What can I do with 2lbs of plums?

ab7167

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/party-food/accompaniment/victoria-plum-or-damson-ketchup.html

Yum yum yum and it keeps for ever if you sterilise the bottle. I have 6kg sat in my kitchen right now, half destined for jam and the rest for this :-)

JillS_2

Well, you could post some of them to me I wish I knew somewhere I could get plums from though what I really lust after is damsons.

You're probably best stoning, cooking, and freezing most of them and then you can have [STRIKE]plum puddings [/STRIKE] puddings made with plums to cheer up the cold, dark winter.

Here's a pudding that can also be made with rhubarb or blackberries, on their own or with apple replacing part of the fruit.

Skegness Pudding

1-1.5 lb rhubarb/plums/blackberries
3 oz margarine/butter/spread
6-8 oz sugar
1 egg
6 oz S.R. flour
a little milk

Place fruit in an ovenproof dish with all except 1oz of the sugar. Rub butter in to the flour and add the remaining sugar, the beaten egg and a very little milk - enough to make a stiff cake-like consistency. Spread on top of the fruit. Bake in a moderate oven 180C / 350F / Mk 4 for about 45 minutes until top is golden brown and crusty.
btw the above is using fruit that's been cooked with some sugar and frozen so if you're making with fresh fruit you would probably need more sugar.


Fairly similar to the above would be Eve's pudding with plums instead of apples. (What would you call it? Cluedo pudding?)

Sunnyday

OOH you are so lucky

If it were me i would be making jam and wine but as you don`t like jam then i would definitely try the wine. I made plum wine last year and the year before and it really is nice.

They also freeze well - i have a huge bag in the bottom of the freezer that are destined for wine soon.

SD

Zziggi

Thank you for the suggestions. Don't drink alcohol or eat pork (pork & plum sauce) so preserving them in alcohol is out I'm afraid.

I like the sweetened & spiced batter pudding - do you have a recipe please?

Zziggi

It only took DS 30 mins to pick them. Maybe I should hire him out to pick plums for MSErs? He said there's about 10 trees that are absolutely laden down with fruit.

Eyeore

Fruit leathers are great, I have apple and blackberry in the oven at the mo. Not tried plum before as rarely get them!

Zziggi

Eyeore wrote: »

Fruit leathers are great, I have apple and blackberry in the oven at the mo. Not tried plum before as rarely get them!

How ould I make fruit leathers please?

JillS_2

I'd also be interested in a way of making fruit leathers without a dehydrator.

SpikyHedgehog

Zziggi wrote: »

Thank you for the suggestions. Don't drink alcohol or eat pork (pork & plum sauce) so preserving them in alcohol is out I'm afraid.

I like the sweetened & spiced batter pudding - do you have a recipe please?

Umm, not really! It was a 'how can we use the plums that look a bit bashed about so need cutting up and cooking with?' I made the batter with a half a pint of milk, 4 tablespoons of white flour, 1 or 2 eggs (depends on size and how many I have to use up...) and a tablespoon of oil, as I do for toad in the hole or yorkshire puddings. Guess I added a couple of tablespoons of granulated sugar, and I think a teaspoon of cinnamon or mixed spice. Greased the pyrex dish with marge and put in the halved & stoned plums, then poured over the batter and sprinkled a little more sugar on top for a crunchy topping. Looking at a recipe for mushroom toad in the hole, I'd say cook about 220C (425F or GM 7) for 35 minutes.

jobbingmusician

I always feel a bit panicked with large quantities of soft fruit, knowing that if I take too long deciding it will spoil, so I tend to feed those around me as much crumble as they will eat without complaint, and then COUNT the plums into a large saucepan, cook, and COUNT the stones out (easier, although messier, to stone once cooked. But you do need to COUNT! ) The resulting stuff can then be frozen in portions and fed to those who HAVEN'T gorged themselves on plums until bored with them, throughout the winter.....