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Author Topic: Sloes, bullaces or damsons?  (Read 6747 times)

David Nicholson

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Re: Sloes, bullaces or damsons?
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2011, 08:02:07 PM »
Agreed Gerry. When my kids were small we used to pick wild bilberries on the moors above Bury where we lived then. I did find some, in jars, from Poland but they weren't a patch on the real thing.
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Re: Sloes, bullaces or damsons?
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2011, 01:21:50 AM »
I don't like cultivated blueberries. They taste of... well... nothing much really. :-\
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Re: Sloes, bullaces or damsons?
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2011, 10:49:53 PM »
Thanks, all!
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Re: Sloes, bullaces or damsons?
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2011, 09:14:02 AM »
Damsons are just ready for picking here. I usually make a jelly from them.     Paddy
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Re: Sloes, bullaces or damsons?
« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2011, 05:57:00 PM »
On the Autumn Watch they had a short feature on wild fruits.

Damsons are oval while bullaces are round
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