The Persimmons on the farm are good and ripe now. We have a large
(click for more info)> Persimmon tree in the back yard.
This year despite the drought there are a good many persimmons on the tree.
I haven't ever used them in cooking, but I have seen recipes for persimmon pudding before.
Click here for recipe>Persimmon Pudding
If you have ever bit into a persimmon that was not good and ripe you would surely remember it. When I was around 8 years old I bit into one that looked the golden orange color when ripe but I was rudely surprised . As they say around here, it turned my mouth wrong side out!
Here are a few that look good and ripe . The taste is not like any other fruit. Sweet, juicy, and a taste all of it's own.
Just be careful when tasting a persimmon. and make sure it is ripe. You don't want your mouth turned wrong side out!
Have a great day.
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Last year I gave my husband one and told him to take a bite. It was green. Boy did he pucker up! I told him I thought any southern boy knew what a green persimmon was. He said he didn't know you could eat them. He'd been told they were for possums.
We had persimmon trees in our yard growing up. I'll never forget the feeling of stepping on a ripe persimmon in bare feet! Aahh!
I need to be more adventurous with fruits, we have them here and yet I have never had one.
I am just loving you Ga woman! Yesterday Okra and today persimmons! All things that are new to me and we can not grow up here..well I suppose we could grow the Okra..but we do zucchini instead. I have seen Okra frozen in the stores..and only ever used it once for Gumbo..now do not be insulted but I found it tasteless then..but maybe frozen did not give me a true "experience" of Okra. What you fried up looked yummy, and I enjoyed the picture of the plant also. I love my visits to your Southern Farm! :)
Persimmons are wonderful...don't you have to wait till frost, though to pick them? Thanks so much for the recipes, too! Wonderful!
Wow! That tree is huge! How do you harvest the perismmons? Wait until they fall down?
I've never had a persimmon. How would you describe their flavor? More like a citrus: orange, pineapple, mango?
Or like an apple, pear, or peach?
~Lisa
I bet he did pucker up, Dot.lol..
Poor fellow. It does seem like all the animals love persimmons.
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Hey Tomato Lady. I remember that too. I agree, uggh.
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Hi Nunyaa. You must try one. Persimmons are quite good.
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Well thank-you Far Side of Fifty.
Okra is good fried with onions to give it more flavor, but I like it best in soup.
Thanks for the compliments.
I have heard they are better after frost, but our frost is so late here that all the persimmons would be gone by then. Usually around Oct. 31.
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Hey Twinville,
Yes, they persimmons are so high in the tree that we wait until they fall. Plus you don't want to pick any that may aren't completely ripe. You wouldn't want another one after that.
The taste is more orangey, cinnomoney type taste to me, anyway.
Thanks, Lisa.
Thank-you for your time and comments.
Have a great day.
Pam
My only bite of a persimmon resulted in having no saliva in my mouth for what seemed like hours. I have yet to brave another.
They look so lovely though. Maybe one day I will give them a try again. :)
The persimmon is a very unused fruit. They are delicious when ripe but when you get a green one, you are turned off forever! I, too, remember stepping on them with bare feet. Now you gotta remember that we went barefoot until the ground was froze hard. My folks didn't buy shoes at all during the summer-not even flip flops. I also remember stepping on hickory nuts/walnuts. OUCH! Are you going to be harvesting nuts? We love hickory nuts and there are several hickory groves near here. You can hardly beat the squirrels to them, though. Our neighbor has a black walnut tree. All they do is rake them into their driveway and drive over them all winter. The squirrels bring them over and hide them all over our lawn. Gives us something to do in spring--pulling up walnut trees!
I just love persimmons. I eat them fresh (when they are ripe) and freeze some to make persimmon pudding for Christmas. PP is more like a cake, with pureed persimmons for the liquid. I got the recipe from a friend's mother in Arkansas.
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