by David The Good
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When you accidentally open a papaya a little early… what do you do?
Rachel had a plan:
The recipe is… complicated… but the pie turned out wonderfully.
We now know underripe papaya pieces will work in an apple pie recipe.
That was the experiment’s purpose – to see if the substitution was possible – and it was a success.
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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3 responses to “Rachel Makes a Papaya Pie”
So, David, I emailed you over a week ago on this very subject. You must have changed your email again. I bought my very first papaya and was asking you how to know when it’s ripe. I put it in a bag with some apple’s to help ripen it. Should it give with finger pressure when ripe or is the color the teller?
You might have one of my old email addresses or I missed it. I get a ton of email. Catch me at david @thesur viv al gardener (dot ) com. Take out spaces, fix the dot.
It’s a softness thing on papaya, more than outside color. Sometimes they’re still partly green on the outside and they’ll be ripe internally. If it’s feeling a little soft, it’s probably ready. I have opened quite a few early… and quite a few late… though, so it’s a learning curve.