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It’s the season for persimmons
November 27, 2022, 10:30 PM
Pipe SmokerIt’s the season for persimmons
They’re in the stores now. So crisp and tasty. Get ‘em while the getin’s good – they’re seasonal.
When I was a kid in Missouri we got them from trees. But only after a hard frost. Else a pucker like you wouldn’t believe!
Serious about crackers November 27, 2022, 10:35 PM
konata88Love them. Look forward to them every year. Prefer the fuyu but like the hachiya as well. There is a farm in the region that makes hoshigaki (Japanese style dried hachiya) - expensive but tremendously nostalgic. Look forward to that as well.
Don’t know the name but I also like the Korean persimmon beverage.
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kkinaAlso been enjoying persimmons this time of year.
November 27, 2022, 11:31 PM
drill sgtI remember as a young chap while out walking in the woods with my father and 3 younger brothers when father offered youngest brother a green persimmon... Well he took a bite / spit out what he could / then pulled out his shirt tail and tried to wipe the taste out of his mouth... Talk about pucker power... Everybody thought it was funny except the one who bit the green persimmon. ............... drill sgt.
November 27, 2022, 11:36 PM
corsairFuyu's are on my table just about weekly for breakfast.
November 27, 2022, 11:36 PM
kkinaThe one thing about persimmons is you gots to wait until they're fully ripe, even slightly over ripe. If I bite too soon, not only is the taste off, but my throat is scratchy for an hour.
November 28, 2022, 05:07 AM
Jupiterquote:
Originally posted by drill sgt:
I remember as a young chap while out walking in the woods with my father and 3 younger brothers when father offered youngest brother a green persimmon... Well he took a bite / spit out what he could / then pulled out his shirt tail and tried to wipe the taste out of his mouth... Talk about pucker power... Everybody thought it was funny except the one who bit the green persimmon. ............... drill sgt.
We have Persimmon trees on our property. The Deer got to them before I had a chance to pick some up.
It's always great fun watching someone bite into one for the first time.
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November 28, 2022, 08:35 AM
phil in indyAbout 20 years ago I planted about a dozen in the back of my property. I see a few of them on the trees finally but never get any due to the deer and trash bandits. Little bastards! The damn persimmon pulp at the local orchard is expensive but boy it makes GREAT cookies!
November 28, 2022, 10:38 AM
Pipe Smoker^^^^^^^^
I hadn’t known of persimmon cookies before. Guess I was living under a rock. Many recipes on the web:
https://www.allrecipes.com/rec...persimmon-cookies-i/
Serious about crackers November 28, 2022, 03:27 PM
phil in indyWould you like me to email you a copy of my mother's old recipe?
November 28, 2022, 04:36 PM
urbanwarrior238My favorite. There in Costco right now..season coming to a close soon.
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November 28, 2022, 04:37 PM
KarpteachI love persimmons. I get some seeds from the dozens that I’ve eaten and now I have 14 germinated seeds. Hopefully, they will grow and I can plant them in my hunting property.
November 28, 2022, 05:02 PM
Pipe Smokerquote:
Originally posted by phil in indy:
Would you like me to email you a copy of my mother's old recipe?
Thanks much for your kind offer Phil, but I have to decline. First, I’m not a baker. Second, I have no idea where I’d find persimmon pulp. I’ll be on the look-out for persimmon cookies in stores though. A very different cookie, I think.
Serious about crackers November 29, 2022, 11:16 AM
Rey HRHMy sister in law grows them in her backyard in CA. We've had some sent over.
Some people around here are unfamiliar with them.
I just like them peeled and sliced.
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November 29, 2022, 05:21 PM
Pipe Smoker^^^^^^^^
I buy the fuyu persimmons. They’re perfectly good unpeeled. Very thin skin.
Serious about crackers November 29, 2022, 06:25 PM
Rey HRHquote:
Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
^^^^^^^^
I buy the fuyu persimmons. They’re perfectly good unpeeled. Very thin skin.
Well, FUYU too!
I did not know that. Something else new I learned from SigForum.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
November 29, 2022, 07:41 PM
jhe888I used to get some from trees on the golf course. You have to be fast because the birds like them.
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corsairquote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
quote:
Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
^^^^^^^^
I buy the fuyu persimmons. They’re perfectly good unpeeled. Very thin skin.
Well, FUYU too!
I did not know that. Something else new I learned from SigForum.
Yup, you eat the skins, just like on an apple.