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 The perfect Prune > The Plum
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The plum is the fruit of the genus Prunus of the rose family (Rosaceae). Like the peach and cherry, it is a stone fruit.
Plum varieties that can be dried without fermenting are called prunes.
Such plums have firm flesh and contain a sufficiently high level of sugar, qualities that favour their being preserved by drying, which is done in dehydrators or in the sun. Dried prunes keep far longer than do fresh plums.
The Agen plums have a high sugar content that allows them to fully ripen on the tree without fermenting around the pit.
Each tree produces up to 300 pounds of fruit. It takes three pounds of the fresh fruit to make one pound of dried plums.
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