Ripe plums can be processed in many different ways. Be it as a compote, as a cake topping, as a snack in between or as a reserve for the winter. If you want to conjure up something special, you can pickle your plums in red wine.

Cinnamon and anise give the red wine plums their spice

Boil red wine plums

With red wine and spices, the taste of the plums is refined in a special way when they are boiled down.
For two half-liter jars you will need

  • 800 g plums
  • 200 ml each of water and dry red wine
  • 125 grams of sugar
  • 2 pieces of star anise and also two cinnamon sticks
  • some lemon zest (preferably organic)
  • if you want a stronger taste, add a glass of rum
  • First sterilize your glasses by boiling them or heating them in the oven at 100 degrees for ten minutes.
  • Wash your plums, remove the stems and discard the damaged ones.
  • Stone the plums. Use a manual plum stoner or a stoner with a container or a sharp knife to split the fruit and remove the stone.
  • Bring the water, mixed with red wine and spices such as sugar, aniseed, cinnamon and lemon zest and rum to the boil until the sugar has dissolved.
  • Place the plums close together in the sterilized glass and pour the hot liquid over them. Make sure there are some spices in each jar. All the plums should be covered with the brew, but the brew should only reach just under the rim of the glass.
  • Dry the rim of the glasses and wake them up either in the preserving machine or in the oven.

    • preserving machine

    Do not place the glasses too close in the kettle and pour water up to half of the glasses. Then wake up at 90 degrees for 30 minutes. Allow the glasses to cool a little longer in the kettle and then place them on the worktop under a cloth to cool completely

    oven

    Here you put the glasses in the fat pan and pour in 2 cm of water. Turn on the oven to 100 degrees. As soon as bubbles appear in the jars, turn off the oven. The glasses remain in the oven for half an hour. Then open the oven door a little and let the glasses cool down a bit. Then let the glasses cool under a cloth on the worktop.

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