Re: [CH] Hot Sauce at the Local Farm Market
Brent Thompson (brent@kanha.hpl.hp.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:08:23 -0700
> > what's a donut peach?
>
> It's a flat, non-cling heirloom variety Sometimes called a "Saturn"
> peach. Nice article here:
"Donut peach" refers to a peach variety that is very flattened and shaped
just like a donut, with the peach pit occupying the center, and usually
barely or no flesh on the top and bottom of that pit, at least of the
varieties I've ever seen. Saturn is one variety of donut peach, but there
are others, too. Both yellow- and white-fleshed named varieties of donut
peaches exist.
Year-to-year, even day-to-day, climatic and farming variations make the
taste of this and all fruits change relative to others/before/etc., but a
good donut peach can basically taste as good as most any other good peach.
As I recall, though, that mostly exposed pit does make them prone to much
shorter than average shelf life.
--- Brent