persimmons

[okiemama]

Anybody got any good persimmon recipes? As soon as the frost hits, my persimmons will be ready to harvest, but I have no idea what to do with them!

[LIBRA]

What are they???

[Herbmama]

my aunt used to make this wonderful persimmon pudding...kinda like sweet potato pie without the crust...no idea how she made it though. When I'm in doubt I make preserves! ;)

[toman]

Aren't persimmons similar to figs?

[treehugger]

http://www.davewilson.com/homegrown/promotion/persimmon/pers_flavor-nutrition.html

I first saw persimmons the day before yesterday, believe it or not. They look interesting. You don't see them much out here in the midwest so I had never heard of them before this post.

Don't have any recipes but thank you for opening my eyes to a new (to me) fruit!

Kath

[lishca]

the only expience i've had with them is that they can kinda smell bad. there is this park near where i'm from in IA and i think about 50% of their trees are persimmon trees. it might have been because it was a little while past the first frost, but i don't know.

here's a link to some recipes, i wish i knew how well htey worked, but i don't if you figure out something that works LMK. i'm always up for trying new stuff

[Unkle_John]

Persimmons are an aquired taste, in my experience.

I never liked the tase of them raw.. possibly better in a pie or jellied. But I never got past the fact they are "ripe" after they fall from the tree. I guess you could paper bag them to ripen them faster than waiting for them to hit the ground. But if you don't they will be too tart.

[okiemama]

Yeah, persimmons are somewhat of an acquired taste. They are perfectly ripe the day after the first frost, till then they are too tart to eat. Within a day or two of frost, they spoil. So it's a short window to grab and process as many as I can. Thanks for the link, had some neat info. I will pass along anything that I find that works really well. And I did think about doing them as preserves, probably will do some like that, but I'm going to have enough that I want to try a few other things too. Will let you know how it all comes out...that is, if we ever get a frost here!

[okiemama]

YAY!! we have frost this morning!!! am harvesting the persimmons today!! will let you know what comes of it all.

[tlranger]

Granma made persimmion jam, good stuff, too bad they don't last long. Fun to try and catch dead ripe ones as they fall. Can be messy. Lots of seeds(roughage). Our groves look like masses of telephone poles with leaves on the tops. You jar a tree - then try and catch the fruit as it falls 30ft(gently)

Peace - thanks for the memory- T L Ranger

[okiemama]

They are great fun, aren't they?

btw, to update everyone on my persimmon fiasco....

I did harvest my persimmons, had gallons and gallons of them. Then everyone in my house got sick at once, and they were ignored for @ 3 days, while i nursed my family back to health. the fourth morning dawned bright and beautiful. eagerly running to the kitchen, with high hopes of playing in my kitchen all day making yummy stuff, i happened upon a large army of ants...headed straight into my playground! fearing what i might find, i opened the bags I had stored the persimmons in, and my fears proved very real. I was inundated with all sorts of bugs!! it wasn't one of these pick out a few bugs and wash the fruit real well. it was just toss em outside and let the bugs win. so i fed a great deal of critters with my persimmons (raccoons, possums, bugs, birds, squirrels, and even one weird cat who seems to like sweet things), but not a bite did we get to have ourselves. :(

oh well...there's always next year's crop...