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To: RegulatorCountry

That’s awesome- thank you! I cut and pasted the info and the recipes into my files. Kudzu recipes, LOL, who would’ve thought?


87 posted on 04/19/2017 8:08:45 AM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian)
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To: CottonBall

That site is a treasure trove for all sorts of wild foods, explore some of the links. You might enjoy the native persimmon come early fall, I grew up eating persimmon pudding. You’ll have to race the critters to get any of them when ripe, though. Deer, raccoons and possums love them. Quite a lot of history associated with that tree, especially Civil War. Coffee substitute from ground seeds, stories of starved regiments stumbling upon persimmon trees with fruit still on them, saving them. You might find persimmon a little too sweet or you might not. The more successful recipes in my opinion use other fruits and nuts to balance that sweetness, some compare it to dates but to me it’s not quite like that, has its own taste. Be careful about which persimmons you pick and eat though, they ripen unevenly. Get one that isn’t completely ripe yet and you’ll really know the meaning of astringent, it’ll turn your mouth inside out, lol.


88 posted on 04/19/2017 9:07:11 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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