By: Margaret Rainbowweb

Margaret Rainbowweb — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:38:06 +0000

Dear Cecilia, thank you so much for this information – I’ve been wanting to know how to dry persimmons successfully for years. Last year the possums got all the persimmons – I hadn’t realised that, because so many trees had suddenly been removed in surrounding gardens that my garden had filled with refugees! This year I’ve picked the fruit as soon as it turns colour.
Whether Adelaide winters will be sufficiently cool to dry the fruit successfully I have yet to discover. I’ll also have to find a way to protect them from possums, birds and rats!
I discovered the hard way that any heat at all used in drying the fruit results in a return of astringency.
Until now, I have contented myself with freezing the pulp in small containers. Not at all the same as those delicious chewy confections!
May I put a link to this page on the Persimmon entry on my plant list?

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By: Margaret Rainbowweb