Making use of wild plums

I’ve written before about how to find the wily wild plum. Once you’ve located them and picked your fill (with your homemade fruit picker, of course), you’ll need to find a way to make use of your bounty. Here are a few ideas.

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Preserving them

• Canning wild plums (and some recipes)
• Drying plums
• Canning, Dehyrating, and Freezing plums

Condiments

• Wild plum ketchup.
• Wojapi – a Native American plum sauce to use with fry bread or meat.

Snacks

• Wild plum leather.
• Make your own fruit leather

Spreads

• Wild plum jam and other good information.
• Easy wild plum jelly. From Mother Earth News.
• Wild plum honey and plum preserves. Some amazing ideas here!
• Wild plum jelly.
• Sand plum butter. A simple spread.
• Wild plum jam.
• No peel – no pectin plum jam. An easy jam recipe.

Desserts

• Wild plum crisp. A tasty dessert.

Alcoholic drinks

• Wild plum schnapps. Soak the plums in vodka, strain them, and let it age,
• Plum jerkum. Fermented plum cider.

May your foraging days be plum crazy!

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This article originally appeared at Examiner.com

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