Quince Fruits In Mid-July

[lsophial]

Google it Membrillo (Quince Paste) Recipe Print OptionsPrint (no photos)Print (with photos) Ingredients 4 pounds quince, washed, peeled, cored, roughly chopped 1 vanilla pod, split 2 strips (1/2 inch by 2 inches each) of lemon peel (only the yellow peel, no white pith) 3 Tbsp lemon juice About 4 cups of granulated sugar, exact amount will be determined during cooking Method

[lsophial]

In Argentina we make 'dulce de membrillos' with this fruit. The fruit is called Membrillo. The Dulce the memberillo is a tipical dessert of Argentina, and it is eating with fresh cheese. Cut the dulce of Membrillo in squares and equal size of fresh cheese. Enjoy it. Also, the Dulce de memebrillo is easy to make. As easy as 'dulce the batatas' Sweet or yam potetoes. AHM!!!

[merciasound]

Quince jelly is lovely, and such a pretty colour. As quinces are hard, whrn they get a blush on them and pick easily off the tree, stew them in a pan with water and sugar, then drain through a muslin bag, add two leaves of geletin to every pint of liquid, and pour into hot, steralised jars. Lovely stired into casseroles, stews, even to eat on toast

[andrewburbidge]

@merciasound

If anyone might be interested, a search for this with Google should find the page with recipes for quince liquer and there is a link for a translation: - 10 quitten likör Rezept/e -

[andrewburbidge]

@merciasound

Thanks for the information. I don't do much cooking but have tried them stewed with sugar, which was quite good, if a little bitter. Some people make liquers and I was surprised to read that cooking for a long time makes them go pink.

[Queenofbitches8]

i have a quince bush in my yard i have nothing to do with them

[gagaflow]

in my country, chile, they are named membrillos

[andrewburbidge]

That's an interesting name. Perhaps suggestive of something to do with the qualities of the fruit.

[gagaflow]

great video!! quinces are delicious!!

[EKrasniqi]

those aren't quinces, dunno what they are. But not quinces, cause I have them in my garden

[andrewburbidge]

I'm sure they are quinces. Flowers are red and fruits start green then go yellow in autumn. The fruit stays quite bitter and they have seeds a bit like apples but larger numbers of them.

[MonotheismForever]

no they are not, we know them cuse we have them all over kosovo

[andrewburbidge]

What's the name of them in your language then? I can translate it with Google Translate. Quinces grow all over Europe.

[MonotheismForever]

We call them Ftua, or ftoy in prular.

[andrewburbidge]

In Croatioan, 'dunja' means 'quince'. Is that familiar? I couldn't find anything using Google Translate for 'ftua' or 'ftoy'.

[MonotheismForever]

No thats in slavic, albanian is different, we call them ftua or ftoy.

[andrewburbidge]

I checked it and 'ftua' is 'quince'.

I know Albanian is renowned to be very different from most other European languages but I translated the lyrics of a Eurovision entry, Neser Skoj, 'Tomorrow, I go' a couple of years ago and I found that there are similarities to other languages I know with quite a lot of words. 'Neser' is like German for 'next (day)' and 'skoj' is like 'I go'.

Perhaps the name for quince in Albanian is from the fact that it is a bitter fruit with a lot of seeds.

[MonotheismForever]

Albanian in its corre its germanic and illyrian, its expression sounds much more like italian due to roman influence.

Yes we have lots of germanic similareties, also latin. Very few slavic.

[andrewburbidge]

Thanks. I'd never heard that about Albanian, as far as I can remember. Germanic peoples migrated very widely so I suppose it's not surprising there's a connection there.