Quince is one of my favourite spoon sweets and I made it three times this year.  The first and second time I made it the same way as I had previously posted the recipe and my children loved it.

My son who was coming from Switzerland for the Christmas holidays told me that he wanted some [...]

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Ivy on January 8th, 2009

Quince is known from ancient years and its cultivation is said to have preceded that of the apple culture. Many references to “apples”, in the ancient years may have been to a quince. Among the ancient Greeks, the quince was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with [...]

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Ivy on December 1st, 2008

In Greece and Cyprus we like preserving fruits and you can make what we call glyka tou koutaliou (spoon sweets) with anything you can imagine. Quince is one of my favourites but it was the first time I attempted to make some. The procedure is almost the same for a lot of [...]

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