N. occasionally likes to volunteer with an awesome organization, Village Harvest, that picks excess fruit from backyards in Silicon Valley and donates it to the hungry. However, only perfectly intact fruit is accepted by the food banks. Anything damaged is kept by the volunteers. This is how we ended up with lots of mildly imperfect hachiya persimmons:
Due to the quantity of this loot, we immediately started looking for ways to use persimmons in baking. This is how we came across James Beard's persimmon bread recipe, as adopted by David Leibovitz:
In the process making this, we learned that the hazelnuts we have in our fridge are actually super delicious when roasted :)
The final result is extremely rich, moist dessert bread that has strong hints of whisky:
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