Vanilla Plum Jam. It’s my all time favouritey-favourite kinda jam. It’s tarty, has vanilla tones and dollops particularly well onto, well anything that I match it with really.
Lucky for me I like it a lot as I’ve made batch after batch of these babies. It’s that time of year. Vanilla Plum Jam time.
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Have a read here if you are new to jam making or are a bit hit and miss with your jam making methods. It really is a wonderful skill to be able to preserve the season and have even just a little of that knowledge under your belt.
Go on, give it a whirl. Try your hand at jam making.
cityhippyfarmgirl 
I loved it!! The jar your hubby brought over when he popped by in the xmas holidays was so good! Especially Céline was charmed by it (and this girls is unusually critical 😉 Yummy!!!
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Ha! If it passed the Celine test, then I’m happy 🙂
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I love plum jam – and I tried vanilla in jam recently and it was so good that I am ready to try it with vanilla. And I love that photo of the plums
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And I just read your jamming with mariana post – it is very useful but I think I missed it as it was posted at a period when I was really busy
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It’s a helpful post as Mariana is the mistress of all things kitchen related!
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Slathered generously on your freshly baked sourdough? Yes Please!
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Any time you care to call Zena… the jam and sourdough await.
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You are so right about jam making and preserving in general – it is such a great skill to have and an excellent way to use the season’s bounty.
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It is Rachel. I’m incredibly grateful that I watched my mum jam and preserve for so many years as a kid, I learnt simply by watching. Hopefully my kids will take that on too.
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I think i need to scone it up this weekend when my mum is in town. i reckon it will be a go off on scones!
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Scones…complete and utter weakness for them. Anytime, anywhere. Enjoy your time with your mum Rachael.
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Oh yes…one of my favourites too! Beautiful photos as usual Brydie. Those water droplets on the plums have my mouth watering – even with a glut of stone fruit in my kitchen 🙂
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Thanks Sam.I think the plums were looking particularly photogenic that day…lucky for me 🙂
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sounds like beautiful jam brydie..it’s taken me a long time to realise that i just don’t eat jam if it’s too sweet..for me it needs to be quite a sharp..but then i like to eat cumquats straight off the tree!
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Oh me too Jane. Tarty, even eye squinty is best and I’m completely with you with the cumquats straight from the tree. It’s a wonderful palate cleanser!
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Beautiful! That looks amazing and reminds me of when I was growing up and we had four plum trees in our backyard. Too many to eat so much would get out her enormous saucepan and make plum jam! xx
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Mum made some plum jam last autumn and it has been a real hit with me this winter. I currently have a jar open and might just go and get some now!
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Mmmm… sounds delicious!
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Yum! We have made plum jam and chutney with the bounty of plums we’ve had from our tree this year, not to mention a range of cakes, slices, etc. We have the last plums on the tree now, and I’m already hanging out for next season 😉
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Plums are such a lavish fruit aren’t they! Lucky there are so many fabulous ways to cook them as someone always has a tree groaning with excess 🙂 I did plum and strawberry this year but plum and vanilla sounds like a lovely mellow combination – I assume you split the vanilla pods and chuck them in?
Beck
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I scrape the vanilla pods and then put the empty (ish) pods in some vodka for vanilla essence. Delicious on both counts 🙂
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