So I went to the checkout and proudly handed over my bright yellow fruit to the cashier. After all, apriums are just too weird for Ralph’s grocery store. To my way of thinking if you find it in a grocery store and it isn’t a plum, or a peach, or a nectarine then it’s most probably a pluot. I went in because I recalled seeing beautiful yellow stone fruit there. legislators aren’t willing to stipulate the designation, so that means even the import of yellow “Mirabelle de Lorraine” plums is illegal.įor me, it all started at Ralph’s grocery store on Ventura Blvd in Studio City, California. These tiny, delicious plums are only grown in Lorraine, France, and, thanks to import laws, they can only be grown in Lorraine, France. Specifically, yellow plums that bear the name “Mirabelle de Lorraine”. Yellow plums are a protected-origin fruit. Nope, the answer lies somewhere in the legalese of lawyerly gobbledygook. If yellow plums are illegal how the heck did I find them at a large-scale chain grocery store in full view of law enforcement officers? Does this Yellow Plum Flat Tart make me some sort of fugitive? Should we scream “lock her up” when we see the produce manager who sold me the supposedly illicit plums? More importantly, why are yellow plums illegal? Is there some kind of recall? Are they hallucinogenic, or worse carcinogenic? Making yellow plums more tightly regulated than raw milk or marijuana! In fact, yellow plums are banned in all 50 states in America. However, had I stuck with my Sunday shopping routine I’d never have learned the tale of the illegal yellow plum. I’ve had my eye on an Amelia Saltsman Pluot Pinwheel Tart recipe from Bon App étit for some time now (7 years!). The reason that’s relevant is because had I shopped for it on a Sunday I would have gone to the Hollywood Farmers’ Market and bought pluots instead of yellow plums for sure. But, (and this is the important part) I shopped for it on a Friday. ![]() I made it on a Saturday, and I posted it on a Sunday. If I bake I usually bake on a Sunday.īut I did not make this Yellow Plum Tart with Almond Meringue on a Sunday. I intended to make and eat this flat tart on a Sunday afternoon. I intended this flat tart to be a pluot flat tart. Yellow Plum Flat Tart with Almond Meringue. But the term “pizza” confuses the SEO gods, so I prefer “flat tart”. Sometimes I’ve called these tarts “fruit pizza”. I’ve made similar versions with apples and berries. Some people call this arrangement a pinwheel tart. The discs of fruit are laid out in concentric circles. It’s as stress-free as baking gets and it’s a pretty tart too. The pastry simply lays flat on a baking sheet. In fact, this flat tart has no rim at all. There’s no lattice-work or fluted rims as in a pie. ![]() You don’t fold the edges as in a galette. ![]() It requires no tart pan and no blind baking.
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