[Sca-cooks] RE: Quinces

[david friedman]

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>Stefan asks:
>>So, are you planting quince trees at your Cumberland Centre? That is
>>a long time affair.
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>Already have, along with medlars and cornelian cherries.  These are expensive,
>so I will plant a few new ones yearly for a while.  Most fruit and nut trees
>will
>take 7 to 10 years to reliably produce, so in about 5 years the Centre will be
>covered with fruit and nuts (of the vegetable kind mainly I would hope).
>Akim

We planted a quince tree about seven years ago, and it produced a
substantial number of quinces both this year and last year. A few
weeks ago we did quinces in paste (Du Fait de Cuisine) using some of
them.
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