I still had some dried plums and the better part of a bottle of dried plum juice left from making the Brown Rice
Prune Dried Plum Bread for the last assignment. I hate to waste anything, so I suggested to my Trophy Wife that, at her age, she might benefit from eating the prunes and drinking the prune juice. But that suggestion was not at all well received. I was just trying to look out for her welfare....
Anyway, my second thought was to make more of the Brown Rice
Prune Dried Plum Bread. The only problem was that I was not planning to make brown rice for anything.
So my third thought was to make a batch of the Master WW recipe, but use 3 cups of dried plum juice and 1 cup of water for the liquid, just as in the Brown Rice
Prune Dried Plum Bread. I also decided to add the chopped dried plums.
When I made the Brown Rice
Prune Dried Plum Bread I had
felt that I had not gotten the dried plums chopped finely enough. The
dried plums are sticky, and not easy to chop finely. So I measured my
flour, then put some of it in my food processor. I added the dried
plums and tossed them to coat with the flour. Then I pulsed the dried
plum/flour mixture until I got nice small pieces. It worked great--the
flour kept the dried plums from sticking and clumping. Then I dumped it
all back into the bowl and proceeded with the recipe.
First, I made a batch in a loaf pan. It worked out really well. I sliced the whole thing and froze some to use for toast.
Then I made English muffins. I formed them then put them on parchment paper to rise. Then I used the parchment paper to get them onto the griddle.
They turned out well, too. And again, we ate some and froze some.
So if you have some leftover dried plum juice, you might want to give this a try.
That looks just great. Love the tip about tossing the dried plums with the flour to make them easier to eat.
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Yum...I love English Muffins. And for them to be healthy too, just a bonus...as is having a trophy wife! :)
ReplyDeleteGood tip about using flour with the dried plums.