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No fruit—or berry, if you want to get technical—demonstrates the virtue of patience more dramatically than the persimmon. So powerfully astringent is the unripe Hachiya variety, it’s a ...

To prepare the persimmon and cocoa pudding, first remove the stem from the persimmons (1). Peel them (2) and transfer all the ...