I came across a recipe for Persimmon cookies that looked interesting.
Yield: Forty 1-inch cookies
Time: 1 hour
1/3 cup organic butter
1/2 cup Sucanat
1 egg
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup persimmon pulp (about 3 medium-size persimmons)
1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup dates, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 350°F. Combine butter and sugar. Add egg and beat until well blended. In a seperate bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt. In a small bowl, dissolve baking soda in persimmon pulp. Add flour mixture alternately with the persimmon mixture to the butter, sugar and egg. Fold in nuts and dates. Drop by teaspoon onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes.
Recipe by Alicia Guy, PCC Cooks instructor
PCC Sound Consumer, December 2000
Sucanat is a non refined cane sugar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucanat http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/cgi/recipeget.cgi?id=181