tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post7019073740674455614..comments2024-03-16T10:01:48.154-07:00Comments on Chronica Domus: We Plough The Fields And ScatterChronica Domushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-53104642059083731722015-10-21T12:32:29.022-07:002015-10-21T12:32:29.022-07:00Hello columnist,
I think it is time to add a pers...Hello columnist,<br /><br />I think it is time to add a persimmon to your breakfast fruit rosta. I'm certain you'll enjoy it. Now, as for pomelo, those are absolutely delicious and vie for favorite fruit status with grapefruit for me.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-36135177210985550892015-10-19T23:56:26.803-07:002015-10-19T23:56:26.803-07:00I do well remember harvest services at school, whi...I do well remember harvest services at school, which always made the experience of going to church slightly more interesting. Although they originate from China and Japan, I have never actually eaten persimmon; perhaps a substitute for my morning papaya, (currently) or mango usually, or pomelo occasionally. They certainly look appetising in your creamware fruit basket.columnisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764365428633038329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-37708481584008068322015-10-17T15:02:33.178-07:002015-10-17T15:02:33.178-07:00Yes, I agree, it is rather beautiful. Basalt ware ...Yes, I agree, it is rather beautiful. Basalt ware is a particular weakness of mine I'm afraid. So glad you you like it too.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-38227382770366294552015-10-17T13:43:06.970-07:002015-10-17T13:43:06.970-07:00I would not have guessed that they are black basal...I would not have guessed that they are black basalt pieces but how beautiful! Yes, it does have a Halloween-y vibe yet very elegant.slfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04405972029307714164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-84146089235375334382015-10-17T13:31:45.480-07:002015-10-17T13:31:45.480-07:00Now you've done it. I want to know what other...Now you've done it. I want to know what other versions of this little ditty exist beyond the shepherd and the sailor. Obviously, I need to go and do my research.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-88576413922054743762015-10-17T13:30:10.656-07:002015-10-17T13:30:10.656-07:00Hello Naomi,
How sad to learn that the squirrels ...Hello Naomi,<br /><br />How sad to learn that the squirrels are going hungry. Not so if I lived there. I can't help myself and always feed whatever animal comes my way. We set out so much food for the wildlife around here it is ridiculous to continue in this forum. You may very well think me quite mad!Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-69667825597223918102015-10-17T13:27:49.422-07:002015-10-17T13:27:49.422-07:00Gosh, thank you, that is most kind of you to say s...Gosh, thank you, that is most kind of you to say so, and yes always upper case when it comes to Life! Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-56702131488413116672015-10-17T06:59:30.514-07:002015-10-17T06:59:30.514-07:00In Seoul there's now a 50 dollar fine if you t...In Seoul there's now a 50 dollar fine if you take things from a park BC the life there like squirrels are starving and resorting to going through trash now. I love persimmons and they are in season and I adore them here as they are varieties and they are great when fully ripe and like jam. I also saw this lovely bouquet of persimmon branches and the orangey gold fruit could rival any flower,Coulda shoulda wouldahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12507021618497645667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-46320607693476948552015-10-16T22:13:49.895-07:002015-10-16T22:13:49.895-07:00A quick internet search brings up a variety of cak...A quick internet search brings up a variety of cake recipes, many of which include cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves - perfect for the season. <br /><br />I knew of the 'sailor' variation of the rhyme, but not that this is the American usage. Wikipedia confirms the existence of both versions, and some others to boot. <br /><br />Spud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-89524033072593960112015-10-16T17:25:49.969-07:002015-10-16T17:25:49.969-07:00No particular memories, just a real enjoyment in y...No particular memories, just a real enjoyment in your writing and attitude towards life. Or, Life, in upper case, as one might say.LPChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18209861350905135093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-32907970347028868492015-10-16T15:15:19.466-07:002015-10-16T15:15:19.466-07:00Hello Spud,
Yes, not my favorite fruit either. H...Hello Spud,<br /><br />Yes, not my favorite fruit either. However, my daughter eats them like candy when they are in season. I'd be interested to hear how your baking experiment goes - persimmon cake, now there's an idea!<br /><br />Did you know that here in America I've learned that the shepherd has been replaced with the sailor? So interesting how little songs go around the world and change locally.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-21094637282573199182015-10-16T14:57:36.443-07:002015-10-16T14:57:36.443-07:00While not my favourite fruit, we eat them. Next t...While not my favourite fruit, we eat them. Next time I might try baking them into a cake - or maybe even your pudding recipe. <br /><br />I thought of you and your 'blazing October sky' last night on our evening walk. We were treated to a dramatic 'pink sky at night, shepherd's delight ...'.<br /><br />Spud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-31049233966831847022015-10-16T14:28:14.659-07:002015-10-16T14:28:14.659-07:00Hello Karen,
