I have a bumper crop of Warwickshire drooper plums (yellow) any Ideas for preserves especially would be most welcome ....making plum jam and have plum vodka on the go.... ;D
we poach some in wine with cinnamon and freeze, lovely in a trifle ;D
very envious, we got 3 plums on our victoria this year :-\
Chutney with courgette and apples ;D
Pickled plums ;D
Seems to have been a bumper plum year 4 me also(Victorias).They seem to freeze well in pie sized tubs after being poached and de stoned.
Had a sort of plum pavlova tonight made from Victorias that had to picked young to stop the rather small tree collapsing and ripened off in a box with a banana....
Microwave some plums with a bit of sugar on a medium-low setting until they break down, then high for a couple of minutes, stir, high, stir etc... or do iy in a pan. It wants to be sticky.... Cool a bit, then stir in some sloe gin... good with meringue and icecream/cream as it turned out..... :D
chrisc
today made plum crumble and two jars of brandy spice plums ..and gave away 3 bags of plums still loads to use sister coming on saturday to raid sorry pick plums remaining
i used 4 to make a sauce for duck the other week,cooked them down with some ginger,chinese 5 spice and sugar,whizzed it with the hand blender,absolutely gorgeous.made enough to experiment freezing it,but it all went.........
roll out a rectangle of puff pastry and lightly score a rectangle inside. Line the inner rectangle with a thin layer of marzipan. Arrange plums cut in half, cut side down on top of the marzipan, and pop in the oven. Sprinkle with icing sugar.......
I've made about 30 lb of chutney from this recipe - gorgeous!
http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=70 (http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=70)
chutney sound great what do you do with 30 lbs of it though . sorry perhaps I shouldn't ask ;D
Quote from: lolabelle on September 02, 2009, 17:50:45
chutney sound great what do you do with 30 lbs of it though . sorry perhaps I shouldn't ask ;D
maybe i've led a sheltered life, but I can't think of anything else to do with it except eat it :D
We'll get through it no bother. I'm just worried that i'll have to do the same thing with all our green tomatoes ???
I made Chinese plum sauce a couple of weeks ago - not this exact recipe but very similar..
Very nice though..
http://www.recipezaar.com/Asian-Plum-Sauce-99500 (http://www.recipezaar.com/Asian-Plum-Sauce-99500)