Mom’s/Grams’ Plum Tart

This recipe comes from my maternal grandmother, whom I called Grams. Her great-great-grandparents (Thomas Curtis and Elizabeth Adams) were both born in London in 1790–92 and emigrated from England to Maryland in 1800. With each generation, the family migrated to a new place, traveling from Maryland to Iowa to Wisconsin and finally to Aberdeen, South Dakota, where Grams (Arlone Aletta Crowe) was born. The family cooking style involved “using