Festive Hedgerow Faire

On day last week on my morning walk with the dog I collected some hedgerow rosehips and sloes to make some Christmas Faire. I now have 'brewing' in the cupboard some rosehip vodka and some sloe gin. The recipes are easily found by looking on the internet and are very easy to do. The vodka at the moment looks like homemade tomato ketchup but closer to Christmas I will strain it through first some muslin then a coffee filter. I must confess that I have had a little 'try' and it is pretty good already. The sloe gin is in an old milk carton and I regularly shake them both to get the flavours mixed. Well I need something to look forward to at Christmas so it is not all cooking.