Prunes au Sec.—Dried Plums
France
Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 4 ingredients
Possible health benefits
General information, not medical advice.
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Syrup
Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g
- Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
- Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
- Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
4 more authorised claims
- Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
- Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
- Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
- Iron has a role in the process of cell division.
Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet
Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.
Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).
Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
Method
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- Take some large fine-coloured plums;
- peel, split, and put them into a large saucepan, filled with fresh spring water;
- put the saucepan over a slow fire, and be careful that the plums do: not crack;
- when done, take them off, and take a pound of powdered sugar for each pound of plums.
- Put alittle of this sugar at the bottom of a large bowl;
- lay the pluras one by one upon the sugar, and throw the rest of it over them;
- leave them all hight in a stove;
- the following day, warm them up again by a moderate fire, and put them again into the stove or cool oven, _ leaving them twelve days, and turning them twice a day;
- then take them out of the sirup, dry, and arrange them in boxes, according to the preceding receipt.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Large pot
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Saucepan
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Mixing bowl
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Vegetable peeler