In order to keep the fruity, sweet mirabelle plums for several months or even a year, pickling them with or without preserving them is a wonderful solution. Just follow our recipes, which you can implement step by step thanks to the practical instructions!

Pickled mirabelle plums are a delicious snack for in between

Recipe for pickling mirabelle plums

You need:

  • fresh plums
  • cinnamon sticks
  • Sugar*
  • water
  • Mason jars with lids
  • cooking pot
  • preserving pot

* It is advisable to use birch sugar instead of normal sugar - your health will thank you.

This is how you put your mirabelle plums in correctly

  1. Pour about a liter of water into the saucepan.
  2. Add about 300 grams of sugar.
  3. Boil the sugar water.
  4. Then let it cool down.
  5. In the meantime, wash the plums thoroughly.
  6. Remove the stalk from each mirabelle plum.
  7. Place a cinnamon stick in each mason jar.
  8. Then fill the fruit tightly into the glasses.
  9. Pour the cooled sugar water over it - the plums must be completely covered.
  10. Close the jars tightly.
  11. Place the jars in the saucepan.
  12. Then fill the canning pot with water to the top of the liquid in the jars.
  13. Cook the whole thing for 30 minutes at 75 degrees Celsius.
  14. Take the stewpot off the stove.
  15. Let the glasses with their delicious contents cool down slowly.
  16. Store the pickled mirabelle plums in a dark place.

tips

The fruit can be kept for at least a year.

Note: Our recipe is a relatively simple and inexpensive one. Of course, you can also modify it as far as the exact list of ingredients is concerned. It is also very tasty with vodka and vanilla, for example - if you like an alcoholic note. For this variant you need

  • 500 g plums
  • 500 ml of vodka
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 250 grams of sugar

Boiling is not necessary here. Simply scrape out the pulp from the vanilla pod, which has been cut open lengthwise, and stir in the vodka. Score the washed plums with a sharp knife or pierce several times with a wooden skewer. Then layer the mirabelle plums, the sugar and the scraped-out vanilla pod in a sufficiently large mason jar. Then pour the vanilla vodka over it and close the glasses tightly. Leave for at least two weeks. The pickled fruit can now be stored in the refrigerator for a good three months.

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