sloe
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If sloe berries aren’t readily available, you can substitute damsons, a similar fruit, or experiment with any fruits and a base of gin or even vodka.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
It’s a wonderfully economic performance, all slouch and sloe eyes, offering a moral thermometer of the fallen world through which Raylan moves via Olyphant’s sly repertoire of expressions: grin, smirk, smile, hard stare, blank bemusement.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
Right now, I’m in a park, surrounded by new white sloe blossom, listening to Eden and trying not to let anyone see the faces I’m pulling.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019
It is believed that Suffolk Pink dates back to the 14th Century and other natural ingredients such as elderberries, blackthorn or sloe juice were also added to create the colour.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2018
Dadi, meanwhile, looked like she may as well have been sipping a sloe gin fizz in the Bahamas.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
This applies to lots of fruits that are the same colour including damsons, sloes and juniper berries.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
When you forage for sloes, Horning says, feel the berries for ripeness, but also look for a yeast powder on the berry’s core, “a telltale sign that the fruit’s ripe.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
Ripening hedge fruits include sloes, hips and haws; it has been a splendid year for acorns, and among the myriad autumn fungi, look out for ceps, or penny-buns as they are sometimes known.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2020
Her eyes, black as sloes, were fringed with long dark eyelashes which gave their glances an espiègle expression.
From The Toilers of the Field by Jefferies, Richard
Only into my carrier-companion the souls of thistles and sloes seemed to have entered.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
