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Kumquat Bread
We are blessed with many awesome fruit treet in our yard. They were all planted less than 10 years ago, so the fruit quantity is not yet over-whelming but just enough for us to enjoy the hand picked to tummy sweet taste year around.  We enjoy pomegranates in the fall, figs and plums in the summer and meyer lemons throughout half the year. And there is hardly a fruit to spare on the tree! One exception to this is our trooper kumquat tree. This year it was raining kumquats in our household. Kumquat is a citrus family tree which produces very small (think jujube or dates size) pungent fruit. The skin is very sweet but the flesh is slightly sour. You pop the whole fruit in your mouth.  For last few months we are snacking kumquats, chopping and adding them to salads and topping them on pizzas but still the tree is laden with fruit - so much so that it recently started bending due to the weight of the fruit. Finally just as it looked at risk of not beari…