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The Colour of Petra or Jaipur
Baked Quinces with Ricciarelli Biscuits
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By Rowley Leigh
Published 2018
When I bemoaned the fact that the quinces had failed to arrive from Paris for a photo shoot, two readers contacted me to say their garden was full of them and they could hardly give them away. Better still, that day an old friend rang to ask if I wanted the usual consignment from his Warwickshire garden, paid for in kind? By the next day I was awash with quinces, large and small.*
*My daughter gave me a quince tree several years ago, and so I now enjoy a glut of my own.
Despite their plenitude, quinces do not really figure as a commercial item in Britain. No doubt readers will email to tell me their local farmers’ market has an abundance of these curiously misshapen and knobbly fruit. This may be the case, but it is a rare and specialist shop, certainly not a supermarket, that stocks quinces.