UPDATE: I just realized I never said what it tasted like. When it was cooking up, the smell was very wine-y and intense. The taste is very hard to describe--sweet, wine, port, prunes are few words that come to my mind when I taste it. But the taste isn't intense like what the smell when it was cooking up. Texture is a little chunky. I can see how it would go well with some cheese as the Spanish would do.
has
been quiet, in the background of my ever crazy mind since I heard
the story on npr
[Reading up on it, find bath products scented with it, never in the stores, never getting to the farmers' market to see if they have any]. I
recently spotted a lonely scrubby quince tree near my route to the restaurant and have been
plotting how I could pick me some [on private property, no where to park without getting noticed]. So when someone at work told
me she got some from our office fruit/veggie people, I jumped at the chance to buy some.
If
you never heard or seen a quince, it looks like a bumpy pear/apple in a
yellow green color as you can see above. It's scent is incredible when it is ripe, can be almost too sweet of a scent. It can't
be eaten raw, tastes horrible. But has lots of pectin in it, to make it perfect for jams
and jellies. Now
I have 2 lbs in my hands and I will cook up some jam this weekend to add
to vanilla cake or maybe some Earl Grey Tea cake with vanilla
buttercream.
