Ideas for cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera)

Hey,

This year we can have quite a harvest of cherry plums. Does anyone has any ideas what to do with them? All the neighbors use them to make tuica (an alcoholic beverage)  but we are not really into alcohol (1-2 beers are more than enough for a whole week).

Thanks!

PS: By cherry plum I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_cerasifera

Nice! I'd probably make jelly or jam with them.

You could probably make fruit leather as well.
I'm still waiting for mine to get mature and flower.......

Thanks for the ideas. Some more I tried (will see in few months if they were ok or not):
- pickled ones (water, vinegar, salt and green, almost ripen fruits)
- in salt, like olives (in Romanian but you can translate it https://www.facebook.com/IerburiUitate/posts/1087750524690943:0 )

it is a very good year for myrobalan plums down here - time for some juicing.

Our first house had a plum tree.  The fruit was small yellow plum so not the same variety, though.

We made plum jelly.

Jam is possible! Or cake...

Hugo Morvan wrote:Jam is possible! Or cake...

How did you remove the stones from your jam?

I make plum sauce with wild cherry plums but don’t own a mouli so pushing them through a sieve is tedious.

This video was shared in another thread but I’ve yet to try it out myself

Hi Megan, i started by knive, cut them one by one and when i got thoroughly sick of it i remembered how the French used to stamp the grapes with their feet. No i didn't do that! But i squeezed them between my fingers to get the pits out.
These were the ones that we separated after shaking the tree and having them fall on a tarp. They were the harder ones, but they had a dent and kept ripening quickly. The earlier overripe batch my friend boiled down and removed the pits in a sieve.
So it was kind of a mix of techniques.

I really like squeezing them to pulp, because it was so quick! I guess this way boiling a bit longer gets necessary, but ok, vitC etc wil  have to come from another place. Can't have it all, but i've got some good supply of jam now, which is very nice.

The stones are quite small, perhaps a cherry pitter might work ?
I did not try myself yet, as I usually use a steam juicer, I leave the pits inside.
Have a nice day,