This Persimmon, Cranberry and Walnut Loaf is an easy and totally delicious way to enjoy persimmons.

This is the first recipe I’ve posted in 6 months but I promise you it was worth the wait.

I am not a fan of persimmons but my mother-in-law, Maureen absolutely loves them. In fact, every time I see a persimmon I think of her.

One of the things I love most about being back in the UK is being able to see friends and family willy nilly and after years of us being hosted by my mother-in-law who literally waits on us hand and foot, it was so nice to be able to repay her hospitality.

Before her visit, we headed to our local Friday morning market and loaded our nana trolley up with delicious, fresh and cheap produce, including a punnet of persimmons for Maureen. I try not to bang on about how cheap fruit and veg are in the motherland because I don’t want to upset the natives in a cost of living crisis but honestly compared to Australia, the prices are so low!
Anyhoo back to the persimmons, Maureen made good in roads into the punnet but by the time she came to leave, we still had 6 left! As the fruit was getting very ripe and there are only so many persimmons one person can eat, I did what any self respecting daughter in law would do and took a few persimmons off her hands.

I had no plans to eat said persimmons (there’s something about the texture that really grosses me out) but I was keen as mustard to bake them. I must confess, I...