Quince
Grating
Tansy, Constance and Patience brought a few quinces home from Read Island. A nice quince jam can be made by washing the fuzz off the fruit and grating them including the skin, but not the core. The core has a lot of brachysclerids so it has a gritty texture.
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Boiling
Grated Quince starts out yellow! Six cups grated quince in 4 1/2 cups of water.
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It ends up pink! After the fruit is boiled soft, add 4 cups of sugar, and keep boiling till eventually jam is acheived…
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Tasting
Jam on Toast, what could be better?.
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Quimper Hittys 
Yum, jam on toast, and not just any jam, but quince jam. What industrious happenings there have been the past week or so around QHland.
Yes – 20 pints of jam so far, and about 10 more to come – fortunately we had human as well as Hitty help.
20 jars and more to go?!! That is a lot of grating!!! And a lot of jam. I made some apple butter but only a few pints…nothing like the production line you have going. The girls look quite cozy eating jam on toast.
Yes, we live in Quimper Quinceland at the moment, and luckily the girls are always happy to do quality control on the cooking experiments!
Great job, esp. with the Hittys’ help!
Yes m-m-m-m-m very good on that nice brown bread!
Quince jam on toast with butter and a cup of hot tea – just delicious. The hittys must have been great little helpers !!
They are good companions – sometimes sticky but always enthusiastic,
The Quimper Hittys have lots of culinary adventures!
They do! They figure any occasion that involves making (or eating) yummy food is worth it! Someone around here is still having catfish dreams…