John Townshend’s 1773 Recipe for ‘Quince Pudding’
This C18th recipe for a custard-based quince dish turned out to be eerily familiar…
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Fruit Harvest Highlights – Autumn 2025 Edition
Part two of my harvest highlights from a superb fruit-growing year features plenty of autumn apples, pears, medlars and more.
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John Murrell’s 1630 Recipe for ‘A Quince or Warden Pie’
Here’s another rather tasty-sounding, seventeenth century pear pie recipe to add to the steadily growing collection.
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Gervase Markham’s 1623 Recipe for ‘A Warden Pie or Quince Pie’
Cooking pears and quinces should be in season round about now and here’s an idea for how to put them to delicious use.
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Mary Kettilby’s 1734 Recipe for ‘Apricot or Quince Cakes’
This C18th “cake” recipe doesn’t actually contain any cake, it’s a preserving method that involves just fruit pulp and sugar.
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Jeanette C. Van Duyn’s 1921 Recipe for ‘Casserole of Quinces’
This rather tasty-sounding, early C20th recipe for stewed quinces is simplicity itself.
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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!
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W. M.’s 1662 Recipe for 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.
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Charlotte Mason’s 1778 Recipe for ‘Quince Pudding’
This eighteenth century quince recipe is a tricky one to unravel, but the end result does sound interesting.
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Sir Hugh Plat’s 1636 Recipe for ‘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.
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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..?
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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.
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Gervase Markham’s 1615 Recipe for Preserving Quinces in Cider
Here’s an idea for preserving your quince harvest, and maybe making quince flavoured cider at the same time.
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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.
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Now Collecting Historical Orchard Recipes
I’ve started putting together an index page of the archive recipes that I’m posting on the site.
