Some friends gave us a whole box of plums, the variety used for cooking and drying. We ate quite a few of them, but there’s no way we could eat the whole box. So we did the obvious: we made prunes with a lot of them.
Like many other fruits, plums are easy to dry: just cut them in half, and sprinkle them with citric acid, ascorbic acid, or lemon juice. Then place them on trays and dry according to your food dryer’s instructions. On ours, it takes about 24 hours.
We filled five trays with plums. The result: just over a quart of prunes. It’s amazing how much smaller the dried result is!
They’re very tasty. They taste like plums, not that weird “prunish” taste the store-bought ones have. Even the best prunes at the store don’t taste like fresh fruit, but ours do!
