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clafoutis with plums

End of August I stumbled across plums in my trusted food store – the first plums of the season. At once I got some ideas about plum cake, plum sheet cake, plum cake w/ crumble … Finally I decided to create a clafoutis w/ plums. To be honest I’m not a fan of any plums like plums uncooked … plums always tend to be rather sourish. However, if cooked or baked plums are great w/…

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plums in ricotta

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Plum mania: I was in plum mania & just made another plum cake. Briefly I thought about creating plum jam, but summer came back & we had lots of sunshine & very warm weather (even if only for a few days) – I postponed any jam making. A crispy slim tart w/ ricotta cream & plums seemed appropriate for late summer days. I found the recipe in one of…

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plums in crème d’amande

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising. Plum season has started. As soon as I spotted plums in my trusted food store and recipes for any kind of plum cake affairs started appearing on Instagram I defined that it’s time to create something w/ plums. I admit that I’m not a fan of eating plums fresh from the garden. They seems somewhat dry and sour … Plums are definitely predestined to get baked or cooked. Only…

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vanilla plum jam

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   During the summer I didn’t do any new innovative jams. I only produced some classic jams like: strawberries w/ raspberries apricots w/ red currants. Both were made w/ preserving sugar (2:1). So when summer slowly turns into autumn I thought about my jam production & decided to add another classic jam based on plums. Voilà the results safely stored in jam jars! (I got more than 3 jam…

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