Quincey work happening!
it of a mid-winter Quince day today!
What I do in autumn is pick the quinces and then prepare them (peeled and sliced) and then pop them in the freezer.
So come winter when the days are a bit wet and cold I can be busy in my little commercial kitchen preparing the fruit. Todays batches were 44 jars of Quince Jelly and 32 jars of Quince Relish. Yum!!
Funny thing is that quite a lot of people who come to visit us here in the Tinui Food Forest Shop don't actually know what a quince is. I guess it's one of those fruits that has gone out of fashion. The people that do know about quinces will often say things like "oh my granny had a quince tree"!
Perhaps here in Tinui Food Forest I can reignite interest in them? I love quince trees- pretty flowers in spring and the most fragrant fruit in autumn. Some of the quinces are huge too- one tree has quinces that wiegh in at 800 to 900grams.
You have to be careful around that tree that you don't get in the way of them when they drop out of the tree!
