1 I dare you to try this: Green Loquat Chutney 8 Green loquats 2 oz Mint leaves 2 sm Green chillies 1/2 ts White cumin seeds Sea salt; to taste Water; as needed Wash and dry the loquats; then halve them and remove the seeds. Place on a "sil" together with the mint, chillies, cumin and salt, and using the "batta" grind them coarsely (alternatively use the motar and pestle or an electric grinder). Add enough water to obtain the desired consistency; then refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Serve as needed. -------- God bless the Internet.

2 Loquat jelly. Don't ask me how to make it, probably same way as Crab-apple jelly. Guessing would involve slow simmered Loquats till falling of the stone, then strained through muslin. Keep residue fruit pulp in muslin and tie up so have little muslin bag full of cooked Loquat residue. Put strained liquid back in pot, put muslin package in pot (wanting pectin from fruit residue, but don't want the actual pulp to get in the strained liguid). Simmer more and add whatever the weight of the fruit was in sugar (or thereabouts, maybe a bit less - accounting for stones weight). Keep it stirring and simmering until when you lift the wooden spoon out it coats the spoon sort of thickly and forms a skin. Then jar it. When you eat this recipe you will be able to think of the No War Republican who gave it to you. So let's hope it works, eh.

3 Take any Fruit Crisp recipe and substitute Loquats for the fruit in question. Prep time - 10 minutes Cook time - 30 minutes If you have any type of general purpose cookbook lying around, there'll be a recipe in there for a Blueberry or "summer fruit" crisp. If they're not particularly sugary, sprinkle the loquats with a tablespoon of sugar before topping with the Crisp mixture. ------------------------------ As an alternate, you could get a jug of red table wine, some other fruit like cherries, and just make a batch of Loquat Sangria ... less stress, less work ... you casn smoke some good cigars and hang out on the deck until the flavors mix.

4 Thanks to all of you--keep 'em coming! The crisp ought to be good, and we're finally getting some cool chutney weather. Republican, I'm not going to stuff tied-up strained muslims full of fruit, even yummy loquats. That would be torture. And I'm not touching their package, you Lynddie England wannabe-- OH! Muslin. Never mind. Do I need to add sugar to that?

5 Just eat them plain. They grow like weeds where I am at.

6 BS--the crisp turned out great! We found another recipe that said to add raisins, which we did, though dried cranberries might have worked too... Plenty more of these suckers, so I think we'll try CCW's chutney soon.