Bonus! After bfarr's comment I went looking for recipes and found these:
Maypops Squash
4 cups maypops, halved
3/4 cup sugar
1 cinnamon stick, halved 1 whole clove
2-1/2 cups water
1/4 cup lemon juice
Combine the maypops, sugar, cinnamon stick, clove, and water and bring to a boil. simmer gently for 5 minutes. Put through a strainer, pressing fruit to extract all the juice. Add the lemon juice, and chill well before serving. Makes 4 servings.
Maypops Jelly
2 cups ripe maypops, sliced
1 cup water 2-1/2 cups sugar
1-3/4 ounces pectin
Combine the Maypops and water, and boil gently for 5 minutes. Then strain, discarding the pulp. Combine the liquid and sugar and bring to full rolling boil. Add pectin, and again bring to rolling boil. Remove from heat, pour into hot, sterilized jars, and seal. Makes 2-1/2 pints.
13 comments:
Otherworldy gorgeous, I have such a trembling weakness for passion flowers....
Lovely photos ..
Beautiful flower...have you ever tried eating the fruit. I hear it is good.
What an amazing flower. It almost doesn't seem real.
d moll, I have a whole solar system of them.
Petrus, aren't they now.
bfarr, I'll have to Google it but I think maypop is slightly different. And no, I haven't tried it.
Randy, they are especially ethereal.
OK, bfarr, you're right, they're the same thing. I should have a bumper crop this year. Maypop jelly?
a really beautiful variation on the passion flower. i have the magenta version and usually manage to miss it's brief blooming period
Passion flowers are one of the most gorgeous intricate flowers. Passionfruit are eaten a lot in this country, I love the flavour. Have never heard of them being called Maypops.
PA, do you ever harvest any seeds?
Holy Moley, JE, I never put it together until now that this is where passion fruit comes from. I'm going to have fun with this!
they look almost as if they live in the sea. remarkable.
Ohhh, I want this plant. Or maybe I want your photos of this plant.
What a treat to spend a drizzly Sunday afternoon catching up with my blog friends -- and especially oohing and ahhing over your photographic works of art.
Did you photographic that passion flower locally? Awesome doesn't begin to cover it.
Ah, incredible images. Your photos give me hope. They're like slices of paradise that make me momentarily forget the planet is in trouble.
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