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[Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>]

I do not enough fruit to market. The dried fruit tastes remarkably like 
dates (to my palate), but the fresh fruit is interesting. When some 
green is present, I taste a mild, sweet almost apple flavor. When 
mahogany brown, but while still plump, caramel notes with intense 
sweetness are present. The flavor varies by year somewhat, and although 
the fruit is billed as drought resistant, the texture is less crisp and 
juicy if the trees do not get enough water.

My favorite uses for the fruit include fresh eating, and especially, 
stewing- no sugar needed to my taste. The fruit gets a delicate flavor 
with a pale pink juice and a light floral aroma.

Richard, do you dry them whole? I process mine to remove the seeds and 
end up with small jujube chips, pretty labor intensive.

Betsy Hilborn
7a NC

On 10/7/2015 8:18 PM, Richard Moyer wrote:
> We dry ours and they last forever.  While living and shopping in Seoul,
> Korea, we never saw them fresh, but always dried.  Some market stands had
> ONLY jujubes, of various sizes and shapes, priced accordingly.  Hundreds of
> lbs, all dried.
>
> I understand the Vietnamese and Indians prefer them in the crispy, less
> ripe stage, as referred to in this articles.  Indians staying with us have
> picked out the less ripe ones, not eating the riper (shriveled ones).
>
> Long story short, we sell most of ours dried.  They keep forever that way,
> so we're not scrambling for buyers.
>
> Richard Moyer
> SW VA, where all our jujubes survived -15F last winter.
>
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