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 A large, all-purpose, dark-red skinned plum with greenish flesh.  Prunus domestica ‘Victoria’ Image: Royal Horticultural Society www.rhs.org.uk According to ‘Traditional Foods of Britain‘ by Laura Mason and Catherine Brown (Mason+Brown 2004), the Victoria was found as an evolutionary accident in Alderton in Sussex in 1840, and is by far England’s leading plum with 200 commercial producers growing around 7,000 tons per year. See: Bedale Plum Cake Beef Pudding Christmas Pudding Dittisham Plum Elegant Economist’s Pudding Fat Rascals Golden Syrup Greengage Jam Lavender Chutney Lincolnshire Plum Bread Lord Barrington’s Plum Pudding Monday Pudding Pershore Plum Plum and Apple Dumpling Plum Butter Plum Duff Plum Jam Plum Jerkum Plum Porridge Plum Shuttles or Valentine Buns Rich Fruit Cake Rich Plum Cake Ripon Plum Cake Sir Charles Rowley’s Plum Pudding Spotted Dick Sussex Plum Duffs  |
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