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A plum tree full of yukky plums
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Posted by Spatzbear SA Aust (My Page) on Wed, Mar 9, 05 at 0:48
| It's strange - last year the very same plum tree was laden with super-sweet plums. This year it's laden with plums whose texture is just plain awful. Floury, no taste, spit-out-awful.
How can this happen? Our summer was very mild, but there was still enough sunshine and warmth to ripen up everything.
And what can we do with these plums? Other than feeding them to the sheep and chooks. Or composting them. |
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RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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| No idea Spatz. Feed 'em to the chooks. Hope it's not a harbinger of future crops!!! |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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| What sort are they Spatz? I wonder if they'd cook up alright? Boiled up with sugar they might be OK for jam. I'd probably dehydrate a few batches, freeze them and add some into casseroles (should go well with beef *grin*) - it would concentrate the flavour and would make the gravy of the casseroles richer, and the texture after long slow cooking should be tender and moist. Just a thought. PP |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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- Posted by KateG Canberra (My Page) on
Wed, Mar 9, 05 at 2:58
| hi spatz, our plum tree goes on a 2 year cycle, one year very few fruit and yukky, and the next year people stop visiting us cos we foist some of our bumper crop on them :) this year has been amazingly fruitful. maybe your tree is having an off year? Kate |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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You could try to make schlivovitz...
Rose-Marie |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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"You could try to make schlivovitz."
And if you're very brave you could try & drink it! |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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| I'm not brave enough to drink slivovitz! Making anything out of those plums would be a complete waste of resources. They have no, absolutely NO taste at all. And the texture is floury. We might take the netting off the tree to let the birds have a feast. If the birds are game enough. :) |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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| I've just finished the last of your plum jam from last year. OOOOOOH HONEY, it was beeee ute aful. I hope it wasn't the last. |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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| Floury and tastless plums? Sell the tree to the supermarket chain so they can duplicate it by the thousand and sell the ruit to the ignorant masses. Are you sure you didn't get hold of one of their trees by accident? |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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| Spatz, I dehydrated the plums I got from your tree, and they are now packed into jars, marinating in medium dry sherry with a touch of cinnamon. I'll let you know how they turn out in a few weeks' time. PP |
RE: A plum tree full of yukky plums
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| Actually, they tasted pretty good just dehydrated - the texture was greatly improved and there was real plum flavour, compared to tasteless fresh fruit. If you like chewing on dried fruit I would definitely recommend dehydrating them. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to having sherried plums with icrecream in a few weeks from now *grin* PP |
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