How about some ideas for Italian prune plums?

tigereye

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Sun Sep-05-10 01:39 PM
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How about some ideas for Italian prune plums?

We got a bag in the community share/farmer's box...

They are so good simply to eat plain, though.

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The empressof all

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Sun Sep-05-10 02:05 PM
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1. They are fabulous...I use to have a tree

You can make them into bread using a banana bread recipe. Or just make a tart and glaze it with some grape jelly. My favorite thing to do is to pit them and cook them down in the crock pot for prune butter. It's a great filling for danish or a to layer on good bread. I just use it with Puff Pastry for danish turnovers. It's also really good with poppy seeds as a layer in a poppy seed pound cake

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tigereye

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Mon Sep-06-10 11:43 AM
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5. hmm, bread- interesting.

I have had prune butter before, but never thought of making it.

thanks! :hi:

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yellerpup

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Sun Sep-05-10 04:01 PM
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2. I just made a how-to video (with recipe)

for Plums in Plum Liqueur on my blog. I'm not trying to flog the blog here, but I specifically used Italian prune plums in the recipe. Go to http://www.vickismenu.com/ and click on the recipe for Plums in Plum Liqueur. Feel free to sample my virtual Margarita while you're there! :hi:

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tigereye

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Mon Sep-06-10 11:44 AM
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6. no, that's great! Thanks! Please, flog your blog!

:rofl:

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yellerpup

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Mon Sep-06-10 05:43 PM
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13. Uh, thanks...er, sure....

Didja have to put that in the headline? :shiftyeyes: LOL! :rofl:

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hippywife

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Sun Sep-05-10 08:20 PM
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3. My Italian gran used to have

a tree in their backyard so I vote doing with them what we did...eat them just like they are. :hi:

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yellerpup

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Sun Sep-05-10 09:29 PM
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4. Hiya, M.!

Little Steven, whose family lived next door to my grandparents, and I made up a contest when we were about 5 years old. The object was to see which one of us could drop from the highest branch in my grandma's plum tree.legs without breaking our legs. When Grammie-Pie heard what the game plan was, she put a stop to it then and there. Unfortunately, neither one of us were allowed to express our competitive spirits by breaking our legs. Gram made jelly out of her plums, but they werent' the prune type. :hi:

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tigereye

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Mon Sep-06-10 11:55 AM
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8. Little Steven the musician? or another little Steven?

that's a great story... :D

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yellerpup

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Mon Sep-06-10 04:54 PM
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11. Little Steven Gosney

who grew up to be a Ford mechanic in Oklahoma. His nickname was Goose. Guess why? :rofl:

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tigereye

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Mon Sep-06-10 05:53 PM
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14. ha ha!

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hippywife

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Mon Sep-06-10 01:05 PM
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10. Hi, sweetie.

Ya little tomboy, you. :rofl:

:loveya:

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yellerpup

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Mon Sep-06-10 05:04 PM
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12. I sure was a tomboy until I got top-heavy!

Grandpa taught me how to drive when I was about 8. I got to tool all around the pasture (after we put the hay up) in his WWII surplus Jeep. Oh...when I think back on my childhood when I thought the worst thing I thought could happen to me was for Archie comics to go up in price! :pals:

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tigereye

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Mon Sep-06-10 11:45 AM
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7. I think my husband's family had the same...

Edited on Mon Sep-06-10 11:46 AM by tigereye

they are so, so good, simply to eat raw.

There was a wild recipe for a complex tart on a site I looked at when we got some last year, but I wasn't feeling that ambitious!

:hi:

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tigereye

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Mon Sep-06-10 11:56 AM
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9. it's interesting - many summer fruits are best au naturel!

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