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How to freeze plums

Name: How to freeze plums
Prep time: 12 h 40 min
Total time: 12 h 40 min
Yield: 900 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 kg plums

When fruit is in season, there's sometimes a glut - far more than we can use at once.

Freezing is a good solution, but plums and other stone fruit should not be frozen whole; the fruit will be unappetizing when thawed.

Here's a simple method for successful freezing.

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Duration

12 hours 40 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: September 4^th 2019

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

For 900 g, you will need:

1 1 kg plums
Total weight: 1,000 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

12 hours 40 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

Rinse, drain and dry 1 kg plums.

Stage 2

On each fruit you'll find what looks like an indented "seam" down one side. This is the line to split along.

Stage 3

Cut into the fruit with a small knife down to the stone, then turn all around this.

Stage 4

Separate the two halves.

Stage 5

Remove and discard the stone.

Stage 6

Lay the two halves on a baking sheet, protected if necessary with a sheet of cooking parchment.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 30 min.

Prepare all the fruit like this.

Stage 8 - ⌛ 12 hours

Put the trays in the freezer overnight.

Stage 9 - ⌛ 5 min.

Next day, transfer the frozen plums quickly into bags or boxes of about 1lb (400-500 grams). Seal these carefully, excluding as much air as possible.

Dip into the bags for what you need.

Remarks

This method can be applied to almost all stone fruit: plums, but also apricots, cherries, etc.

Keeping: Several months in the freezer.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	2 g RDI=3 %	54 g RDI=20 %	0 g	224 kcal RDI=11 %	938 kJ RDI=11 %
Whole recipe	20 g RDI=31 %	540 g RDI=204 %	0 g	2,240 kcal RDI=112 %	9,378 kJ RDI=112 %