Re: Zizzoli

We had them in Bisbee, Arizona Zone 7b, Sunset Zone 10
The Chinese supposedly had brought them with them a hundred years ago.
They grow wild now...small about the size of an olive. There are other newer Jujubees planted there... big as a date, crisp and tasty. Wish I was there to eat one right off the tree.
Cathe' Fish
Nevada City, CA
Zone 7

----- Original Message ----- From: "robin corwin" <gardenwithkitties@hotmail.com>
To: <Lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk>; <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:52 AM
Subject: RE: Zizzoli


A friend in the Los Angeles area grows jujubes. They are ripening now. He places a white sheet under the tree and shakes the tree to harvest them. Some are smooth like little apples. If you eat these, they taste just like apples or crabapples. The riper ones get wrinkly looking. If you eat these, they tast like dates.

Robin Corwin
Studio City, California
Zone 9/10, Sunset Zone 21


From: "Anthony Lyman-Dixon" <Lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk>
Reply-To: Lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Zizzoli
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:15:14 +0100

Does anyone know what Zizzoli are? My friend bought them in Lucca
market. They look like little brown nuts, but in fact have a small nut
inside a fleshy edible outer. We can't make up our minds whether they
are disgusting or rather nice. Peronally I think they taste vaguely like
water chestnuts but she suggested a date so the flavour is very
subjective. They have certainly gone a lot less quickly than the
biscuits she bought in the same market.

Anthony
















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