Kydóni Glikó

There are probably no finer quinces than those growing on Naxos, very large, with a delicate perfume, a luminous-green gold in colour, and not covered with the usual down.

Kyría Erýnni gave me a basket of these quinces one autumn day and installed herself in our dwelling to ‘supervise’ the making of the conserve. This is what she made me do.

Wipe and weigh the fruit and acquire