Sugar Plums

I never had sugar plums before; plums, yes, but sugar plums...nope. You hear all about them during Christmas time, it's always sugar plums this and sugar plums that! I always thought they were just candy for Christmas! Little did I know that they are actually fruits?!?!?! And after all my years in the US of A, I'd never ever seen a REAL sugar plum. So when I saw that in my local grocery store, I bought a bunch of it! I mean, with a name like sugar plums, you really can't go wrong. And I wasn't....they were sweet!!

Unlike most plums, these sugar varieties have "sweet" skins instead of the tart ones on regular plums. A real and rare treat for me; who loves plums but just hate peeling the outer skin just to get to the sweet fleshy insides. With these sugar plums, all you need is to wash, dry and bite right into it! They are not that big either, smaller than the usual plums bigger than a grape, so you can really get carried away with the eating part.



However I found that they ripened really fast even if you try to keep it refridgerated. Solution to that, buy as much as you think you can consume within the next couple of days and finish it so you wouldn't have to keep. We don't have any problem with eating part since I've got a fruit bat for a son.


The only problem is that plums seems out of season now and I just can't find them in the store anymore!! It was such a short season too...:( Still I'm glad I finally can say, I'd eaten sugar plums and, boy, they were great, not just as a decorative piece!!! :)