SC - Quince paste

[Olwen the Odd]

Stefan, "up here" is Bright Hills, Atlantia (Baltimore MD).  I am always on 
the lookout for berry bushes, fruit trees, wild herbs, wild rice, birds 
eggs, the VERY long needle pine trees, nut trees, and even the stray sheep 
or goat.  Once I got a stray cow, but was unable to convince the thing to 
get into the truck, so I had to halter her and find a farm to lead her to.  
I have enjoyed teaching children and adults how to forage, can, dry and 
freeze foods and how to make vinegars and teas and polstice.
Quince are a very pretty fruit that is occasionally found in markets.  The 
edible peak is really pretty short, like white peaches.  If you get it too 
early, well, it makes my mouth hurt to go there.. Quince are usually used in 
pastes and jellies.  They do not dry well (that I can figure out) and they 
do not freeze well.  They do can well, but as I said, usually as a paste or 
some such.  Many old farms had quince trees so they are pretty common to 
come across driving country roads.  I do not recall seeing any down your 
way, but I didn't stay down that way for long.
Olwen


>From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: SCA-Cooks maillist <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: SC - Quince paste
>Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 01:33:53 -0500
>
>Olwen commented:
> > Too bad you don't live up here.  Quince trees are found along many of 
>the
> > roads and the fruit just rots off the trees.  I have been unable to do 
>any
> > harvesting of free foods for over a year because of my ankle.  My stores 
>of
> > canned, dried and frozen free foodstuffs is all but depleted.
> > Perhaps next seasaon I shall be able to run and jump fences and climb
> > trees....
>
>Where is "up here"? Around here, I still haven't seen quinces in the
>stores. I don't know whether they don't carry them or whether I've just
>been looking at the wrong times or whether they are there and I just
>don't recognise them.
>
>When you can gather some quinces, and apparently they have to be quite
>ripe/rotten to use them, you might be interested in looking at the
>quince recipes in these files:
>fruit-quinces-msg (29K)  2/ 3/00    Period uses and recipes for quinces.
>marmalades-msg    (53K) 12/20/99    Period marmalades and fruit jellies
>and jams
>
>The first is in the FOOD-FRUITS section and the second in the FOOD-SWEETS
>section.
>
>Olwen, perhaps you can find someone in your area to gather you some of
>these fruits in return for some of the prepared food product?
>--
>Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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