This recipe originated from the BBC Good Food 101 Slow cooker favourites but I didn’t have any sloe gin and my neighbour kindly offered me some Damson Gin. I’ve never seen a Sloe berry or Damson, but according to Google ‘Damsons are about twice the size of sloes and usually sweet enough to eat, like a plum, sloes are very sour and dry and if you eat them the inside of your mouth will shrivel up and fall out.’
Ingredients:
- 2 bottles of red wine
- 2 large cinnamon sticks
- 4 star anise
- 8 cloves
- 4 strips lemon zest, use a potato peeler
- 6 tbsp caster sugar
- 200 ml of Damson Gin (could easily substitute slow gin)
Method:
Pour all the ingredients in the slow cooker, mix and cook on High for 2 hours or 4 hours on Low. Perfect for this time of year.