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Absolutely the last word on quince

This is, 1 promise, my last word
on quinces. I had a request for
candied, or preserved quince, and
here we go:

Core, but don’t peel your fruit
(brush off the fuzz). Cut in narrow
slices, and cook in enough water
just to cover, until fruit is soft.

Drain, saving the liquid. For every
cup of drained quince put in a
saucepan 1 cup of sugar, and half a
cup of the liquid. Cook this syrup
until a candy thermometer regis-
ters 230 degrees FE, or the syrup
spins a 2 inch thread when
dropped from the tip of a spoon.

At this stage, add your quince
slices to the hot sugar syrup, and
simmer gently until quince is

almost transparent, and most of ~

the syrup has been absorbed.
Drain and roll strips in granulated
sugar before spreading it out to dry.

Another method would be to
leave in the syrup as you would
ginger. Delicious, I’m sure but
FATTENING! This is truly the
very, VERY last word.

‘| wouldnt work, |
wouldn’t eat, |
wouldn't even

wash; I’d sef and
sef a thousand
years, and rest

myself, by gosh!’

The two women who brought ~

me out both recipes and two
beautiful quince last week (Bett
Bugslag and Susan Patterson) were
really wonderful fun to talk to ...
they both are mad, wonderfully
creative cooks and if they don’t
publish a cookbook the culinary
world will be a sadder place.

Bett, for example has recipes for
14 kinds of mustard. I thought I
was doing well when I had recipes
for two (1. Mustard powder mixed
with water, and 2. Mustard powder
mixed with cider vinegar and
brown sugar.). I didn’t tell these
two clever gals that, of course ... I
just tried to look as though I
understood what they were talking
about!

As a final note on this unusual
fruit (the absolutely POSITIVELY,
very last word) Ann Laws brought
us a precious jar of her quince
marmalade so we could have a
taste, and I also have a letter from
Edda Ross containing a delightful
recipe for quince jelly.

Dears, if I have neglected to
mention your names in conjunc-
tion with quince recipes, forgive
me, please. I am absolutely
quninced-out! But I am saving
these recipes, each and every one,
and I do thank all of you for your

generous help!

I'd like to pass on to you Ethel -

Mollet’s verse, which I know all
gardeners will understand. Ethel
says, “When I was a rockhound, I
thought this little verse was enti-
tled The Rockhound’s Lament. I
have since realized that any gar-
dener who has just trundled ten or
a dozen barrowloads of topsoil
from point A to point B (his wife
wanted RAIDED flower beds)
could be forgiven for thinking
these words were penned with him
in mind!”’

“T wish I was a little rock-a-
settin’ on a hill, and not a-doin’
anything, but jest a-settin’ still. I
wouldn’t work, I wouldn’t eat, I
wouldn’t even wash; I’d set and

T*Review Wednesday, October 31,1990 — Al4—

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