Mystery Tree Fruit...

We have a tree in our backyard that has been there since we moved in 4 years ago...when we ripped everything out and re-landscaped a few years ago, we left this tree along with a few others, because it was a mature fruit tree. What kind of fruit tree, you ask? We haven't a clue.
Each year as the fruit grows and ripens and eventually falls to the ground we have a different guess-- plums? Apricots? Baby peaches?
And they don't taste good-- did I mention that yet? Rylan says the fuzzy skin is "icky" and the flesh "doesn't taste yummy." I'd have to agree. But here they are, nonetheless-- an absolute bumper-crop in the backyard, and I think the Swiss in me just hates to see them totally go to waste (I also save rubber bands, twisties and baggies-- but that's a different post).
So I am determined to use them and enjoy them. But I haven't a clue how to do it, because really and truly they aren't good!
And I should also mention, that we don't do a thing to the tree-- we haven't pruned it (we keep meaning to each year... oops), and we don't even have a properly working sprinkler system in the upper bed where it is. I'm pretty sure its roots have grown under the fence into our neighbor's yard where it receives/takes their water. Point being, there's a good chance the fruit doesn't have a fighting chance to meet its potential. Poor thing.
Take a look and see if you can take a guess at what they might be...




So Rylan and I went outside this last week, picked up some of the good-looking ripe ones off the ground and off the tree, and brought them inside to wash. I cut some of the really ripe ones up for Nate to eat with his lunch that day-- and even NATE (who eats anything and everything) turned his nose up at them and vehemently signed "All Done."



We decided to cut them up and cook them with lots of "flavor." Translation-- Sugar. So we made Mystery-Fruit-Sauce. Turns out if you cooks something for long enough with enough sugar it's pretty yummy! I used my mini-pimer to break up the bigger pieces, and it's just like apricotapplepeachplumpluot sauce. We eat it over cottage cheese, with a little plain yogurt, or just by itself.
Not sure if I will go for making a Round Two batch, but for now, I'm quite pleased!
Isn't it funny how satisfying it is to "live off the bounty of your land?" Jeremy laughs when I say that. But I love it-- even if it is living off of Mystery Fruit.