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08/28/12, 11:36 AM
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What to do about persimions
I went out last week and found a permission that was bent over with all the fruit. I looked around and found many other ones that were loaded. If I can get to them before the racoons do I will make some jam from them. What other thinks can I make from them?
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08/28/12, 11:51 AM
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We puree the persimmons through a food mill and freeze it for use in persimmon pudding, persimmon cake, etc. The internet is full of recipes to use persimmon puree in.
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08/28/12, 11:53 AM
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Just be sure NOT to pick them from the tree, wait until they are on the ground to gather them or they will be VERY tart, almost mouth-numbing (ask me how I know).
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08/28/12, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by simplegirl
Just be sure NOT to pick them from the tree, wait until they are on the ground to gather them or they will be VERY tart, almost mouth-numbing (ask me how I know).
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Or, you can pick them off the tree, but you have to wait until they've been hit by a frost. Only then are ours sweet enough to eat off the tree.
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08/28/12, 12:03 PM
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I know not to pick them green. I still have a like for them when ripe. There is nothing that will eat them green.
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08/28/12, 08:52 PM
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Persimmon-Hickory Nut Bread
made famous by Euell Gibbons in his 1962 book, "Stalking The Wild Asparagus". He called it the "...highest form of persimmon cookery...".
persimmonpudding.com Persimmon-Hickory Nut Bread
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08/28/12, 09:09 PM
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I know not to pick them green. I still have a like for them when ripe. There is nothing that will eat them green.
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Yes they are tasty 
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08/28/12, 09:35 PM
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I made fruit leather from the puree.
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08/29/12, 02:22 AM
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wow, Euell Gibbons. I haven't heard that name in 40 years
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08/29/12, 02:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Vet
I went out last week and found a permission that was bent over with all the fruit. I looked around and found many other ones that were loaded. If I can get to them before the racoons do I will make some jam from them. What other thinks can I make from them?
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I use the persimmon trees on the back part of the 12 acres I grew up on two miles from here to make well stocked venison freezers for my mother (since the family home place is still hers  ) and I every year. Each deer taken puts two leg quarters and a tenderloin in her freezer and two leg quarters and a tenderloin in mine.
The rib cages get cooked down into stew meat and the innards cooked down for dog feed.
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08/29/12, 04:52 AM
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It pays to have a spot or two you know you can always find a deer. It's not always practical to sit in a tree and wait all day. I think deer like persimmons almost as much as 'possums do.
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08/29/12, 06:03 AM
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You can make Persimmon Wheat bread with bits of nuts, or even acorns.
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08/29/12, 09:37 AM
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My goat will eat them green. She's a weird goat...
I can't eat a persimmon without feeling like my mouth is coated with something afterward. I don't like that, so don't care for them.
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08/29/12, 10:01 AM
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In easter Okla where I live, there are more persimmons on the trees than I have seen before. Loaded. Horses stand and wait for them to fall, also the deer love them. Trees are laying on the ground with the smaller ons that won't break and had one 6" that did break. Old timers around here would say a "bad winter". I guess we will find out!
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08/29/12, 10:13 AM
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They won't be ripe for quite some time, most likely not until after frost or even a hard freeze. They will be ripe when they're no longer rock-hard, and smell fruity, and they will ripen off the tree; you can get them in grocery stores around here but they are picked green so they can be shipped.
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08/29/12, 10:18 AM
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You also can pick them almost ripe and store them whole in the freezer.
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08/29/12, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by mary,tx
You also can pick them almost ripe and store them whole in the freezer.
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I didn't know that! Good to know as our persimmons are all LOADED this year. But with all the honeybees in them late in the spring, we figured it would be a big persimmon year! Yay! 
Hey, this is my 3000th post! Yay me!
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08/29/12, 10:46 AM
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Native persimmon ripening has nothing to do with frost or first freeze. Timing is coincidence. I have multitude of persimmon trees on my place. Deer and grasshoppers dont bother the trees themselves.
Anyway like any native fruit, each tree is bit different with different ripening times, taste, etc. I have one favorite tree with larger than normal persimmons that ripen in September and are sweetest things. If I liked persimmons more than I do, I would graft cuttings from that tree and maybe plant all seed I could from it to see if I could get even better qualities. I have other persimmon trees that if you go out in dead of winter with all leaves gone, some persimmons still hanging. They STILL ARE PUCKERY and uneatable. Most persimmons simply dont ripen until late October and early November. Has nothing to do with frost or freezing.
I am surprised to see as many persimmons as I do, many more than I expected because of heat/drought. Last year there were very few, my favorite tree had none. This year it has some.
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08/29/12, 12:52 PM
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agree with simple girl, make sure they are dead ripe
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09/06/12, 10:11 PM
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You could dry them whole or cut them into slices and dry them, they make great snacks that way like chips but healthier and sweet. Just make sure when you dry them that no molds develops, if it does wipe it off and put them in the sun. If you dry them in the sun you wont have to worry about mold so much but you will also have to find an efficient way to keep bugs off them, a mosquito screen would do the trick.
good luck
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