Rinse off the fruit just before using. Peel as you would peaches and tomatoes: immerse briefly in boiling water and slip off skin when cool enough to handle. All Ontario plums can be enjoyed raw, whole or cut up in salads, on breakfast dishes (cereal, pancakes, waffles) and as a main-course garnish.

Prune plums are also well-suited to use in baked cobblers and crisps, pies, shortcakes, coffee cakes; in preserves and meat and game sauces; as flavouring for ice cream; and as the base of a chilled summer soup.