Thursday, August 24, 2017

Tallow Plums

     Look what I found along the edge of the woods!  Lots of soft plum-like fruits dangling from low bushes and strewn over the grass--tallow plums (Ximenia americana).  They have big seeds, and slightly astringent flesh, and are also known as hog plums or yellow plums.    
     I had to consult my field guides to identify them.
     See the very best wild foods guru Green Deane's site "Eat the Weeds" and look up tallow plums.
     I cooked them in water, strained them through a sieve, and added honey from my beehives.  Makes a delicious juice.  High in the nutritive fatty acids:  linoleic, linolenic and arachidonic.
     There is so much wild food in Florida we could live, if we had to, without Publix.
   

1 comment:

  1. Ona: I'm glad that your beehives are producing honey. I helped you install several of them. We didn't know what we were doing. Did your first ones work out?

    Mike

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