306
Potrero St.
Santa Cruz,
CA 95060
Click
to e-mail.
Read more about Plumline and Heidi Schlecht on the Good Food Awards blog about 2011 winners… |
“Tasty, authentic, and responsibly produced.” “Calling on the jammiest jams and most mouthwatering marmalades, the Good Food Awards will be handed out to tastiest sweet preserves made with ingredients that are GM free, pesticide and herbicide free or responsibly foraged.”
|
Read more about what it means to be a finalist…(press release) |
Heidi Schlecht has been cooking professionally for almost twenty years. A longtime partner in Feel Good Foods Catering, Heidi is also the former owner of the River Café and Cheese Shop in Santa Cruz. Her newest incarnation, Plumline, allows her to continue her work which previously appeared under the River Café label. The mission and the medium is fruit: jams, preserves, compotes, sauces, and more.
Heidi loves fruit...loves growing fruit,
eating fruit and capturing fruit's peak moments through her preserving.
What she does not grow on her family’s organic farm, she seeks out from
the best local and organic producers.
Plumline’s mission and culinary philosophy is to create beautiful, useful,
and delicious products that reflect artful design and wise
planetary stewardship.
Plumline jams are made using traditional French methods...copper jam pots,
small batches, short cooking times that preserve flavor and color. We use
the least time between picking and cooking—and only the freshest,
perfectly ripe fruits.
The goal for Plumline is to keep it simple and let the fruit
tell its own story, and so most of our preserves have only two ingredients:
organic fruit and organic sugar.
Packaging is important, because aesthetics matter, and garbage is a serious
problem. We use glass Weck jars
because they are beautiful, because they make lovely glasses, and because
the lids are BPA free.
Please contact Heidi if you would like to
buy some products.
Email plumlinejams@gmail.com.
PLUMLINE NEWSLETTER 2011-2012
Hi there, friends and jam lovers,
I hope this finds you all doing well and enjoying the change of the seasons. I wanted to send along my current availability list as I have begun selling at the farmers market and quantities are limited...it is hard to believe, but (with the exception of quince, apples, and citrus) fruit and preserving is almost done until next year!
The harvest was small on most things but the quality was really nice. Plums were amazing. Santa Rosas did nothing…seems like our local berry farmers all had beautiful and plentiful crops. The Strawberry Sauce is one of my favorites—I have tried many years to make a strawberry something that I like and have always found them too cloying. I used an old French recipe where you soak the whole berries in sugar and then strain, cook the syrup, add the berries back in, cook again gently, strain the berries out again and reduce the syrup...it's delicious and beautiful. Apricots were also really good this year and there were a lot of them!
If you live in Santa Cruz or nearby you can buy my jam at River Café and The Picnic Basket. I am currently selling at the Sunday Campbell Farmers Market…9-1 while supplies last...looks like Bi-Rite will carry a few varieties as well (starting in January, we hope).
If you only want a few jars, I can ship. 1-6 jars cost $20 in shipping and handling, and 6-12 jars cost $30.
Thank you for all your support!
HeidiAvailability
Apricot Jam—9.8 oz
Meyer Lemon Marmalade—5.4 oz
Damson Plum Jam—9.8 oz
Satsuma Plum Jam—9.8 oz
Strawberry Jam—9.8 oz
Strawberry Sauce—9.8 oz
Roasted Dry-Farm Tomatoes—9.8 oz
Candied Tomatoes—5.4 oz
Green Gage Plum Jam—9.8 oz
Pear Rosemary Conserve—5.4 oz
Pears in Syrup—9.8 oz
Dry-Farm Tomato Purée—9.8 oz
Italian Plum Preserve—5.4 oz
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam—9.8 oz
Rhubarb Jam—9.8 oz
Raspberry Jam—9.8 oz
Blackberry Jam—9.8 oz
Quince Jam—5.4 oz
Applesauce—9.8 oz
Preserved Meyer lemons—5.4 oz
PRICING
5.4 oz. Weck jars $8
9.8 oz. Weck jars $12
JAM SHARES
One Jam a Month...Heidi’s Favorites
13 jars $120Family Size: Our best deal and enough to share...they make beautiful gifts:
one of everything in the line, plus five of your choice.
24 jars $240November 21, 2011
Read more on the Good Food Awards blog about 2011 winners• • • • • • • • •
April 22, 2011
"Say Good-Bye to Ordinary Condiments"
The Tasting Table : San Francisco• • • • • • • • •
February, 2011
Maggie Spicer, of A Curious Palate, highlighted Plumline in her post about the Good Food Award winners she liked best.
• • • • • • • • •
Read what Christina Waters has to say about Heidi's Damson Plum jam. (This article is from 2009, when Heidi still owned River Street Café.)