Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
All it takes is fresh hachiya persimmons, a cool, dark place to hang them, and several weeks of patience and diligence, and you get hoshigaki, Japanese dried persimmons.
Starting with fresh, tannic hachiya persimmons, you peel and hang them, massaging them gently occasionally for several weeks. In the end, you get a dense, chewy dried fruit that is unlike any other. I just started my first batch.
