Date Plum Jam

This is Tania's favourite jam. She makes toast. Puts a layer of butter followed by a layer of this jam for her afternoon snack. It is delicious. Mama is posting the recipe so you can try it.

Ingredients:

8 seedless black dates3 plums1 tea spoon cornstarch1 cup water


Procedure:

Chop the plums into big pieces and remove the seeds.Put dates, chopped plums and a cup of water to boil.When water boils, simmer and stir with wooden spoon pressing on the pieces of dates and plumsIn a few minutes the mixture should have a pulpy consistency with no large chunksMix the corn starch with some water to make a milky white liquid and add to the pulpy mixtureBring the mixture to a boil stirring continuously and simmer for another minute

Date plum jam is ready. Put it in a glass jar and eat it quickly.

Variation: You can add some tea leaves for flavour when you put the dates and plums to boil.