Persimmon Pudding / Fic Update
Dec. 13th, 2010 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelHaven't done a legit food post in a while, so here goes:
Fuyu persimmons, the ones that look like orange tomatoes, have been in shops for a while, but I finally scored a pair of large Hachiya persimmons last week. Those are the ones that must-- MUST-- be ripened to mush before they are edible. If you've ever eaten an under-ripe banana and got that yucky coating of starch all over your tongue, imagine the feeling multiplied by a factor of 100 and you have some idea of what an under-ripe Hachiya will do to you. Any more noxious and the things would be poison. But when ripe and soft, they can be eaten with a spoon (I love persimmons for breakfast) or used in baking, the same way you'd use applesauce or other fruit pulp. I bake a persimmon dish every autumn/winter, usually the Persimmon Pudding from my battered old Sunset Magazine cookbook. I do mean "pudding" in the old-fashioned sense; it's baked in a pan in the oven and comes out much like a dark, gooey, walnut-studded gingerbread. Like gingerbread, it can be served with lemon sauce, but I usually just eat it plain. It also makes a nice breakfast. :)
Anyway, one's baking in the oven ATM. Yum.
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Oh, yeah. I updated "A Kiss For Luck" over at EFFN. That's the M-rated Norne story. Yeah, the one with her and Marth. No, I don't ship that on a regular basis. I consider this to be a respectful exploration of the pairing in question.
Fuyu persimmons, the ones that look like orange tomatoes, have been in shops for a while, but I finally scored a pair of large Hachiya persimmons last week. Those are the ones that must-- MUST-- be ripened to mush before they are edible. If you've ever eaten an under-ripe banana and got that yucky coating of starch all over your tongue, imagine the feeling multiplied by a factor of 100 and you have some idea of what an under-ripe Hachiya will do to you. Any more noxious and the things would be poison. But when ripe and soft, they can be eaten with a spoon (I love persimmons for breakfast) or used in baking, the same way you'd use applesauce or other fruit pulp. I bake a persimmon dish every autumn/winter, usually the Persimmon Pudding from my battered old Sunset Magazine cookbook. I do mean "pudding" in the old-fashioned sense; it's baked in a pan in the oven and comes out much like a dark, gooey, walnut-studded gingerbread. Like gingerbread, it can be served with lemon sauce, but I usually just eat it plain. It also makes a nice breakfast. :)
Anyway, one's baking in the oven ATM. Yum.
-x-
Oh, yeah. I updated "A Kiss For Luck" over at EFFN. That's the M-rated Norne story. Yeah, the one with her and Marth. No, I don't ship that on a regular basis. I consider this to be a respectful exploration of the pairing in question.
