In our house, fall is a time filled with delicious baked tasty treats, dried candied persimmons, and quince butter. Quince butter comes from my husband’s family. It truly is wonderful on warm bread, or oatmeal, or wrapped up with peanut butter on tortillas, or simply eaten with a spoon.
The good news is that quince butter is really easy to make, it just takes some time. And it helps to have a friendly sister-in-law with a quince tree.
Here is the recipe:
Wash, core, and quarter fruit (there is a lot of pectin in quince cores, so you can keep the quince cores in the freezer and add them into the pot with other fruit later when you are making jams or jellies that need a small amount of pectin to jell)
Cook fruit in a small amount of water until tender.
Push tender fruit through a sieve (this is the part that really is fun for kids)
Now you are ready to make the quince butter.
- 8 cups sieved and cooked quince
- 2/3 cups sugar per 1 cup fruit
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup vinegar
- 1 tsp ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
Cook on low heat, stirring constantly until the mixture coats a spoon. (tasting along the way is absolutely encouraged!)
You can now can the quince butter, but I usually freeze batches of the sieved fruit and cook up a batch every now and then when we need some quince butter.
