Comments on: Cherry Plum Jam Recipe

By: Emma Ziri

Emma Ziri — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:11:59 +0000

I just found a cherry plum tree whilst camping in the Norfolk Broads. I thought they were cherries at first and was confused about the taste as I’d never heard of cherry plums before. I grabbed a load before we left, and I’ve just made my first jam…. I don’t know how it will turn out! I de-stoned them by hand and used caster sugar as I hear plums are high in pectin so don’t need to use jam sugar, is this right?

By: James

James — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:31:17 +0000

With a lot of experimentation over the last two days after discovering a cherry plum tree in our backyard with 16 kg of almost-ripe, firm cherry plums (great win!) we found the easiest way to get the stones out was to put 1kg batches of them into the microwave to steam them for 6 minutes, then leaving them to cool. Squeezing them gently removed the stones, while keeping all the juice and flesh. This allowed us to get through the 16kg of cherry plums for 50 375ml jars of amazingly delicious jam in 5 hours.

By: john from the land down under

john from the land down under — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:08:39 +0000

just taken a bit of everyones advise and made a mountain of jam from our bumper crop.
have wanted to do this for years but are normally away on summer vacation at this time, and fruit goes to the birds and the elements.
thanks to our current flood crisis i am home with nothing to do.
am thinking of making cherry plum wine with the other half tonne of excess cherry plums . ha ha ha

many thanks john

By: lula

lula — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:30:52 +0000

Hi, I slice the sides off half (ish) of the fruit, like doing a mango and put all the scraps in with the other half. boil up the scraps half, use an electric whisk to break them up then put the mess through a colander. Beware it will splatter, but it takes the hard work out of removing the stones!

Reduce juice down BEFORE adding the sugar to avoid it sticking/caremelising. When it has reduced add the other fruit and the sugar before boiling until setting point.

this gives a jam with bits rather than a jelly.

By: DOT WARDA

DOT WARDA — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:58:41 +0000

I COOKED THE PLUMS WITH 5 CUPS OF WATER, SO I HAVE LOTS OF JUICE. CAN I MIX THE JUICE AND PULP TO MAKE THE JAM?
DOT

By: Jade

Jade — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:31:16 +0000

Warren Farrow: –

Hello Warren, How did you make your chilli plum sauce?

Would be grateful for a receipe.

Many Thanks

Jade

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:53:45 +0000

A little chilli and red wine in the process does wonders to the flavor, and a sprinkle of salt helps to release and emalgamate them.
Ive made 9 different types of plum jam from our wild cherry plum tree, used hundreds of plums, and i havent even put a dent in the amount the tree produces. If someone could kindly jump the fence and take all you can carry, that would be rather apreciated.

By: Sande

Sande — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:21:08 +0000

We gather these in June the years these wild beauties produce in our arid Texas area. I wash and stem them, then place them in an electric roaster with water to cover and cook them on the front porch until soft (about 2 hours for a full roaster). When the fruit is cool, I take hand fulls and place in a collander, mashing the fruit around and around to extract the pulp into a bowl. (Seeds and most of the peel are discarded.) I then use the pulp to make jam using the directions on any box of pectin. Friends request these, and the half pints make great Christmas gifts with a fresh loaf of bread.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:46:46 +0000

Irish Pete – Harvest them when they are soft and ripe and ready to eat off the tree. Assuming you have ID’d the correct tree!

By: Irish Pete

Irish Pete — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:04:06 +0000

I have an abundance of dark fruit on a rather large Prunus cerasifera in my garden here in Belfast. It’s the first time, in 14 years, that I have noticed any fruit on the tree. It also seems to be a good year for other fruit in the garden (apples, pears & sweet cherries) apart from my Victoria Plum which seems to have lots of leaves but very little fruit, this year.

I would like to try this “Cherry Plum” jam. Can anyone advise me when I should harvest the Cherry plums from my Prunus cerasifera? They are currently (20 June) dark red and hard.

Thanks for any advise.

Pete