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Figs happen when you’re making other plans

Figs happen when you’re making other plans

This week, I get hijacked by figs and once again fail to make plum jam.

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This week, and for several weeks now, I’ve attempted to bring you a recipe for plum jam. I’ve bought reines claudes, and mirabelles, and Stanley plums, the kind they normally dry into prunes, all with the intention of simmering them into jam. And every week, I’ve failed. We’ve eaten them straight out of the fruit bowl, in stealthy ones and twos, sometim…

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