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Damson Plums or Plums in Sugar

6 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg ripe blue plums
• 250 g granulated sugar

Instructions

1. Cut open 1 kilogram of beautiful, ripe blue plums and remove the pits.
2. Sprinkle 250 grams of granulated sugar over them, let them boil for a while, and stir carefully.
3. Finally, fill the plums warm into sulfured jars and seal with a pig's bladder.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.