Spiced Quinces

Name: Spiced Quinces
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon cloves; 2 vanilla pods/beans; 1 teaspoon sea salt; 50 g/2 oz root ginger; juice and rind of 2 lemons; 2 vanilla pods/beans; 2 cinnamon sticks; 175 g/6 oz/1 cup brown sugar; 600 ml/1 pint/2½ cups cider vinegar; 1.5 kg/3 lb quinces

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
10 min

Appears in

The New Vegetarian

By Colin Spencer

Published 1986

About

You may find quinces hard to get hold of, but it is worth the effort as they look stunningly beautiful when they turn a dark reddish amber in their juice. They also taste as good as they look and are edible after one month. The flavour of quince defies definition, being part pear, apple and lemon, yet very much itself.

Ingredients

1.5 kg/3 lb quinces
175 g/6

Preserve
Gluten-free
Vegan
Spicy

Method

Slice the quinces in half and core them. Melt the sugar in the vinegar and add the rest of the ingredients. Add the quinces and simmer for 30 minutes. Cool and bottle.