Pakay! Also called ice cream bean. It's a giant bean, inside there's big seeds surrounded in white solid-fluffy stuff. You eat the white stuff. It's sweet without being overpowering and the consistency is interesting. Delicious
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I'd also like to mention Sapota.
Honorary mention to Grewia asiatica and Syzygium.
Dwarf raspberry/dewberry. My pop used to call it 'gumbo' for some reason.
Its a tiny little raspberry plant that produces one berry per plant, so its hard to get it in any quantity.
The fruit itself is more juicy than a regular raspberry, and tastes more like fake raspberry flavored candy. Its always a treat to find these while hiking.
I've been meaning to look into planting some Camas bulbs. A kind of tuber crop grown by indigenous people around here. Used to be entire prairies of them before whitey showed up
Maypops, which are a north american species of passionfruit. Obviously not a great hand fruit.
0: I have never heard of these! Do they taste the same or?
I wouldn't say exactly, but a similar profile. Like two different varieties of apple taste the same but different.
Jujubes. They're like a dryer sweeter small apple. They don't need a lot to grow where I am and there's hundreds per tree.
Had em, unfortunately not the biggest fan. Not the kinda thing I'd go outta my way for.
Persimmons. Have a full size tree about to drop maybe 40 pounds of them. And I have no idea what to do with that many.
So not in my area, but I recently discovered cloudberry jam, which is absolutely delicious. It's like a mix of citrus and strawberry.
Marian plum. A bit too sour to eat on it's own but a spiced and preserved ones taste pretty damn good.
Loquats! Its like eating a giant sweet grape
fresh figs - they make a tasty snack, and the flavour is mild and pleasant. i can understand some people not enjoying the texture though.
I got my own fig trees!
awesome! what do you do with them?
i like to munch on them and i love me some preserves, but other than that, i haven't tried much else. do you use them in cooking or baking?
Mostly eat em fresh, but I've used them to make a filling to biscuits a couple of times. I just feel bad cooking down smth so fresh lol. Feel like it should be consumed raw and instantly. But I like em in salads or grilled up too!