Plums are now in season and since I was given a large bag of them by Margaret on the Carlow Bloggers Tour, I’ve been busy looking for recipes. Thanks to twitter I’m now in possession of a bottle of vodka and will be adapting our sloe gin recipe later this evening (you can find the recipe here), making I’m told, a very delicious plum liqueur:
@Greensideupveg so I swapped Sloes for Plums and gin for vodka – makes a nice sweet liqueur.
@Greensideupveg so I swapped Sloes for Plums and gin for vodka – makes a nice sweet liqueur.
— MkConlon (@mkconlon) September 4, 2014
We do enjoy a good old-fashioned crumble though so the remaining plums have been saved for our favourite crumble.
Plum, Maple and Almond Crumble Recipe
Ingredients (serves 4-6)
8 ripe plums or enough to fill the bottom of your pie dish
4 tbsp maple syrup (use a tbsp of brown sugar if you can’t get hold of maple syrup)
50g butter cut into pieces
50g plain flour
50g rolled oats
25g golden caster sugar
½ tsp ground cinnamon
25g flaked almonds (lightly toasted)
Heat the oven to 200ºC (or equivalent). Cut the plums in half, remove the stones and place the halves skin side down in the base of a ovenproof dish. Drizzle over half the maple syrup and roast for 10 mins.
While the plums are in the oven place the butter, flour, oats, sugar and cinnamon into a bowl and rub the butter into the mixture until it resembles rough crumbs. Stir in the almonds, then sprinkle over the top of the softened plums. Drizzle the remaining maple syrup over the top and bake for 15 mins until the top is golden, sprinkling extra almonds on the top if desired.
Serve with custard, cream or ice cream.
Have you a favourite recipe for using up your plums?
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Oh this looks and sounds delicious! My Mother in law has offered me plums, think I might take her up on that offer!
Have requests for more plum crumble so will switch the topping onto some cooking apples that Margaret gave us too. Enjoy your feast 🙂
Don’t have a plum tree but it’s on my list to get on. Hoping to go picking blackberries later and make a blackberry and apple tart or crumble – nothing like fruit crumbles in autumn 🙂
Looks delish! I love crumbles. I will give this recipe a try in the very near future/
Thanks for stopping by Debbie. Thanks for that and hope you enjoy it too 🙂
Am going to make one of these today to use up some more Plums! looking forward to it as your’s look delish!
I’m out of plums now but feel a blackberry and apple crumble coming on with the same topping. Vodka and plums now sitting in a jar together! Hope your family enjoy the pudding as much as ours 🙂