By Saturday night, all the plums that had been picked were washed, cut and bagged. Ended up with a total of eight 1-gallon bags of cut plums. Pretty amazing considering we spent less than a 1/2 hour picking the plums and there is still so much fruit on the tree. So, what to do with all this fruit? I'm now on the hunt for some different plum recipes, but quickly found a plum crisp and decided to go for it...
Made a version of this Plum Oatmeal Crisp last night, by Martha Stewart, with a couple substitutions. The recipe doesn't call for cinnamon, nutmeg, etc in the "crisp" but most berry or apple crisps seem to use it. And we were out of cinnamon, but we had Pumpkin Pie spice. So we added about a tsp. of Pumpkin Pie Spice.
Another thing we didn't have on hand for this? Brown Sugar. So, "Googled" a substitution and tried this:
1 cup granulated sugar 3 T Molasses (I only used approx. 1.5 T for "light brown" sugar)
Results: The crisp had great flavor but was a little too sweet. Definitely have enough plums to try this again, but I might be omitting nearly all of the sugar and possibly reducing the butter in the topping. But overall, it was still great served warm with a little vanilla ice cream.
