Skip to main content
Dessert

Quince Honey

Quince honey is a sweet preserve made by boiling quince with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Quince and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,444 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Quince Honey

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the syrup and quinces

  1. Combine sugar and boiling water in a pot and boil gently.

  2. Wipe the quinces clean and peel them.

  3. Grate the quinces quickly to prevent browning.

Cook and jar

  1. Add the grated quinces to the boiling syrup and boil for 5 to 10 minutes.

  2. Pour the mixture into three half-pint jelly glasses and cover once cool.

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.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Quince + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,444 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Quinces
Provide natural pectin for setting and the fragrant flavour of the honey.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, as the syrup reduces, helps the mixture thicken.

The step that matters

Grate the quinces quickly. Quince flesh browns quickly when exposed to air, so grating and adding it to the syrup without delay keeps the color lighter.

“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.

You might also like

Quince JellyQuince Jelly131 recipesWhite CakeWhite Cake431 recipesPound CakePound Cake373 recipesOrange Bundt CakeOrange Bundt Cake349 recipes