Plums: The Final Tally
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hrj20 2-cup frozen bags of pureed Italian/damson-type plums
5 2-cup frozen bags of pureed red-leaf ornamentals
8 cups reserved to play with and put through a jelly bag resulting in:
4 cups clear juice, to which I added 3 cups sugar and cooked to the jelly point resulting in 7 half-cup jars of jelly. Pretty good percent-recovery!
4 cups thick pump, to which I added a glob of honey and assorted medieval spices (ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, grains of paradise, cubebs) to taste and cooked with ca. 1/4 cup rice flour to thicken. This resulted in 8+ half-cup jars of spiced plum goo.
The jelly is to give away (since I wouldn't use that much jelly in a decade). The plum goo is either to use or give away as it pleases me. (And note that I've only used about 1/8 of the total puree at this point.) I think, although I'm not entirely certain, that I don't need to plant any more plum trees. (Although a nice little Santa Rosa wouldn't go entirely amiss ....)
5 2-cup frozen bags of pureed red-leaf ornamentals
8 cups reserved to play with and put through a jelly bag resulting in:
4 cups clear juice, to which I added 3 cups sugar and cooked to the jelly point resulting in 7 half-cup jars of jelly. Pretty good percent-recovery!
4 cups thick pump, to which I added a glob of honey and assorted medieval spices (ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, grains of paradise, cubebs) to taste and cooked with ca. 1/4 cup rice flour to thicken. This resulted in 8+ half-cup jars of spiced plum goo.
The jelly is to give away (since I wouldn't use that much jelly in a decade). The plum goo is either to use or give away as it pleases me. (And note that I've only used about 1/8 of the total puree at this point.) I think, although I'm not entirely certain, that I don't need to plant any more plum trees. (Although a nice little Santa Rosa wouldn't go entirely amiss ....)
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Date: 2012-07-20 05:25 am (UTC)The domestic plums in my yard are Satsuma (which is a parent of Santa Rosa), and I will be making wine with them again this year for the first time in a while, since I appear to have recovered enough of my wits to do so. But my supplier for the yeast etc died, so I have to go back to the Seven ridges people who I don't feel comfortable with. Oh well.