Polish Plum Butter

 

We headed to Nana and Opah’s house this weekend, and the first thing I noticed when we walked in was the abundance of plums. They were everywhere. Buckets, bowls – you could hardly see their table due to the plums. Throughout the weekend, my mom had neighbors stop by, and she’d send them back home with a bucket. By the time we left Sunday, there was one bowl left, so we took a bag full with us.  What to do with all these plums? My mom mentioned seeing a recipe for plum cake so I started looking into that when I came across Polish Plum Butter or Powidla Sliwkowe. 

 

After my peach honey, I knew I needed to try polish plum butter. What I love about this recipe, is it uses very few ingredients…as in exactly 2 ingredients. That’s it. Plums and Sugar.  There are some recipes I came across that use a few more, but really you don’t have to, the plum becomes extremely sweet when cooked down, and thickens itself very nicely as well. 

 

 

As I started chopping up my plums, I realized this would make a nice substitution to the plum sauce I use when making Plum Pork. Can you guess what I’m making for dinner tonight? Mmmhmm. 

 

At one point I wished I had an immersion blender, but made do with my regular blender. It just means I’ve got a few more dishes in the sink (which by the way is having plumbing issues…blah).  I hope you enjoy this as much as I am. You can use it on bread, meat, or as the Polish like it, in Hunters Stew. 

 

 

This post is part of Simple Living and Eating’s Food of the World Party. Browse different dishes from Poland on the linky below. Next month we’re visiting Malaysia!