Persimmon Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter ( at room temp)

1 cup of persimmon pulp

(Make Pulp / Puree: cut stem off, cut in half, scoop persimmon with seeds in blender. Then push through a sieve until you make one cup of pulp)

1 tsp. soda sprinkled over pulp

1 cup sugar

1 egg beaten

2 cup flour

1 cup walnuts 

1 cup raisins

1 tsp. cinnamon 

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

Beat Pulp and soda

Then cream butter (30 secs first on its in own in whipped or blended) and then add sugar until creamy (this adds air into the cookies)

Add egg, flour, spices and raisins

Drop by spoon on greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 375 degrees for 12 to 15mins 

 

Ruth Stafford made these with the persimmon tree in the back yard. Gif had grafted two types of permission on the tree in Sacramento,