OS Daily 21st July

silvermaid

Hey Tappers - we make apple and plum crumble. As Julie says, stone them and then bring to simmering point on a low heat with a little sugar and water. For a pound of plums I would use 2 tablespoons of water and 1 tablespoon of sugar. Watch them as they get towards boiling as they rise and make a horrible mess if they spill over. (That's what happened to my plum chutney last year and it was a $%^&* to clean up!) You can of course go all sophisticated and bake them in the oven. Heat oven to 200C or Gas 6. Split them in half, take the stone out, put in an oven proof dish and sprinkle with a little brown sugar in each centre. Spread over the grated zest of an orange and pour over its juice. Bake in oven for about 20min. Lovely with ice-cream:) x

redruby

taplady wrote: »

come on you clever lot - nobodys answered my request on how to prepare plums for a crumble! Am I just being simple cos I dont know?:cool:

You either have to stone them, cut in half lengh ways and twist each half to seperate, then dig the stone out (bit like an advocado) or you can stew them up stones and all in water and sugar, and then go through and fish the stones out after. I have tried both and both are fiddly, but I think I prefer to de stone them raw.

Once stewed and cold you can freeze them for use in the winter, or as you said, make a lovely crumble xx



:bdaycake:Happy Birthday to Shalva and the JC twins xxxx

sistercas

taplady wrote: »

come on you clever lot - nobodys answered my request on how to prepare plums for a crumble! Am I just being simple cos I dont know?:cool:

i didnt know either

flutterbyuk25

Afternoon all

happy Birthday Shalva - hope you've had a lovely day x

Reverbe - I wanna know too!

JackieG - did you manage to tax car?

Today flew by in work, time is going too quick this year! Got absolutely soaked walking 2 seconds round corner from minibus to work kid's presentation . They did a good presentation, funny and confident. And the good news is that 3 of them have got jobs as a result of doing our programme :j

Came home with more cardboard boxes, really need to start packing them!

I'm tempted to order a very non-OS takeaway tonight - pizza - my arguement is that if i don't have to cook then I will pack more stuff :rotfl: .

Have a good evening all

x

taplady

sistercas wrote: »

i didnt know either

glad I'm not the only one then:D

thanks ladies for the advice on plums -:T am I right in thinking that I leave the skin on then and just stone them?

bargainbird

Reverbe - Me too ......Don't leave us hanging like this

Kids fed and watered....Need to prep picnic for tomorrow . It's chucking it down ATM hope it's better tomorrow (fingers crossed)

Happy birthday peeps :beer:

redruby

taplady wrote: »

glad I'm not the only one then:D

thanks ladies for the advice on plums -:T am I right in thinking that I leave the skin on then and just stone them?

Yes leave the skins on xx

LameWolf

taplady wrote: »

Plums - was given a bag of plums yesterday and plan to make a crumble with them but have never used plums before - can anyone help by telling me the best way to prepare them please?

taplady wrote: »

come on you clever lot - nobodys answered my request on how to prepare plums for a crumble! Am I just being simple cos I dont know?:cool:

Tappers, I've only just seen your posts, as I only just now got as far as reading the Daily....:o

I also got given plums..... I cut them in half, leaving the skin on, removed the stones, arranged them in a round enamel pie dish with a sprinkling of sugar over, I then made a topping of 8 oz porridge oats, 2 oz sugar, a smidge of cinnamon and enough margarine to make it bind together. I covered the raw plum halves with this mix, and baked at 180 C for 45 minutes.

It's delish! We just had some for pud. HTH.:o

Oh, and Happy Birthday Shalva.:beer:

bramble1

Evening all!

I am drinking wine....and eating pizza.... i am so worried about my credit check at work - have posted in the job forum about it. I love my job, i don't want my stubbornness to accept help when i was younger affect my job prospects! I don't know what to do!

So went to asda and got two make your own large pizzas for OH and i - £6.40 in total, but is good for atleast 4 meals each so lunches/dinners sorted for a while!

Looking forward to the weekend where i canforget about work for a while!

candygirl

Bramble I saw your post and didn't know what to advise, but think you should be ok hun.Try not to worry for now:D:D