Description

Storage:   Keep unripe damsons at room temperature to ripen.  Ripe plums can be refrigerated.

Preparation and cooking:  Wash before use.  The skin has a sharper taste than the flesh and it is often better to leave it on, but if you want to remove it for a mellower, sweeter flavour, blanch in boiling water for a minute then plunge into ice-cold water.  The skin should then be easy to remove.  Plums can be roasted, stewed, or poached and are delicious in crumbles