California Farm Black Plum Harvest

Name: How to cook California Farm Black Plum Harvest - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 people all year
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Black Plum Harvest

Our Black plums are starting to ripen, and all at once, here is how we process the ones we dont eat directly from the tree or give away.

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 people all year

Cooking time :

Various

1 pound

for fresh lemon ginger plum juice

1 pound

unripe plums for Japanese plum wine

1 pound

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Make fresh plum juice. Select one pound of over ripe black plums, five or six plums, quarter, remove stem and pit. Cut in chunks, fill 2 cups. Add 1 Tbs lemon juice, add 1 Tsp minced fresh ginger per cup. Put cup of ice water in bottom of food processor, add ingredients, run till smooth juice. Add cup of ice cubes on top. Taste, add sugar and ice water to taste. Makes four cups. For immediate consumption.

* Step 2

Make plum preserves, 2 cups: 2 cups of depitted 1/4” diced plums. Taste: if very sweet, 1/2 cup sugar. If ripe, 1 cup sugar. If green, 1 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water. Boil slowly till sugar is dissolved, then turn up heat and stir till mixture jellies, about 15 minutes. Pour into heated pint mason jar, leave 1/4” head space, close tight. Sterilize in boiling water bath five minutes. Set upside down to cool.

* Step 3

Sun drying plums: dip whole fruit in boiling water 30 seconds, check that skin is perfect, lay in sun under fly screen, dry till prune shape, 5 days.

* Step 4

Make Japanese plum wine in a half gallon glass container. Boil 4 cups sugar in 4 cups water, cool. Put in glass container. Add as many whole unripe plums as will fit. Add as much vodka as will fit. Store in pantry till next harvest comes in. Drain wine into bottles, plums to compost heap, use container for next years harvest. Plum wine will be 14% alcohol, amber colored, taste sweet and smell like plums.