Tea-Poached Plums

This elegant dish offers a double punch: use it as a piquant accompaniment to roasted meats or poultry, or serve it as a dessert with a creamy blue cheese or as a sweet/tart topping for ice cream or with shortbread. The vinegar provides the right counterpoint to the sweetness of the fruit. Forgiving Chinese Keemun tea is used as the main element for the sweetly spiced poaching liquid.