How lovely to learn that you enjoyed...Hello Karen,<br /><br />How lovely to learn that you enjoyed your grandparents' garden and all that came from it. I wish more people would consider slowing down and sewing a few vegetable and flower seeds in their gardens. I finally got my teenage daughter to actually enjoy gardening instead of seeing it as a chore - hooray!!<br /><br />I think you should bite the bullet, or persimmon in this case, and make a point of trying one this autumn. However, they must be ripe otherwise they taste chalky.<br /><br />Enjoy your weekend too. I'm busy fussing about the house in preparation for our dinner party tomorrow evening, the first of the season.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-10365659420989732812015-10-16T14:20:27.058-07:002015-10-16T14:20:27.058-07:00CD,
What a lovely post. I love the looks of persi...CD,<br />What a lovely post. I love the looks of persimmons, I've never actually eaten one. I had to chuckle that your feathered friends acceptance of the wonderful gift of sunflower seeds and made short work of the seed filled dried sunflower. <br />My fondest memories with regard to harvest bounty in the autumn is of my grandfathers backyard garden. My grandparents lived next door to me growing up and he was an excellent gardener. He had such wonderful vegetables and my grandmother often canned some of the items. I remember those years with such a joyful heart.<br />Your photograph of the sky is beautiful. I call that a Maxfield Parish sky. We get those this time of year with some regularity.<br />Enjoy your weekend.<br />xo,<br />KarenKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064699521293763744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-10246948562634113272015-10-16T13:30:22.030-07:002015-10-16T13:30:22.030-07:00Hello slf,
So kind of you to say you enjoyed the ...Hello slf,<br /><br />So kind of you to say you enjoyed the image of the persimmons tucked into their creamware basket. The dark coffee pot and sugar bowl in the background are actually made of ceramic, not pewter. They are Wedgwood black basalt pieces that form part of my ever-expanding collection. I think the burnt orange of the fruits alongside the dark basalt pieces gave a Halloween-y vibe to the picture, don't you agree?Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-42502188008029149392015-10-16T12:34:54.946-07:002015-10-16T12:34:54.946-07:00I love the image of the persimmons in a creamware ...I love the image of the persimmons in a creamware fruit basket with the pewter pieces in the background. The contrast between light and dark is very appealing. Thank you for yet another informative and entertaining post.slfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04405972029307714164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-89401014773459275342015-10-16T12:25:54.386-07:002015-10-16T12:25:54.386-07:00Hello racheld,
I'm so glad you like my fruit ...Hello racheld,<br /><br />I'm so glad you like my fruit basket. I just acquired it for my collection and it was a real treat to anoint it with Kathy's gift of persimmons.<br /><br />I loved reading your recollections of your Mississipi persimmon tree. There is a certain beauty to trees that hold onto their fruit once the leaves have gone, such as pomegranate and persimmon. One can appreciate the trees architecture better and it looks as though the trees are decorated for the autumn. <br /><br />I included a link to my comment to Heidi (above) if you'd care to take a look at the recipe. Perhaps you may want to try it for yourself the next time you have some persimmons. Ripe ones are best for cooking otherwise they taste dry and chalky.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-8908840744177120512015-10-16T12:17:55.099-07:002015-10-16T12:17:55.099-07:00Hello DaniBP,
How well you write about the splash...Hello DaniBP,<br /><br />How well you write about the splashed tomato roads of your youth. I've seen them too, at the end of summer in California's central valley area.<br /><br />On my very first visit to the United States when I was a girl of twelve, I stayed with my aunt who lives very close to Detroit. I recall my family and I taking a bus to Ontario and thinking how fun it was to be able to ride a bus into another country. The only way out of the United Kingdom was by ferry boat or plane in those days.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-54257898573789735272015-10-16T12:13:27.300-07:002015-10-16T12:13:27.300-07:00Hello Jim,
You are a fountain of knowledge, as us...Hello Jim,<br /><br />You are a fountain of knowledge, as usual, and have taught me that persimmons are not only a symbol of luck, but a species of ebony wood, thank you. I enjoy learning tidbits of such knowledge and my mind is cluttered with these things, at least for a while, and then I forget, that is until someone comes along to jog my memory banks again.<br /><br />I enjoyed the story of the farmland you grew up around. When I lived in Kent, known as "the garden of England", I spent many happy yours alongside my sisters traipsing through abandoned cherry orchards (and reaping the benefits in the summer), and also the apple orchards. We got caught scrumping apples once by a very annoyed farmer, but we had no clue the orchard was not as abandoned as the cherry ones around your house.Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-79246313366101034652015-10-16T12:08:07.663-07:002015-10-16T12:08:07.663-07:00Hello Heidi,
