Not such a bumper crop this year maybe but still managed to find a reasonable amount of damsons, despite council’s efforts at cutting back the trees rather early.
The trees and hedgerows are certainly laden with a bumper crop this year. I remember last year having to reach high into the trees for a few damsons, but this year there are so many. Whether they are fully ripe yet I’m not sure, but I’m just too impatient to wait any longer and panicked about someone else beating me to it and stripping the trees bare. Little hope of that this year I think. Anyway, I left them in the kitchen for a couple of days in the hope they would ripen as swiftly as the huge amount of plums we gathered last week did.
Last year I made damson gin and also a lovely damson, cardamon and vanilla jam recipe from Alys Fowler’s book. Opened the last jar for my toast this morning to help me decide what to do with this year’s damsons, but realistically there is…
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