Monday, October 3, 2011

... Picking Up PawPaws, Put'em In a Basket

We have two PawPaw fruit trees (Asimina triloba - http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/) in our back yard and this year we had a bumper crop of these lumpy, fat fruits. A ripe pawpaw has a 'bananna/custard' flavor. We have been eating fresh pawpaws and spitting out the large seeds. Not wanting to let the fruit spoil, I decided this morning to look up a bananna bread receipe and make a couple of loaves of pawpaw bread, substituting the pawpaws for banannas.


It smells and tastes good!


The childhood song below was my first introduction to pawpaws.

Maybe it is familar to you too.

Where, oh where is dear little Susie?
Where, oh where is dear little Susie?
Where, oh where is dear little Susie?
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch!

Common boys, let's go find her.
Common boy, let's go find her.
Common boys, let's go find her.
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch!

Pickin’ up paw-paws, put ‘em in her pocket.
Pickin’ up paw-paws, put ‘em in her pocket.
Pickin’ up paw-paws, put ‘em in her pocket.
Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch!

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