febes1 wrote:

My mouth is salivating with all this talk of feijoas!!

I miss them soooooo much..there are a couple of orchards over here now ..pity the main one is up on the GC tho :(
I am very tempted to plant a tree in my central coast (by Sydney) garden & introduce my ozzie family to their deliciousness!!.

I lived on the CC for 20 + yrs,you can buy feijoa trees as I planted one & grew well,for memory they were called Hawaiian Guavas.I think I got it from the nursery at Ourimba opposite the Shell service station

happychappy50 - 2017-04-17 21:22:00

uli wrote:

From the old tm recipe board:

Feijoa paste

10 ripe medium sized feijoas about 1kg
3 cooking apples
600 mls water
600g sugar
Use a potato peeler to remove the skin from the feijoas
Roughly chop fruit and weigh: you need 300g of sugar per 500g of fruit
Put feijoa peel and cores and roughly chopped apple into a pan; barely cover with water
Cook until soft and mushy, about 10 minutes
Strain through a fine sieve, pressing firmly to get all the liquid from the apple
In a large heavy bottomed pot cook chopped feijoas in this liquid until soft
Push through a sieve or mash
Add sugar to the feijoa pulp; stir until dissolved
Cook slowly on the lowest heat, stirring every 2-3 minutes until thick
This will take about 3 hrs - when it’s ready the spoon should start to meet resistance and the mix will start to come away from the sides
Put into straight sided dish lined with baking paper
Give the dish a couple of taps on the bench to settle
Leave to set for 2-3 days in a warm dry place then cut into cubes when cold and firm
Dust with icing sugar and pack in a tin or jar or place in a box lined with wax paper with added sifted icing sugar
griffo4 (256 ) 1:38 pm, Thu 4 Apr

Still a winner here - getting 4 to 5 buckets a day from 3 now over 20 year old trees. Try it!

uli - 2018-04-14 17:55:00

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uli - 2019-04-06 18:43:00