Posted on 03/29/2021 5:16:45 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Ever bite into a persimmon not ready for eating?...........................
On the other hand a ripened soft wild persimmon is very tasty. We had 2 trees on our Jersey shore property. My two year old son was crawling around on the grass in the fall and picked one up that had fallen. Then he bit it and decided it was good and finished eating it. I did not know about eating it but I knew it was a persimmon and therefore edible so I tried one and it was delicious. The only problem is the seeds. Anyway, after that every fall we looked forward to the harvest. I used to like mashing them up and rubbing the flesh away from the seeds and then using the flesh to make persimmon bread with a banana bread recipe.
Good catch!
The actual fresh fruit is best, but it’s also the strongest off smell. It does not taste bad, but quite good. You need to divorce your smell from affecting your taste too much, though.
The texture is mazing—it’s literally like someone made a “finger pudding,” similar to “finger jello.” The fresh fruit pod is soft but firm enough to freely hold without a mess of any sort. Imagine a super large reconstituted kidney bean, but sweet and tasty and just a bit less firm.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148468/medlars-and-sorb-apples
Medlars and Sorb-Apples
By D. H. Lawrence
I love you, rotten,
Delicious rottenness.
I love to suck you out from your skins
So brown and soft and coming suave,
So morbid, as the Italians say.
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