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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

Perhaps it was something in the eggs, rather than the pawpaws, and the 
cookies weren't quite fully cooked?

Ginda

On Feb 25, 2011, at 5:40 PM, Dr. Lucky Pittman wrote:

> LOL. 
> I'm a microbiologist by education/training(or, I used to be).  I still
> suspect staphylococcal enterotoxin as the most plausible cause, but I can't
> reconcile it with the handling of the pulp - frozen, defrosted in the
> fridge, then cooked in the cookie dough.  I don't know when the Staph. Would
> have had time to get up a good head of steam growing and producing
> enterotoxins.
> 
> LLP
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Kacalanos
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:36 PM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaw sources and uses
> 
> Lucky,
> 
> You're blaming the pawpaws rather than your cooking? I've eaten a lot of
> pawpaws with no problems, but I'd be cautious if you offered me a cookie,
> any flavor.
> 
> But seriously folks, any food can spoil.
> 
> Melissa
> 
> --- On Fri, 2/25/11, Dr. Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> From: Dr. Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pawpaw sources and uses
>> To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 10:34 AM
>> I know I recounted this tale several
>> years back - 'cause Richard Moyer has
>> had the chance to kid me about it on a couple of subsequent
>> occasions. ;>)
>> 
>> I came across a couple of pints of pawpaw pulp that I had
>> frozen back, and
>> made a batch of pawpaw cookies.  My daughter ate
>> several, and I took the
>> rest to the office to share with coworkers at morning
>> break.
>> When I got home that afternoon, the daughter had come home
>> from school with
>> vomiting and diarrhea - and a half-dozen or so coworkers
>> became ill within
>> 20 minutes to 2 hours after consuming the pawpaw cookies;
>> My boss spent 3
>> days at home, and thought he was going to have to go to the
>> hospital.
>> Needless to say, NO ONE that I work with will eat anything
>> pawpaw-related,
>> and they kid me relentlessly about the pawpaw cookies.
>> 
>> After that deal, I can eat maybe one pawpaw a year - and
>> that's enough to do
>> me 'til the next year (or 2 or 3). 
>> I've never had the occasion to sample any of the
>> named-variety pawpaws -
>> only the local natives; don't know if the named selections
>> would appeal to
>> my palate more, or not.
>> 
>> Lucky
>> 
> 
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