Distantly related to apples and pears, quinces are a fall fruit you might not be as familiar with. They’re shaped like fuzzy, knobby Bartletts, with a lemon-yellow hue when ripe. But unlike apples and ...

I had a wooden bowl of pale green pear-scented quinces on my kitchen counter all week. I wondered what I would do with them, and started flipping through my cookbooks, doing research. I’d already made ...

Quince is an old-fashioned, homestead sort of fruit. It is hardy, cold-resistant, stores well, is intensely aromatic and can be used in sweets or savories. Still, it's not routinely available in every ...

This versatile fruit in all its perfumed, dimpled ugliness is perfect for savoury or sweet dishes. MY FRIEND Greta Moon arrived from the country last autumn with a gift of the most heavenly perfumed ...

NEW YORK – Poached quinces in a clove and cinnamon-scented syrup for Rosh Hashana? Absolutely. Food writer Joyce Goldstein calls quinces an ideal choice to serve as one of the holiday’s traditional ...

When I see the pomegranates turn ripe on our tree and the quinces appear at the farmers market, I know it’s time to start planning menus for Sukkot. Quinces aren’t much to eat raw, but cooked they ...

The quince is a little-understood fruit -- at least in the United States. It looks a bit like an underripe mutant pear, and if you try to eat it raw, you’ll get a mouthful of astringent. Slice it up ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you've never walked into a home and smelled the sweet, floral, fruity aroma of a fruit basket in the kitchen, all the way across the room, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How cooking quinces for making fruit butter is different than apples. (Rebecca Peloquin/For The Times) This story is a component ...