Baked Quinces
Halved quinces baked slowly with sugar, cinnamon and a little butter until the hard, pale fruit turns soft and rosy amber, then filled with walnuts — an autumn dessert of Bulgarian home kitchens. Only long baking brings out the colour and perfume.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 4 quinces, medium
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 120 g sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 40 g butter
- 200 ml water
- 80 g walnuts, chopped
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 1430 kcal · P 19g · C 164.3g · F 85.7g
Estimated from 7 of 7 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 180°C.
- 2Rub the fuzz off the quinces with a cloth, wash them and halve them lengthways. Cut out the core and seeds with a small sharp knife or a sharp-edged teaspoon — quince flesh is very hard, so work slowly on a steady board.
- 3Brush the cut faces with the lemon juice and set the halves cut side up, snugly, in a baking dish.
- 4Mix the sugar with the cinnamon and spoon it into the hollows and over the cut faces, then put a piece of butter in each hollow.
- 5Pour the water into the dish around the quinces, cover with foil and bake for 40 minutes.
- 6Uncover, baste with the juices and bake for 30–40 minutes more, until a knife slides in easily and the flesh has turned rosy amber; add a splash more water if the syrup starts to catch.
- 7Fill the hollows with the walnuts for the last 10 minutes of baking.
- 8Serve warm or cold, with the syrup from the dish spooned over.
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Questions and answers
How long does Baked Quinces take to make?
About 95 minutes: 15 min prep and 80 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Baked Quinces?
7 ingredients: quinces, lemon juice, sugar, ground cinnamon, butter, water, walnuts.
How many servings does this Baked Quinces recipe make?
8 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Baked Quinces?
About 179 kcal, with 2.4 g protein, 20.5 g carbohydrate and 10.7 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Baked Quinces recipe suit?
It is vegetarian and gluten-free.
What cuisine is Baked Quinces?
Baked Quinces comes from Bulgarian cuisine.
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