Quince Glaze

Quince jelly – which is the traditional use to which British quinces are put – seems to me to involve an exhausting and masochistic procedure. Take a tree of quinces, several days’ dripping through elaborately suspended muslin, and what do you end up with? A bare pot’s bottom of precious liquid, dotted with suicidally greedy ants and bugs.

This is the smarter alternative: if you’re feeling domestically inclined you can use it to glaze fruit tarts or to sweeten and perfume apple pies