Persimmon Pudding Recipe

Could not let September go without bringing you this Old Fashioned Persimmon Pudding Recipe. It is a rare treat, indeed!

It can be prepared throughout the year, if you have access to canned persimmon pulp.

However, it is usually made in the fall with fresh home grown fruit from your back yard, or a neighbor's yard.

Persimmons are a special fruit, sometimes hard to find.

Farmer's markets and roadside fruit stands, usually have this fruit in season, which is after the first frost in late fall. Some grocery stores also carry them.

Once you locate a source, purchase extra persimmons, prepare the pulp by removing the peel and seeds, and freeze it for later use.

You can plant a tree (young seedling) from your local or mail order nursery and have your own home grown supply in 2-3 years or more, depending on the variety of tree you choose. Make sure the variety is adaptable to your locality.


PERSIMMON PUDDING

1/2 stick butter, softened

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

2 cups persimmon pulp

2 cups cake flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1 cup buttermilk

Beat together sugar, butter, and eggs, until smooth. Sift together flour, soda, salt, and nutmeg. Add flour and buttermilk alternately starting and ending with flour.

Pour into a greased 9" x 13" baking pan and bake in preheated oven 350F. for 1 hour or until knife inserted into pudding comes out clean. Cool in pan.

Cut into squares. Lift out of pan with a spatula. Serve plain or topped with whipped cream or Lemon Curd.

LEMON CURD RECIPE

1/2 cup butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

4 eggs

juice of 2 lemons

zest of 2 lemons*

In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until thoroughly blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in grated lemon zest and juice.

Pour into top of a double boiler and cook stirring constantly, until thickened to the consistency of thick gravy. Remove from heat and cool. It will thicken more as it cools.

*Zest is the yellow outer most part of the rind, not the white part.

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