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<\/a><\/p>\nThe smell the plums gave out while cooking was fantastic. I fried them gently for about 4-5 hours yesterday, stirring often to avoid any burning, then restarted the process this morning, another 4 hours, till massively reduced, thick, darkened and making hot lava sounds. Towards the end of the cooking I sweetened it to taste. Kept on adding and kept on tasting, careful, as did not want to end up with too sweet preserve or worse- a sour one that I’d not enjoy eating.<\/p>\n
And so, 2 hours after the postie delivered the jars, this is what I had on the island; The jars were filled with 3 cm space from the top while preserve was hot, turned upside down and left to cool in this position. 4 jars of preserve from nearly 3 kg of plums. A very good start though, I’d say!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wiola and Marcin brought me 2 bags of fruit the other day from Wiola’s boss’s orchard. Lots of pink, juicy apples and some delicious plums, less than 3 kg of those.\u00a0 It took me 2 days to decide to try and make\u00a0 a plum preserve, similar to what my Mum’s been making for years.\u00a0 Jars … Continue reading Plum preserve, debut.<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n