Homemade plum pastille

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. To make homemade marshmallow from plums, we will need: 1 kg of plums and 100 g of sugar.

2. Step 2:

   

   Rinse the plums thoroughly, cut in half and remove the pits

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the plums in a saucepan.

4. Step 4:

   

   Cover the saucepan with a lid. Put on medium heat.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cook for about 15 minutes until all the plums are softened and the juice is released. If the plums are hard, then you can pour 2-3 tablespoons of water into a saucepan.

6. Step 6:

   

   Grind the plum mass with an immersion blender to a homogeneous consistency. You need to grind the plums as carefully as possible, there should be no pieces of skin in the finished puree. You can rub the puree through a sieve.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour sugar into the resulting plum puree and stir well until it completely dissolves. My plums are sweet, so this amount of sugar is enough. If the plums are sour, then you can add more sugar. Return the saucepan to the fire and cook the puree over low heat, stirring occasionally, for another 10-15 minutes.

9. Step 8:

   

   Cover the baking sheet with parchment. Pour the plum puree over it and smooth it out with a spatula, trying to distribute the mass evenly over the paper. The thickness of the plum layer should not be more than 7 mm, otherwise the pastille will dry for too long. Put the baking sheet in a preheated oven to 100 °With an oven. Dry the pastille for about 4-6 hours with the door ajar. Properly dried pastille springs when pressed, but remains slightly sticky.

10. Step 9:

    

    Carefully cut the pastille directly with the paper into strips.

11. Step 10:

    

    Remove the paper. Each strip can be cut across and rolled into a roll.

12. Step 11:

    

    For easy storage, each roll can be tied with parchment and tied with thread. Store the pastille in a hermetically sealed jar in a dark, dry place. Bon appetit!