[Sca-cooks] Sugar Plums

[Terry Decker]

I think you will find "Sugar Plum" is a modern trade name for a variety of
Prunus domestica commonly referenced as "Sugar Prune."  I'm not certain, but
I think the variety is 19th Century and is sweeter and larger than period
varieties.

Bear


>Anybody have any idea whether the plum variety called 'sugar plums' are
>similar to a period variety?
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