Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: evie2 on September 05, 2011, 18:33

Title: Unripe plums
Post by: evie2 on September 05, 2011, 18:33

Is there anything I can do with them?

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: arugula on September 05, 2011, 18:38

You can still stew them.  :D Just how unripe?......  :unsure:

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: evie2 on September 05, 2011, 18:54

Thanks for putting me in the right place :D  Hard and green I'm afraid :(  I'm so upset because both trees were weighed down with fruit when we went on holiday and when we came back all the ripe ones were gone, not one left on the tree or on the ground >:(

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: arugula on September 05, 2011, 19:05

I'd say cook them like that with plenty sugar, make wine or make a chutney. My Mum used to make a fine plum chutney with plenty chilli in it too.  ;)

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: evie2 on September 05, 2011, 19:07

I'll look for some recipes :D

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: Dilly Dom on September 05, 2011, 19:50

Plums need to be quiet firm for jam.

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: evie2 on September 05, 2011, 21:04

These are very firm  ::)

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: sunshineband on September 05, 2011, 21:29

If they are still on the tree you could wait for them to ripen a bit  :)

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: evie2 on September 05, 2011, 23:55

I'm not sure they will now :(

Title: Re: Unripe plums
Post by: sunshineband on September 06, 2011, 07:20

I'd give them another couple of weeks as thye might increase a bit in size too  :)