PERSIMMON TIME
I LOVE this time of year. One of the reasons is my friend, Sy, at our church brings me bags of Persimmons each Fall. Not everyone likes them in their natural form, but when they are cooked down, but in the blender and become "Persimmon Pulp" marvelous things can be made. I cooked down half of the bag he gave me and ended up with several cups of pulp. One cup went into my buttermilk persimmon bread. Yummy. It made one large loaf and another smaller one. I didn't add cinnamon or nutmeg to this batch because I just wanted the taste of the sweet persimmons. I did add some white chocolate chips and of course "drizzled" the top! Next time I will make persimmon cookies. And to those I will add some cinnamon and nutmeg to give them more of a "pumpkin" flavor. Nuts and white chocolate chips to make them a nice crunchy cookie. (I like texture, haha) Another nice feature of cooking up a batch, I have several cup sized cont...