One of names zizifusa – the Chinese date. Why date? The reader will find the answer to this question in correspondence Zizifus, it is date Chinese.
Zizifus, yuyuba, unabi, date Chinese … Choosing from a set of names suitable this mountaineer close to subtropical cultures who is capable to transfer without serious consequences short-term frosts to – 300S, long time couldn’t agree with the last. Well what it is date, if fruits, on color brown, in general on dates similar, but on a consistence pulp dense as at apple, dryish, to taste dates hardly reminding.
As I treat a sad couple of hypertensive persons, fruits zizifusa read as salutary: that they – the excellent stabilizer of pressure (at low raise, at the high lower) was convinced on a personal experience.
And here as to flavoring qualities, really distinguished them only this autumn. At the beginning of October of this year went to Feodosiya to known Crimean gardener Yury Bogdanovskomu, the ardent admirer of subtropical cultures. Having admired many orange solnyshka of ripening fruits of a winter-hardy persimmon, garlands covered on trees, having taken pleasure in autumn fruits of a fig, noticed suddenly brightly brown a scattering of fruits zizifusa. They densely stuck round the branches which have fallen from them by a carpet covered pristvolny circles.
- What, Yura, managed to grow up and didn’t manage to collect?.
- For what to collect – grievously, the owner of a garden answered. I have them, trees zizifusa already five tens. And crop in general now the quite good. We with the wife and jam welded on and compotes in banks rolled up much. More there is no place.
- And on the market? – I didn’t keep from a question.
- Market? Here, I will tell to you, in what the reason of market unpopularity zizifusa, both fruits, and saplings – in uncertainty. Well, apples – know, grapes – know, a peach – know, a cherry, sweet cherry – know, zizifus as it call, is little-known. You here take, bring home da ask the wife jam from these fruits to weld, you will try – you learn what it, their real taste …
To council listened … Jam cooked in stages. Kg of fruits filled in with water so that it slightly covered them, then water merged in a pan, filled up half-kg of sugar and put on fire. When sugar was dismissed, in a syrup filled up fruits and cooked until they didn’t begin to be softened. A pan removed from fire, to jam let’s cool down, and then cooking continued still in two steps, adding each time on 250 g of sugar, to a full softening of fruits.
Taste – specific! Zizifus was digested in date. My members of household everything tried to find out, where such berry found, whether it is impossible at itself at a dacha this most zizifus to grow up?
Why it is impossible, it is possible, certainly. In the Crimea we, despite small popularity of this culture, have gardeners who seriously are engaged in it, grow up in the of nursery saplings to ten its grades, such as Tayan dzao, the Soviet, number Vakhsh, Chinese 2 and others.
That whom zizifus interested, I report addresses of these pitomnikovodov: Alexander Vovk (Skvortsovo’s page of the Simferopol area, ph. 336-450), here Victor Zaytsev (ph. 336-271, mob. 8-050-825-55-03), Yury Bogdanovsky (Feodosiya, Panov St., 59, ph. (262) 3-71-81), Gennady Gerasimov (97100, item Nizhnegorsky, Fontannaya St., 45, ph. 8-06550-21-372, mob. 8-066-996-89-14, 8-096-944-25-04).
Century PASHHENKO, literary editor.