If very sour plums are used, increase the amount of sugar.

Remove the skin and seeds from a quart of sour plums; mash, and add to the peaches.

The day woman who did the cooking gave Philippina a plate with Jordan's dinner on it: Meat, vegetables, and a few sour plums.

He were the last in the Fair City to take sour plums for pears, or my roundabout cousin Joan for this piece of fantastic vanity.

The old title, " Sour Plums o' Gallashiels," probably was the beginning of a song to this air, which is now lost.