Plum Harvest

Keith reaches for another cluster of fruit;
click to see how high he is off the ground.

The official plum harvest occurred today. For the record, we picked a little more than 65 pounds. We lost about 20 pounds to the slugs on the ground, which in the grand scheme of things is probably okay. Enough is enough!

After taking inventory of the canned plum stock in the basement, we will be focusing our preserving efforts on plum jelly (with plenty of pectin this time), plum rapture (a spiced plum flavored rum), dried plums and maybe one or two plum kuchens. We’re also working on a few never-before-tried ways of eating fresh plums, including plum sorbet, plum custard tart, and pork scallopini in plum sauce.

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