Poulet aux Coings

Leone Jaffin, in her book 150 recettes et mille et un souvenirs d’une juive d’Algérie, recommends this fra grant stew of chicken and quince as the ideal dish for Rosh Hashanah. In Joelle Bahloul’s family, it was eaten the night before the Yom Kippur fast. Quince are thought by some to have been the apple in the Garden of Eden. When they are in season, they add a perfumed sweetness to any dish. Ideally, they should cook until their Venetian red color comes up. I’ve noticed that most E