The arrival of fall means one thing...persimmon picking time is here. The persimmon trees have been showing green persimmons all growing season. The cool weather of fall brings the ripening of the persimmons. When they fall off the tree, they are ready to be picked. One word of advice: do NOT pick the persimmons before they are ripe. They will cause your mouth to pucker.
Yesterday we went out and picked a little over a 1/2 gallon of persimmons.
Our family loves persimmon pudding. We use Great-Aunt Allie's recipe.
Remove any easily removable debris (such as grass, small sticks, etc) from the persimmons first. Then put the rest of the persimmons in the sink partially filled with water. I usually have both sides of the sink partially filled with water. I lightly wash the persimmons and put them in the next sink to rinse.
After they have been washed, I measure them out according to the recipe I am making. I put them through the foley mill to get the pulp out.
Here is all the pulp for this one recipe.
After I have pulped all the persimmons for that particular recipe, I then label a freezer bag with how many persimmons are in the bag and date the bag. Then the pulp goes into the bag.
The bag gets stuck into another bag and placed in the freezer. My mouth waters thinking of all the persimmon puddings we will have this next year.
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Love it!!
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