This rather tasty-sounding, early C20th recipe for stewed quinces is simplicity itself.
Tag: quince
Harvest 2022 – Top Fruit from the Allotment Orchard
Here are the extended highlights of this year’s harvest of apples, pears, quinces, plums and damsons. Top fruit galore!
W. M. on Preserving Quinces
If you’ve got a glut of quinces and have run out of recipes, this C17th method for keeping them “all the yeare” might just be useful.
Charlotte Mason, on Making ‘Quince Pudding’
This eighteenth century quince recipe is a tricky one to unravel, but the end result does sound interesting.
Sir Hugh Plat, on Making ‘Marmelade of Quinces or Damsons’
This C17th recipe is for two types of marmelade – white or ordinary – depending on when you add the sugar to the fruit.
Orchard Blossom Season is Almost Here
Spring-time in the orchard and beautiful blossom buds are about to burst into life. So why is it such a tense and worrying time..?
Monk’s Modern Medieval Cuisine Makes Quince ‘Connate’
A quick shout out for Christopher Monk’s take on a late fourteenth century quince recipe from The Forme of Cury.
Gervase Markham, on Preserving Quinces in Cider
Here’s an idea for preserving your quince harvest, and maybe making quince flavoured cider at the same time.
A Book of Simples, on Making ‘Quince Cakes’
Here’s an intriguing pair of eighteenth century receipts for quince ‘cakes’ of the boiled, jellied gum-drop variety.
Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes
I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.