Tuesday 25 September 2007

Quinces and other things




The quince season is well upon us.................

Very fortunate this year in haveing access to 4 different varieties; the one I grow in the garden is Meecher's Prolific - not quite ready, but a good crop from a young tree is promised. A friend up the road is letting me have her cathayensis quinces - small, round, green with a purple blush down one side; another friend let me have his japonica quinces - 1lb of them made 2 gallons of lovely semlling wine. The 4th type is the large yellow ones, possibly Vranja, that OH managed to forage last week. Two of these were grated to go into quince brandy, the rest went inot some Forage Wine - quinces, wildling pears and the last of the elderberries - promising brew, that one. Very fond of quinces, have a notion to write a book devoted to them...........

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