What can I do with 2lbs of plums?

Gaia

I offered a load of glass jars with lids on Freecycle last night, someone's collecting them to bottle up their homemade plum jam

raphanius

ive been given a load of plums and i'm making this flapjack

Scarlett25

I have a lot of plums from my daughter's plum tree and I'll be making (or attempting to make!) these:-

Plum & Coconut Crumble
Plum Pie
Plum Jam
Plum & Almond Fingers

and possibly a Plum Charlotte!

oldtractor

I have a large bag of victoria plums which i was going to bottle [can]. i cannot find my book with times in it. Does anyone know how to,hot water method,and do the plums need to be covered with syrup?

JillS_2

I haven't done this myself but my Good Housekeeping Cookery Book gives the following 2 methods. (I'm not giving the whole method - just answering your specific questions)

With a thermometer: slow method: cover plums with cold syrup, raise the water temperature from cold to 82C/180F over 90 minutes and maintain for 15 minutes.

Without a thermometer: quick method: cover plums with hot (not boiling) syrup and place in warm water. Bring water to simmering point in 25-30 minutes and maintain for 10 minutes.

Disdisbiff

My wonderful elderly neighbour has just given me a large bag of plums from his tree 4 1/2lb to be exact with a promise of more to come lol. I think theya re victoria plums i want to use them up but have no idea what to do with so many. I don't have any jars so can't make jam any ideas?

TIA Biff

boultdj

Make crumble's,pie's and tart's and freeze, cook to a pulp and freeze,make wine, eat 'em, freeze whole and make jam's later when you get some jar's.hth.

purple.sarah

Here is a recipe for How to Make Plum Fruit Leather and Plum-Berry Balsamic Fruit Leather. Sounds yummy! I'm going to try these myself.

rosie383

Ask on freecycle for jars. You will probably be offered loads!!

Lippycow

http://gratineeblog.com/2009/09/julia-childs-plum-clafouti/ make this it is delish:-)