The small yellow fruits only last a few days after picking. With a large harvest, it is worth preserving mirabelle plums. You can boil the fruit, preserve compote or preserve jam.
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Important information about plums
The small yellow fruits ripen from July to September. They are related to plums and are also called "yellow plums". Since Mirabelle plums spoil quickly, they should be eaten or processed quickly.
You can combine a wide variety of spices wonderfully with the sweet aroma of mirabelle plums. Try vanilla beans, cinnamon sticks, cardamom pods, but also ginger, star anise or lavender.
Awaken mirabelle plums
- Wash the plums under running water.
- Sterilize mason jars, lids and gums. The washed glasses can be dried in the oven at 120 degrees for 10 minutes. Boil the gummies in the pot for 10 minutes.
- Halve the fruit and remove the core. You sort out damaged fruit.
- Layer the fruit in the glasses.
- Prepare a sugar solution for infusion. 1 l of water and 500 g of sugar are enough for about three glasses.
- Boil water and sugar.
- Pour the hot liquid over the fruit until it is covered. The fruits that look out of the broth will turn brown after a while and no longer look nice.
- Close the jars with screw caps or rubber rings and jar lids and clips.
- Place the jars in the automatic preserving machine and pour in enough water until the jars are halfway submerged.
- Cook in the oven, place the jars in the drip tray and add about 2 cm of water.
The mirabelle plums are cooked in the preserving machine for 30 minutes at 90 degrees and in the oven for half an hour at 100 degrees.
When the cooking time is over, the glasses remain in the pot or oven for a while and then cool completely under a tea towel. Preserved mirabelle plums can be kept for several months. It can happen that a jar remains open during the boiling process. The contents are best consumed immediately or frozen. If a jar opens after a long time, the contents have spoiled and should be discarded.