Quince jelly.

[Silk]

Not a common fruit,although I had one in the back yard of a house I lived in many years ago,but never did anything with the fruit.There are a few in our town,and my daughter being a postie collected some each day on her run until she had enough to make use of.

I came home last week to find her at our place cooking up the quince in our big pot.What a wonderful smell,but very,very tart! She made quince jelly - it's pretty thin,but you don't use much.I've been having it on peanut butter or cheese...getting into it.

She has also found a palm tree at the lake with nice smelling fruit,she reckons it's a ''jelly palm''.Might be her next experiment...

 

[Shannow]

Silk, I love quince jelly when I can get it...oft served with cheese.

Not worth making it with store bought fruit because of cost. BTW, don't eat raw quince.

As to unusual things, we've been growing chokoe for the last few years (buy a choko, sit in a dark cupboard until it sprouts, slit a bag of potting mix put choko in and water, and stand back).

Snowed last night, so our 100kg of kiwi fruit should be just about set, and sweet.

 

[Volvo_ST1]

I love quince. There were lots of quince hedges where I grew up. Even our waterpark had quince hedges.

Originally Posted By: Shannow
buy a choko, sit in a dark cupboard until it sprouts.


What kind of hoodoo is that?

 

[Shannow]

Yeah, it reads wrong, doesn't it.

Leave the cupboard as necessary to perform bodily functions.

Actually, the choko sprouts quite well without its human in the cupboard with it.

 

[Silk]

Nana used to feed us choko when we stayed with her....watery and tasteless like a marrow.She used to put it in soups.

We had a couch surfer from Washington DC before Easter,and she had feijoa for the first time...she was really into them.They are everywhere,I'm bringing home boxes of them from work where people are dropping them in.Walk along the road and pick feijoas from hedges.

 

[Volvo_ST1]

Originally Posted By: Shannow
Yeah, it reads wrong, doesn't it.

Leave the cupboard as necessary to perform bodily functions.

Actually, the choko sprouts quite well without its human in the cupboard with it.


What a relief! I was afraid of having to perform some sort of Yaris Maneuver involving an innocent gourd. I dodged that bullet!

 

[Shannow]

Silk, Choko are pretty good when not overcooked (and are fresh)...I like them in salads, raw actually, as a tasty cucumber alternative.

feijoas...they are around $10/Kg here when in season. Got chuckles from a bloke (NZer) on another board who says that in season, they are free...

 

[Silk]

The feijoa is related to our native pohutukawa which grows in coastal areas...we call it our Xmas tree as it is covered in huge amounts of red flowers over summer.So the fiejoa seems to do very well here.Hard to imagine anyone here paying for fiegoas,everyone with a tree is trying to give them away.

 

[crinkles]

choko = dog puke, FIL sends us off with a bag every time we visit the farm...

 

[benjamming]

The wife unit made some quince jelly last year I guess it was. Good to hear that your jelly turned up very "runny" as well. All this time, I figured it just didn't work out in the viscosity department but still tasty.

 

[SLCraig]

OMG I love quince!
I haven't had it in ages, but now after reading this thread I will have to get a few of 'em sometime soon.

Mmmmm...