Baking Dessert Prince Edward Island, Canada 1900s

Anne of Green Gables Plum Puffs

Name: Anne of Green Gables Plum Puffs
Yield: 12 puffs
Cuisine: Canada
Ingredients: 400 g ripe plums, pitted and diced; 60 g granulated sugar; ¼ tsp cinnamon; 2.5 g cornstarch; 2 sheets all-butter puff pastry, chilled; 1 egg, beaten; coarse sugar, for sprinkling

Also called plum puffs, plum turnovers, Anne Shirley plum puffs

Small puff pastry turnovers filled with spiced plums, after the plum puffs Anne bakes in Anne of Green Gables.

Makes: 12 puffs

Pastry From books

Inspired by L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908)

Ingredients

Scale

Pan sizes, times and temperatures in the method are not scaled.

Plum filling

400 gripe plums, pitted and diced
60 g5 tbspgranulated sugar
¼ tspcinnamon
2.5 g1 tspcornstarch

Pastry

2 sheetsall-butter puff pastry, chilled
1egg, beaten
coarse sugar, for sprinkling

Method

Filling. Cook the plums (400 g) with the granulated sugar (60 g5 tbsp) and cinnamon (¼ tsp) over medium heat for 5 to 8 minutes, until soft and juicy. Stir the cornstarch (2.5 g1 tsp) into 1 tbsp water, stir it in and cook 1 minute more, until thick. Cool completely.
Heat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a baking sheet with parchment.
Cut each sheet of puff pastry (2 sheets) into 6 squares, about 4 inches (10 cm). Put a heaped tablespoon of filling in the middle of each, brush the edges with egg and fold into triangles. Press the edges with a fork to seal.
Set them on the sheet, brush the tops with egg, cut a small slit in each and sprinkle with coarse sugar.
Bake 18 to 20 minutes, until puffed and deep golden. Cool a little before eating; the filling is very hot.

Notes

In the book, plum puffs are named but never described. Small puff pastry turnovers with plum filling are the likeliest reading.
Shortcut. Use 200 g thick plum jam or plum preserves in place of the cooked filling.