What can I do with 2lbs of plums?

CCP

I've never come across plum ketchup - I assume it comes out something like Chinese plum sauce? If so, please let me know how you get on - a friend has tipped me off to an abandoned orchard nearby so I'll have a plum mountain of my own after the weekend (unless someone else gets there first, of course!).

My favourite plum recipe is plum and orange cake, from an old issue of the BBC Good Food magazine - I make it every year and it always vanishes very quickly!

cornishlady

helyg wrote: »

Over the past couple of days I have made plum chutney, plum jam and plum and cinnamon oat slices http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/galleries/late-summer-fruit-precious-stones/plum-and-cinnamon-oat-slices.html. I am also going to make a plum crumble.

Have never made plum ketchup though sorry.

Thanks for this ,i've recently moved house & have a plum tree laden with fruit now needing picking. due to having builders in my kitchen i was looking for some easy recipes that i can actually prepare in my lounge&this sounds great .

champys

I tried to make a Chinese-style plum sauce this year - in the slow cooker - but I found the result a little too acidic. I then threw in a few handfuls of dried apricots and some more brown sugar, cooked it some more, blitzed it with a hand blender, and now it is quite nice! A bit like mango chutney, which is great, because that is very hard to find here in France.

cahjubb

Hi, you mentioned recipes, but that includes wine too y'know

I haven't made any for ages, but would swear by the (Victoria) plum recipe in CJJ Berry's book on wine making, any edition will do, and they're in most charity shops.

Freecycle and charity shops will have demijohns and other kit.

Anyhow, enjoy the crop. We've put fruit trees and bushes on the allotment and have enjoyed making tons of gooseberry chutney for presents and my sarnies!:rotfl:

lbt_2

Oh - I am fit to burst with eating sooooo many lovely plums!

CCP - I would love your recipe for plum and orange cake if you have a free minute?

OK, so I have made some plum and cinnamon jam - absolutely lovely and I will make some more - and spicy plum ketchup. The ketchup smelt absolutely amazing and tasted pretty good even though I have to leave it to mature for a month.

Next I am going to make delia's slices ...... and hopefully a plum and orange cake

greenbee

I stew plums and freeze them so that I have plenty to keep me going through the winter. They're great on porridge for breakfast, or with yogurt, or with cream for pudding!

I also make a plum tart using a frangipane mixture to cover the plums.

CCP

Hello lbt - here's the recipe. It's a bit vague, I'm afraid, as I don't seem to have kept the method and, as I haven't made it since last autumn, I'm working from memory!

Ingredients:
8oz plums
2 eggs + 1 egg yolk
5oz golden caster sugar
5 oz softened butter
5 oz SR flour
Zest and juice of 1 orange

For the topping
1.5 teaspoons lemon juice
8oz caster sugar
1oz rough sugar pieces (optional - they look pretty but an extra 1oz of caster sugar works just as well)


To make:
Preheat oven to 170 degrees (gas mark 5ish, I think - I have an electric oven).

Roughly chop half the plums, and slice the other half.

Cream the butter and sugar together, then stir in the eggs and egg yolk, and the orange zest. Fold in the flour, then stir in the chopped plums.

Spoon the mix into a cake tin and arrange the sliced plums in a pretty pattern on the top. Bake until cooked (it's about 40 mins in the loaf tin I usually use, but it does depend on the size/shape of the tin - it's done when a skewer comes out clean, but I'm sure you know that!).

While the cake's cooking, mix the orange juice, lemon juice and sugar together: when the cake comes out of the oven, spoon the mixture over the hot cake to give it a crunchy topping.


Hmm. I think I might do some baking over the weekend - I rather fancy a bit of plum and orange cake now. (And greenbee's plum and frangipane tart sounds pretty good, too!)

Penelope_Penguin

lbt wrote: »

Oh - I am fit to burst with eating sooooo many lovely plums!

Lots of great recipes, too I'll add this to the existing thread to keep ideas together.

Penny. x

CCP

Thanks, Penny - I'm going to have to go and get some plums to try some of these recipes. I'm going to put on so much weight hanging round the OS board!

missychrissy

I was given approx 10 lb of yellow plums at work last night. They taste delicious as they are but I am hoping to make 2 galls of plum wine with them.