October 23rd, 2009 by DJ
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 [...]
September 26th, 2009 by DJ
So you’ve made plum jam. What can you do with it? Besides slathering it on bread and peanut butter, that is…
Here’s a recipe that I adapted from “Cinnamon and Apricot Buns” in Linda Doeser’s The Bread Machine Cookbook, this recipe uses almost no added sugar. The way I make them, each bun has about 1/2 tsp of fructose [...]
September 25th, 2009 by DJ
We still had plums left, so I made jam. It’s not hard. It helps if you’ve done canning before, but that’s not essential. You can also pack it in plastic and refrigerate and/or freeze it instead of canning.
5 cups diced plums
1 cup apple juice
2 Tbs fructose (helps with color & texture)
2 Tbs lemon juice
1 package [...]