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Andrei-Ciprian Coman
MIEADR IMAPA, Group 8111
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Romania
59 Marasti Blvd., District 1, 011464, Bucharest, Romania
Keywords: traditional food, plums, sweets Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Dumplings plums are made according to the simplest recipe! You don’t have to be so good at cooking. If you follow the steps from here, your dumplings with plums will be as tasty as any other Romanian
experienced chef in romanian food! Dumpling with plums is considered the desert of the autumn, but it you find plums in any other season this is it, you can prepare this amazing desert!
Let’s do it! according to any Romanian grandmother’s recipe, all you need are these ingredients:
salt
50 g dried crust 12 smalls plums
sugar
4-5 eggs
50 g butter
30 ml oil
100 g flour
300 grams potatoes cinnamon
Method of preparation:
1. Potatoes boil in salt water for 30 minutes and the plums are cleansed by the pips;
2. Take off the potatoes skin, crush and mix them with oil. When the composition is cooled, flour and egg are
added. Mix all the composition until smooth dough is obtained, then divide into 12 pieces. Put on a pot with 2
3. Cut the plums covered with dough. Roll them through the flour and put in boiled water, all
litres of water, add a pinch of salt.
the dumplings. Allow to boil for 10 to 15 minutes with the pot covered, then remove from heat
and leave all in hot water for another 15 minutes.
4. Melt the butter in a hot pan and fry it with the dried crust. Boiled jars must be removed from the water and left to
drain. Cover the dumplings with breadcrumbs, then powder with sugar and cinnamon and now are good to be served:
For centuries the plums are growing in many Romanian areas as in the figure below. Therefore, these
wonderful fruits are included in various recipes such as: drinks with plums (plum brandy, palinka of plum) and
sweets (dumplings with plums), which are mostly found in the season of plums - the autumn .
In order to illustrate a general image of how many plums are growing in Romania, I listed on the Romanian
map study of 2012 production of plums (tons/metric).