{"id":333,"date":"2011-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchenetteblog.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2024-10-22T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:26:44","slug":"2011k112k1persimmon-bread-pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchenetteblog.com\/2011\/12\/persimmon-bread-pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"Persimmon Bread Pudding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Persimmons. Where have you been all my life? These unsung heroes of the fruit stand were only introduced to me a few years ago at a farmers market. One of the vendors was giving out samples and, as is always the case with food, I couldn\u2019t pass up an opportunity to try something I\u2019d never seen before. I fell in love instantly, and bought a few to see what else I could concoct with these tomatoey-looking fruit things. Persimmons have a delicate sweetness, and they lend themselves well to savory dishes as well as desserts.<\/p>\n
Although I have gone the majority of my life without persimmons, I probably came close to making up for all that lost time just in the past week. It all started with a trip to the farmers market, where I bought way more persimmons than I knew what to do with and a loaf of bread, among other things. When I excitedly proclaimed that the bread was nearly stale, Josh looked confused. I explained that stale bread = bread pudding. Then I thought of the last bread pudding I had eaten at\u00a0Local Habit<\/a>\u00a0in San Diego. What kind was it, you ask? Why it was persimmon bread pudding<\/em>, and oh yes, it was amazing. Boom! I\u2019d make persimmon bread pudding, using up the stale bread and solving the persimmon problem all in one dish! I found a recipe that looked perfect, but to my dismay, it would use less than half of the looming mound of persimmons I had purchased. Before I could resign to just snacking on them or throwing them in a salad, Josh asked if I could make persimmon ice cream to put on top. Oh. Snap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s a good thing I always have my ice cream attachment stashed in the freezer, ready to churn at the drop of a hat! I whipped up the Cardamom Spiced Persimmon Ice Cream<\/a>\u00a0from Kristina of\u00a0Former Chef, and the Week of Persimmon had begun. I\u2019m actually eating some of the ice cream as I type this. The combination of cardamom and persimmon is out of this world, but it also makes me curious what kinds of savory dishes I could combine the two in.<\/p>\n The bread pudding recipe is from Martha Stewart, which was really the only reason I didn\u2019t run away screaming when I saw that it contained white chocolate. I\u2019m really not a fan of the stuff, but I thought Martha wouldn\u2019t use it unless it somehow worked in the recipe. Surprise, surprise: she was right again! I probably wouldn\u2019t have guessed there was white chocolate in it if I hadn\u2019t known already. Thankfully, it only adds another level of subtle sweetness without competing with the persimmon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you don\u2019t want to dive head first into persimmon-mania like I did, you could just serve the bread pudding as it is, or with whipped cream.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nPersimmon White Chocolate Bread Pudding<\/span><\/h2>\n