Gave me Ternovka, or rather thorn plum, very surprised at the response of great joy. And all because he immediately thought about one amazing recipe that was tried once and was charmed by the result, extraordinary taste and ease of preparation. Here is my beauty! My plum and a bit dry.

For the marinade pour into a small saucepan 1 liter of water ( take a little more, as the amount of liquid depends on the fruit size and styling. In the water pour the sugar, salt, add a lava leaf, pepper and cloves. Boil at low boil for 3 minutes, add vinegar and remove from heat. Cover with a lid, let cool to lukewarm.

While the marinade cools, place plums in a jar. I polutora-liter. Put up a coat hanger, I got greedy and shoved the whole Ternovka. On top pour 3 tsp of mustard powder.

Now comes the fun part, make "bitter". Fierce - a kind of "putty", an ancient method sealing. To do this, take a linen or cotton cloth, I took a sterile bandage. Put a bandage in several layers, so tightly was soaked with boiled water on top and poured a teaspoon of mustard powder.

Warm marinade pour the plums and put our fierce. You can now close the jar with a nylon lid and put in the cupboard. In any case under the jar I put a deep plate. About time. the author did not mention anything. In his last billet, I remember, from time to time I dove into a jar, tried it and I... didn't like it. For some time the Bank has been forgotten and only a month and a half I was pleasantly surprised with the result. Under the occasion the vessel moved to the bottom shelf of the fridge to cool, what is even more positively influenced the taste of plums. By the way, some of the guests claimed that my Ternovka like the taste of large black olives, the ones sold in Greece...