Minutus

Yep, our local Sainsburys does a very good version, but lots of health
food shops and deli's do them. They do look shrivelled but are in fact
pickled with those Jap red colouring leaves (whatever they're called).
Sucking the stones is also *the* best hangover cure... next to Nux, or
erm... whatever the indicated remedy is, of course

That climate is similarish to the UK (bit colder in winter and warmer
in summer?), maybe they grow here? Never heard of them doing that though.

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Rochelle Marsden" wrote:
full of juice. They are very sour and help with digestion. The
Chinese ones may serve the same purpose, but they taste very
different. Today it is hard to get them without all kinds of
additives including sugar. They are really Japanese apricots and if
you live in a cold damp climate like the coast of the Pacific
northwest of the coast just below the Great Lakes, you can grow the
tree. Ellen

Thanks I will ask but I reckon I have a better chance at Waitrose. I have never seen them in a heath food shop but them I have never asked!!

Rochelle

Seen them i every HFS I've ever been in
Always wondered what they were like, never fancied the look!


Simon
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Hi Rochelle,
You have to contact the nurseries and get a cutting. It takes about 3 years to begin producing and you have to love doing that kind of pickling work. I tried to plant 3 seedlings here in Pittsburgh and we just did not have enough moisture. The temperature can go below freezing, but not too long. If plums and appricots grow easily, it will grow. The pickles are quite expensive. Blessing, Ellen

In India we have something called "Kokums". They grow in bunches on
tall trees and they are red, plum like fruits, with a couple of
central plum like seeds. They are "squishy", very sour but with a
sweetish after taste. When the fruit skin is dired (in the sun), they
are dark red/maroon. We use them in cooking (for the sour taste) and
as a digestive juice. ONE can buy Kokum Juice from most shops.
MAybe its the same thing you are refering to?
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