Flowering quince fruits

Grajean · August 2018

I have lots of fruit on the flowering quince this year, are they edible? When can they be picked?

Dovefromabove · August 2018

Yes, you can use them to flavour lots of dishes ... they're very hard so I chop them up roughly and cook them with a pot-roasted pheasant or guinea fowl ... delicious. Also delicious adding flavour to apple or pear jelly. I leave them on the shrub and pick and use when needed and as I usually use them with game I'll use them from October onwards ... that way any I don't use will break down with the frosts and the blackbirds can help themselves.

Grajean · August 2018

Thank you, will leave them on the shrub.

Palustris · August 2018

Don't forget Quince Jelly. I really like that. Easy enough to make too. Boil the ripe fruit until soft then put the juice through a muslin cloth. 1 pint of liquid to a pound of sugar, Boil until it reaches setting point.

Dovefromabove · August 2018

Berghill said:

Don't forget Quince Jelly. I really like that. Easy enough to make too. Boil the ripe fruit until soft then put the juice through a muslin cloth. 1 pint of liquid to a pound of sugar, Boil until it reaches setting point.

Mmmm wonderful with some really good farmhouse cheddar

Palustris · August 2018

If only one was allowed to eat cheese!

Dovefromabove · August 2018

Wot!!!!!!!!!!!!! No cheese !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please can I have your share?

Palustris · August 2018

With pleasure ( and a certain amount of envy). Try Shropshire Red, if you can find it.

Dovefromabove · August 2018

Thanks @Berghill 😋 will do ... already a fan of Shropshire Blue ... one of the best blues there is 😀

steephill · August 2018

Speaking of cheese - you can of course make quince cheese after making the jelly. Or turn it into a fruit leather and make your very own fruit gums.

Flowering quince fruits

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