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Are these persimmons? I’m pretty sure they look like them and they look like the wiki entry pic.
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If so, what do you do with them?
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September 20th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
make bread out of them. we used to harvest hundreds of gallons of those things; we had persimmon everything year round.
September 20th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I throw them at squirrels. Some people make pie – when they turn orange and ripen and get all gooshy squishy…
September 20th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Well, it’s hard to tell the scale from the
pix, but the bark looks right, and the leaves
look right, and they are not hedge apples, so
I would think they are indeed persimmons.
And you can do quite a bit with a persimmon,
including puckering your mouth tighter than 100
percent alum toothpaste if you bite into a green
‘simmon. So tight you will have to eat through
a straw for a couple of days.
But if you wait until they are nice and ripe – very are satisfactory eating. Just be sure they are
really ripe, because a green one will turn you
off fruit generally for while.
September 20th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
How many do you think you’ll be able to get? I’m sure you can ferment them if you can get enough to make it worth your time.
If you can’t get that many, then throw ’em at squirrels.
September 20th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Yup, they’re persimmons. My mom always made a pudding of them. You wait `til they’re a nice brown-orange and soft. Then you squish them through a colander to get the pulp and leave the skin and stems and all. I don’t know Mom’s recipe but I imagine if you google a bit you can find one.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Leave the damn things for possums. Go buy a pie somewhere else, apple preferably.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
My grandparents eat them raw (ripe) and make good cookies from them. I could grab a recipe if required – toss me an email if interested.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:02 am
Yeah, take just a nibble too early, and your mouth will be numb for an hour.
September 21st, 2008 at 3:23 am
Eat them! They are also known as Sharon Fruit: http://www.smoothiecast.co.uk/fruit+files/sharon+fruit we just let them ripen and eat them as a fruit. They are sweet, mushy and highly sought out!!
September 21st, 2008 at 9:06 am
What do you do with them? Oh my God, if you were a Hoosier, you wouldn’t ask that.
Persimmon pudding, a Holy Sacrament among Hoosiers, who guard the sources of their persimmons like they guard where they find morels. I’ll shoot you a recipe (sorry, no pun intended there).
Oh. Don’t think about picking them until they’re orange and soft, or you won’t unpucker for about six months.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:08 am
Here you go.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
I agree with the persimmon pudding idea. My family has this as a staple. Make sure to put a whoel crap-ton of real whipped cream on top when you eat it. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Oh, and if you isolate the pulp, you can store it frozen for years before using it.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Pull one now while it’s hard and take a bite. That establishes a baseline. You will have the most horrible astringent effect imaginable. The taste of unripe persimmons are the stuff from which legend and metaphor are constructed.
Next, wait until the persimmon is soft and almost mushy and when held in your hand it sort of slumps. Bite a small hole in the skin and suck the orange pulp out. There’s hardly anything as sweet, and these things grow wild here in the South.
mc
September 21st, 2008 at 11:46 am
Mostly Cajun has it right. A ripe persimmon is great, a green one is one of the most bitter things you ever tasted.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Make persimmon wine with it, it’s really easy to do.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Every poster above has it right – wait for ripeness. Since none of them bothered to tell you how to tell when the persimmons are ripe, here is how we did it in NC: Wait for the first frost. After the fruit has been “frosted” they have a brief (days to <1 week) period before they are rotten.
Chinese persimmons (the ones as big as apples one can buy in a grocery store, or if lucky find on an ignorant neighbors’ tree) work similarly.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
so do you pick them from the tree or wait until they fall?
September 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Mikee has it right. Wait until first frost.
September 21st, 2008 at 8:24 pm
The squirrels in the pine tree outside go over and eat the unripe persimmons across the fence, and then sit on the fence-post screeching and yowling and chattering all angry as hell about something – probably that they’re stupid as shit. And then they go do it again. They don’t learn.
If you wait till they’re soft mush and fall they might be all chewed up by other critters, and splat when they hit the ground. You can bring them in to ripen I think.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
You find a huckleberry to take care of them.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
I will come over with my .22 and take a little target practice.
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Right. Wait for the first frost. As soon as they tur orange, pick them. Ripe persimmons are pulp held together by that skin. You can’t slice them.
Like I said, persimmons are a Holy Sacrament in Indiana. Try picking persimmons from somebody’s tree, ad you’ll be lucky just to get run off the property with a shotgun.
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Waiting for the first frost works well in Indiana or Virginia, not so much around here. Mine have been ripening for a month now, just a few per day. They fall when ripe, but once you learn how soft they get when ripe, you may be able to pick some right before they fall. An old sheet under the tree can make collection easier.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 am
Thanks, persimmon!