I've got a bumper harvest from our plum trees this year. We've eaten so many, and I've baked pies, made crumbles added them to other fruit dishes - and I'm running out of ideas. Then I was given this recipe from a colleague who said it was in her newspaper - I made it last night as a pudding for a small group of friends and it was delicious.
1 large egg - white only
12 large red plums
0.5 teaspoon cinnamon
5 oz/140g white granulated sugar
Heat oven to gas mark 6/200C. Mix sugar and cinnamon. Whisk the egg white then roll the plums in the beaten white and then the cinnamon sugar until very well coated (a sugary overcoat, so to speak). Space apart in a buttered baking dish and bake for about 15 mins or until the plums are crusty, cooked through and starting to ooze their juices. Test by poking with a cocktail stick - if it goes in easily the plums are ready!
Serve with creme fraiche or vanilla ice-cream.
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Sounds like a great recipe. I'll have to try it.
The recipe sound good-is that considered candied plums? Have you tried making jam?
If you eat too many plums, do you wind up with a plum duff?
I do make Christmas puds - for which an alternative name is, indeed Plum duff.. but I don't put any plums in the puds. Don't make those until Stir Up Sunday - plums would be decided woolly by that date!
Stir Up Sunday? Is that a holiday? How about Fry Up Friday? I watched Jamie Oliver do a fry up on his show and, EW, all the grease and eggs and stuff! He was making it for his drunk friends in the middle of the night. I really hoped for his sake they weren't sleeping over.
I can't even begin to imagine tackling an English breakfast. Baked beans?!
A Scottish fry up has beans as an optional extra - but we do make it with Larne Sausage, eggs, white pudding, black pudding, mushrooms, tattie scones, bacon, oatcakes, fried bread.. a real blow-out and a once or twice a year treat in our home.
My British friend does the full on brekkers and has even obtained black pudding here. I just cannot fathom eating that much food in the morning. That kind of meal would be a brinner here. (Brinner - having breakfast food for dinner.)
I always find it amusing to watch tourists here - they eat the 'Full Scottish Breakfast' - because they say they don't have to eat again all day.
Stir up Sunday
Lucky you, with a great harvest... we hardly saw any plums on our 2 trees this year. Our spring was so cold, windy and rainy, the buds on the fruit trees were blown away and what was left did not develop well... either the bugs got them or more cold weather took care of the rest.
Janna - thanks for the compliments and for putting the link on this article, too. I am tekkie-challenged (and remain so, despite many attempts by friends/family to change that status!)