DESSERTS,  ICE CREAM, FROYOs

IN THE PLUM OF THINGS…A sweet tale of sauce & ice-cream

2008/05/30 / 29 Comments
“A sauce…..adds something, really two things: a taste as well as the opportunity to think about how the thing was made.”
Raymond Sokolov

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Spicy Sweet Plum Sauce

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Plums ‘n’ Cherries…the fruit of summer!

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Plum, Cherry & Black-cherry Conserve Ice-cream

Fresh fruit in food is my kind of thing. Summer brings with it delightful juicy fruit from the hills of Jammu & Kashmir, (Gurgaon & Delhi lie in the plains of North India where the weather these days is HOT, HOT, HOT), & one just cant seem to get enough of these delicious fruit. Have to limit the amount of sweet in everyday food, but the temptation is far too great. Bought a small lot of juicy tart plums the other day. We ate a few & the rest were in for a sauce!

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Put them on to simmer in a pan, & kept tossing coins…sweet sauce, sour sauce, sweet sauce or sour sauce. Reached a point of decision making, & went for sweet! Made this from the top of my head…kept throwing in things & tasting…ended up with a nice, full dessert plum sauce. Reduce the sugar, throw in a splash of vinegar, adjust the salt & you’re set with a savoury plum sauce, good as a dipping sauce! YUM!!
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More than the sauce, which was finger-licking good, with an ever-so-slight salty after-taste, it’s the colour that won me over! Rich & luscious. Kept looking at it for ages…amazing PLUM colour!

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What I did…

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I simmered the plums with sugar till they got nice & soft. Then mashed them in the pan with the back of the spoon & pushed everything through a strainer to get a nice thick sauce. Then back into the pan it went…a cinnamon stick, ginger powder, cinnamon powder, dash of rock salt, some more sugar…& it was ready to roll!

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Made some ‘Plum, Cherry & Black-cherry Conserve Ice-cream’ with with the sauce…was yum though a tad sweet for me & DH. I had a jar of organic black-cherry conserve that I had to use somewhere. The kids just couldn’t get enough of it. The ice-cream recipe is the same as my Mango ice-cream…skip the mangoes & pistachios, add some plum sauce & pitted black cherries; blend well. Then continue whipping ever hour, finally swirl some black cherry conserve through it & leave to set overnight. Next time will increase the cream by a cup.

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Serve with fresh plums, cherries & a drizzle of sauce if you like!

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Posted by Deeba @ PAB

About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.

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29 Comments

  • Anitha

    2008/05/31 at 2:50 am Reply

    This is my first time on your blog. All the pictures are so colorful. Wonderful presentation.

    The sauce looks so yummy 🙂

    Anitha

  • Purnima

    2008/05/31 at 1:29 pm Reply

    Deeba, the sauce wt cin. stick appeals a lot..u hv captured the beauty so well! The plum n cherries look divine too! Hv already got my family n frnds nuts over ur ice cream recipe..made it thrice over! Till mangoes r here, wont b using any other fruits puree, as m unable to cross the mangomania..(in that chat award, thats ur recipe ice-cream, i used firm tiny cubed pcs of alphonso as well n what flavours burst on every spoon! lickety lick!! 😉 )

  • familiabencomo

    2008/05/31 at 2:48 pm Reply

    Do I dare something like this?!?! I know that once I make your ice cream that there is no turning back for me or my hips…. If I were to re-chart the 4 basic food group, then they would be Ice Cream first, chocolate, creme brulee & lastly mini-quiches (they’re so cute). Darnit! I just talked myself into making your ice cream this weekend – I just won’t get on the scale.

    Thank you for sharing your plum sauce! You family is spoiled rotted.

    OK – My mom is in town & she was just looking over my shoulder…. You would have died laughing to hear all of the gasps & “oh my.” I had to stop writing this comment to show her your entire blog. Now you have TWO big fans over here at Casa Bencomo! She kept exclaiming, “Oh, what an artist!”

    Tanti baci, my friend,
    Amy

  • Manggy

    2008/05/31 at 3:55 pm Reply

    What a gorgeous, seductive color. The wonders of nature!! Nothing artificial there!! 😀 I am suddenly craving for plums in all its forms!

  • Hetal

    2008/05/31 at 5:18 pm Reply

    One more wonderful recipe from you….the sauce looks so appealing..the icecream too seems yummy.

  • Ivy

    2008/05/31 at 8:19 pm Reply

    First of all congratulations for your recipe being featured on the Boston Channel but you are so modest that you have it just in the last line.You’ve become a professional in photos Deeba and of course your recipe is delicious as always.

  • familiabencomo

    2008/05/31 at 11:46 pm Reply

    You have now created a little (or should I say soon-to-be-FAT) monster. I’m making the mango ice cream at this very moment!!! Wow, I was surprised by how easy this really is AND Alfredo said that it tasted better than Haagen Dazs (we’re sneaking tastes each time I have to stir). This recipe is going to bring so much happiness to our summer – thank you!

    tanti baci, my friend,
    Amy

  • A-kay

    2008/06/01 at 6:17 am Reply

    That looks luscious – definitely trying this sauce. I have some plums and cherries sitting in my fridge already 🙂

  • Rosie

    2008/06/01 at 12:15 pm Reply

    Delicious Deeba!! Just look at that wonderful colour of your sauce!! Huge congratulations also on your recipe being on the Boston Channel most deserving sweetie 😀

    Rosie x

  • Laurie

    2008/06/03 at 5:58 pm Reply

    This is so decadent!! Deeba..your write up, pictures and recipe are so good!! Do you need an ice cream maker to make this? I know..it’s probably a dumb question..I should just go out and buy an ice cream maker! 🙂
    Ciao!!

  • Mike of Mike's Table

    2008/06/24 at 8:13 pm Reply

    I’m late to this one and I don’t know how I missed it. I just happened to be eating an amazing plum today and searched through my Google Reader for any plum posts and saw this. The sauce and the ice cream both look awesome! I need to buy more plums ASAP

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