what is quince?

Answer 1

Hello,

The quince is a small sweet fruit grown on a tree, the quince originally comes from China and japen. The fruit of the quince is hard and cannot really be eaten raw but can be cooked. It can be made into wonderful jams or jellies.

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Answer 2

Definitions of Quince on the Web:

* This yellow-skinned fruit looks and tastes like a cross between an apple and a pear. Its texture and flavor make it better cooked than raw. Its high pectin content makes it ideal for use in jams, jellies and preserves. Introduced to Latin America by the Spanish and/or Portuguese; looks like a large pear, but is hard and very sour; usually cooked with sugar, after which it becomes faint pink.
www.recipegoldmine.com/glossary/glossaryQ.html

* some northern white Rhônes (from Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier grapes) recalI this flavor; however, it has also been noticed in such widely divergent wines such as Napa Sauvignon blancs and Italian Pinot Grigios.
wineschool.com/vocabulary.html

* Member of the plum family, rarely eaten uncooked, used often in preserves.
www.saffronrestauranttruro.co.uk/chef'_dictionary.htm

* small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
* aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* The Quince Cydonia oblonga, the sole member of the genus Cydonia, is a small to medium size tree native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is a fruit tree related to apples and pears, and like them has a pome fruit, which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7-12 cm long and 6-9 cm broad; the fruit flesh is hard, and strongly perfumed. The immature fruit are green, with dense grey-white pubescence which mostly (but not all) rubs off before maturity. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quince

Answer 3

A quince is a fruit, it looks like a large knobbly pear. It can be made into condiments like quince jelly or quince cheese.
Funnily enough, a contestant on BBC's lottery quiz tonight didn't know what it was and lost £30,000.

Answer 4

The Quince is a Bush - shrub that has hard fruit, similar to apples but considerably harder and more sour.

Answer 5

A small pear shaped fruit which comes from the tree japanese quince. I believe it is used in the making of GIN or as a flavouring to addd to gin. Not really useful for any other purpoe like eating etc..

Answer 6

A yellow nobbly and edible fruit about the size and shape of a large pear and grows on trees. It is thought to be the original apple referred to in the Garden of Eden.

Answer 7

It is a western Asian shrub or tree (Cydonia oblonga) having white flowers and hard applelike fruit. It cab also be the aromatic, many-seeded fruit of this plant, edible only when cooked.

Answer 8

Its a fruit that grows on trees which is very acidic when fresh, but once cooked it becomes very sweet. Great with foie gras

Answer 9

A samll yellow/orange frunit. Good for jam!

Answer 10

Or you might mean quinsy which is a tonsil abscess that gives you a very severe sore throat.
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