How to Store a Quince

[browngirl]

I was discussing this with a couple of friends, so I thought I'd post instructions. I think this will also work on hard apples like crabapples, but I haven't tried it..

Anyway. Take your quince. Examine it for soft spots. If you find none, it should keep.

Take about half a square foot of paper towel, and a square foot of plastic wrap. Wrap the quince entirely in the paper towel, then entirely again in the plastic wrap.

Place the quince in the back of your vegetable drawer. Thus ensconced, it'll keep for up to a year. Its flesh might turn a little brown, but as long as it's firm it'll cook up perfectly.

Comments

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Timely! I was just talking about your quince experiments with a gardener friend last night (over a bowl of apple/raspberry/quince sauce he had made).

Maybe we will bring some quinces home from the inlaws' unkillable quince tree? bush?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

ABSOLUTELY get some quinces! If they're little, shred the whole thing and
make something with a strain-the-hard-bits-out step like quince paste or
ratafia. If they're big, the sky's the limit: quinces can do anything a
cooked apple or pear can do, often with more panache.

And hey, I wouldn't mind a few, she said hopefully.

[med_cat]

Interesting; never knew quinces could keep that long

[wickedladybear.livejournal.com]

Ours aren't even ripe yet and have been sitting in a wooden bowl for nearly a month, if not longer. Still firm, still look and smell ok, just still green. One or two are just now starting to look a bit yellow-green.

Fascinating things!

[wickedladybear.livejournal.com]

Ours aren't even ripe yet and have been sitting in a wooden bowl for nearly a month, if not longer. Still firm, still look and smell ok, just still green. One or two are just now starting to look a bit yellow-green.

Fascinating things!