syracuse.com: Country club fusion results in thoughtful dining, service at Baldwinsville’s Persimmons (Dining Out Review)
Country club fusion results in thoughtful dining, service at Baldwinsville’s Persimmons (Dining Out Review)
While persimmons might be mainstays in Southern cuisine in sweet treats like persimmon pudding desserts, for the most part persimmon is a fairly underrepresented fruit tree. In general, ripe persimmon fruits burst very easily and so they aren't transported via commercial trade in large amounts. This rarity is the perfect reason you should go out of your way to grow some for you and your family ...
How to Get the Best Persimmons From Your Tree - Dave's Garden
They also mixed persimmons with corn meal and processed, ground acorns to make breads, soups and stew. Eastern tribes also prized dried persimmons as a nutritious winter food. The word persimmon comes from the Algonquian words for dried fruit -- putchamin, pasiminan or pessamin. [1] All persimmons are members of the ebony (Ebenaceae) family.
The American and Asian Persimmons - Pucker Up for the Fruit of the Gods
Persimmons provide b eta carotene and antioxidants, such as lutein and zeaxanthin, two carotenoids that may prevent and help ocula r (eye) diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration and cataracts.
To further complicate things, persimmons have male flowers (which make only pollen) and female flowers (which make only eggs) and they are located on separate plants (just as we humans are either male or female).
Persimmons were always a gorgeous staple along with pomegranates on the Thanksgiving groaning board. Any DG'ers in the PNW had luck with "exotics"?