Baked Quince, French Style
- Total Time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
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Ingredients
- 6 to 8quinces
- Lemon juice
- 1cup sugar
- ½cup lightly salted or unsalted butter
- ¼cup heavy cream
- Cream and sugar for passing
Preparation
- Step 1
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Step 2
Peel and hollow out cores of quinces, being careful not to pierce bottom of fruit.
- Step 3
Sprinkle each with lemon juice as you go.
- Step 4
Stand quinces in buttered gratin dish.
- Step 5
Mix together to a cream ⅔ cup sugar, ½ cup butter and 3 generous tablespoons heavy cream.
- Step 6
Stuff quinces with mixture; if some is left, add halfway through cooking.
- Step 7
Top each quince with sprinkling of sugar.
- Step 8
Bake 1 hour or until quinces are tender.
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Baked quince is incredible. I have made a version of this for years -- quarter the quince -- they are tough little monsters, so be careful cutting them. Instead of cream or lemon, I use orange juice and season with cardamom.
Like baked apples, seasoning baked quince can be varied. Experiment.
I’m not sure why but this wasn’t very good at all. It’s strange since the ingredients are all delicious independently. But they came together in an unfortunate way. It was all sort of gluey, bland and gross.
I love quince. I order 10 -2.0 lbs at the farmers market. The charge $1 per pound. I roughly chop and add an equal amount of apples. Cook in the instant pot for 30 minutes on high. I eat with yogurt or as a topping for peanut butter toast. Yum. I don’t add sugar. I like tart. The apples sweeten enough for me.
How do you know if the quince is ripe enough?
The quince, although soft, was very acidic and not very tasty. I don't think I'll be trying this again.