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Quinces, Wet

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Quinces, Wet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Choose fine, ripe quinces without spots.

  2. Prick them with a fork and place them in a pan of cold water.

  3. Bring the water to a boil and cook until tender.

  4. Remove from heat and transfer to cold water.

  5. Once cold, peel the quinces, cut them into quarters, and remove the core.

  6. Place the quarters into a third bowl of cold water to finish blanching.

  7. Preserve them as desired.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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