The other day a friend gave me some beautiful plums. Organic ones straight from their fruit tree. They were pretty little purple balls of plumy goodness. I didn’t really know what I was going to do with them, but I knew I’d come up with something.
When I came home later that day, I saw this idea from Food in Jars. No Cook Fruit Syrup. Sign me up! And, those little plums would be just perfect for the job. I love that she says “Because sometimes, it’s just too darn hot to turn on the stove for even a minute,” in her post. She’s so correct! And, man, has it been hot around here lately. Hot and humid. Yuck.
plums, chopped and in the jar, ready to be muddled
But, I digress… So, this isn’t so much of a recipe as it is a guide. Whatever your fruit: plums, peaches, nectarines, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, etc, and half as much sugar. Muddle (or smash) the fruit and the sugar together. I used a wooden spoon for this, but you could also use a potato masher, a regular spoon, or if you were really cool and had a bartender’s muddler, you could use that and look super-cool.
The plums have been muddled with the sugar: note the grainy texture of the syrup
Once you have a smoosh of fruit and sugar, place it in the ‘fridge overnight or for a couple of days. The sugar will melt into the fruit and create a pretty syrup with no hard work on your part!
Plum syrup after it has been sitting for a day: note the smooth texture that the syrup has now
No-cook plum syrup
When you’re ready to use it, either strain the fruit solids out, or use the smashed fruit in your plumtini. Either way works. Use it as a fruit syrup over ice cream, cake, heck any dessert! Or in a drink, like this Plumtini!
This would also be lovely with club soda, either the adult version or a teetotaler version with just syrup and club soda.
Plum Syrup for Plumtinis Recipe
Plumtini
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 oz vodka
- 3/4 oz cointreau
- 2 1/2 oz plum syrup
Instructions
- Shake ingredients with ice. Serve with a lime twist.
Recipe Notes
This would also be lovely with club soda, either the adult version or a teetotaler version with just syrup and club soda.
Nina V says
January 26, 2013 at 12:03 amI absolutely love the simplicity of this post. Do you know, can you advise, how long the syrup would last for in the fridge? Thanks
Debi says
January 26, 2013 at 1:12 pmIn general, I think most food should be eaten within a week. It can be frozen for longer storage if you need. I also like to check the site Still Tasty http://stilltasty.com/ . This was the closest I could get to the syrup: http://stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/18266 (it says up to 5 days). I used mine up pretty quickly so I didn’t have to worry about it going bad. Hope that helps. And, thanks for the comment! 🙂
Alecia Bencze says
May 9, 2013 at 7:32 pmI found you through Food on Friday, this looks delicious I cannot wait to try it!
Carole says
May 9, 2013 at 10:20 pmDebi, fantastic idea. Thanks for adding it to the collection. Cheers