Posted August 20, 2024Aug 20 comment_4141910 Abundance of Victoria plums this year! any recipes apart from jam or pie
August 20, 2024Aug 20 comment_4141916 Make plum wine, used to do it a lot years ago, even using tinned fruit. Tinned can be easier and cheaper as its already got loads of sugar in it. FB
August 20, 2024Aug 20 Community Expert comment_4141944 Clafoutis. Make a slightly sweetened batter (flour, eggs, milk,sugar), add a slug of slivovitz, if you have it. Halve and stone the ripe plums, lay them in a baking dish, open side up. Pour the batter over to just the top of the plums. Put in a hot oven until golden brown and the batter is still slightly soft inside. Eat with cream or icecream. As I am diabetic, and my wife gluten-free, I make the batter with ground almonds rather than flour and don't add any sugar, relying on the plums alone. We have a glut of Victoria plums too, so I've made this twice already. You can use cherries or other soft fruit too. Edited August 20, 2024Aug 20 by amateur Ingredients
August 22, 2024Aug 22 comment_4142480 cut in half or quarters and destone then put in a kilner jar with brandy and some sugar and leave till christmas time lovely?☺️ use the alcohol steeped plums for a cake or trifle?
August 22, 2024Aug 22 Community Expert comment_4142560 Thinking about it, my German pal's mum used to keep a Rumtopf going. A big stoneware pot into which, as the season progressed, she tipped in surplus soft fruit - raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, plums, gooseberries as they came ripe and topped it up with dark rum. After a week or so, a spoonful of that went down well with thick cream or icecream.
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