Spot the odd one out from these six:
1.Quincy Jones
2.Quincy McDuffie
3.Thomas de Quincey
4.Peter Quince
5.Quincy ME
6.The Quince .
right : only one is a fruit .
We have just reap Quinces from a neighbour ’ tree – the one that I engraft is only a couple of years old and too pre - pubescent to fruit .
The Quince ( Cydonia oblonga ) is a rather neglected tree native to the Caucasus ( Iran , Turkey , Armenia and Greece ) – and should not to be confused with the ornamentalJapanese Quince ( Chaenomeles japonica)which is a neat wall shrub with lively pink flowers .
It used to be a stalwart in garden across the world ( they were planted in the Tower of London in the recent 13th 100 ) but has rather lapsed in popularity on your side of the Atlantic on the face of it due to their predisposition to fireblight . They are , however , very democratic in Uraguay which is interesting because I can not think of many other things famous for being popular in Uruguay .
One of the peculiarities of the peculiar make of English training through which I journey as a child was that I know really quite a lot about Greek and Roman mythology while at the same clock time being passably dreadful at math , science and other , more plain useful matter . Anyway , do you cognize the Grecian myth about theGolden Apples of the Hesperides?Hercules ’ Eleventh Labour ? Or the apple thatParis gave to Aphrodite ? ( which decision eventually guide to ten years of Trojan War as his prize was the hand of helen , the most beautiful womanhood in the world . Who just materialise to be splice toMenelaus , King of Sarta . Big fault ) .
Well , anyway . the point is that the Apples in doubtfulness were almost certainly . They have the most beautiful coy pinkish flowers in Spring be by yield that are about six inch retentive with yellow skins covered with a all right fluff . When glean and brought into the house they are like knobbly strain freshener and can be smelt all over the house . Put one in the laundry cupboard and it will odourise your towels ) .
They are not the loose yield to expend : they are very severe and you ca n’t eat on them raw unless bletted ( softened to mush by frost ) and even then it aim a sealed courage to bite into what looks very like a rotten fruit .
The Romans stew them with honey ( and surprisingly ) leeks .
In Syria it is used in lamb stew .
Isaac Newton ’s best-loved dish was Quince Pie .
The Afghans practice the boiled seminal fluid as a cure for pneumonia .
In Spain it is made into Membrillo – a sort of sticky paste that is delicious with cheese . ( The Chileans eat it on its own in sandwich ) . This is really the main start item for this web log post as we have just made some ( I use the watchword “ we ” in its loose sentience , the skill was all my wife ’s , I just did a flake of shuffle and feeding ) which involves a bunch of chopping , boiling , sieving , more boiling – combined with constant inspiration , a tidy sum of sugar and then pouring and cool .
They are not easy things with which to work however the result , use up with some Manchego high mallow and a sliced Russett orchard apple tree was delicious .
They also fuse attractively when poached with pears ( with ice cream and a dollop of chocolate sauce ) – a fashion of using up our Brobdingnagian stock of unripe , bullet hard pears .
So , if you may , plant a Cydonia oblonga . It taste good , calculate endearing and has the weightof myth upon its slender shoulders .
Cydonia oblonga
Just in case …
1 . Quincy Jones – Music Producer who worked with Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra
2 . Quincy McDuffie – panoptic receiver for the Denver Broncoes . Being English I have no idea what a wide receiver does : except receive wide .
Cydonia oblonga
3 . Thomas de Quincey – fiercely clever writer and drug addict .
4 . Peter Quince – an Athenian carpenter in Shakespeare ’s Midsummer Night ’s Dream .
5 . Quincey M.E – 1970s video series starring Jack Klugman
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