Plum clafoutis

You may remember I collected some free plums on my dog walk the other day. They're weren't fully ripe of course but I intended on using them to make a plum clafoutis anyway.

This is the recipe I used:-

Butter a pie dish (I forgot to do this!). Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of Demerara sugar in to the bottom of a pie dish and mix with 1 tsp of mixed spice of cinnamon. Cut the plum flesh from the stone ( as mine weren't quite ripe, the flesh came away in smaller pieces, but if they are halved then lay them cut side down on top of the sugar). In a liquidiser mix 300ml milk (any variety will do), another 2 tablespoons sugar, 3 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla essence, 1 tsp cinnamon and 75g flour (again any variety is fine but I think it needs to be white personally). Once fully combined pour over the plums and cook in a moderate oven (170c) for about an hour until set and lightly brown on top. You can sprinkle with icing sugar before serving, but I didn't bother.
You can serve it on its own or with cream or custard. I had some custard powder left over so used that.
It tasted yummy and smelled lovely whilst cooking. You can use any stone fruit I guess - cherries or apricots would be good and you could alter the spicing by adding nutmeg or indeed ground almonds or almond essence?

Mr D and I have stopped clearing now. The house is pretty much all done bar the kitchen and we have cleared out under the house and the garage. Two massive loads to the charity shop and three tip runs. I even managed to donate all her unused hearing aid batteries to Brixham Does Care, for which they were very grateful. I'm glad we have managed to donate such a lot and find uses for lots of it too. A lot of the towels and old sheets are going to a friend who teaches art to make felt or canvases and several rolls of textured wallpaper which can be used for screen printing or some such apparently. I found some hats to go to the drama department and a lot of Spanish language books to go to the sixth form.
Fortunately my Mum didn't have a lot of stuff in her house - just the normal things we all have for day to day living on the whole. I have been thinking about my aunt's house though - she is nearly 92 and has lived in the same house since she was 9! I suspect it may be a whole different ballgame!!!