Poached Autumn Fruit Salad with Elderflower Custard

Autumn is generous in her bounty, as she brings us the most fragrant of produce with which to play. Quince and elderflowers are both imbued with the headiest of scents: this combined with the cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg in the recipe below will have them drooling at your kitchen window.

In fact, in the Middle East quinces are oft times purchased purely for the fragrance they emit just hanging around in the fruit bowl (they certainly aren’t bought for their looks, as they are the k