Plums Served Cold Recipes

"These parfaits are beautiful. You feast with your eyes before food ever touches your lips. The parfaits are made with alternating layers of sliced cooked plums, toasted walnuts, and mascarpone whipped cream. The plum preparation involves only a few minutes of cooking. A quick and stunning dish all together that will knock the socks of your guests."

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Ingredients: fresh mint, mascarpone cheese...

"I love the Nutcracker Ballet and the music that accompanies it, especially the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies! These fabulous little festive sweetmeats are based on a recipe that I adapted from Delia Smith's latest and BRILLIANT cookbook, "Happy Christmas". I have made these TWICE already - as a pre-Christmas dummy run, and they are SO easy..."

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Ingredients: glace ginger, oranges, zest of...

"This recipe was published in the March 2004 issue of "Delicious" magazine. I buy this publication often, and this recipe has inspired me to make a spectacular dessert. I hope you enjoy it!"

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cloves...

"I cannot resist sharing this recipe with you all, if only to try to preserve its delightful name! Nobody appears to know where the name originated from, although it has been suggested that it was an enterprising farmer’s wife, using up her windfall fruit that came up with the quirky name. The jam is thought to originate from Worcestershire, although..."

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Ingredients: cooking apples, fresh gingerroot...

"I adore fresh yoghurt and practically live on it. It's certainly my main source of protein. I mostly make my own, and often strain it when I have the time. This is one of my all time favourite yoghurt combinations. It is just too nice!!"

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Ingredients: honey, nonfat plain yogurt...

"There is no foolishness about this dessert! Traditional English fruit fools derive their name from the French word 'fouler', meaning to crush. Thank goodness that this word was modified to 'fool', as I don't think too many of us would be keen to be making or eating 'foul' fruits! This recipe is one I have adapted from the Australian publication by..."

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Ingredients: fresh edible flowers, cream...

"This sweet and spicy chutney is from my favorite Indian Vegetarian Cookbook."

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Ingredients: coconut, black mustard seeds...

"A sweetly different cake filling from the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

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Ingredients: lemon juice, nuts, prunes...

"A sweet way to use nature's bounty! From the Mississippi Valley chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

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Ingredients: plums, sugar, apple cider...

"A delicious preserve from the American heartland. From the Mississippi Valley chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947. While this recipe is written in an old-fashioned way, it is perfectly safe if processed using modern methods. If you are unfamiliar with these techniques, please go to http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/can_home.html..."

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Ingredients: oranges, plums...

"Created way back in 1893 at the poshest of New York's hotels, the Waldorf-Astoria, this salad is still one of the most requested at the hotel's restaurant. I remember my grandmother serving this at many of her ladies' luncheons and asking her to make extra for me to eat later. And, she always balanced the tart Granny Smith apples with the sweeter Braeburn..."

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Ingredients: cider vinegar, salt & freshly ground black pepper...