Ingredients

Plum puree

• 750g ripe red fleshed plums
• 500ml boiling water
• 500g caster sugar
• 1 vanilla pod
• 1 cinnamon stick

Method

1. Plum Puree: Place the boiling water and caster sugar in a saucepan and stir them together until the sugar has dissolved. Add the vanilla pod, cinnamon stick and plums to the syrup and place the saucepan over a moderate heat. Bring the syrup to a simmer and reduce the temperature slightly. Leave the plums to cook gently for 10 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat and remove the plums with a slotted spoon and leave them and the syrup to cool. Cut the plums in half and remove the stones from them. Roughly dice the plumss and place them in a food processor or blender and puree them with cooking syrup. Set the puree aside until well cooled.
2. Sorbet: Place the puree and syrup in an ice cream machine and allow it to churn until the mixture becomes firm. Place the sorbet in a well sealed freezer proof contianer and freeze until ready to serve.f you don't have an ice cream machine simply If you don't have an ice-cream machine place it in a freezer proof sealed container and place it in the freezer for 1 hour then remove it and stir, then return to the freezer and take it out and stir it every 30 minutes for 2 hours then freeze it until ready to serve.
3. To Serve: Remove the sorbet from the freezer 15 minutes before serving. Serve the sorbet in bowls with slices of plum and garnish with mint leaves (optional)..