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• jellies and jams
• archaeological digs
• purple dye
• roman camps
• slavic countries
• ancient writings
• damsons
• flavour
• remnants
• plum
• skins
• spirit
• benefit from
• cooking
• england

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Damson, Damson

Remnants of damsons are often found during archaeological digs of ancient Roman camps across England, and ancient writings describe the use of damson skins in the manufacture of purple dye.

Because of this acidic, tart flavour, damsons are commercially grown for preparation in jellies and jams. A range of varieties of damson are available, with some such as 'Merryweather' being more appropriate for eating when ripe straight from the tree while varieties such as 'Farleigh' benefit from cooking.

Damson is used to make slivovitz a distilled plum spirit made in slavic countries.

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