Posts Tagged With: Hachiya

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INGREDIENTS

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3 Hachiya persimmons

½ cup butter, softened

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1⅓ cups sugar

3 eggs

1¼ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

2 cups flour

½ cup chopped walnuts

no-stick baking spray

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SPECIAL UTENSILS

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food processor

electric beater

9″ * 5 ” loaf pan

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Makes 1 loaf. Takes 1 hour 55 minutes.

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PREPARATION

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut tops off of persimmons. Scoop out pulp. Add pulp to food processor. Puree pulp. Add butter and vanilla extract to large mixing bowl. Use high setting on electric beater until butter becomes creamy. Add sugar. Use high setting until butter and sugar become thoroughly blended Add eggs. Use medium setting on electric beater until well blended.

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Add baking soda, flour, and salt to medium mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Gradually add flour mix to the butter/sugar mix while blending with electric beater set on medium. Add persimmon pulp. Mix completely with electric beater set on medium. Fold in walnuts with spatula. This is the batter.

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Spray loaf pan with no-stick baking spray. Pour batter into loaf pan. Smooth surface with spatula. Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes. Run knife or small spatula around loaf’s edge. Remove bread from loaf pan and place cupcakes on wire rack for 30 minutes or until cooled completely.

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TIDBITS

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1) Persimmon bread tastes great  It makes you so happy that you burst with get up and go. NASA’s scientist Carl La Fong theorized that the energy  in persimmon bread would make NASA rockets get up and go easily out of Earth’s gravitational field. But the persimmon-bread powered rocket got up and went out of the Solar System in just one week. Now no one knows where the rocket might be.

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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