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Maui Onions
Two characteristics set the Maui onion apart from other yellow onions: the high sugar and high moisture content of its flesh.
Rainbow Swiss Chard
Rainbow chard, also known a 5-color silverbeet, is a tender chard variety with multi-colored stalks of yellow, white, orange pink and red.
Seasons/Availability
Aprium are available for a brief period during spring.
Current Facts
Apriums are a "climacteric fruit", meaning the fruit continues to ripen after picking.
Description/Taste
This apricot hybrid produces a dark-colored skin, a physical trait inherited from its black plum parentage, and is covered with a pale colored scant fuzz inherited from its other parent, the apricot. The aprium offers a dense texture similar to a plum.
Applications
Enjoy fresh, baked, or cooked down into fruits and preserves. If apriums are slightly under-ripe, put in a paper bag and keep at room temperature until ready to enjoy. Refrigerate ripe fruit one to two days for optimum quality and flavor.
Geography/History
Apriums were produced in the late 1980s by Floyd Zaiger of Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, and are complex crosses of plums and apricots. Genetically, the aprium's parentage is 25% plum and 75% apricot. Apriums, as well as pluots, are defined as "interspecifics" which are complex hybrids of plums and apricots and characteristically produce a higher sugar content.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Aprium Apricots. One
is easiest, three is harder.
Aprium are available for a brief period during spring.
Current Facts
Apriums are a "climacteric fruit", meaning the fruit continues to ripen after picking.
Description/Taste
This apricot hybrid produces a dark-colored skin, a physical trait inherited from its black plum parentage, and is covered with a pale colored scant fuzz inherited from its other parent, the apricot. The aprium offers a dense texture similar to a plum.
Applications
Enjoy fresh, baked, or cooked down into fruits and preserves. If apriums are slightly under-ripe, put in a paper bag and keep at room temperature until ready to enjoy. Refrigerate ripe fruit one to two days for optimum quality and flavor.
Geography/History
Apriums were produced in the late 1980s by Floyd Zaiger of Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, and are complex crosses of plums and apricots. Genetically, the aprium's parentage is 25% plum and 75% apricot. Apriums, as well as pluots, are defined as "interspecifics" which are complex hybrids of plums and apricots and characteristically produce a higher sugar content.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Aprium Apricots. One
is easiest, three is harder.| The Inn Keeper's Daughter |
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Aprium Butter |
| Tarts in the Kitchen |
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Rhubarb Tarts with Aprium Glaze |
| Cafe Johnsonia |
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Aprium Sherbet |
| Lindsey's Luscious |
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Aprium-Pomegranate Pepper Jelly |
