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Quinces and Sweet Apples
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Quinces and Sweet Apples

3 ingredients 4 steps gutenberg
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Ingredients

  • 6 cups sugar cook quinces in water until tender
  • 6 qts
  • 5 qts

Directions

1

6 qts. quinces in eighths 6 qts. sweet apples in quarters 5 qts. water 4-6 cups sugar

2

Cook quinces in water until tender, remove with skimmer; cook apples in same water, remove apples, measure water, adding more if necessary; dissolve sugar in water, heat to boiling, add fruit, simmer a few minutes and put into jars.

3

Quinces are much improved by combining with sweet apples. When the apples are cooked with them, the quinces become more tender.

4

Quinces and citron and quinces and pears may also be combined.

By Evora Bucknum Perkins · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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