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Ingredient Tue Jul 24 2007
What do you get when you cross a plum with an apricot?
On a shopping trip to Stanley's this morning, my eye was caught by a fruit I'd never seen before. A stack of yellowish/brownish fruits shaped like large apricots were sitting under a sign that read "Pluots." I was intrigued and bought two of them.
I arrived home and quickly googled this odd little fruit. It turns out that pluots are trademarked hybrid fruits of Zaiger's Genetics. Zaiger's also holds patents for the following fruits: apriums, nectaplums, nectarcots, and peacotums (a hybrid of peach, apricot and plum).
As creeped out as I am by this idea, I had the pluots, so I had to use them. I sliced them up with a peach and stewed them into a sauce with sherry and sugar and a bit of water. I now have a bright coral, tart jam-like topping for ice cream.
n / July 26, 2007 1:06 PM
I discovered pluots - and that I LOVE LOVE LOVE them - when I lived in Berkeley. I am creeped out by the trademark thing...but not enough to not eat them, I have to confess. Thanks for letting me know they're around - Stanley's, here I come!