I just tried my first
pluot yesterday after finding some at the local
Acme Market. Not bad! The flavor is much like a plum but the flesh is firmer and less 'drippy'. I wonder if they will make it in the marketplace, though, since the skins are ugly and mottled and look like something is wrong with the fruit. Judging from the photos at
http://www.edengarden.com/pluots.html, the variety I got was
Dapple Dandy. The other varieties do not seem to have
that cosmetic problem.
The web site of the Dave Wilson Nursery in California informs me that
Pluot® and Aprium® interspecific hybrids are complex crosses of plum and apricot. Unlike
plumcots, which are simple plum X apricot crosses, Pluot® and Aprium® interspecifics were
developed by the Zaigers through intricate hybridizing, requiring several generations of crosses to create
these new fruit.
Paul James' Home Grown Cooking
Episode HGC-106
presented a recipe for Seared Ostrich Loin with Pluot Sauce -- I didn't see it but it's on the web.
Anybody know where I can score 1 pound of Ostrich loin?
The name pluot seems ugly and hard to pronouce to me (all the good names were taken!).
My son noticed that pluot is an anagram for Pluto.