Don't Know What To Do With Quinces?! Here's What!

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 quinces, ripe (ask the seller about ripeness)
• 4 ounces creme fraiche, thick (or thick cream, 125 g)
• 3 ounces superfine sugar (caster sugar, 90 g)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 ounces granulated sugar (150 g)
• 1 pinch salt

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 400 deg f/200 deg celsius.
• 2 remove the cores of the quinces so there is a sizable hole right through the fruit. a real corer helps, otherwise use a sharp knife with a thin blade and cut out the core carefully.
• 3 don't even try to peel them.
• 4 place upright in a lightly greased oven dish, close together preferably.
• 5 mix the creme fraiche or thick cream with the caster sugar and vanilla, and fill the cores with this mixture.
• 6 sprinkle the granulated sugar generously over the 4 quinces.
• 7 bake in the pre-heated oven for about 40 minutes, or until quite soft.
• 8 serve warm with ice cream or warm custard.