"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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The quince used in Western cuisine is like a big yellow Williams
pear,
quite hard, and sour until it is really ripe.

And then it is still sour.

Oh no. Really quite sweet. We *ARE* talking about the same sort of
quince, I trust? About the size of the average orange?

Yes. And delicious raw - well, at one school only 5 pupils ate them,
and 3 of those were called Maclaren :-)

It was quite a popular fruit in South Africa.
Everybody (?) ate them with pleasure.

But we also chew on sloes ....

Franz