Stewed Plums

[CreamPuff63]

Great for breakfast with yoghurt or as a Dessert with icecream

Ingredients:
500g plums, halved, pitted
240g water
60g sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 stick cinnamon

Method:
Wash and weigh plums in the TM basket, prepare them, set aside.
Add sugar, water, lemon juice and cinnamon stick into TM bowl. Set 5 minutes, 100^o, Speed Soft.
Now add plums, and set 3-5 minutes, Reverse, Speed Soft until plums are tender.
Remove from TM and chill.

Source: CooksUnited.co.uk

[judydawn]

Glad you found a recipe CP63. Researched it & cooked it lickety split 

[cookie1]

Thank you. As soon as The Spud Shed has some cheap I'll give it a go, or go up into the hills to get some. I like the dark red ones the best.

[CreamPuff63]

the Blood Plums are my favourite as well. wish we had a Spud Shed closer to us - I just can't believe the prices 

[cookie1]

Just been to the spud shed and bought a heap of plums. They were still $3.99/kg but I felt in the need of some stewed plums. Got some nice peaches and apricots too.

[CreamPuff63]

 .... as compared to Coles for $14.99/kg 

[Merlin]

Is Spudshed a WA thing only? Why cant we have something like that in Victoria???   
I can't stand going to Coles/Woolies or good quality fruiterers to pay jacked up prices especially for fruit and veg that is in season. For that matter, does anyone in Melbourne have a  reliable and cheap source of their fruit and veg?? Ever since getting my TM I find it is better to buy things like that in bulk and make more than one batch of jams/relishes etc at a time.

[cookie1]

I'm pretty sure spud shed is WA only. The owner had an argument with the WA potato board and set up on his own several years ago. We have only  recently had one set up near us. It is actually built on Commonwealth land at the small plane airport and trades 24 hours a day.  We have very restrictive trading hours here in WA. I find that products in season are really nice there but you do have to select carefully. I would even go just for the milk as I now pay $1.79 for 2 litres of milk not what the supermarkets are asking.

[Very Happy Jan]

Keep an eye out for Harvey Fresh 2l cream Cookie1. The Baldivis Spudshed sometimes have it (although not recently) and I'm hoping the Jandakot one will as well.

[cookie1]

Ooh thank you.

[MeganL]

Will this recipe work for stewing other fruits too? I have been searching the forum for instructions on making stewed fruit (apricots in particular, as we have just picked four bucketfuls) but can't seem to find anything other than jam recipes.

[CreamPuff63]

give it a go ML - you've got plenty of apricots!

[Pam_H]

MeganL if you have kids make fruit leather or sorbet for them ,my grandkids love both,Pam

[cookie1]

Got some lovely dark red plums today for $1.99/kg. I've made the rice custard and now I'm off to stew them. licking my lips.

[achookwoman]

MeganL,  Apricot chutney is a good way of using excess Apricots.