I need some help and since you all are the smartest most intellectual people I know (note to self: good comments always get good results). I need to know what to do with persimmons. My trees are loaded and am trying to can things to use this winter. I saw recipes for cakes, cookies and bread, but need something to last all winter.
Sheila
TOTALLY OFF TOPIC - Persimmon uses
I freeze my persimmons--it makes them better. And the cookies freeze too. Cookies, definitely cookies.
I think drying them also sweetens them. Then use 'em in any recipe like...I can't remember, but there's a website for it...
Thank you guys for the suggestions. Cat do you have the cookie recipe and grow if you happen across the website for persimmons I would love it. Will try and get a picture of the tree on here soon.
Sheila
I'll look up my recipe when I get home. There are a lot of them. Persimmons make great cookies.
Check out:
http://www.seasonalchef.com/persimmonrecipes.htm
This one looks like it has a number of good recipes and uses:
http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=persimmon
And another:
http://www.mightyfoods.com/archives/2005/12/ten_ways_persimmons.html
Try Googling "persimmon recipes and uses"
http://www.recipelink.com/mf/0/33417
same idea..
AND http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/recipes/all/
You should get some great tips/recipes here..
My granny used to make persimmon jelly.
ummmmm.... yes persimmon jelly is a fond memory of mine as well.
I have recipes for persimmon meringue pie, persimmon pie, and persimmon cream pie.
Persimmons!! I don't have any pe-cahns, nor do I have any persim-mahns.
I am feeling doubly deprived.
Can I grow those here? I want some now....
Actually at the Midwestern Wine Festival they had persimmon wine...
Any southerners know about locust beer or Muscadine Wine or eaten spring poke salad ??
My yard is full of Pokeweed! Which no one here recognizes, though the mockingbirds love it.
I think the South is overtaking CA--we now have possums, pokeweed and mockingbirds.
We now have armadillos and I'm afraid of them.
Armadillos are sweethearts--though they do dig up the yard--and they carry leprosy.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1306/is-it-true-that-armadillos-carry-leprosy
Why are you afraid of them Harmony? I always thought they were cute!
I like this guy!
http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/blog/armadillo-leprosy.htm
We don't have armadillos around here, but we saw one while we were in Florida in May and he was so stinking cute! I don't think they'd hurt a fly --- ok, well maybe a fly. ha!
They carry leprosy -- really??? I wondered how you caught that.
I guess i'm just not use to them.
Once upon a time I was a hypochondriac 13-year-old convinced that she had leprosy.
You don't even want to know all the things this hypochondriac has thought she's had over the years. I'm trying to get over it now...