by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 26, 2013 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Well, the plum jam is LOVELY, although a tad sweet, so next batch, I’ll try using less sugar. If you have plums to use, this might be of interest. Some people can forage plums, but I’ve never been lucky enough to see a tree to forage from. For the five jars I made,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 24, 2013 | My Diary
I’ve been pottering this afternoon. Supposed to be doing a project outside but its been rain, rain and more rain today. So I decided to have a go at the mi-cuit plums. As I was Googling about them, to try and find out how you know they are ‘done’, I found more and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 23, 2013 | My Diary
Another huge basket of plums today. This is the basket AFTER I gave my neighbour a big bag full of them. The trees that are cropping right now are called Opal. They are supposed to crop at the end of July/beg of Aug, but everything is 4-6 weeks late this year. This is...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 20, 2013 | My Diary
These are the first of the plums that I harvested today. We planted some Minarette trees out the front. A dozen trees in a tiny space, of assorted fruit, not much more than 2 feet apart. This is the first plum harvest, and I am really excited about it. The plum trees...
