Victoria plums

[landyboy]

Abundance of Victoria plums this year!

any recipes apart from jam or pie

[Flyboy1950]

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.

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[ditchman]

jars of plum sauce for cooking chinese

[amateur]

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 by amateur
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[dogger]

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👍

[amateur]

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.