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"Mrs. C. Alfred Bergsten's recipe from the Philathea Cook Book of Elim Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1945. She noted until the recipe name "Very Good." This is a base recipe- it is always 2 cups sugar for every 1 cup of chopped plums you have."

Ingredients: plums, sugar...

"Very good alone or over vanilla icecream."

Ingredients: lemon juice, margarine, plums...

"People love the sweet-salty combination of this appetizer. You can substitute bacon for the pancetta, if you want an even more intense taste. You will also need 24 toothpicks."

Ingredients: prunes, pancetta, blue cheese...

"Bay leaves lend this spritzer a spicy fragrance that offsets the sweetness of the blueberries and plums. MAKE AHEAD: The syrup can be refrigerated for 1 week.

NOTES Variation:
Pour 2 tablespoons of the berry syrup into a Champagne flute and top with Champagne."

Ingredients: club soda, dried bay leaves...

"Love this stuff!"

Ingredients: lemons, pineapple, plums...

"This is a perfect recipe if you're wondering what to do with all those slightly over-the-hill, bruised, juicy to bursting point plums! The best part about it is that it's a two-fer: you make one recipe and end up with two things!"

Ingredients: raw sugar, red plums...

"These plums can be eaten right out of the jar, or used to make all sorts of wonderful desserts. The syrup is heaven, a gorgeous red-purple and is lovely to drink as a syrup or to mix with something for a cocktail--it is particularly delicious with champagne."

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, purple plums...

"Oh YES! ;) That is smokey, spicy, sweet, tart jam. Orange and chipotle go so nice togeter. Glaze a pork roast, BBQ chicken pieces, spread it over cream cheese for an appy or on a pork or chicken sandwich."

Ingredients: chipotle chiles in adobo, adobo sauce...

"I thought this sounded so interesting! From the Mariani web site."

Ingredients: egg whites, dried plums...

"A delicious substitution for the plums would be apricots. From the Pennsylvania Dutch chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947"

Ingredients: cream, egg yolks, plums...

"This is an old recipe my best friend gave before I had to move away. She would serve this dish every sunday supper."

Ingredients: purple plums, orange zest...

"So sweet and so delicious. From the Mississippi Valley chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

Ingredients: cinnamon, cornstarch, eggs...

"I love plums, fresh or canned, we made this last night for dinner and it turned out great."

Ingredients: cinnamon, cornstarch...

"This is really good with BBQ (MMmmm Lamb Chops) Has a nice tang to it"

Ingredients: cinnamon, cloves, fresh ginger...