1. Dried in the oven
Whether black or red, dried plums make for a delicious snack or edible cake decoration. Rabbit also pairs very well with dried plums. If they soften after a while, you can put them back in the oven for a few minutes so they can dry out again.
SNACKS
Oven-Dried Plums
2. Fruit candy
Extract the juice from the plums and combine it with gelatin. Bring to a boil, add sugar and pour the mixture into a mould. The next day, cut the jelly into squares. They make for a great treat at the end of a meal, or you can add them to a fruit salad with lemon jelly!
• While food waste concerns all types of food, fruits account for 15% of all food waste in Canadian households.
• 1,225,000 apples and 555,000 bananas are wasted every day in Canada.
3. Plum confit
In a baking dish, combine plums with sugar, water and a bit of butter. Bake for 20 minutes and then let cool at room temperature. This confit tastes great served on crepes, French toast or vanilla ice cream.
FRUIT
Plum Confit
4. Drinks
Combine them with alcohol (spirit) to make a mistelle (a fortified wine) or simply plum juice, by bringing the cut and pitted fruit, sugar and water to a boil. Let cool, blend, strain through a sieve and enjoy!
DRINKS AND COCKTAILS
Plum Mistelle
Preventing waste is imperative and with these ideas – which apply to all stone fruits – your options to help reduce your ecological footprint have gone up! It’s always best to give your food a second life. If that isn’t possible and the fruit isn’t fit to be consumed, it’s better to compost it rather than trash it.