Description
Use:
- Dainty - dried plums are perfect for a direct consumption
- Sweet baking - if you do not have fresh fruit, do not be afraid to add dried fruit into pies, just adjust your recipe because dried fruit is much sweeter than the fresh one
- Breakfast - plums will make a perfect tasty ingredient into your porridge or home-made muesli
- Cookies - you can cover the dried plums in marzipan or chocolate, you can blend them as well along with nuts, seeds and carob and cover the mixture in coconut
- Sauce - cook the plums in water and chop them in pieces after, then prepare light roux and pour it with plum broth, cook and add plums, chopped almonds, lemon juice, salt, cinnamon and cook for a little bit more, the sauce fits to salty dishes as well
Drying significantly contributes to the durability of fruit and can also be used as fresh fruit alternative. For a better taste, you can pre-soak the plums in hot water for a half an hour before consuming.
The tree that plums grow on is called common plum. It is called slíva in Bohemia and trnka in Moravia. It has been grown in Central Europe since the 5th century, but it originally comes from the Caucasus. Stones of plums were even found in excavations from the time of the Roman Empire.
It is a stone-fruit and thrives in a mild climate. Its fruits have a distinctive aromatic scent. This tree grows all over the Czech Republic and often plants in the vicinity of the orchards as well. Its wood is not used very much, whereas its fruit is widely used in the food industry. Plums are used to make plum jam, fruit dumplings, and overripe fruit is fermented to produce the famous plum brandy (slivovice).
Composition
Dried plums, sunflower oil, preservative: potassium sorbate. May contain traces of gluten.Storage
Store in a dry and cool place.
