Quince Paste

[Grahame]

I made some quince paste last night, it took about 5 hours. It's now sitting in the laundry to set. Only thing is, I'm not sure how to use it! I've read that you can use it on toast or scones, and that it goes really well with goats milk cheese. Any other suggestions?

Anyone else make it?

[eco4560]

I wish I could grow quinces.... I love quince paste with a really bitey mature blue cheese and a cracker. Mmmmmmmm

[Grahame]

It's one of those recipes that makes me think... How did someone come up with this? But then again I think that about a lot of things. Beer for example - those Mesopotamians were a crazy bunch.

[purplepear]

How did someone come up with this? But then again I think that about a lot of things.

Like Vegemite - who would think to try eating the scum off a brewers barrel?

[pippimac]

It's one of those things that has limited uses for me, but I still think it's amazing.
A dollop added to Middle Eastern stews/tagine.
Actually anything Middle Eastern: grilled eggplant with feta, parsley and quince paste...
Melted, it's the best glaze ever for fruit tarts, baked fruit etc.
I always end up with quantities of jam/jelly/paste every year. I don't really eat bread and it gets used in poached fruit, especially rhubarb, apple crumble...
It's great with sheep/goat meat.
I just had a lentil, feta and rocket salad. Diced quince paste would've been nice...

[Grasshopper]

I made it once about 15years ago
Used it with cheese on a platter and ate it straight with walnut bread.
I loved it just dont have access to Quinces anymore.
Used to have a big tree in the backyard(as a kid) they are nice eaten fresh when really ripe,mum would make jam with them and use the leaves in stew (like a bay leaf).

[pippimac]

Grasshopper, I've never heard of eating uncooked quinces!
Do you think it was a kid thing, like when we spent lots of our time eating grass stems, random berries, limpets etc and pronounced them all delicious? (limpets, btw, are NOT delcious...)
The amazing, almost bubblegum-fake aroma always made me want to eat them raw, but after one rather polystyreney experience, not so much.
They were later joined by olives, and both are on my 'don't accept produce from old Italian guys who can't keep a straight face' list...

[Grasshopper]

No they where nice from memory firm but sweet had to be really ripe,I dont have overly sweet tastes but my Mum and I loved eating them of the tree.
PS
Limpets are actually not bad either

[pippimac]

As kids, we'd give pretty much anything a go. Limpets were always there whatever the tide so we consumed quite a few, but they had a strange bitter aftertaste. Maybe it was our wild West Coast, NZ limpets' attempt at self-defence... but their evolution certainly didn't involve repelling roving gangs of feral kids!
I just realised it's about quince season. I will find a ripe and aromatic specimen, wipe off the fuzz, take a bite and report back...