Last Saturday while walking in the neighbourhood, I saw quince and decided to buy some to make membrillo, as it has been a long time since last time I did it. And I noticed I didn’t have a recipe for that online. I used to follow the recipe from this book, but honestly, it was never like the one my mum used to make when I was a kid.
So I decided to find a video and try again as I don’t have the book with me. A decided for this one as I liked her video about Tortas 🙂
Ingredients
- 4 quince/membrillo – 850g aprox after boiling
- 500g sugar
- Juice from one lemon
- 1 or 2 glass jars. Cleaned with boiling water
Process
- Peel the quince, remove the core as it bitter. You will think that you are removing a lot but that is how it is. Chop in pieces
- Put the quince in a big pan/pot. I don’t have express cooker. Cover in water and boil until it is soft. Use a knife, you should cut through the quince with ease.
- Drain the quince and weight it. Mine was 850g so I added 500g white granular sugar. Some other recipes add 1:1 quice/sugar but I didnt want to add that much.
- Add the juice of one lemon
- With a hand mixer, make a pure .
- Then starts the longest part. At low heat (use a glove!!!) start stirring the mix until it gets a dark orange color. Be sure it doesn’t stick! Keep in mind that it has a lot of sugar… and it is like molten lava when cooking! At the beginning the mix is white/yellow-ish, I think after 1h, it started to change the color and it is when you have to be very alert and stir often (each minute) to avoid burning.
- When you use the wooden spoon to make a line and it doesn’t come together, it should be ready
- Remove from heat and poor it in glass containers if possible, if not plastic.
- Let it cool down during the night at least.
And this is the result from this morning. This is like it was when a kid!!!!
