September 2024 NEWS

In this month’s newsletter, we pay homage to citrus marmalades and their quince marmelada roots, as well as celebrate the fifth anniversary of our Quince HQ newsletter. What better way to mark this important milestone than with a birthday cake (plus the recipe) glazed with my homemade Alphabet Marmalade - so-called because its alternative name can be reduced to the letters LMNOPQ. Truly! And if that’s not enough, brace yourself for some quirky, historic marmalade and marmelada facts, and the backstory to a unique white quince paste.

  • The white marmelada of Odivelas in Portugal
  • The Australian Marmalade Awards
  • 10 unusual facts about marmalade and marmelada
  • An Almond Marmalade Cake recipe
  • What’s happening in the orchard?

Here’s wishing you a high-five kind of day! Tell a friend about Quince HQ and let’s share more of the love for quince.

Cathy x

At Quince HQ  we want to inspire a sense of wonder, curiosity and excitement about quinces; a really old fruit that is being rediscovered … and loved again. And there really is so much to love!
You can delve into a wondrous quince-inspired world full of stories of love, lust, legend, and traditions; be tempted by fascinating and every-day recipes; be enchanted by artworks and poetic musings through the ages; or even be enthused to grow a tree. Be prepared for something special.


Quince isn’t just a fruit
… it’s an experience.

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When summer slips away and the leaves begin to fall, quinces are readying their magic powers

It’s a fruit with personality: voluptuous, sensual, golden, fragrant, sublimely aromatic, and oh so versatile. It’s true that they aren’t much fun to eat raw … but the wow factor comes during cooking: Quince + sweetener + heat + time = heaven on a spoon. Pure alchemy.

Though related to apples and pears - which you can tell by their shape - they are botanically different.  Their fancy name is Cydonia oblonga; one that shouts back to ancient Greece where the very best quinces in the world were grown in Kydonia, on the island of Crete.

All 16 known quince varieties currently in Australia are growing in the Quince HQ orchard.

Varieties

The Quince HQ  orchard was established in 2013.  All sixteen varieties of quince trees have since been sourced from three specialist heritage fruit tree nurseries in Tasmania and Victoria:

  • Angers
  • Apple
  • Champion
  • De Bourgeaut
  • De Vranja 
  • Fullers
  • Master’s Early
  • Missouri Mammoth
  • Mummery’s Seedling
  • Orange
  • Pineapple
  • Portugal
  • Powell’s Prize     
  • Rea’s Mammoth
  • Smyrna
  • Van Deman
There was a time, in the early 1900s, when there were 40 varieties known to be growing across Australia.

Enquiries

Cathy Hughes

0428 720 728
magic@quincehq.com.au

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