Plum Conserves

This is delish on pancakes to a pork roast!Try it as an appetizer by spreading cream cheese on a searving plate the spoon the conserves on top. Serve with your favorite crackers. Top some warmed brie with the conserves. Put it inside a chocolate layer cake. Jar it for a nice gift!

• Ready In: 1 hr 5 mins
• Yields: 7 cups

Ingredients

• 5  cups plums, packed chopped and pitted
• 3  cups sugar
• 1  cup orange, peeled seeded and chopped
• 1  cup raisins
•  orange rind, from one orange finely sliced
• 1  cup  chopped pecans
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in a large pot except for pecans.
2. Bing to a boil stirring till sugar is dissolved.
3. Cook rapidly almost to the gelling point.
4. About 15 minutes of a rolling boil while being stirred.
5. Add pecans cook and stir for 5 more minutes.
6. Pour into hot jars leaving 1/4 inch head space.
7. Remove air bubbles.
8. Adjust the caps.
9. Process for 15 minutes in a boiling water canner.
10. Make sure tops of jar are cover by an inch of water.
11. Cool at room temperature and store in your cabinet.
12. Chill after opening.