American Southern

Pickled Plums

Name: Pickled Plums
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 7 lb plums; 3 lb sugar; 1 quart vinegar; 1 each spice

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 28. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

16Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

7 lb plums
3 lb sugar
1 quart vinegar
1 each spice

Instructions

1
To seven lbs plums take three lbs sugar, one quart vinegar, spice to your taste.
2
Scald every day until the plums are cooked.

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