Maybe you will like your "Pork Sauce" so much you will want to make it again next year :) My Mother used to make plum something, can't remember, maybe it was butter, but it was so good. I haven't had any like it since. I wish I could still garden. I did for many years and it was a big garden. I wonder if you could make some kind of cake using some of your sauce? It sounds like you might, something like an apple butter cake. Good luck.

Sue

I had another thought about your sauce. I'll bet it would be good on pancakes or french toast?

Sue

Roco0101, I;m sorry if I laughed while reading your post. In one way I can relate. Never had anything to do with plums, but where we used to live, we has 21 apple trees. My sis & bro-on-law loveds apple butter....i hate it, but they would come up (they lived in MPLS & I lived in No. MN) bring jars, sugar & spices, I had the apples and we would spend a Saturday cooking and canning apple butter. One year, I thought we were done for the day, jars lined up on the counter, looking pretty, I have to admit. Bro-in-law came in, saw we still had a half of a bushel of apples...spun around and went into town for more jars. If I hadn't been so darn tired, I would have chased him down and hit him with an apple.
Good luck with your plum pork sauce, and I hope you can think of other uses.

Thanks, marilyn sue. I asked DH to taste it. "Could we put it on waffles, pancakes?"

No, he hates the trees too much. It will be a glaze for the next 7 1/2 years. I will buy a new freezer before we go through this stuff.

I will put this endeavor along with freezing the corn on the cob...in husk, wrapped in newspaper in the freezer bag. Nothing like that poor little cut worm, trying to climb out....He was the Donner Party of cut worms.

Tee hee, too funny!

Sue

When I was a child living on a small farm, we had 6 to 8 red plum trees. We liked them. I've spent a number of evenings stuffing myself on plums fresh off the tree. Mother would can about 30 quart jars of plums, sometimes whole plums, to be used as dessert in the winter.

One mile away, a neighbor had a grove of blue plums that were the envy of the neighborhood. These were bigger, plumper,a nd better tasting than the reds. We tried to grow a pair of blue plums and failed. blue plums are mroe susceptable to diseases that kill the trees. Our red plums would self propagate, but the blues died, so we were stuck with the reds.

Red plums don't make good jelies, at least that was the common thought in our neighborhood. They are best canned as pitted or whole sugared plums, and plum butter. When the fruit was in season, they were cleaned and eaten raw - no sugar required.

I'm sorry roco. Just couldn't help a chuckle or two. :)
Wish I lived close by because we gladly would have taken those plums off your hands. Now, plum butter? Not so sure.

Plum chutney is delicious - if you like chutney. People seem to love it or hate it.

My grandmother used to make the most wonderful plum jelly. It was tart and delicious. I have no idea what kind of plums she used, but I've never found any since that had the tartness of hers. Most that I taste are too sweet.

I had to laugh at your bags of plum sauce. I wonder if you could mix some with a little soy sauce and make a good stir fry glaze?

"what else do you do with freakin' plums?)." ah, you wash them and eat them! YUMMY! LOL I wouldn't ruin them by cooking them. lol

Yes, they are trees. But they are only trees. They are
making you both miserable. CUT THEM DOWN!!! if that
bothers you so much, plant 2 or three new trees that
you will apreciate. cut them down! lol

Buy some Sure Jell or other pectin for making "foolproof" jam, and you will love it, so will your family and friends. Put put some pretty ribbon on the jars and you have a fantastic gift for everyone (teachers, mailman, car repairer) all for the cost of sugar and jars. It is truly a shame that your spent so much effort for a project was not a fool proof method of preserving your fruit. Home made jams and jellies are so worth it when the holidays and winter rolls around. BTW....neighbors would most likely love having them.

Fresh plum cake. One of DH's favourites and one we look forward to plum season for.

well, I might be convinced to try plum cake. that does sound good!

I planted a plum tree when my father died 10 years ago. This year we had a great crop of plums and I pitted 24 pounds with the intention of making plum butter. I cooked, and cooked, and cooked all day and into the evening. All at once hubby smelled something burning. Yep, plum butter ruined just like that! I desperately tried to find a solution but wasn't able to find one and had to toss out the whole lot! The good news is that I got some good tips for next year--doing it in the oven or te ecrock pot instead!

Plum sauce sounds delicious! I would have been pleased to be able to use mine any old way!!

Do a search on allrecipes.com for PLUM and you will find uses for the sauce, plus recipes for breads, cakes, etc. Don't give up!.

I'd vote for cutting them down too, since you both hate them. I hate to see beautiful mature trees cut, but in this case, these plums need to go!

Oh, you sure know how to tell a story! Loved it!!
Why do we always laugh at other people's misfortune?

Can't help you in the plum department though....I don't like them either.

I was sure "plum butter" was a euphemism for something. LMAO

I don't like "fruit butters". They are too cooked down, and the heavy spice flavour gags me. I do, however, like plum honey jam. Just plums and honey. Mix 4 cups cut up plums with 1 3/4 cups honey. Let the mixture sit for about an hour.

Bring to a boil on the stovetop until it "sets" - a bit of the mixture dropped in a chilled plate gets thick and wrinkles when you push it with your finger. You can use a thermometer to judge when it gets to jelly temp as well (220 degrees F).

Pour into sterilized jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace, add lids and seal finger tight with rings. For safety, process jars 10-15 minutes in a boiling water canner.

It is pretty, and it tastes AWESOME.

Now, as far as disasters go. I have had more than my fair share of them ;). But most recent? Just a tip. If you are doubling a batch of friendship bread starter to have enough for a group activity, do NOT double the yeast. Just the rest of the ingredients. You will wake up to mount vesuvious on your counter!

Dances.

I made the Mennonite Friendship Bread a few years ago too Dances! We couldn't eat it fast enough, and I really didn't care for the cakish bread recipes. I made a cinnamon, raisin nut bread, and a poppy seed one.

I gave away my excess starters on Freecycle.

Dances, I did the chilled plate on day two. I did the frozen plate.....like you're supposed to do. I have chipped salad plates and a bruise or two on my head!

Thanks for reminding me of the Friendship Bread....I'm going to my starter Sourdough endeavor. MIL gave me the starter and a cute crock to do it's thing. I cradled that stuff from Oregon to Arizona. Made the bread, kept some starter, put the new mix stuff in there to keep it going and went to work. Came home to some sort of runny, dough thingie trying to get out the back door. Down the counter, across the floor, two dead crickets in it.

Really, I've come to realization that mechanics should fix our car, plumbers should ream out your toilet and you don't need to be Pioneer Woman. That's why God gave us supermarkets. It's probably better anyway.

Oh bigbaby, I was 10 seconds away from your pain. Had to go look at the poop of the century (3 1/2 yo GD)....they're all gooooood.

I give up.

I, too, have some of that starter only it is in the freezer, saw it yesterday and thought I should do something with it or at least throw it out. It is in a doubled zip lock freezer bag and to this day seven months later it has never frozen ...just a blob that you can poke at with your finger. What do you think it does to our innards? Seriously thinking I will get up early to wait for the garbage man and grab it out of the freezer and run. If it works as well as the stories above, this gal ain't taking NO CHANCES!!! I do not like housework well enough to put it on the sideboard or in the garbage can under the sink for the nite. Shudder ...images of The Blob horror movie are starting to form in my imagination

no plums but in ca had a apricot tree..couldn't give them away! (and apricots are pricey to buy) now have an apple tree but they small and mis-shapen so we let them fall, and let the critters eat them...

if your plums are prime friut, call your local gleaners org...plenty of people would love to have free NEEDED fruit...