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the fruit too stubborn to be eaten until fire begs it sweet
means A hard, fragrant, yellow fruit related to the apple and pear, too sour and astringent to eat raw but turning sweet and rosy when cooked.
from From Middle English 'quince,' originally the plural of 'quoyn,' from Old French 'cooin,' going back to Latin 'cotoneum malum' — the apple of Cydonia, an ancient city on Crete. So the name carries a place inside it: the fruit named for a town, its Greek root 'kydonion' wandering through Latin and French until English mistook a plural for a single golden thing.
- raw verdict
- Hard, sour, basically inedible straight off the tree
- color trick
- Cooks from pale yellow to deep ruby red
- ancient fame
- Likely the real golden apple of Greek myth
- pectin king
- Loaded with natural pectin, sets jam effortlessly
- perfume
- One fruit scents an entire room
quince jam preserve — membrillo, spanish quince paste eaten with cheese, particularly in extremadura region of spain
chaenomeles japonica quince — ornamental flowering quince tree native to east asia, widely grown for spring blossoms in temperate gardens