All of these posts about stewed prunes is making me queasy! I’ve heard of them, but have never had them or even seen them. What I’m picturing is not appetizing. Are they just heated up? Is anything added?
They’re boiled in a bit of water. Done properly, that hydrates them and plumps them up.
So, it basically turns them back into plums?
I have eaten
the prunes
that were in
the pantry
and which
you were probably
saving
to stew
Forgive me
they were gross
so sticky-sweet
and so slimy
From Standup Comedian:
I don’t know if it’s a Puerto Rican thing or just the fact that mi abuela grew up poor during The Depression, but she used to buy apricot and peach nectar or prune juice and then water them down with a ton of ice in a pitcher, put it in the fridge and that was the kid’s “Koolaid”. I remember it being delicious.
Google “stewed prunes” and then scan the images. Here’s one that has a home-made recipe. They are also sold in cans. Unless you know they are going to be good, I can see why someone would be turned-off to the idea of putting that in your mouth.
A while back, I read about a love triangle gone wrong at a senior-living facility where a man threw a Molotov cocktail into his unfaithful girlfriend’s apartment. She knew who did it, because the bottle he used was HIS brand of prune juice. 
My parents drink it, and my dad NEEDS the laxative effect due to diverticulitis.
I love dried fruits of any kind (except banana
I actually cracked a tooth on one, once) I can hardly fit them in my T1 diet. They are excessively sweet. Prunes are like a candy, in my world.
I would love to have a couple of Sunmaid pitted prunes after reading this thread, but it’s way too much sugar for me.
A prune is actually a type of plum, not just any dried plum. Prunes have a high sugar content and a pit that readily separates from the fruit. These types of plums are called prunes even when they’re not dried, which is why prune juice isn’t an oxymoron. Produce markets sometimes carry fresh (i.e. undried) Italian or French prunes (the two most common varieties).
Some time ago the California Prune Marketing Board changed their name to the California Dried Plum Board. I think at about the same time the Sunsweet company started selling prunes as “dried plums.” It didn’t last. They switched back to calling them prunes before too long. My guess is that it hurt sales to people who really wanted prunes, and didn’t improve sales to people who wanted to avoid prunes.
You can sometimes find non-prune plums sold as dried fruit. They’re much less sweet than prunes, and tend to be chewier.
I simply won’t eat wrinkled fruit.
They are better than raisins which truly ruin everything.
Purely by coincidence, my gf bought a half dozen Paczki with prune lekvar filling.
Delicious!
The connection between prunes and diarrhea ruin them for me.
Fresh figs have the same problem.
My grandfather had a fig tree. I loved eating them ripe, and freshly picked off the tree. Until the consequences hit me. :eek:
From then on, I only ate grandmother’s fig preserves. No more raw figs for me.
I did not know that!
They’re quite yummy before they’re dried, too! Also sometimes just sold as “prune plums”.
Wall to wall Tv- yep, we got 'em.