After a few weeks of the Able & Cole delivery we have had our first unpopular fruit.
The plum
Although tasty, it was not as sweet as some of the other fruit in the fruit bowl which left us with a question of how to make use of a punnet of plums.
So after much googling, plum sauce requires plum jam not plums themselves and aside from making a plum crumble or various desserts there was not much that could be done to use these plums and make the most of their unique flavour.
JAM!
The answer was Jam, although sticky very satisfying to watch the fruit boil down into a bright and colourful liquid. With careful temperature checking and vanilla sugar after a few hours the smell was amazing.
One sterilised jar and 15 minutes later here was the result.
After making some chutney at christmas, honeycomb and truffles at new year it’s been fun and messy creating treats by hand. I look forward to the day when I can see the fruit growing from flower to then enjoy it on toast as Jam. Next on the cooking list is making chilli sauce with our home-grown chillies.
That’s All For Now
Amy
Amy J Burton 