Happy discovery of the day—something called a plum latte. (I like it for the idea and color, I suspect, rather than for the flavor.)
I am reminded of all the lovely plums there are, and some I stole for my novel on Crete, Reading the Stones, to give as a gift of grace to unhappy run-away Audrey, waking to her new life in her friend Leah's studio inside an orchard of Blue Damsel plums and Sloe plums, in the mountains of New Mexico.
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plum latte??? Is sloe gin made from sloe plums? I love the dusty skin of plums, and the way the skin hides a surprise of color when you bite in.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course one wants to think of them as slow plums, as in slow food.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia says that sloe gin is made from sloe berries, the fruit of the blackthorn, a relative of the plum. (Would that all of our relatives were so amiable!) Further, "Folklore has it that when making sloe gin, you shouldn't prick the berries with a metal fork, unless it is made of silver. The established traditional method is to prick the berries with a thorn taken from the blackthorn bush on which they grow."