The thing is… there's edible, and then there's sumptuous.
Freezing a quince would disrupt its structure enough to soften it enough to yield to human teeth (keeping one in the back of the fridge for a year does something similar), but it would still taste kind of astringent and …. the raw flavor's a little prickly. I really think that cooking quinces brings out their best. Even just barely cooked through the flavor is smoothed and sweeter and no longer tannins-prickly, and the longer they cook, the pinker and then redder their flesh turns, and the richer and more complex their flavor becomes. I took this to an extreme recently by making wet sucket out of quince, which took a week of soaking in sugar with daily boilings, and the scent! I wish I could wear the syrup behind my ears! And the quinces taste *divine*.
Maybe I'm being unconscionably poky, but I really think people should be encouraged to just cook the quinces. One gets so much more out of them, I think. No one tries to eat raw potatoes, after all.
*finishes pontificating* *blushes muchly at my own temerity*
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The thing is… there's edible, and then there's sumptuous.
Freezing a quince would disrupt its structure enough to soften it enough to yield to human teeth (keeping one in the back of the fridge for a year does something similar), but it would still taste kind of astringent and …. the raw flavor's a little prickly. I really think that cooking quinces brings out their best. Even just barely cooked through the flavor is smoothed and sweeter and no longer tannins-prickly, and the longer they cook, the pinker and then redder their flesh turns, and the richer and more complex their flavor becomes. I took this to an extreme recently by making wet sucket out of quince, which took a week of soaking in sugar with daily boilings, and the scent! I wish I could wear the syrup behind my ears! And the quinces taste *divine*.
Maybe I'm being unconscionably poky, but I really think people should be encouraged to just cook the quinces. One gets so much more out of them, I think. No one tries to eat raw potatoes, after all.
*finishes pontificating*
*blushes muchly at my own temerity*