Oven Poached Plums

Serves 4

• 700g or about 15 over-ripe plums, washed, halved and stone removed
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  Cinnamon

  Great in buns, cakes, and puddings.

  • Add to baked apples or apple pies.
  • Break the stick and add to poaching syrup for fruits like pears, plums or bananas or use to infuse wine or punch.
• 4 tablespoons brown sugar

  Sugar and Syrups

  Try having in stock caster sugar, muscavado, honey and golden syrup

  • Once opened ensure they are tightly resealed with quick clips or bag clips.
  • If you have got rock-hard brown sugar, crystallised honey/syrup, place in a suitable non-metallic bowl and give a quick blast of about 30 seconds on high in the microwave to bring these back to their normal state.
• 100ml Greek yoghurt

  Yoghurt

  Greek yoghurt is good for adding to curries or making quick dips.

  Choose fruit yoghurts for quick puddings for the children.

  or whipping cream flavoured with vanilla essence