Quince Syrup

Preparation info
  • Makes

    500 ml

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Paramount Desserts

By Christine Manfield

Published 1998

  • About

Flavour homemade vanilla or cinnamon ice-cream with this syrup, or spoon it over an apple tart or brioche. Try it with baked apples, quinces or pears, and serve it with cake and cream.

Ingredients

  • 4 ripe quinces
  • castor sugar
  • 1 stick cinnamon
  • 1<

Method

  1. Chop the quinces coarsely including the peel, core and seeds, then weigh them. Put the chopped quince into a large stainless steel stockpot with an equal weight of castor sugar; the cinnamon, the vanilla bean and enough water to cover the contents.
  2. Bring the pot to a boil and cook over a medium heat for 2 hours or until the fruit is a dark and rich red and the