Grandpa Larry’s Persimmon Cookies
My husband’s grandfather came up with this recipe along with many other persimmon recipes as they had persimmon trees in their back yard. My father-in-law passed this recipe down to his children and eventually it will pass to my munchkins. This recipe calls for the orangey red persimmons and MUST be ripe. Other persimmons should work as well, but I’ve never used them.
Makes 4 to 5 dozen cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup shortening
2 cups white sugar
1 ¼ tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsp. baking soda
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/3 tsp. ground clove
4 cups white flour (can change up to 2 cups to white whole wheat flour, but the texture of the cookies will change!)
2 cups persimmon pulp
2 cups chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans work well)
½ to 1 cup shredded coconut (I personally don’t like it but my sister-in-law does)
1 cup raisins or currants
Directions:
My husband’s grandfather came up with this recipe along with many other persimmon recipes as they had persimmon trees in their back yard. My father-in-law passed this recipe down to his children and eventually it will pass to my munchkins. This recipe calls for the orangey red persimmons and MUST be ripe. Other persimmons should work as well, but I’ve never used them.
Makes 4 to 5 dozen cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup shortening
2 cups white sugar
1 ¼ tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsp. baking soda
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/3 tsp. ground clove
4 cups white flour (can change up to 2 cups to white whole wheat flour, but the texture of the cookies will change!)
2 cups persimmon pulp
2 cups chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans work well)
½ to 1 cup shredded coconut (I personally don’t like it but my sister-in-law does)
1 cup raisins or currants
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease cookie sheets or use Silpat.
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. Take 1 cup of flour and combine with nuts, coconut and raisins. Set aside this mix and then the rest in another bowl.
Cream together shortening and sugar until fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time to mixture.
Add vanilla and then add half of the persimmon pulp. When combined, add 2nd half.
Add flour in thirds and combine just enough to get wet. Try not to over mix.
Add final cup with nut/coconut/raisin mix.
Drop mixture in teaspoon measurements on cookie sheet. Bake for 18 minutes. If your oven runs hot, check at 16 minutes.
Can make these bigger and dunk in whipped cream for a heavenly over the top treat as well!
Grease cookie sheets or use Silpat.
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. Take 1 cup of flour and combine with nuts, coconut and raisins. Set aside this mix and then the rest in another bowl.
Cream together shortening and sugar until fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time to mixture.
Add vanilla and then add half of the persimmon pulp. When combined, add 2nd half.
Add flour in thirds and combine just enough to get wet. Try not to over mix.
Add final cup with nut/coconut/raisin mix.
Drop mixture in teaspoon measurements on cookie sheet. Bake for 18 minutes. If your oven runs hot, check at 16 minutes.
Can make these bigger and dunk in whipped cream for a heavenly over the top treat as well!
I have more Persimmon recipes as well. Send me a comment if interested. If you make them, please let me know how you liked them.
Enjoy!
THANK YOU for this recipe (and your kind comments on my blog)!!!
ReplyDeleteMy husband planted several persimmon trees last spring. Unfortunately, it will be a while until they produce for us, but as soon as they do, I'll be baking THESE!!!
I'll call them "Celtic Mommy Cookies!"
Thanks again.
Wishy (my "real life" friend) and I had lunch on Wednesday and I can tell you, she was thrilled to have the recipe! She was very excited to tell me all about it.
ReplyDeleteAt the rate her husband's "orchard" is going, she promises to have some persimmon cookies ready for my youngest child's college graduation party (she is now 22 months-old). Yahoo!
Seriously, she is excited, and so am I, they sound yummy. Now...how to find persimmon pulp here in the boonies?
We made your persimmon cookies over Thanksgiving last weekend! They were WONDERFUL! We went to my husband's mother's place in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and they have persimmon trees in their yard. The persimmons were at perfect ripeness but they'd never done *anything* with them and didn't know how wonderfully sweet persimmons can be when ripe (they knew they were pretty sour and yucky when unripe). The pulp took my husband a long time to de-seed, but the cookies were totally worth it! I even saved one (only won, I'm no martyr) for Mom Unplugged once I got home!
ReplyDeleteI love what a small world the blogosphere can be and I love that you introduced me to "Persimmon Cookies" and that we told all our family last weekend that the recipe came from "our friend, Celtic Mommy!"
THANKS FRIEND!
Sincerely,
Wishy
Can't wait to try these. I love spice cookies. Are these cookies soft or crisp?
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear of the other recipes you have with persimmon!:)
Keep up the fun!