Dutch Plums

My brother has an orchard and is one of the top 10 plum growers in the Netherlands. Last week they started picking the first plums of this years harvest.

This year he will be one of the selected sellers by GIJS, they select the best of Dutch fresh fruit, vegetable, dairy, ... suppliers. The website promotes their wares which are sold through the supermarket chain named PLUS in the Netherlands. They already came to interview him and take pictures, but his profile is not online yet.

Anyway of you see plums in the PLUS supermarket with this card on the crate you know they come from my brothers orchard :-)

Looking for something to bake with plums, there's several recipes on my blog, just type plum in the google search bar which you find on the right hand side of this blog and you will find them all.

Sweet Saturday

Stewed plums - Plum sauce

• 4 large plums or approx 250gr
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground star-aniseed
• 2 tablespoons of sugar

Peel and half the plums. Mix in the sugar and the spices and stew for 10-15min in a pot on the hob or in an oven of 180°C. Serve cooled with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream or yoghurt ice.

Sweet Saturday

Sweet Saturday is here again with another recipe for plums:

Plum under a Cake

• about 1 kilo of plums
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
• 4 tablespoons of water
• 125 gr sugar
• 125 gr soft butter
• 2 eggs
• 125 gr self-raising flour

Preheat the oven to 180°C

Half the plums and take the peel partly off, put these in a buttered baking tin. I leave a bit of peel on cause it gives such a nice colour. make a syrup by boiling the water, sugar and vanilla sugar down. When you draw a stripe in it and it stays for a bit it is ready. Pour this over the plums.

Mix the soft butter with the sugar, add the eggs and than the flour. Spoon this over the plums. 

Bake at 180°C for 25 minutes until golden brown.

Enjoy!!

Sweet Saturday

Another recipe with plums:

Pie with plums and hazelnuts

• puff pastry (I use the ready made ones from the supermarket)
• 1kg plums (firm)
• 50 gr melted butter
• 50 gr sugar
• 50 gr of ground almonds or a mix of almonds and hazelnuts
• 1 egg
• 1 dessert spoon flour
• dash of amaretto
• crushed hazelnuts (I used the sugared ones which you can buy to put on ice cream)

Roll the puff paste into a low pie dish and prick with a fork holes in the bottom. Mix the melted butter, egg, sugar, flour and amaretto and poor on to the base. Half the plums and make 2 small slices in the back so the peel will come off in pieces when you eat it later. Arrange the plums, skin side up on the mixture. Sprinkle with a handful of crushed hazelnuts and bake for 20-30 min in a (preheated) oven of 180°C.

Enjoy!