Persimmon Cookies

From the kitchen of Lucy Bardessono (Noni)

Ingredients 

These cookies are cake like, very similar to an Applesauce Cookie.   Persimmon Cookies remind me of fall in the Napa Valley.  Growing up we had different fruit trees as well as walnut trees but there was always someone my parents knew that had a persimmon tree.  I remember getting some around the time of the first frost in the valley.  Mom would keep them in the freezer until she wanted to use them.  She also made a persimmon pudding around Christmas time, (recipe for the pudding to follow).

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup persimmon pulp - mash until smooth

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp cloves

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup raisins

1 cup chopped walnuts 

In a bowl combine dry ingredients and set aside.  In another bowl combine butter sugar and eggs, cream until smooth.  Add in pulp and mix well.  Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until well combined. 

Drop by spoonful onto a lined baking sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes.