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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] sugar plums/prunes

"Sugar" is an old variety bred by Luther Burbank.  As the site indicates, it was bred for drying.  It's covered in The Plums of New York, as well as some of the books "by" Burbank on his work.  I think it's a seedling of, or at least related to, Prune D'Agen, which is a sugary sweet Prunus domestica that was the standard of the California prune industry for decades.  I think Sugar had problems like split pits that made it unpopular with growers.  Burbank bred it to replace the Prune D'Agen because of the rather small size of the old variety.  Even so, I love the little Prune D'Agen, both for sweetness and regular bearing.  I ALWAYS get crop from mine, even when other trees fail in bad years.
-Lon Rombough
> From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:44:22 +0000
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] sugar plums/prunes

> Thanks for the replies on and off nafex. The closest the recipe below gets 
> to plums is the almonds and apricots, but it sounds good .....So far no 
> replies to my listing a url for a plum called sugar plum, here it is again
> http://www.mountlassen.com/products/fruits/fruits-dtl-sgrplms.html
> Looking at it, my ignorant guess is that it is simply a prune/plum...a 
> Stanley? they say up to 25% sugar content. Is sugar content what makes a 
> plum good for prunes? I have thought to grow a plum here in the north 
> country for making prunes, but no idea where to begin. Thanks! Del z2/3
>
> >2 cups whole almonds
> >1/4 cup honey
> >2t grated orange zest
> >1 1/2t ground cinnamon
> >1/2 t ground allspice
> >1/2t grated nutmeg
> >1 cupfinely chopped apricots
> >1 cup finely chopped pitted dates
> >1 cup confectioners sugar
>
>
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