[Sca-cooks] When to Pick Quince?

[widener]

Are quice anything like persimmons we have in Texas that need the first
frost to ripen? The fruit is the only thing left on the tree when we pick
them. We have learned just to pick them and put them in the freezer to
soften them.
Brother Stephon of Celestial Kingdom of Amtgard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Fox-Davis" <selene at earthlink.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] When to Pick Quince?


> Quinces when ripe have the seeming of apples that are not!  Big, yellow
> and hard as rocks.  If it were I, I would wait until a few started
> falling from the tree on their own, then scarf up the ripest of the rest.
>
> You will share, won't you?  <sucking in cheeks, trying pathetically for
> that lean hungry look>
>
> Selene
>
>
> Peldyn at aol.com wrote:
>
> >I live about 20 miles from a grove of quince trees. A small private
museum
> >planted them years ago to see if they would grow in the area. I know the
people
> >who run it and they do nothing with the fruit. I want to go and pick it
when
> >it is ripe, but when is that??? I am in the Mojave Desert, if that
affects
> >ripening time. My pomegranates are never ripe until the end of Oct,
beginning of
> >Nov.
> >Visions of quince jelly and quince tarts dance through my head!
> >Peldyn
> >
> >
>
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