At harvest time, baskets of delicious plums can be picked every year. Anything that cannot be eaten immediately as a fruit meal or made into a plum datschi can easily be boiled down and stored as a winter supply.
How to preserve plums?
To preserve plums, you need firm, ripe fruits. Wash and deseed the plums, sterilize preserving jars and make a sugar stock. Pour the fruit into jars, add spices, pour the stock over them and immediately wake up the jars.
Wonking plums
If you want to preserve a supply of plums, make sure you buy the fruit that is firm but ripe.
- Wash the plums in a cold water bath.
- Cut the fruit in half with a sharp knife and remove the core.
- Make sure there are no rotten spots or worms.
- Prepare your mason jars. No matter what jars you use, twist-off or glass lidded, canning jars are always sterilized. Boil the jars or put them in the oven at 100 degrees for ten minutes.
- Cook a sugar stock to preserve the plums. For 1 kg of fruit you need about 250 g of sugar. If the plums are very sweet, use less sugar.
- Boil the sugar and an appropriate amount of water until the sugar has dissolved.
- Place the halved plums in the glasses. If you wish, you can add spices such as a cinnamon stick, a piece of vanilla bean or a clove.
- Now pour the hot broth over the plums. There should still be about 1 cm of space up to the edge of the glass and the fruits should be completely covered with the sugar solution.
- Clean the rim of the glass, close the glasses and wake them up immediately.
In the preserving machine
Here you pour water up to half of the glasses, close the kettle and heat it to 90 degrees. Wake up the jars for 30 minutes. Allow them to cool slightly in the kettle and then place them, covered, on the countertop to cool completely.
In the oven
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place the glasses in the drip pan. Pour 2 cm of water. Put the tray in the oven. As soon as the liquid in the jars begins to bubble, turn off the oven and leave the jars in the oven for half an hour. Open the oven door a little so that the food cools down slightly. Remove the glasses and let them cool completely on the worktop.
