It is the season for plums. It is the time for plum deliciousness.
Plums make:
a perfectly delightful gift for a friend;
and a beautiful, bounteous, table decoration;
;
Plums make delectable eatables:
like gleaming, sugar-shimmering, baked compote;
and rich coffee cake.
[ take a slice, please do 🙂 ]
And plums are fabulous for frivolous fool…ishness ;
- Frothy, frivolous
- Frilly
- Fools
and golden jam,
and plums make a jolly good story, too, don’t they? 😉
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Oh! I feel like plums now! They aren’t as common here as they are in Australia. They were a common after-school treat when I was growing up… I can smell them just thinking about them!
Mmmmm….fresh plums do smell good.
Fabulous! I could go for some plum jam on my breakfast toast, right about now…. 😉 That book looks absolutely delightful, I’ll have to see if our library carries it.
The book is such fun. Do hope you can find it.
yummy post… 🙂 I love all kinds of plums! even the green ones from Japan and Taiwan where they make the famous “umeshu” – green plum wine, cheers! 🙂
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have a great week, tons of inspiration and friendly thoughts, Mélanie
Mmmm…..I think I would like umeshu. I would definitely like the green plums.
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How indeed? Sugar plum fairies were at work 😉
Thank you for reminding me of Margaret Mahy’s ‘Jam’ – I loved that book, and I love making plum jam. It speaks to me of nostalgia, and is my very favourite variety of jam. I love the rich flavour and that hint of sharpness under the sweetness.
It is such a wonderful book. I have enjoyed reading it again and marvelling at the illustrations. Plum jam is delicious. I have just made some bread for my plum jam spread.
Ah, plum coffee cake sounds delicious it’s a combination I have never tasted. This is a lovely celebration of plumbs. 😉
Sadly, the cake wouldn’t fit your attempts at a vegan menu, but it is full of delicious almonds, orange and fruit which makes it seem almost healthy 😉
Oh – they look too delicious to pass…so I’m tasting them fresh and baked, virtually with my eyes from far away! I just had dinner and would love to have a fool for dessert, with coconut cream, please 🙂
Your choice of dish to finish your meal is excellent. It comes highly recommended. Enjoy 🙂
Thank you! A bed-time delish 🙂
And, now, you will be plum-tired and ready for sleep.
Oooo! I’ll have a slice of the plum coffee cake with some plum jam, thank you 🙂
And we will have coffee too and read some poetry 🙂
That sounds lovely 🙂
Me too!! 🙂
Enjoy! With my compliments 😉
Yummy, I adore plums. Our season was over months ago. Wonderful to see your plum jam. I’ll take a sample of each of your efforts.
What an excellent idea. It will be like a wine-tasting but for plums 😀
Now you’ve gone and done it….Having cravings for plum jam wasn’t enough, you had to torture me even more with all these delicious plum treats. I’m sorry, virtual tasting just won’t do when you’ve got a hankerin’ for the real deal.
Now, I’ll have to go to the store and get something plum…it won’t be home made…but it will have to do.
Love the little book slide show…and all of your other “vintage” books!
Then, with your creative juices flowing, on account of the plum, you will write a villanelle, in celebration of plum-ness!
Glad you like the book. I wish I could show you the whole thing. You would love it. It was first published in 1985 and must be one of the earliest books to present children with the idea of a mother who goes to work and a father who stays home, with hilarious but very satisfying results.
I laughed out loud about writing a villanelle in celebration of plum-ness. That sound just too good to resist!
Who would have thunk that a father staying at home would catch on?
Yes, who would have thunk!!!!
Everything looks perfect! The storybook is cute–I don’t know this one. Is it a New Zealand book?
It is a New Zealand book by our wonderful Margaret Mahy, sadly now deceased. Her books are popular outside New Zealand. She was a great story teller. http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/mahym.html
I love a nice sweet plum, but the past few years, I can’t seem to find one that doesn’t pucker you up like a lemon.
The little red plums in the photos are sweet but become sour when cooked. The yellowish plums become sweeter as they ripen but I love to eat them when they are firm and tart. Not pucker-up lemon tart but they definitely have a sharpness to them.
I really should stop reading your blog in the gap between breakfast and lunch….all that deliciousness makes me hungry!!
Ooops! And I suppose that the only thing your new regime allows is the fruit 😉 Which is, of course, delicious!
