Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: single mum back to nature on August 03, 2009, 16:37
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Hey all , a large branch from my neighbours plum tree has just fallen into my garden .... due to the amount of fruit on it.... i have collected about 20lbs of fruit
but.....
they are not ripe... a fair size but still green...
is there anything i can do with the fruit at all??????
any ideas would be most appreciated
Penny xxx
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I was lucky to receive a couple of bags of green plums from freecycle last week and I made some delicious plum jam (recipe from Val's book)
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(blonde and never tried this before) so i can make plum jam with green plums??? really??? will it still go reddish colour ??? doh :blink: ???
lol iw as hoping someone would say i could do jam :D
big thankyou xxx
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They would make good chutney but goodluck getting the stones out and no it won't go red :)
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hehe thanks poolfield ::)
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This was the colour of mine. Not the most attractive of colours but tasted lovely and is now just about all gone.
(http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s346/LisaCrane2008/SDC10391.jpg)
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looks good to me elcie ::)
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try waiting a few days, they may ripen yet, we have loads of fallen plums that ripen after coming off the tree.
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Anyone know if putting the green plums in a box with a few over-ripe bananas would work?!
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bananas do give off a 'gas' which ripens fruit quicker, that's why they shouldn't be in the fruit bowl with everything else. I would say it's worth a try