Persimmon recipes

make sure they are ripe first of you’ll have a quite a surprise
persimmon goes really well with pork and chicken

One of my favorite fruits and getting harder to find, especially in stores.

When I was a kid, many people had fig, Japanese Plum, cooking pear and persimmon trees in their yards, but that has been a long time ago and fewer people have fruit trees in their yards, especially in the city.

Last time I found persimmons was from a roadside vendor and I bought all he had at the time.


ETA: That Habanero/Persimmon jelly sounds like a winner if you get the recipe down pat.

I don't have a recipe but the persimmon jam at City Market on Jefferson is outstanding and made in season.

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When I was a kid, many people had fig, Japanese Plum, cooking pear and persimmon trees in their yards, but that has been a long time ago and fewer people have fruit trees in their yards, especially in the city.

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I have everyone of those plus a few more. I loved growing up and being able to walk into my yard to snack. My 6year old daughter is enjoying it too.

OP I used to have a cake recipe. I'll look for it at home tonight. My grandfather used to make persimmon bread that was unreal good. Online has recipes of both naturally.

Here is a recipe similar to what I remember. Hell, my recipe at home might be Southern Living.

Persimmon Cake


ETA: My recipe is an old cut out from Southern Living

Those are Fuyu persimmons. You can actually eat them when hard and they won't taste pithy like others do.

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make sure they are ripe first of you’ll have a quite a surprise

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Those are Fuyus he has. I have a tree as well. You don't have to wait until the first freeze/frost like you do with American persimmons.

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I have everyone of those plus a few more. I loved growing up and being able to walk into my yard to snack. My 6year old daughter is enjoying it too.

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When I was a kid my neighbor had fig, Japanese Plum, cooking pear and persimmon trees in his yard and he really didn't do much with all that fruit. He didn't mind me jumping the fence and helping myself to some since all his trees were mature and putting out way more than he and 10 other families could use.

The persimmon was my favorite, followed by the figs and it was a toss up between the cooking pears and Japanese plums for the tail end of the list. Sometimes those cooking pears were so hard they'd test your teeth and the Japanese plums had all those large seeds in them that you'd need to eat dozens of them to get a belly full.


I had 3 fruit trees prior to Katrina, a fig, Japanese plum and satsuma. The floodwaters took out the Japanese plum and a pecan tree took out the satsuma.

The fig tree is still going strong.

John Folse has a persimmon nut bread recipe that I really like.

Persimmon Nut Bread

My grandmother liked to slice up ripe persimmons and add them to vanilla ice cream.

Dehydrated persimmons are my second favorite dehydrated food snacks. (Mangos are my favorite).