Plum recipes
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Plums
Plum membrillo with cinnamon and sage
Membrillo is usually made with quince, but this plum alternative is wonderful served with cold meats, cheeses and, of course, pork pies.
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Mini desserts
Mini plum and sauternes pies
These gorgeous mini plum pies are made with sauternes to create a warming sweetness. The scent of them baking evokes childlike delight.
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Picnic
Plum fruit leather
Olia Hercules plum fruit leather is made by preserving gluts of fruit until you get a dried product that can be added to soups or simply eaten as a snack.
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Sticky plum and custard cake
This sticky plum cake recipe is full of season fruit, custard and flaked almonds. It's a beautiful cake and perfect for a dinner party dessert.
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Roast chicken legs and plums
Got a glut of plums? Lucky you! The plums in this roast chicken recipe give the meat a delicious fruity, sticky flavour - best eaten with your fingers.
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Burns Night
Honey parfait with mulled red wine plums
These delicately flavoured frozen parfait desserts manage to be classy, romantic and delicious all at the same time.
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September seasonal
Duck with spiced plums
This is a hearty, fruity yet amazingly low-cal Chinese-inspired duck recipe that makes use of seasonal plums, with ginger, star anise and chilli too
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Teatime traybakes
Plum and almond sponge cake
Gloriously moist. This plum sponge can be drizzled with icing for a teatime treat or served with custard as an indulgent pud.
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Jams
Victoria plum preserve
This simple two-ingredient jam is the perfect way to use up a glut of seasonal plums. Use along with whipped cream, to fill a sponge cake.
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Crumbles
Rachel Allen’s plum and apple crumble
Adding oat flakes to the topping gives a nice, crunchy texture to this crumble. She's used plum and apple but any seasonal fruit can be used.
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15-minute meals
Cheat’s plum duck noodles
Enjoy the flavours of Peking duck in this 15-minute noodle recipe by buying a cooked Chinese duck, hoisin sauce, soy beans and soba noodles.
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Spiced plum chutney
Got a LOT of plums? This recipe needs 1.5kg, so it's a great way to shift that bumper harvest - and enjoy the fruits later in the year.
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Goat's cheese
French mild goat’s cheese with plums in lavender syrup
This recipe for creamy goat's cheese with plums in lavender syrup and toasted brioche is simplicity itself to make, and tastes wonderful.
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Plums roasted with sloe gin
This dessert recipe for plums, roasted in sloe gin, is perfect for entertaining. Find out how to make your own sloe gin or use a shop-bought bottle.
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