What can I do with 2lbs of plums?

zippychick

HI Welsh poppy

What to do with 2lb of plums should give you plenty of inspiration :j

I'll merge this later

thanks
Zip

maypole

Plum chutney:)

Welsh_Poppy

Big thanks lots to try think will go with chutney, jam and plums orange juice and vanilla for over yoghurt yum yum

rhosynbach

hi has anyone got any ideas of what i can do with plums we have a lot of trees and have several different varietys have made jam (have made over 100 jars of different jams )and chutney have a crumble in the oven no room in the freezer and the kids are getting fed up of eating them
given some away but every time i empty a bowl someone picks more any suggestions would be gratefully received as i hate the waste.
thanks

rrf494g

make wine - particuilarly damsons, make a wonderful rose wine for next summer. Good Luck. Hic!

zippychick

Hi Rhosyn

there is an older thread with plenty of ideas

what can i do with 2lbs of plums?

i'll merge this later once you get more replies

thanks
Zip:)

Toomuchdebt

OK I don't know much about plums so here are my possibly silly ideas.Can you dry some to make prunes?Bottle some in syrup like they have in cans in Tesco?Make plum cake?Are plums freezeable?Send me some? LOL

ceridwen

1. swop them with someone else for something that they grow but you don't

2. put up an advert on Freecycle offering them to anyone willing to pick them.

3. put them in a box outside your gate with a notice saying "Help yourself"

babyshoes

I am also going to suggest Freecycle.

I don't have a garden but we love making jams etc. I put up a wanted post on Freecycle and went today to pick some damsons out of a lovely lady's garden. She was happy for us to clear the tree as far up as we could reach, (even lent us a ladder) because they don't use them and they make a mess on the lawn. We ended up with 7kg, and are making jam, chutney and damson gin.

Apparently plums & damsons freeze quite well if you wash and dry them well first, then just toss them in a bag in the freezer. You said your freezer is full - do you have a relative/friend/neighbour who might let you store some in theirs?

Do you collect your children from school or do they make their own way home? How about taking a load into school, bagged up into convenient sized bags (wilkos do cheapy food bags for pennies, their medium sized ones would be a perfect size - or nick a handful of the 'loose produce' bags from the supermarket!) and give them away to other parents, or put them in the staffroom with a 'help yourself' sign.

If you have that many, you could try a car boot sale, selling both fresh plums and some of your jams etc.

Agapanthus

This happened to me last year (not so many plums this year!) I made and bottled some Chinese plum sauce. I seem to have mislaid the recipe since then, but there are lots around on the internet.