Wild Plums!

[chefsdreams]

Now that's my kinda grandmother!

you have no idea. she grew rasberries in her backyard just so she could make me my favorite birthday pie

 

[baymule]

Wild Plums 2017!!! We have started earlier this year. We found a clump of trees, really just small stickery shrubs, and they were festooned with small red plums, about the size of a cherry. We picked 3 quart jars and they are simmering on the stove now! We ran out of our delicious wild plum jelly a couple of months ago and have been waiting on plums!!!

 

[lcertuche]

I used to have a wild plum tree where I lived. It was a tree about the size of a peach tree. It had yellow plums that ripened in the fall. They made the prettiest pink jelly. I have some plum trees here but they didn't make last year. Maybe this year.

Tonight we have storm warnings for high winds, hail, thunderstorms, tornado... A torrential rain earlier flooded our garage and so I was busy trying to get that out. I also decided to bring my chicks back in the house for the night.

DH dug out where the beavers keep trying to dam up our spillway this morning. I walked around trying to tie things down and put up other things. We got sandwich stuff so if the power goes out. DD, SIL and grands are visiting so we have a housefull. So good to hear those babies giggling. They sure love the chickens. GD (5) spends all her time running all over the place. She never gets to do that in the city.

 

[lcertuche]

Sumi crabapples make really good jelly. Also, you can make pectin out of it for making other jelly.

 

[baymule]

I combined all my jars of juice in one huge pot. I mixed them all together so my jelly would be the same. I made 4 batches today, got 15 half pints and 17 pints. Still have half a pot of juice. Ran out of pectin so gotta go to the store.

 

[lcertuche]

Well you can add another package of pectin to it and bring to a boil but when my jelly doesn't set we eat it as very thin jelly. Really last a long time that way, lol. My son's friend says my thin blackberry jelly is the best jelly he ever tasted but I don't think he ever ate homemade jelly before. Also thin jelly is great as a glaze on meat or added half and half to barbecue sauce. Add it to muffin batter. Pour over a block of cream cheese for crackers...

 

[baymule]

Well, it didn't set. I made cornmeal pancakes last night and we used over half a jar as syrup. but I want jelly, not syrup, so I will just have to do it all over again.

 

[lcertuche]

I just make my biscuit recipe replacing a 1/2 cup of cornmeal for a half cup of flour.

 

[freemotion]

I have never located wild plums in my area but I'm sure they exist. I bought a tree a couple years ago and it looks like I'm going to get a taste of plums this year. I bought a European prune plum to go with it but a rabbit ate it shortly after planting. No I've got cages around my plum trees.

I went from one plum tree, it's an American plum, to four rather suddenly. Somebody at work gave my husband a small wild plum tree because his spread. I'd already ordered a damson plum to go with the one I had. And when I was planting that one yesterday, I came across two shoots that had grown up a few feet away from my American plum. One I discovered after I kicked it over. The other one I put a stake next to it so I wouldn't step on it. I have to refresh the mulch in that area so it's going to take many wheelbarrow loads. I'm going to put cages around the other two trees today. Keep that wascally wabbit away from them.

 

[sumi]

I'm afraid some of the new cultivars, while big and pretty, are lacking in the taste department...

Someone over on TEG was complaining the other day about strawberries looking SO good and tasting of absolutely nothing. Sadly it seems some fruit and veg nowadays are grown to be more visually appealing than tasty.