace? :lol: Never heard of them before ? I’m loving the sound of the spiced pineapple vodka


It falls somewhere inbeteen Sloe & Damson, no where as bitter as Sloe & quite pleasant to eat, and a bit more fleshy.
It is often mistaken for a Sloe, the difference is Bullace bushes don't have the lethal thorns that the Sloe has
So check your local bushes, no thorns then you have a Bullace, good hunting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullace

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Suffs » Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:50 pm

Or there are Shepherds Bullaces which instead of being purple are more like small round Victoria Plums ... yellowish with a rosy blush and a soft powdery bloom ... that’s the sort we see most often in Suffolk.

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Renee » Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:12 pm

The bullaces that I used to pick were a golden yellow colour, with a lighter coloured flesh and a stone inside. They were slightly larger than a cherry.

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Stokey Sue » Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:19 pm

Those - like tiny greengages - are the ones found near here along the Lea Valley Renée

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Renee » Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:19 pm

Me and Stephen Lowe at Cuerden.jpg
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Stephen Lowe, is a presenter on BBC Radio Lancashire. He had a gardening expert with him, who wasn't able to identify the bullaces. You can just see them in a bag that I had in my hand.

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby halfateabag » Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:07 am

they sound a bit like cherry plums.....

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Suffs » Fri Sep 25, 2020 9:05 am

Cherry plums are rounder and the same colour all over and don’t have the powdery ‘bloom’ of Shepherds Bullaces https://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/shepher ... s-for-sale

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Renee » Fri Sep 25, 2020 10:17 am

I think mine must be a special Lancashire variety! :lol: The texture is similar to a plum and has a stone in the middle.

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby cherrytree » Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:05 am

Are they like French mirabelles?

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:08 am

cherrytree wrote:Are they like French mirabelles?

The green yellow ones round here (also round Chichester harbour) are a lot like mirabelles but smaller, more or less slow sized

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby cherrytree » Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:15 am

I’m just finishing off making a second batch of Spiced Creme de Mure from the usually awful Waitrose Food magazine September issue. The blackberries here have been magnificent this year and picking 600g was easy.
The first lot was so delicious and does not need to mature ,hence a second batch .

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Pepper Pig » Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:16 am

I've found the Waitrose magazine has picked up a bit since they got rid of William Sitwell. :crossed

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby scullion » Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:24 am

kea plums are also a bit like mirabelles in size but are a type of damson - they make great jam as they are quite high in pectin. i think they'd make a good fruit booze but i haven't tried - yet.
one day i will have a go at making apricot wine. i used to love the one that came from a winemaker in north norfolk back in the 70's (i don't know if they're still there but i can't get it down here) - a lovely, flavourful, sweet wine - like a pudding in a glass.

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby cherrytree » Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:40 pm

I do agree about an improvement in the Waitrose magazine. I do miss though the awful letters to the editor that he so loved- the kind that deplored the hardships and fecklessness of the lower orders and how if they followed the guidance of the magazine how improved their lives would be.

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Re: Making your own booze

Postby Pepper Pig » Fri Sep 25, 2020 2:12 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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