Prune Bread

Prunes are the fruit of gourmets. They are dried specifically from prune plums, as other types of plums without a firm flesh and a high sugar content just ferment when they dry. The thriving prune industry in California was started in the nineteenth century by an immigrant Frenchman, with the variety of plums known as Prune d’Agen, named after a town in Aquitaine in southwest France. It takes three pounds of these fresh plums to make a pound of succulent prunes. In this recipe, prunes will