Baked Quince French Style Recipes

QUINCE TARTE TATIN RECIPE

Steps:

• peel fruit with a vegetable peeler, remove a quince core and cut in quarters. In a saucepan, heat water, brown sugar, honey, vanilla, whole star anise, and lemon juice. Add quince quarters into the simmering liquid. Cover the pan with a parchment paper circle with a small hole cut in the center and place it on top. Simmer quince quarters (do not boil) for two hours, maybe longer, until quinces are rosy in color. To test the fruit, insert the tip of a knife: it must come in and out easily. Remove from the heat, drain quinces with a colander or remove them from the syrup with a slotted spoon and let cool.
• place sugar with lemon juice in a tarte Tatin pan or a pie pan 9-inch/23 cm in diameter. Cook until sugar melts and starts caramelizing. Add butter and let cook until melted, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and arrange poached quinces over the caramel in a spiral with the cut sides facing up, packing them as tight as possible. Bring the pan over medium heat and cook for 10 to 12 minutes to caramelize the fruit. Remove from the heat and let cool.
• Preheat oven to 355 F/180 C. Roll the dough with a rolling pin and cut a circle of the pan size you are using. Place the puff pastry over quinces and prick it with a fork. Then bake for about 25 minutes.
• After baking, allow the dessert to rest for about 5 minutes, then invert the pan onto a serving plate, using oven mitts.

BAKED QUINCE WITH CINNAMON

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Press three cloves into each quince half. Place the fruit in a roasting pan cut-side down. Add the water, wine, and cinnamon sticks to the pan; sprinkle the sugar over the quince.
• Bake the fruit in the preheated oven until lightly browned, about 35 to 40 minutes. Turn the quince right-side up and bake until tender, about 10 more minutes.
• Remove the pan from the oven and let the quince cool slightly. Transfer each quince half to a plate and drizzle with a tablespoon of juices from the roasting pan and a dollop of whipped cream.

BAKED QUINCE, FRENCH STYLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Peel and hollow out cores of quinces, being careful not to pierce bottom of fruit.
• Sprinkle each with lemon juice as you go.
• Stand quinces in buttered gratin dish.
• Mix together to a cream 2/3 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter and 3 generous tablespoons heavy cream.
• Stuff quinces with mixture; if some is left, add halfway through cooking.
• Top each quince with sprinkling of sugar.
• Bake 1 hour or until quinces are tender.