Oven-Dried Quinces in Hibiscus Soup

This was a dish that I invented after nosing around Charlie Trotter’s preparations for cooking on the show and noticing that he was going to use one of my favorite foodstuffs—ripe quinces. Then I was served a cup of hibiscus tea, and an idea for an unconventional soup sprang into my mind.

There was some sweetened, fresh blackberry puree on hand in Charlie’s