American Southern

Preserved Quince

Name: Preserved Quince
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients: 1 each quinces; 1 lb sugar

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 27. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

20 minPrep Time

60 minCook Time

16Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

1 each quinces
1 lb sugar

Instructions

1
Prepare your syrup; when boiling, pare and core your quinces, drop them in the liquid, and let them remain three or four minutes.
2
Skim them out and lay on platters, then boil the syrup till thick; drain the quinces, then weigh them, allowing one lb sugar to one lb of fruit; put all in the kettle and boil about twenty minutes; put the fruit in jars, and turn over them the syrup.

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