How To Make Hoshigaki (Dried Persimmons)
...hat they will hang from. Note the knife trick you use to do this. Turn the fruit, not the knife: Next you peel the skin off the fruit: Hanging Cut a 24 inch length of string and tie it into a loop. Take two similarly sized fruit and tie their stems together with the string: A 2 inch diameter bamboo pole is just about right to keep the persimmons separated. A sunny window is a good place to hang the persimmons. The curtain, in the photo above, was...