PawPaw Harvest and Butter Making

Early fall is Paw Paw fruit harvest time in the Midwest. In Ohio these yummy fruit trees are in most wooded areas. The trees are fairly easy to spot, but the fruit is fairly well camouflaged. In this video, I take you along for a harvest of pawpaw fruit. I show you how to identify the trees by the leaves, bark and fruit. I show a similarly leaved hickory tree for comparison. After collecting enough to make the paw paw butter recipe (think apple butter), I show you how to process, prepare and can the paw paw butter. You can use it on toast, pancakes etc. or even make a paw paw bread out of it.
Hope you enjoy the video, and if you missed the harvest this year, make sure you get out and look for the trees and try a RIPE fruit next year. If they aren't mushy and soft, they are not ready to eat.
Check out my other videos on fall foraging and recipes on my channel. I recently put out a video on autumn olive jam. Autumn olives are another delicious fall fruit you can find in abundance near most wooded areas as it is an invasive plant. So eating the berries in a small way helps to stop some of its growth.
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I use the same recipe as I do for my concord grape jam.
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Update 2024- I didn't get out to harvest any pawpaws this year. But after trying this recipe, umm, I would probably not recommend pawpaw butter. LOL. Probably just my tastes, but I like them better in a banana bread type recipe or just eat them raw. But I am sure tweaks could be made to the recipe for better taste, but I won't make this anymore.