My mid morning nectarine was quite delicious, but I have to say your cake still looked nicer!!
At least you had a nectarine ….my nectarine tree was covered in blossom this spring but failed to produce a single viable nectarine 😦
Nectarines are my favourite summer fruit. How sad that your tree hasn’t borne any decent nectarines! But at least you have friends with plum trees 🙂
I have had about 3 seasons of good nectarines from my tree, so I suppose the tree needs a rest! And, yes, hooray, for friends with plum trees.
plums! I suffer the worst case of plum envy as I’ll have to wait until august here 😀
though I have found an organic, junk-free plum ketchup which is sooo delicious, especially with pumpkin wedges. nomnom.
Plum ketchup is divine. My aunt suggested I should make some. It was something she used to make a lot. I think I have enough plums to do it. By the way, I was thinking that the Plum Fool would probably work well with whipped coconut cream?
oh yes, whipped coconut would be divine.
am still postponing it: want to try and make creamy coconut ice cream with “streaks” of fruity puree in it. thought of berries, but plum sounds as good. since I will most likely postpone it till september, it will probably be plums 😀
Something to look forward to…yum.
I absolutely need the recipe for coffee coffee cake please. Double yum!
The recipe is super easy and can be found here http://m.joyofbaking.com/cakes/PlumCoffeeCake.html It is one of my favourite recipes. I don’t have a suitable round pan so I use a rectangular one. And I use just a pinch of salt. Also pays to keep an eye on the plums to make sure they don’t burn towards the end of the baking. Do you remember the Giant Jam Sandwich? Strawberry Jam, it was, not plum. Your two gave it to their cousin on her 4th birthday!
They look so delicious and what you do with them, oh yummy, This cake, so moist and delicious.. I am drooling…
The cake is so yummy, Ute. I know you would love it.
I do know that too! I do know then when I come to visit you I have to go on a diet before so I can taste all your cakes…… 🙂
I don’t think you need to worry about a diet. After we finish our busy sightseeing, you can teach me to dance and then we will replenish our energy with cake. We will be fine 😀
Good point ! I am happy with that thought! 🙂
Me too!
What mouth-watering photos!
A good plum does make my mouth water!
Plum delicious! Such a delightful post – plums are as beautiful as they are tasty. I’d love a piece of that cake today…Your photos speak of summer and all its loveliness too. Wish you a beautiful day!
Thanks Ann-Christine! You are working so hard I think you should have a whole cake to yourself 🙂
You are really sweet and kindly thinking of me…thank you!
Do teaching staff bring cakes to school sometimes to celebrate birthdays or special occasions?
Oh!!! I do wish we lived closer to each other. I think that I would be at your home everyday! 🙂
The more the merrier, though I suspect that ,if you were closer, we might get up to more mischief than jam making and the like 😀
Oh, how tempting!!!
😉
Hmmm….. You get lots of plums here. Can I have one more slice, Yes?
Lots and lots of plums. Please have some more cake. The sooner it is eaten the sooner I will have an excuse to make more cake 😉
……Then, I will never be far away from your kitchen, I can’t hardly wait for more cake you are going to make. 😀
Right! I better look for my chef’s hat and get busy.
I think there has to be someone wake me up from this dreams. LOL 😀
Wait till I have finished making the cake! Then you can wake up from your dreams 😀
😀 😀 😀
They all are too deliciously looking!!! Thank you for a slice of plum coffee cake. I take one 🙂 The “Frosty” is also tempting. A spoon of “Frosty” would also be nice too 🙂
You may have a taste of everything! It’s all plum delicious.
Thank you 🙂
🙂
oh yum! we are missing out on plums this year as S did not prune the tree … oh dear, I have tried not to think of it but your blog of deliciousness is too much!! I so love plum jam, and plum cake, and I’ve tried buying some plums but they simply were not up to it … so thank you for the slice of plum coffee cake, I accept gladly … and may come back for another 🙂
You are welcome to have some more. These plums are extra delicious because they are from a friend’s tree not the supermarket. Last year, I foraged plums from public spaces. The taste is so superior to the supermarket varieties. Can you guess, I am as big a plum fan as you? : D
maybe we will meet over a glass of plum wine sometime!
Oh plum wine! I had forgotten that one. It gave me a dreadful hangover once! Note the ONCE!