Yes, another Plum post!

Yes Folks you read correctly! This is another post on Plums!

As I have stated in an earlier post, we had access to free Plums. We picked tons of them. This time I have made Plum Preserves! We have been eating The Plum Preserves on Vanilla Ice Cream. What a great treat.

The recipe was a very easy one. When canning easy is always nice.

Here is the recipe.

Plum Preserves

5 cups pitted Plums (about 2 1/2 pounds)

Chop plums in food processor to desired consitancy

4 cups of sugar

1 cup of water

Combine all ingrediants in a large saucepot. Bring slowely to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Cook rapidly almost to gelling point. As mixture thickens, stir frequently to prevent sticking. Remove from heat. Skim foam if neccessary. Ladle hot preserves into hot jars leaving a 1/4 inch headspace. Adjust caps. Process 15 minutes in a boiling water canner. Makes about 5  half pints or 10  4oz jars.

~Jenn's Plumtastic B.B.Q. Sauce~

Recently my Family and I picked a few Plums! Actually it felt like a few thousand. We ended up with over 25 pounds of plums. Thats alot of  de-pitting to do! I was excitied for the free bounty and may have picked more then I could handle or can. Thats when I hit up the wonderful internet. In search of recipes and ideas on what I was going to do with all these plums. I came across a Plum B.B.Q. Sauce. I made a few alterations to the recipe I stumbled upon. I made mine a little more spicier.

This is a picture of everything simmering away in the pot! It smelled so good and was great tasting!

Here is the recipe!

B.B.Q. Plum Sauce

6 cups pitted and chopped plums (after you have put them in a food processor)

1 large red onion (chopped mine up in food processor)

1 Large Red Bell Pepper (chopped in processor)

14 Cloves of garlic (chopped in processor)

1 1/4 cup of honey

3/4 Apple Cider Vinegar

1 Tbl spoon Worstershire sauce

2 Tbl spoons of hot pepper flakes

2 Jalepenos (chopped in processor)

2 teaspoons of dry mustard

2 tbl spoons Cumin

2 teaspoons of salt

After you chop all ingrediants, combine in large sauce pot and cook down till the consitincy of B.B.Q. sauce.

I cooked mine for about 3 hours.

This makes about 8 half pint jars.

Boil 15 minutes in hot water canner.

We did eat our new sauce on Beef Ribs. The family loved it!