Pershore Plums

Name: Pershore Plums
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 10 g (½ oz) butter; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg; 175 g (6 oz) caster sugar; 100 g (3½ oz) shelled walnuts; 60 g (2½ oz) blanched almonds; 300 ml (10 fl oz) double cream, whipped just to hold a peak; 750 g (1 lb 10 oz) red plums (Victoria plums are good for this); 750 g (1 lb 10 oz) yellow plums (greengages or golden gages are good)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Potty!

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2010

About

Pershore in Worcestershire has always been renowned for its plums but today people don’t really know what to do with plums, so I recommend this recipe to you. Using plums of different colours makes the dish more attractive, but it doesn’t matter if you can’t get a variety.

Ingredients

750 g (1 lb 10 oz) red plums (Victoria plums are good for this)
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Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat your oven to 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3. Halve the plums lengthways and remove the stones. Butter a large, shallow dish (you can use a baking tray lined with foil but an oven dish is better). Lay out the plum halves in close rows, cut sides upwards, red at one end and yellow at the