Fresh off the tree!
With the warmer days of late April come the golden fruit of my loquat tree. You have to work quickly once they start to ripen, bugs and birds snack on the juicy yellowish orbs while they turn in the sun. These are the very first loquats of the season in my back yard. Now I have to keep the big critters from devouring them all before I can cook them down into a jelly or butter format. Sweet and sour notes prevail when raw or cooked. The butter I made last year was put to good use. My friend at Full & Content rounded up recipes for this unusual fruit which will be posted soon!
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love the loquats! i’ve been picking a solid 5 lbs a day! not sure what i am going to do with all of it yet. mostly just been eating as much of the fruit as we can.
Can it 🙂 They cook down into a butter, I use it as a base for sauce or spread it on toast.
i might try a small batch of loquat butter this weekend and see how it goes over. we don’t eat terrible lots of sweets on here and i still have pear and apple butter to make it through!
How about a curry dish?
hmm. i had never considered something savory! internet digging to commence.