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Quinces Honey

A sweet syrup made by boiling quince pulp and juice with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Quinces Honey

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and core the quinces.

  2. Process the quinces in a food mill, saving all the juice.

Cook

  1. Add the juice and pulp to a pot with enough water to cover.

  2. Bring to a boil and then boil for 20 minutes.

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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What each ingredient does

Quinces
Provide the fruit pulp and natural pectin that give the honey its body and set.
Water
Covers the fruit so it cooks evenly and softens in the pot.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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