I had no idea the harvest hymn I wri...Hello Heidi,<br /><br />I had no idea the harvest hymn I write about was included in Godspell. I must check out the music now that I know, thank you.<br /><br />The only thing I've ever made with persimmons (and I used the more elongated variety), was a steamed persimmon pudding served with a lemon sauce - it was delish!<br /><br />I think this may be the recipe (or one similar):<br /><br />http://www.marthastewart.com/340210/steamed-persimmon-pudding<br /><br /><br />Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-27696660435627432632015-10-16T12:03:11.901-07:002015-10-16T12:03:11.901-07:00Hello Spud,
This time of year certainly fosters a...Hello Spud,<br /><br />This time of year certainly fosters a spirit of generosity what with the abundance of fresh produce available. <br /><br />I'd be so pleased to come home to a bag of fruit from a neighbor friend. What, may I ask, do you do with your persimmons - eat them or display them?<br /><br />Chronica Domushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732224119040843337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-7157394439592785002015-10-16T07:33:10.282-07:002015-10-16T07:33:10.282-07:00Oh, the beauty that is persimmons! Your pierced b...Oh, the beauty that is persimmons! Your pierced bowl is the perfect receptacle and display place---I'll bet its not the first time such lovely fruit has resided there.<br /><br />A bowl of persimmons on the table was a sure sign of FALL when we lived in Mississippi, with our Brady-Bunch-orange kitchen and dining area---we had one not-too-big tree way out in the yard, and somehow it was always the first to lose its leaves when the first whisper of chill came down in the night. I think it was on purpose, in the Grand Scheme of Things, to bare those dark limbs bare, so all that magnificence could be seen in the sunshine. Those round, slick, more-golden-every-day globes of sweetness hung in the fading of the twilight, just on those days when the sky was every shade of gold and red and pink and pumpkin itself. <br /><br />And the shine and glow of those rosy lanterns betwixt me and the sunset, all shining from the witchy-limbs like the most vivid of tree ornaments---such a pleasure to stand out in the dwindling light, little puffs of breath floating away in that chill, as the last rays caught the colour and whispered out.<br /><br />I've never eaten a persimmon---they seem like flavorless Jello inside, but the sheer beauty of the BEING is totally enough, like hyacinths.<br /><br />rRachelDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204947567574886675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-86285078914398651582015-10-16T04:04:43.336-07:002015-10-16T04:04:43.336-07:00I'm enchanted with your memory and the fact th...I'm enchanted with your memory and the fact that the harvest boxes were brought to the homes of the elderly, that's so lovely. They must have been so entirely appreciated.<br />Harvest time meant one thing when I was growing up: the tomato splashed roads. I grew up in southern Ontario just across the Detroit River from Michigan (about 20 miles south of Detroit). Our small town was surrounded by tomato farms and as the trucks left the farms to head to the Heinz ketchup factory two towns away from us they would spill and splash on the roads. <br />The roads would be paved with the crushed tomatoes for a good 10 days or so.<br />xoDaniBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02633155240779845497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-30256621803246940712015-10-16T02:11:44.824-07:002015-10-16T02:11:44.824-07:00Hello CD, Persimmons are a particularly appropria...Hello CD, Persimmons are a particularly appropriate gift, since here they are a symbol of luck. They look especially appealing in your antique fruit basket.In the eastern U.S. grow small wild persimmons. The wood is very beautiful, since persimmons are actually a species of ebony.<br /><br />The area in which I grew up was formerly farmland, and we knew all the odd corners in which to find odd fruit trees or even remnants of old orchards. Sometimes this bounty was distributed in the form of jams or syrups. A favorite memory is consuming the fruit on autumn walks, selecting the most perfect 'wild' Seckel pears or sampling apple varieties of an earlier day.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2454554472800124620.post-25582472052636815042015-10-16T02:05:22.253-07:002015-10-16T02:05:22.253-07:00Love that tradition you've described with the ...Love that tradition you've described with the harvest festival. We don't have anything similar here in Australia, although I'm familiar with the hymn… and the version of it from the musical Godspell, which we put on one year at school. <br />Lovely images in the post, and if you find something tasty to do with persimmons please let me know as I'm always given a basketful by friends and never am sure what to do with them (aside from their decorative purposes!) Heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01432089507602828735noreply@blogger.com