Early Summer Salad of Santa Rosa Plums and Japanese Cucumbers Serves 2 Ingredients 1 medium cucumber, skin removed, sliced 2 Santa Rosa plums, pitted and cut into 8 pieces 8 small mint leaves ½ ...

The exact parent of the Santa Rosa — introduced in 1906 by Luther ... and tartness next to the skin and pit from the Japanese Satsuma plum; larger size from the apricot plum (Prunus simonii ...

More than 300 plum varieties are sold in the U.S. alone, with Santa Rosa, Methley ... depending on where they are cultivated. Chinese and Japanese plum trees, for instance, produce plums with ...

The most popular varieties of plums are: Santa Rosa, with dark red skin and sweet ... Satsuma plums with red skin and flesh that is sweet and juicy; Japanese plums that range from yellow to ...

If you go for deep purple Italian plums or bright red Santa Rosa plums, make sure they ... For a sweeter jam, opt for varieties like Black Amber or Japanese plums. You can even mix varieties ...

Introduced in 1906, the Santa Rosa is still the gold standard for farmers market plum flavor, though it has fallen out of favor commercially. As late as the 1960s, the Santa Rosa still accounted ...

This one, which Hernandez whips up for staff, uses two types of fat — cream and olive oil — to balance out the sweetness and acidity in the plums. Arrange fruits, vegetables and herbs on a ...