To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Preserving Persimmons
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:27:13 -0500
The Spring 2002 POMONA has a half-page article(p.43) from Henry Hartmann on
drying American persimmons - he was tearing the fruits open, removing
seeds, and placing on stainless steel cooking trays inside a closed car
(seems like I remember Donna writing about drying fruits in this manner
previously) parked in the sun. Took 3 days to dry them, then they were
stored in ziploc bags.
Mr. Hartmann tried this with several American persimmon varieties, but
found that "Elmo"(Claypool H-118) worked best for him.