SC - Re: Steamed Pudding Recipes - long (OOP)

[Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir]

Lady Brighid ni Chiarain wrote:

> Does anyone on the list know anything about this particular
> variety?  I have verified in a web search that there are
> pomegranates so pale as to be called white, but I don't know how
> they compare to the red ones.
>
> Is there a fruit maven in the house?

Will a research maven do?  UC Davis has a leaflet on Growing Pomegranates in
California <http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/pomeg3.html> that mentions in
passing:

"Varieties:

Because of the wide fruit variation arising form seedlings, many pomegranate
varieties have been
selected and grown from cuttings through the centuries.

The pink or red-flowered type includes most of the common and all the desirable
and commercial
varieties of pomegranates. The trees are deciduous in the interior valleys and
semideciduous along
the coast. The fruit is round oblate or obovate in form with rind varying from
thick to thin. Color of
the outside and inside varies form off-white to purplish or bright crimson. The
seed may vary in size
and hardness, some varieties seeming to be "seedless.,"others being almost
inedible because of large,
hard seed. In general, varieties having whitish or pinkish fruit are usually
sweeter than the dark
crimson varieties."

None of them seem to be widely commercially available, but at least they do
exist.

Selene