How To: Working the Passion Fruit

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Maui Joe

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Well since I gathered the fruit today, I should show you how I get that juice from the fruit. Here goes!


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Remove any stems and rinse the fruit clean. Use a plate or grooved type chopping board to try and retrieve all the juice. There will be some that leaks out of the fruit while you are cutting them in halves.


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Now that you have done that..See all those seeds sitting happy in their own juice cells, well get a spoon and scoup them out into a strainer sitting over a bowl.


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Using the spoon, press the cells against the strainer to break open the juice cells...more juice will flow as you do this. This is tiring after awhile and you will not succeed in getting them all anyway.


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So place everything into a strainer bag and do the following.


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Work the bag down, sorta like "milking the cow?" See, more juice. Do this several times until no more juice flows. Now take the strainer bag and place it into a large drinking glass of ice cold water and let it sit.


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Now here's what we got with 11 fruits..a hair under three (3) cups of "High Octane" pure Passion Fruit juice. How potent is it really? You only need a 1/2 teaspoon of the juice to make a jar of jelly happen!


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So here is the result of "working the fruit." You have a plate full of seeds to do whatever you wish. The seeds are edible like Papaya Seeds. I usually save a bunch and scatter them wherever I can hoping that they grow wild as they do. You can save a few sealed in a plastic baggy in the refrigerator for the next crop someday if the frost killed your vine. Well thats it, Oh...that remaining glass with water downed juice, well that is for you to Drink now...you've worked so hard!
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