the wanton plum and the loose-minded apricot, and their prim prodigy

[ritaxis]

I think my plum and apricot hybridized this year. The apricots and plums were both milder in flavor. The apricots never got to the melt-in-your mouth stage. The plums mostly have a dapply, pluot-looking skin. They're right next to each other. Most years they overlap in bloom time, but this year they overlapped a lot more. I keep hurting my head

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Plums

[dragonet2]

Once I get home tonight I will send you the De Gustibus plum torte recipe, it apparently freezes Very Well once made up!

I envy you your pluots (they're selling hybrids here for $2.69/lb), my poor cherry tree .... we had a hard freeze for a week three days after it budded out all white and popcorny looking. A handful of cherries came in green and small, and then fell off the tree... sigh.

Re: Plums

[ritaxis]

well, the pluots are okay, but the plums were better! The good thing about this is that it's interesting. Now I wonder if this is the way it's always going to be . . .

The way I understand things now, if your cherry gets the right conditions next year, you'll have a mast year, that is, too many cherries. We had next to no fruit last year because the rains came at the wrong time and wiped out the blossoms. This year, we're wading in them.

[ex_hrj]

I keep hurting my head trying to figure out whether the F1 generation is the fruit on the original tree or the fruit from the tree that comes from that fruit.

The fruit is the pregnancy of the tree; the pit is the embryo of the next generation. The easiest way to remember this is that if random pollination could change the very nature of a crop, then monoculture agriculture would be an impossibility.

[ritaxis]

Thank you. This is what I thought must be the case. I still haven't accounted for the changes in the fruit, though.

I'm currently considering plum pox virus, which is very scary. Tomorrow: plum in sealed plastic bag, and then to the garden store. If it is: the only cure is eradication.

Plum Torte

[dragonet2]

1 C sugar
1/2 unsalted butter
1 C flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
2 eggs
24 halves plums
sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice

Cream sugar and butter, add flour,baking powder, salt and eggs amd beat well.

Spoon the batter into a 9 inch springform pan/ Place the plum halves skin side up on top of the batter, sprinkle with lemon juice and sugar depending on sweetness of the fruit. Sprinkle on 1 teaspoon cinnamon, depending on how much you like cinnamon.

Bake at 350 Deg. for 1 hour. Remove and cool. refrigerate or freeze if desired, Or cool it to lukewarm and serve plain or with vaniila ice cream or whippped cream.

To serve vfrozen tortes, defrost abd reheat briefly at 300 degrees.
Yield: 8 servings.

Re: Plum Torte

[ritaxis]

oh dear.

I'll have to get somebody lined up to eat this for me.

[mjlayman]

Yaaay, Frank! And a new refrigerator! I would love a side-by-side because then I wouldn't have to use the reacher to get at the back of the shelves (and I'd have more freezer), but the place for it in the kitchen isn't big enough.

They 'freeze really well

[dragonet2]

IN fact there are some jokes about people leaving a bunch of them in the freeaer and not telling house-sitters that they were SAVING those tortes for special occasions...

Just saying. If I could get enough plums cheaply I'd make cakes and freeze them, I have enough entertaining opportunities...