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Plums in White Peppercorn and Vanilla Syrup

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Recipe information

  • Yield

    Serves 8

Ingredients

1 tablespoon white peppercorns
1 vanilla bean
4 cups water
1 1/2 cups sugar
8 plums about 2 pounds

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    With a mortar and pestle or with bottom of a heavy skillet coarsely crush peppercorns. With a knife halve vanilla bean lengthwise. In a small kettle simmer pepper, vanilla bean, water, and sugar, stirring until sugar is dissolved, 10 minutes. Pour syrup through a fine sieve into a bowl and return to kettle.

    Step 2

    Pit plums and cut each plum into 12 wedges. Have ready a large bowl of ice and cold water. Bring syrup just to a simmer and stir in plums. Simmer plums just until tender, 1 to 2 minutes. With a slotted spoon transfer plums to a large metal bowl sit in bowl of ice water and stir gently until cool. Boil syrup until reduced to about 3 cups and remove kettle from heat. Cool syrup to room temperature and stir into plums. Plums may be made 2 days ahead and chilled, covered. Serve plums chilled or at room temperature.

TagsFruit DessertDessertPlumStone FruitFruitVanillaHerbs & SpicesSnackDairy FreeGluten FreeNut Free30 Minutes or LessMake AheadEasy5 Ingredients or FewerSimmerSummerGourmet
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