Damsons - Plums

[allotmentlady]

i need to get hold of a damson tree.......

[NOG]

I can send you a stone and you can grow it on,

[allotmentlady]

thanks nog xxxxx

[fran]

Hi all! I wondered what your damson wine recipe was, but someone kindly sent me a recipe for jam instead. Unfortunately I'm not a jam-maker (perhaps I should become one!) so annacruchan - if you read this, could you give me the wine recipe please?

Thank you!

Fran

[bubblewrap]

A fellow allotment holder said I can have his plums must be a good bucket full.
Looks like a good year for blackberry's too (got 4 buckets full last year)
The lady at the back of my plot says I can help my self to apples(4 trees) & and at my gardening "little earner" there are apples to be had.
I also know of a "wild" pear tree.

[annacruachan]

Hi all! I wondered what your damson wine recipe was, but someone kindly sent me a recipe for jam instead. Unfortunately I'm not a jam-maker (perhaps I should become one!) so annacruchan - if you read this, could you give me the wine recipe please?

Thank you!

Fran

Hi Fran,

Sorry, haven't visited this thread for the last couple of days!

I used to make damson and apple which produces a red sparkling wine.

4lb damsons
2lb apples (windfalls will do)
3lb sugar (or less if you wish)
1/4 pint (150ml) white concentrate
or/ 1/2 lb raisins
1teasp pectic enzyme
I gallon water
Yeast and nutrient

Wash and cut up apples, skins, brown patches and all.
Cut damsons in half.
Bring water to the boil, add sugar and heat until it has dissolved.
Put apples, damsons and minced raisins into fermenting bin and add heated sugar water.
Cover and leave to cool to blood temp then add pectic enzyme and stir well.
If using concentrate add it now.
Add yeast and nutrient and stir again.
Cover and leave for 48 hrs stirring twice daily.
Strain into demijohn, fit airlock and leave to ferment.
Rack when it clears.

This is my best memory of the process. I modified a CJJ Berry recipe and used Bramleys because I had a bountiful tree! Good luck, hope you find it as lovely as my memory of it.