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Take advantage of cooling temperatures by roasting plums for this late-summer jam.
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Built around flavors that complement plums, like ginger and the nutty maraschino liqueur, this sangria starts with roasting deep red plums with star anise pods.
Plum Sorbet
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Cardamom-Plum Jam from 'Little Jars, Big Flavors'
In my Berkeley neighborhood this time of year, plums are falling from trees, staining the sidewalks, and making up a huge part of my fruit intake. This massive influx of plums means it is the perfect time to turn the quickly ripening fruit into jam. This cardamom-plum version in Southern Living's Little Jars, Big Flavors is an elegant extension of a basic recipe.
Plum and Ginger Cobbler
[Photograph: Max Falkowitz] If there's a more noble application for the last of the season's plums than cobbler, I don't know what is. It's a perfect fruit delivery system, and the application of heat and sugar can hide any imperfections...
Pickled Prunes
Perfect to eat with roasted meats or assertive cheeses, these pickled prunes will add zip to any meal.
Pluma Moos (Fresh Fruit Mousse)
With Pluma Moos, the ingredients are simple: fruit, sugar, spices, vanilla, and water— and there's ample room for variation. Use fresh produce for the market, frozen fruit or a mix. Note, the fruit with large seeds, like blackberries, will require additional time for straining.
Plumpkin
This easy mojito variation from Area Four in Cambridge, Massachusetts is best with a flavorful, ripe plum or pluot.
Rich Red Plum Jam
This is a beautiful jewel-red jam with a perfect balance of sweet and tart. Putting half of the fruit through a food mill and leaving the other half in quarters makes for a rustic textured jam. An overnight maceration gives you a head-start on the jamming process. It's a great jam to pair with fresh, creamy cow's milk cheeses like ricotta.
Roasted Plum, Ginger, and Honey Ice Cream
You won't need eggs for this ice cream, which is thick and dense thanks to the plums and honey. A couple spoonfuls of plum brandy helps as well, both for texture and to amplify the plums' honeyed flavor.
With the late summer avalanche of corn, tomatoes, and bell peppers, it’s easy to overlook the humble plum. Subtly flavored and modestly sized, plums aren’t as flashy or culinarily ubiquitous as other September produce. It’s unusual to spot them in...
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Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream
This brown sugar ice cream is infused with a cinnamon stick, toasted oats, and a vanilla bean, then studded with crispy oat clusters, crunchy pecans, and chewy dried fruit. Tart cherries work especially well, but dried fruits such as cranberries and black mission figs work well too, so feel free to use whatever you like best. It's everything you love about oatmeal cookies in a scoop of homemade ice cream.
Jeni Britton Bauer's Tuscan Sundae
The flavors here are so complementary and play off each other perfectly: the salt and caramelized sugar in the ice cream, the warm honey and Vin Santo sauce—delicious
White Sesame Pistachio Crunch Ice Cream
Nutty white sesame gets a flavor boost from orange and vanilla, with chunks of pistachios for crunch.
Strawberry Dream Pie Ice Cream
The goat cheese base for this ice cream is flexible enough for a range of fruits and other flavors. Want to use blueberries instead? This base is lemony enough for them. Prefer brownie chunks with a swirl of dulce de leche? Goat cheese is savory enough to counteract the sweetness. But it's pretty awesome with strawberries, as used here.
Homemade Speculoos Ice Cream
Biscoff cookies, whether real or copycat, give this silky ice cream an intriguing caramel flavor, while dairy dilutes the spices into something mellow and mild. With a shot of espresso, it makes an amazing twist on affogato.
Roasted Plum, Ginger, and Honey Ice Cream
You won't need eggs for this ice cream, which is thick and dense thanks to the plums and honey. A couple spoonfuls of plum brandy helps as well, both for texture and to amplify the plums' honeyed flavor.
Tiramisu Ice Cream with Mocha Ripple
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Bi-Rite Creamery's Cara Cara Orange Cardamom Ice Cream
This ice cream is full of flavor and subtle all at once. Steeping cardamom pods in cream brings out all their layers of flavor, which are heightened by the citrus and bitter notes of the orange zest. Lots of ice creams are best served alongside some other dessert; this is fantastic enough to ride solo.
Saffron, Honey, and Orange Ice Cream
This ice cream is all about balance: heady saffron, floral honey, and bittersweet orange zest.
Jeni Britton Bauer's Crème Sans Lait
Behold, a totally vegan, totally delicious vanilla ice cream, courtesy of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream Desserts. The secret? Pulverized cashews and coconut oil for fatty richness, and tapioca starch for thickness. Try it today.