Apply heat to the bluish-purple fruit and it gives up flavor perfect for baking By DANIELLE CENTONI The Oregonian Italian plums, to borrow a phrase, don't get no respect. They're about half the size ...

Italian prune plums, also known as quetsch or Empress plums, are one of my favorite tastes of late summer and early fall. Their season is brief, so I snap them up when I see them. Relative to many ...

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This week, I was invited to a friend’s place to break the fast for Yom Kippur. I was tasked with making a dessert, and after a lot of research on what is traditional for the holiday, I found that, ...

Plums, grown on every continent except Antarctica, may be the world`s most versatile fruit. Our favorite plum for cooking and baking with, the Italian prune plum, is in season now through early fall.

There are so many touchstones that announce fall's arrival. Think school buses, shorter days, cooler nights and mums in bloom. For me, an early harbinger is the arrival of Italian prune plums. In late ...

If you’re like me, then you have many childhood summer memories — towering cones of swirled soft-serve ice cream, ice-cold Creamsicles and pucker-inducing fresh Italian prune plums. OK, maybe not the ...

They’re a baker’s dream, with a short, sweet season that ends just around the time pumpkins start popping up in markets. Italian prune plums – egg-shaped, purple and slightly smaller than regular ...