A “conserve” is a jam made with a mixture of fruit, usually including some citrus, and often nuts and raisins. It can be served as a topping over pound cake, ice cream, or along side meat such as pork or chicken, or just on its own.
This delicious recipe comes from a Simply Recipes reader, Lou Grubaugh, who shares her favorite old family recipe for plum conserve.
We didn’t quite have the 3 pounds of tart plums that the recipe called for, so I substituted a few not-quite-ripe pluots, and some perfectly ripe plums too.
For plums I used a combination of Santa Rosas (tart when not perfectly ripe) and Satsumas.
Do you have a special plum recipe? See our post on plums and add your favorite to the comments of that post.
Plum Conserve Recipe
Ingredients
- 7 cups seeded, chopped tart plums (about 3 pounds)
- 4 cups sugar
- 1 navel orange, thinly sliced, including rind
- 1 lemon, thinly sliced, including rind, seeds removed
- 3 1/2 cups raisins
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Special Equipment needed:
6 pint-sized mason jars
1 large 6 to 8-quart sized pan (Stainless steel or copper with stainless steel lining, not aluminum which will leach)
A ladle or pour cup for transferring the conserve from the pan to the jars
A jar lifter - useful but not necessary
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