A Quiet Little Woman

a story of plums...

Once upon a time there was a family who was blessed with a multiplicity of plums...

They had dehydrated about 10 bottles of plums and were a little sick of dehydrating them!  SO... the oldest daughter looked in a book called "Keeping Food Fresh" to see if they had any ideas.  They had two ways that you could lacto-ferment plums, in salt brine and in apple cider vinegar (can you tell which one is which??). 

THEN after they had given away bags and bags of plums... yet another person gave them a tree of plums!  Now, this family LOVED plums and was very grateful to the Lord for blessing them with such a bounteous harvest... but they were fresh out of ideas.  SO, once again the Lord blessed them with a new idea...

JUICING!!!

(Byetheway, if you haven't used one of these... you are missing out on one of the best inventions ever!!)  Even the littlest sister who didn't really like anything LOVED this juice and said that it tasted like store bought grape juice! 

After the juicing there was a bunch of pulp and skin left over...

So... not wanting to waste anything the oldest daughter read in a cookbook that you could use the pulp to make something a little like apple butter... PLUM BUTTER!!!  Once again the littlest sister LOVED this stuff!!  (I think that she would have eaten it all if I would have let her!!  ;) 

 Now this was the first thing that the oldest daughter had ever canned by herself and she was so filled with JOY!!

SO... through being blessed with a HUGE amount of plums, they learned SO many other things that you can use plums for, PLUS they learned that God is good to those who seek to follow HIS counsel to "lay up in store"!!!

Alex

great story !

12:27, Friday, October 12, 2007 .. Posted by blessedmomof10

Alex,
I loved the story! You are very creative! The pics were great too ~ you are all so good about preserving and canning, etc....... I really, really do wish you were out here! Oh, how you would love country living!
Blessings to you & your family,
Sister P
ps. remember I am holding some land for your family's homestead. :)

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02:23, Friday, October 12, 2007 .. Posted by Kitty

That was too cute. I wonder if the have "fig juice"? LOL
Kitty

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10:11, Friday, October 12, 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous

Amazing, inspiring, and told with such flair.

Meredith from Merchant Ships