Plum Sauce

This plum sauce almost never happened. Years ago, we were visiting my aunt’s family in India, and they served a delicious welcome drink of plum juice—a sweet and salty, slightly spiced juice that was very refreshing. I was obsessed. I asked my aunt’s family for the recipe, and my mom and I tried it at home. We made it, tasted it, and it was an exact replica. It needed to be on the heat for just a few minutes longer and it would be ready. So we left it on the stove and walked away—and forgot