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Sunday 22 September 2013

Plums plums and more plums...............

I am going on holiday tomorrow, so yesterday it was time to pick the last of the plums off the tree. I managed to get quite a few but Laura was a great help and with the aid of some step ladders she managed to pick the tree bare, with a little help from Noah.

I've already had a lot of plums off the tree but we managed to pick another 10 kilos of fruit, this years crop has been really good. I've been very productive in the kitchen washing, stoning, freezing and bagging up spare fruit. I made some more jam, and stewed lots of fruit for crumbles. Laura took four big bags of plums home and we have some plum liqueur fermenting ready for Christmas.


Earlier in the week I had caught a few minutes of the Hairy Bikers cookery programme and they were making blueberry muffins topped with homemade lemon curd. I missed the recipe but managed to find it via a search on the BBC website here. So with my homemade lemon curd in the fridge I thought I should try this new recipe. It was very quick and easy and as usual I made a slight modification I was short on blueberries but had a few raspberries left in the garden - so mine were a mixed berry batch. They smelt wonderful when they came out of the oven and the lemon curd added a lovely zingy tang.

This morning I have been delivering bags of plums, pots of jam and a couple of berry muffins to my mum and my mother in law. I now need to concentrate on my holiday as tomorrow afternoon I will be flying to Turkey for a couple of weeks.

See you all soon and if everything works out I've got a few posts that I have been saving to share with you.

Talk soon x

12 comments:

  1. yum yum and happy holidays!!!!
    xxxx Ale

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  2. Wow! Busy girl! Have a great holiday, and enjoy a winter full of plums!

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  3. How utterly gorgeous and delicious x have a lovely holiday xox Penny

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  4. Ooo they look so good! Have a great holiday x

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  5. You should have titled this post "Yum, yum and more yum"! It all looks mouthwateringly scrumptious! Have a lovely break! Chrissie x

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  6. Wowie...how beautiful are these!!!! I love your acorns from previous post too!!
    xo Kris

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  7. That looks like a lot of work but so worth it! Have a great holiday.

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  8. Wow, that is a lot of plums you have there. I just bought more from the supermarket after our lovely jam and crumble, wish I lived a little closer. I am sure all the work will pay off as I always think it is worth it and will make wonderful Christmas presents! The muffins sounds wonderful, I must give it a whirl, so thanks for sharing. Enjoy your holiday and hope you relax xoxo

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  9. What a plum tastic post they look scrummy x

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  10. That is what I call an abundant crop and look at all the beautiful eaties you've turned them into! You've earned your holiday Sue - off you go and have a great time!
    Joy x

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  11. Hope that you are having great holiday. The plum liquer sounds lovely!!

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  12. wow Sue we have fruit trees and we hope to for the 1st time this year to have enough to preserve,what do you preserve yours in,i love your blog i am going to follow you,and i also love your knitting,have a lovely day.xx

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