Quince cheese, Dulce de membrillo, Quittenbrot

[chattius 2,526]

Quince cheese is a paste made from quinces boiled with a lot of sugar.

Quittenbrot is similiar. Quinces are boiled and pressed through linnen, the juice is used to make fine jelly. The remains in the linnen are mixed with sugar and dried (in our staircase oven) on plates and then cut into cookies. Harder and less sweet than quince cheese.

 

[lujate 578]

What's the consistency of quince cheese?  Is it like a gum drop?

[chattius 2,526]

Consistency, hard to tell a chewing feeling. Quince cheese is more like Haribo Tropifrutti, Quittenbrot more like Haribo Liquorice.

[gogoblender 3,070]

Never seen this sold locally...but we have a very nice austrian foods shop up the street...there used to be a big community up there in the old days... maybe ill go a wandering... once a week, when the time is right they make a huge tray of strudel

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gogo

[chattius 2,526]

Strudel is an all year food. For x-mas time we do Stollen. At my birthtown Wetzlar a special Stollen is done. Stollen has a dual meaning in german: either the cake bread or an (iron) mine. The special stollen (bread) is placed 100m below surface 4 weeks for riping in a Stollen (mine). Constant temperature and moisture without energy costs.