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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] jujube off-tree ripening
  • Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:27:58 -0700

Title: Re: [NAFEX] jujube off-tree ripening
Jujubes ripen off the tree easily if they are showing any color at all.  Not all of them dry well, though.  Li and Lang are types the Chinese preserve by boiling in sugar syrup before drying.  Only a few have enough sugar to make a decent dry product, though many will actually dry.  If they don't have sugar, they will be pretty tasteless when dry.
I've gotten some naturally dried jujubes at a Middle Eastern grocery that have viable seed, and the fruit was sweet and very good.  So there ARE some out there, but Li and Lang (as sold in the US) usually don't come out that well just dried.
=Lon Rombough

From: "Moyer, Richard" <ramoyer@king.edu>
Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:18:34 -0400
To: "'nafex@lists.ibiblio.org'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] jujube off-tree ripening


Jujube fruits are beginning to fall from our two bearing trees.  The ants
are eating too many of them, even though we're picking them up daily.  We
could pick them from the tree, but really want them to dry fully for
longterm storage at room temps.
This from crfg.org:
"Ripe fruits may be stored at room temperature for about a week.....Tree
dried fruit stores indefinitely"
Anyone know how well the mahogany colored fruits dry off the tree?  Could I
go ahead and pick all the colored ones or shake them down?  How about the
ones that are brown and yellow; do they dry well?
Thanks,
Richard Moyer, East Tenn

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