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Homemade plum butter with sugar syrup

Name: Homemade plum butter with sugar syrup
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 10 jars
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 3.5 kg Plums; 1.5 kg Granulated sugar; 250 ml Water

Ripe plums simmer in hot sugar syrup, then are blended and cooked for another hour to make thick homemade plum butter. Makes 10 jars.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 1 hr 30 min
Total time: 2 hr 15 min
Servings: 10 jars
Difficulty: Medium
Cuisine: Slovak

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This plum butter is a way to make homemade fruit spread without spending all day at the stove. Pour hot sugar syrup over pitted ripe plums, simmer gently for half an hour, blend, and then cook for about another hour. To check whether the plum butter is ready, put a few drops on a plate: when they no longer form strings, it is done. Its flavor rivals plum butter made using a grandmother's traditional recipe.

Ingredients

Plums 3.5 kg
Granulated sugar 1.5 kg
Water 250 ml

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Instructions

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Choose the ripest plums possible, wash them, remove the pits, and place them in a bowl. Bring the sugar and water to a boil in a pot. Pour the hot syrup over the plums and simmer gently for 30 minutes, stirring as they cook.
Let the mixture cool slightly, then blend with an immersion blender. If you find it easier, you can grind the plums before cooking instead.
Cook the plum butter for another hour. It is ready when a drop placed on a plate no longer forms strings.
Fill jars with the plum butter and close them. Place the jars in a larger pot, cover with a comforter, and let cool slowly.

Tip: Cook the plum butter in the widest heavy-bottomed pot you have so it thickens faster and is less likely to stick. Use a long-handled wooden spoon for stirring, as the thickening plum butter splatters.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 141 kcal
Protein: 0.5 g
Carbohydrates: 36 g
of which sugars: 35 g
Fat: 0.2 g
of which saturates: 0.0 g
Fiber: 0.9 g
Salt: 0.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Rýchly slivkový lekvár bez dlhého varenia