June 20, 2009
Quince are an odd fruit: they look a bit like an overgrown lemon, smell a bit like a banana, and, when cooked, taste like a tart apple-pear hybrid. What's ...
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Quince: a fruit related to apples and pears. It is golden yellow when mature and 7-12 cm long. Used to make jam, jelly, or pudding, or may be baked or roasted.
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Recipes With Quince
Brandied Pumpkin and Quince Cobbler
All Purpose Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Brandy, Buttermilk
All Purpose Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Brandy, Buttermilk
Flavored Whipped Cream
Buckwheat, Heavy Cream, Honey, Quince
Buckwheat, Heavy Cream, Honey, Quince
Ostrich Fillet
Black Pepper, Brandy, Cream, Oil, Ostrich
Black Pepper, Brandy, Cream, Oil, Ostrich
Fried Quince Empanadas
Cinnamon, Clove, Ginger, Lemons, Orange
Cinnamon, Clove, Ginger, Lemons, Orange
Goose With Sauce Madame
Bread Crumbs, Cinnamon, Garlic Clove, Ginger, Goose
Bread Crumbs, Cinnamon, Garlic Clove, Ginger, Goose
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Other Names: 木瓜 (Chinese), マルメロ (Japanese), سفرجل (Arabic), Айва (Russian), Coing (French) All Translations
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The Quince (), or ''Cydonia oblonga'', is the sole member of the genus ''Cydonia'' and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is a small deciduous tree, growing 5–8 m tall and 4–6 m wide, related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7–12 cm long and 6–9 cm broad. The immature fruit is green with dense grey-white , most of which rubs off before maturity in late autumn when the fruit changes colour to yellow with hard, strongly-perfumed flesh. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, 6–11 cm long, with an entire margin and densely pubescent with fine white hairs. The flowers, produced in spring after the leaves, are white or pink, 5 cm across, with five petals. Quince is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Brown-tail, ''Bucculatrix bechsteinella'', ''Bucculatrix pomifoliella'', ''Coleophora cerasivorella'', ''Coleophora malivorella'', Green Pug and Winter Moth. Four other species previously included in the genus ''Cydonia'' are now treated in separate genera. These are the Chinese Quince ''Pseudocydonia sinensis'', a native of China, and the three flowering quinces of eastern Asia in the genus ''Chaenomeles''. Another unrelated fruit, the Bael, is sometimes called the "Bengal Quince". Turkey ranks first in the world quince production by producing the quarter of the total world production.
