Came home to about 50lbs of pomegranates on my doorstep from a neighbor. My shrub didn't produce this year. Neighbor always just tosses the fruit away, but I think they remembered I do use mine when I get fruit. Unexpected, and needed to get on it to process them. About 10 lbs weren't usable for my purposes and I cut them open for the birds to eat.
About 10 lbs were seeded for the pips and dehydrated. That's literally about a quart of dried pips at the end of the process. I eat these out of hand or toss them in salads/slaw/cereal for sweet crunch.
The rest were juiced. The juice was super tannic. Not pleasant. I found a trick using gelatin to pull the tannins out of the juice and it worked. Juice is now drinkable, but tart. May sweeten it, but haven't decided. I got almost 3 qts of usable juice.
