This jam is easy to make, exotic, and delicious. It tastes particularly good, spread atop a crisp, buttered, toast. It is perfect for kids and their moms. Made with dates, plums, and no sugar at all, it is nutritious and healthy too.

Ingredients

• 8 seedless black dates

• 3 plums

• 1 tea spoon cornstarch

• 1 cup water

Procedure

• Chop the plums into big pieces, and remove the seeds.

• Put dates, chopped plums, and a cup of water to boil.

• When water boils, simmer and stir with wooden spoon, pressing on the pieces of dates and plums

• In a few minutes, the mixture should have a pulpy consistency with no large chunks

• Mix the corn starch with some water to make a milky white liquid and add to the pulpy mixture

• Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring continuously, and simmer for another minute

The date plum jam is ready. Put it in a glass jar and eat it quickly.

Variation: You can add some tea leaves for flavour when you put the dates and plums to boil.