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[StockeyDAW]

Welcome Samm - how about a nice Orange, Honey, Quince Wine. Anyway - numerous ideas and techniques on this form - all of us want to help, Cheers DAW

[StockeyDAW]

Here is a basic Quince recipe - can be adapted to your likes. Cheers DAW

QUINCE WINE

4 Ib. ripe quinces

8 oz, chopped raisins

2 3/4 Ib sugar

1 gallon water

Rind and juice of 2 large lemons

Campden tablet

Pectozyme

Nutrient

Sauterne yeast

This wine has an unusual, distinctive, quite pleasant flavour and is well worth making if you can get the quinces. Apart from making a pleasant social wine it could very well be served with rabbit. Wash off any dirt from the quinces and cut off any stalks. Quarter and core the fruit, then crush or grate them into the gallon of hot water containing the chopped raisins. When cool add a Campden tablet, a teaspoonful of pectozyme and the rind and juice of the lemons. Soak for three days then strain, and stir in the sugar, nutrient and yeast. Ferment and serve as a medium-sweet wine. The flavour is not so pleasant if the wine is either too sweet or too dry.

[StockeyDAW]

Some other precautionary notes for quinces: Seeds poisonous very tough skin etc:

A quince is a fruit resembling a pear that was first cultivated in the Middle East. In fact, the proverbial apple offered to Adam by Eve may actually be more accurately translated as a quince. Quinces cannot be eaten like pears or apples, with the exception of the less cultivated pineapple variety, but need to be baked or frozen to eliminate their acidity.

Once ripened, the yellowish fruit still has a hard exterior, much like a winter squash. If one is not using quinces immediately, cooking guides recommend storing them in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. The seeds are poisonous and should be discarded. The core of the quince is very hard, but using a sharp paring knife will divest the quince of both the unusable core and the dangerous seeds.

Though the interior of the quince is white when raw, cooking will turn the flesh a deep red. Quinces, like apples, contain a lot of pectin, so they are frequently used for jams and jellies. Modern American recipes also suggest replacing one third of the apples in an apple pie

[StockeyDAW]

Samm - all - I had to include this - reminds us of a youthful time in our lives? Cheers


The "Fruit of Love":
They dined on mince and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand on the edge of the sand
They danced by the light of the moon.

~ "The Owl and the Pussycat," by Edward Lear

[Samm]

The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat..........

next line guys

[lockwood1956]

They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note.

[Samm]

Crikey.........that was quick!

[Samm]

The owl looked at the stars.........your turn

[lockwood1956]

Now far be it from me to correct someone in open forum (yea right)

but your line should have been

The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar,

[lockwood1956]

and my reply would have been




O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are,

what a beautiful pussy you are
(are we having fun yet?)

[StockeyDAW]

OH!!!!!!!!!! Roar You guys are Funnyyyyy still laughing here - sorry I did not know any more so here is the rest IT WAS A REAL GOOD POEM Remember for a very long time -----

The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are.'

Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl,
How charmingly sweet you sing.
O let us be married, too long have we tarried,
But what shall we do for a ring?'
They sailed away for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
And there in the wood a Piggy-wig stood,
With a ring in the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose!
With a ring in the end of his nose.

'Dear Pig, are you willing, to sell for one shilling
Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day,
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon!
They danced by the light of the moon.

-- Edward Lear



Cheers DAW --How did you all remember that.

[Hippie]

I haven't heard that since I was a little boy!

[Mamgiowl]

Hiya Samm, you're very welcome, and thanks for sparking off that poem. It used to be my favourite when I was a kid

[medpretzel]

Thanks for the poem.

Made me smile.

[valleydaz]

Hello all

I am pleased to find such a good winemaking forum, this will be a great help for me.
I live in Holland, have an allotment and am new to winemaking. The reason i'm starting making wine apart from liking a drink is that I have a lot of fruit and veg at the allotment of which some goes to waste. So instead of waste.......wine!
At the moment I have 2 demijohns full of grape wine from my own vine, its doing quite well I think, and am going to be starting on pear wine today. I've found a nice recipe from the jack keller website, so i think that that will be the one I go with.
here it is -

http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request203.asp

has anyone tried it?

cheers