What's Cooking?

[David Unnerstall]

2 hours ago, Smalls21 said:

maybe they cook the paw-paws down in butterscotch schnapps.

I like that idea. If it doesn't work...who would care after the schnapps.

[rps]

19 hours ago, David Unnerstall said:

Well I finally got caught up in this thread and I am tired but now I get a chance to get a word in.

My property up here on the north edge is full of paw-paw trees.  I just can't stand the thought of free food on the ground going to waste.  The paw-paws are good but leave an aftertaste.  An ice cream store in Edwardsville was selling paw-paw flavored ice cream last year and claimed they used butterscotch to counteract the aftertaste.  Has anybody heard of this?  And I can't imagine what form the butterscotch is in.

 

I found this on Serious Eats, one of my favorite web sites.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/what-are-pawpaws-wild-fruit-midwest-how-to-prep-and-eat-pawpaws.html

 

[Johnsfolly]

One of the local conservation areas that I hunt and fish has a tremendous number of paw-paw trees. I have seen lots of flowers while turkey hunting, but later in the year I have never seen a fruit. The squirrels and raccoons must hit them pretty hard. Though there are a lot of persimmon fruits most years.

[Ham]

46 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

One of the local conservation areas that I hunt and fish has a tremendous number of paw-paw trees. I have seen lots of flowers while turkey hunting, but later in the year I have never seen a fruit. The squirrels and raccoons must hit them pretty hard. Though there are a lot of persimmon fruits most years.

I've tried pretty hard to give persimmons away. No takers yet. The deer seem to eat them some.

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I live in suburbia and have a small lot with a couple persimmon trees.  When they get right the deer come out of the wood work to eat them.  They stand on their hind legs to get em.

[BilletHead]

   You aren't living until you have Mrs. BilletHead's persimmon cookies. Wild persimmon. The worst thing is getting the pulp. Pain in the rear. Every wild animal eats persimmons. Just count the seeds in the crap piles,

BilletHead

[Ham]

2 hours ago, BilletHead said:

 Every wild animal eats persimmons. Just count the seeds in the crap piles,

BilletHead

I think I've found my next hobby.

[Johnsfolly]

2 hours ago, BilletHead said:

You aren't living until you have Mrs. BilletHead's persimmon cookies. Wild persimmon.

Would love to try them. We have tried a lot of ways to make wild persimmon be more palatable. Can't get over the astringent nature of this fruit.

2 hours ago, BilletHead said:

Every wild animal eats persimmons. Just count the seeds in the crap piles,

I agree with these statements. I see lots of seed piles especially after a hard frost hits the fruit.

10 minutes ago, Ham said:

I think I've found my next hobby.

I can just see Ham now counting the number of knife, fork, and spoon seeds from the crap piles just to predict the type of winter we're going to have this year. Though I doubt he would take that much time away from fishing to become a nature meteorologist.

[BilletHead]

   Good idea Ham!

Just like catching species on your life list. See how many critter excrement's you can ID .  In all seriousness I have taken many deer in persimmon patches. Cows like em too. They know every time the wind blows the tiny fruits fall. The cows will make a bee line from patch to patch sounding like giant vacuum cleaners cleaning them up. Cows and deer process what they eat better so there are no visible seeds left in their poop.

BilletHead

[BilletHead]

     Johnsfolly you eating them green?

I have been down that trickery road only once. Wait until all chance of a puckery mouth is gone.

  When I used to trap hard many moons ago I would save critter crap and use it when making sets. My parents called me the poop inspector. Ah the good old days,

BilletHead