Quince Cake
Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 7 ingredients
Possible health benefits
General information, not medical advice.
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Quince
Source of vitamin C · 15 mg per 100 g, 19% of the reference intake per 100 g
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
11 more authorised claims
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
- Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
- Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
- Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
- Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
- Vitamin C increases iron absorption.
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet
Nutrients per 100 g of “Quinces, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.
Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).
Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
- Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.
Method
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- The ingredients are about six pounds of quinces and four pounds of granulated sugar.
- Put on the fire the apples covered with water, and when they begin to crack remove them, skin and scrape to put together all the pulp.
- Rub the latter through a sieve.
- Put back the pulp on the fire with the sugar and stir continually in order that it may not attack to the bottom of the kettle.
- It will be enough to boil for seven or eight minutes and remove when it begins to form pieces when lifted with the ladle.
- Now in order to prepare the quince-cake spread it on a board to the thickness of about a silver dollar and dry it in the sun covered with cheese cloth to keep away the flies.
- When it is dry cut it in the form of chocolate tablets and remove each piece from the board passing the blade of a knife underneath.
- If it is wished to make it crisp, melt about three and a half pounds of granulated sugar with two tablespoonf uls of water and when the sugar has boiled enough to "make the thread" smear every one of the little quince cakes with it.
- If the sugar becomes too hard during the operation put it back on the fire with a little water and make it boil again.
- When the sugar is dry on one side and on the edge, smear the other side.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Chef's knife
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Wooden spoon
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Ladle
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Sieve
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Kettle