Traditional Plum Jam in Romania - NO SUGAR Recipe

Romanian local woman, Burcuță Maria, cooking traditional plum jam over a garden stove, using nothing but plums. No sugar and no water are added.
Location: Village of Iaslovăț, Suceava County, Romania

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Music by Kevin MacLeod - Cherry Blossom Wonders

[genkiferal]

no special jars or lids, or canning pot, no water bath...love the simplicity!

[erinbenson]

I had the hardest time finding a recipe with no added sugar. Plums are plenty sweet on their own. I have several more hours to go but it already smells amazing. Can't wait to taste it.

[KatiGudicsne-ekpm]

Szia! Öröm nézni ahogy készíted ezt a finomságot! Ügyes vagy! ....Ölellek...😇❤❤❤❤❤

[infinitelove]

I love this, healthy preservation of plums.💚

[ds]

Very nice! I made jam here from wild pears (the trees turned wild after they were not cared for in over 20years, pears reduced in size down to 4-5cm, but very concentrated flavour)
No other ingredients, not even water!
Excellent results

[briannemorna]

The smell of plum jam is lovely. Good memories.

[cottagemommy]

Love the videos on food preservation. Thank you!

[marystorozuk]

Oh wow. Going to make this - I did a few years ago and love this video. The jam here looks like it would be amazing in baking Date (Plum) Squares.

[estycki]

Every plum recipe I’ve seen is like 50% plums and 50% sugar, I was wondering how did people make these things before you were able to buy bags of sugar? I’m sure they were fine without the extra sugar. I will try this, but takes a lot of patience, but I have a plum tree with hundreds of plums I can’t possibly eat in a few weeks, and can’t find enough people who will help me eat them. Some nice plum jam to keep all year long sounds ideal, hopefully I can pull this off…

[handlethehandle]

Love the traditional dress celebrating ancestry and heritage. The elite can try their best to blur borders and dilute, diffuse and confuse national identity but we ain't playing that daft game. It's so wonderful how each country and indeed province has it's own unique evolution.

[josephhernandez]

Those are prune plums. They are oval shaped. Perfect for jam. I would've put the pits in a cloth bag and added it to get the extra pectin.❤😊

[alexk]

Give your main participants a microphone so you can add a clear local dialect as a voice over.

[HomesteadMercantile]

I went to the homepage and read that she does use a water-bath method for a few minutes after capping the jars...I was wondering about this. 😀

[marieeveil]

What is the difference with the first plums and rhe cored plums ? I didn't quite understand. Thank you i will try this recipe.

[angyr]

Hi, beautiful video, I want to make some jam to have for couple years, and I want to know if I need to put something like aspirin or conservative? Thank you 🙏 🇺🇸

[philipo]

That poor woman needs a pressure cooker...

[cookielapaz]

This is my second year of making this no sugar plum jam. I used the small grape plums and didn't remove the seeds until after I boiled the plums. Turned out perfect. Took a little over an hour to boil to the right consistency.

[sharryhope]

Looks delicious! She reminds me of my Czech Grandmother

[chapman]

I dont know how long it keeps, it will keep well in a fridge but at room temp, I am not sure, There is no water bath after the jars are filled. The cooking seems to have gone all night. The fruits have cooked so much that the sugars have concentrated but even then, it seems to me it could be spoiled by mold. It would have been interesting to have more info about long term storage.

[megdoc]

Magnificent, my father would have loved it on toast with strong tasty cheese.