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Have you considered using some for a Rumtopf? (Rum Pot) Delicious at Christmas with a little icecream. It is powerful though so only a little and not for children.

Clean and cut the fruit; layer with sugar and strong rum (55%). Use a ceramic container or keep in a dark place. Always make sure the fruit is submerged - use a saucer or plate. If and when you have other summer fruits (berries, stone fruits, apples, pears) add them when they are ripe with more rum and sugar.

@sundogplanets Oh, and wearing gloves while removing the stones will save you from having a weird feeling in your fingers and discoloured fingernails for days.

@sundogplanets That one's easy: you make powidl. Remove the stones and slowly cook them (the plums, not the stones obviously) at low temperature for multiple hours until they reach a chutney-like consistence. If you like that, add some cinnamon (before cooking, of course). Fill it into jars and eat it on toast, as a layer in cakes etc.

@sundogplanets Spiced plum chutney is a good use of several kilos.

@sundogplanets My oldest brother turned an old refrigerator into a fruit dryer for their yearly haul of plums. They're often sharing. 😎

@sundogplanets plum butter. Minimal ingredients, and can be canned or frozen.

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We have two damson trees in the back yard. We've usually just cooked juice from them with a steam juicer.

It's very nice of you to help the elderly person to pick them off trees. The thing with these is that you can't just let them fall to the ground and rot, because then your lawn will be covered in sticky goo.

Last fall though we just gave them away for free because we're short of storage space for juice. Probably will do so this year too.

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All these recipes! Recipes, recipes, and more recipes 😡

Is nobody else seeing the obvious - get a Tom Stanton hypersonic trebuchet, and start taking down those cluttering satellites with high velocity stone fruit.

@sundogplanets I suggest making brandy from that many plums.

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Plum jam!! My wife made a batch yesterday and it is SOOO good on her home-made English muffins. Plum jam is what you want.

@sundogplanets eat some, freeze the rest untill you figure out what to do.

@sundogplanets I recommend Pflaumenmus, German plum butter. One of the world's great preserves.

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that's what pigs are for.
300 lbs of rutabaga? pigs
100 lbs of plums? pigs
trespassers? pigs

@sundogplanets so sweet
and so cold

@sundogplanets I love german style plum cake. Can be made with frozen ones. Cut them into for pieces and remove the pit. Freeze them loosely on a sheet. Once froze you can bag them into ziplock bags.

https://www.daringgourmet.com/zwetschgenkuchen-zwetschgendatschi-german-plum-cake/

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Umeboshi is great but I don't think you can use ripe plums for that.

@sundogplanets plum-ginger jam! 😍

@sundogplanets donate to a food bank or soup kitchen?

@sundogplanets I suggest Spiced Plum Jam. So delicious!

Seriously, HALP I HAVE SO MANY PLUMS

@sundogplanets If you stone & halve them they freeze well

So bag up & freeze portions for pies, crumbles or any other baked goods you may make in future

I believe you can make a decent home made wine with them but I've never tried that