Apple Paste

I first came across this apple paste in the Basque country. I was in Idiazábal, famed for its delicious sheep’s cheese, and was feeling decidedly peckish. I bought a chunk of the smoky cheese, a loaf of chewy country bread and sticky square of dulce de manzana from the local store and scoffed it in the street: what a combination!

The paste is smoother and slightly tarter than its better-known relative, quince paste. It’s delicious with blue cheese too.