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To Keep Quinces

A method of preserving quinces by boiling them in water in sealed bottles.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Gather ripe, sound quinces.

  2. Rub each quince with a clean cloth to remove the down.

  3. Quarter the quinces and place them into bottles, corking them tightly.

Preserve

  1. Boil the bottles in water for 30 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

Ripe quinces
Provide the fruit that is preserved, so ripeness and soundness affect the final result.

“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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