[quote=CA renter][quote=CDMA ENG][quote=flu][quote=CA renter]We also have a loquat tree in our backyard, and had no idea what they were at first! 🙂 Ours had at least a hundred (probably many hundreds) this year. It’s a beautiful tree.
How do you eat them? With the peel, or without? The peel can be pretty bitter, but the kids have been eating directly from the tree with the peel. I prefer peeling them first which makes them taste very sweet…even better than apricots (which I love)!
Any interesting ideas or recipies using loquats? Tips and tricks for preparing and eating them? I’ve heard you can make a loquat marmalade, but that’s a bit too over my head.[/quote]
peel them. Don’t eat the peel. Nasty… Don’t eat the seed (obviously). If you get tired of peeling, you probably can make juice out of them if you wash and crush them…They also make decent fruit for making jams/jelly if you’re into that.
But make sure it’s not too large of a jelly jar. otherwise bloomberg might ban it… :([/quote]
If you can find a good home made vanilla icecream recipe then you can chop of the loquat and throw it in and have delicious loquat icecream… I have been planning to do the same with Jackfruit for sometime.[/quote]
Thanks, flu and CE! 🙂
Love the simplicity of the jelly recipe, and the vanilla ice cream sounds awesome. Will report back on how both of these worked.
One thing about loquats…the racoons love them. I’ve seen a few HUGE racoons in our tree at night.[/quote]
