The lemons are ripening on our neighbor's lemon tree. This morning, after several days of rain, the leaves look refreshed and the luscious lemons are yellowing.
Citrus fruit ripens on the tree. It is nonclimacteric which means, according to Harold McGee's book "On Food and Cooking," that a harvested fruit does not improve once off the tree. Other nonclimacteric fruits are pineapple, citrus, most berries and melons.
I usually sniff the bottom of a pineapple before I buy it. If it doesn't smell like pineapple, it probably won't taste too good. Oranges I buy by feeling them for firmness.
Anyway, aren't Kathy's lemons beautiful?
Copyright 2012
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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