My Grandmother's Plum Preserves My grandmother’s recipe for two pints of Damson plum preserves called for two pounds of plums to every three cups of sugar. She kept the skins and seeds in the pot while cooking because therein the flavor lies. Once the preserves were set (after simmering about 30 minutes), you fished out the seeds.

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