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E. Kansas | You have a wild persimmon tree. Tame persimmons are larger fruit and ripen before frost. Either type will pucker your mouth good if not ripe.
A friend makes persimmon cookies. The pulp of the ripe persimmons (tame or wild) is mashed up, seeds removed of course. Flour, eggs, spices, etc are added to the persimmons to make the cookie dough. Raisins, walnuts and/or pecans can be added. It is dropped by spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet to bake.
Those are some of my favorite cookies. They're delicious hot right out of the oven, or at room temperature, or they can be frozen and are just as good.
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Can you ID this tree?
