Uses for extra plums?

[primsong]

Anyone have ideas for something I can do with plums except dry them in my dehydrator? I wonder if they can be mashed up and made into something frozen or...something... They're such good plums I hate to waste them

Comments

[clocketpatch]

Jam is all I can think of. Or freezing them whole like this lady and then using them for baking later - http://ihearthemall.blogspot.ca/2010/05/freezing-plums.html

[primsong]

I like the idea of just freezing them whole - what a fine notion, that way it would be likkity-split to make a pie with them later, just dump it in and seal the crust. Mine are probably too big for a pitter, but I could do halves easily enough. Thanks!

[shirebound]

I used to bake plum pies, which were deelish.

[primsong]

Strangely enough, I never have - you think that would be a no-brainer, I do enough apple pies. I've done cobbler, but pie would be better, especially if the plums were soaked in something tasty first.

[lost_spook]

I'm sure my Mum once made Plum Crumble (she doesn't do pies, because pastry). But mainly I'd have said jam and I assume that's so obvious if that was a sensible option you wouldn't be asking. (Plum jam is v nice, though. You can send me a virtual jar if you make some! ;-p)

[primsong]

Yeah, my family can only eat so much jam - I still have a box full of plum jam downstairs from the last time I did that three years ago... They go through the apple butter and blackberry jam pretty well but the plum isn't as popular.

[lost_spook]

Aw, I would eat your plum jam and not the blackberry! Fl;oat the box across the ocean and let's see if I get it... :-)