To each pound of cut-up quinces add a cup of water, put in a kettle and stew until soft.
Strain the water, and add it to the quinces and the sugar.
Take three pints of the water the quinceswere scalded in, and boil in it both the parings and the cores.
Next day set the quinces over a slow fire, and bring them very gradually to the boil, skimming and stirring them all the time they are cooking.
Note, you take fountain water, and put the Quinces into it, both of them being cold.
I found by this making, that the juyce of Quinces is not so good to make gelly.
How seldom does one see Quinces planted for ornament, and yet there is hardly any small tree that better deserves such treatment.
Some Quinces planted about eight years ago are now perfect pictures, their lissome branches borne down with the load of great, deep-yellow fruit, and their leaves turning to a colour almost as rich and glowing.
Just as much as strawberries, and pears and quinces are," said the Chief Gardener.
Quinces may be profitably cultivated in this country as a variety with other fruit-trees, and may be planted in espaliers or as standards.
The French use quinces for flavouring many sauces.
After the syrup has thoroughly boiled add the grated quinces and boil all together until it becomes a reddish color, when it is ready to be put into jars for use.
Rhubarb, apricots and quinces are sometimes used for jelly but are difficult to make unless combined with other fruits rich in pectose like currants and apples.
With fruit such as apples or quinces add enough water to cover them, but with watery fruits, such as grapes and currants, omit any water.
Sometimes apples and quinces are used in combination and make an excellent jelly.
Follow the recipe for apple jelly, substituting quinces for apples.
Take quinces not cored nor pared, boil them in fair water not too tender, and put them in a barrel, fill it up with their liquor, and close on the head.
Otherwhiles: Quinces in quarters, or pears, pippins gooseberries, grapes, or barberries.
The first thing he did at W---- was to help us into our cottage, himself inheriting our lodgings and the quinces from us.
If you look the simples you may see the virtues of them: they all cool and comfort the heart, and strengthen the stomach, Syrup of Quinces stays vomiting, so doth all Syrup of Grapes.
Take of the flesh of Quinces cut and boiled in fair water to a thickness, eight pounds, white sugar six pounds, boil it to its just thickness.
Strain the water in which the parings and cores have cooked into the water in which the quinces have cooked, and after adding the sugar boil for ten minutes.
Pack the quinces in jars, add a pint of good brandy to the syrup and pour boiling hot over the quinces and seal immediately.
When they are cool put the quinces in glass jars, filling each one half full.
Cut the quartered quinces in small pieces and put as many of them in the kettle as the liquor will cover.
When this water is almost cold, put the quinces in the preserving kettle with the quince water and boil until soft, mash with a wooden spoon or beetle.
Meanwhile, cut the quinces into eighths, put them into a kettle with three pints of water and simmer until the fruit can be pierced with a straw; then lift the fruit from the water and lay them on a platter to drain.
Cut the quinces in small pieces and let them boil in the strained water for one hour with kettle uncovered.
Very firm fruit, such as quinces and sweet apples, as well as some unripe fruits, should be cooked in clear water until tender and then sweetened.
Quinces should be rubbed with a coarse towel before they are washed.
I can see him turn his horse loose at the garden-gate, and walk through the quinces that lead up to the cottage, with his saddle on his arm.
Them peaches always used to bear well in the old man's time, and the apples and quinces too.
Plums and grapes should be peeled and seeded, apricots and peaches peeled and cut in quarters or eighths or dice; cherries also must be seeded; quinces may be steamed until tender.
Quinces prepared in the same manner are equally as good.
Cut the quinces into thin slices like apples for pies.
Quarter five fair-looking quinces and boil them till they are tender in water, then peel them and push them through a coarse sieve.
But the quincesand cocoanuts were graciously received.
But he found trees covered with a small fruit resembling quinces in every particular of look, taste and smell, and that made him persevere, since it was most important to learn the useful products of the island.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quinces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
