[Sca-cooks] what do you do with Quinces?

[Sue Clemenger]

You eat them, peel and all.  I've found the peel to be much sweeter, and the
flesh much more...uhm...astringent? than in other citrus fruits I've tried.
Almost a reverse of what you'd expect.
--Maire

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> ::Swat upside one's own head::
> those aren't Quince I see in the store...it is Kumquats! <blah!>
>
> that is what I get for asking questions when I have a bad headache. I make
really stupid mistakes. My humble apologies. :-(
>
> there are no quinces to be found here in Alabama, not even the Mexican
market at the farmer's Market. Phooey.
> that is sad, really. but, if I could ever keep the squirrels and birds out
of them, I could get some very lovely crabapples...would crabapples be a
good substitute for Quince?
>
> And what the heck do you with Kumquats, besides give them to proteges...(I
know, different e-list).
>
> Helen
>
>
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> From: ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] what do you do with Quinces?
>
>
> >Warning; I am in all possibilities, about to ask a stupid question.
> >
> >I have seen these boxes of tiny yellow quinces in the store, at
> >rather high prices, considering. There may be about a dozen or so in
> >a box, and the price hovers from 2.50 to 3, per box.
> >
> >What can you do with them, and how many would it take to do them
> >right?  Five pounds of them would be rather...pricey...for an
> >experiment.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Helen
> >Who has a pink flowering quince bush-and I have gotten *one* green
> >quince off of it in ten years....
>
> There are at least two different plants referred to as "quince." The
> old world quince produces fruit that look and smell rather like
> apples--indeed, smell more intensely like apples than apples do. They
> are used for quince paste--the original meaning of "marmalade." They
> are also baked in pies and used rather like cooked apples in other
> period dishes. They are not suitable for eating raw, unlike apples.
>
> The Japanese quince is a different plant, widely used as an
> ornamental. I suspect that is your flowering quince bush. I don't
> know how its fruit would be used.
> --
> David/Cariadoc
> www.daviddfriedman.com
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