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

Deeba @ PAB
“A sauce…..adds something, really two things: a taste as well as the opportunity to think about how the thing was made.”
Raymond Sokolov

Spicy Sweet Plum Sauce

Plums ‘n’ Cherries…the fruit of summer!

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!

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!!

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!

What I did…

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!

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.

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

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