Plum marmalade

Freshly cut from the tree... yes, we do produce them!Not in the city of course!

Fresh plums

Ingredients
1kg plums
500gr sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
extract from a vanilla stick

Procedure
Wash and remove the stone of the fruits. Put them into the blender, multi chopper or however you call it and make a purree out of them, like in the picture. Now normally we don't need to do this with all the fruits, but due to the fact that plums are quite hard, they are never going to melt and become creamy only by boiling them.

Cream of plums (multi chopper's action!)

Put the cream of the plums into a big pot and add the sugar. Leave them for around 30minutes, so as to get mixed well and the fruits release their water. Put the pot on the fire and give it a boil. Remember to remove the foam that will be produced. After the 15minutes of boiling, add the lemon juice and the vanilla extract. Give it another boil and then remove from fire.

After it cools down, try it and see if it's done (if it looks like a marmalade or if it is still watery). If it is still watery, give it another boil until bubbles start coming out on the surface of the marmalade. Be carefull at this point, as it is very easy for your mixture to get burnt. Stir carefully touching the bottom of your pot.

Let it cool, and for sure now it won't be watery anymore.

Plum Marmalade

Enjoy!!!