Plum Freezer Jam

Ty's parents have a small plum tree in their back yard. This year, however, it has decided it's a BIG plum tree. It is putting on so many plums that Pam and Richard don't know what to do with them all! That turned out to be a good thing for us. Last Friday, we went out to Lewisville to make use of some of them.

First, the boys, Ty, and I went out and picked a paper bag full of little, round plums.

The tree was so full of plums that we didn't even have to use a ladder to get to the top of the tree. When we had all the plums we could use, the tree didn't even look like it had been touched! That's how many plums were on the tree!
Zachary and his grandma bent over the sink, washing and pitting plums. It was messy business.
Tristan stirred the sugar and pectin.Finally, after the plums had been munched up in the blender, Zachary and I mixed the plums, sugar, and pectin together. Ty then poured the plum jam into containers for us to put in the freezer when we got home.


We made 10 containers of freezer jam and we didn't use half the plums we picked. Richard sent us home with a 5 gallon bucket full of plums to do with what we would. We've made fruit leather and we're looking for other recipes so we can find ways to use all the plums.