The Quince Collection is Complete
A spoon of Quince Rose Geranium Grappa Preserves—made in my 505 Boylston Ave Seattle apartment circa 2012—introduced me to the intense and almost overwhelming flavor-beauty of small-batch fruit preserves. This is what preserves can do? This is what quince tastes like!? It was a real fireworks moment for me.
During my first year of professional jam production, I grew alarmed at the amount of labor accumulating in each pot of jam. I started experimenting with the recipes again and attempted what sounded like a more streamlined version of the Quince Rose Geranium Grappa recipe. It yielded 4 jam pans worth of unsellable honey quince mass. Instead of throwing out the quince and honey, I used it for more product development, spinning it into what eventually became 3 new quince flavors including a now-retired one, Sour Cherry Quince.
A kitchen disaster created Pear Quince Fig Conserve with Meyer Lemon and Quince Orange Ginger Pear Marmalade, which I’ve produced every year since VSP’s start along with the traditional Paradise Marmalade, which is a combo of cranberry, apple and quince. That cranberry quince flavor is beautiful with cheese and wonderful for all kinds of baking, braising and general vegetable cookery/saucing (cabbage with this marmalade is super yummy!).
Upon arriving to Vermont, where quince got harder to source, I got scrappier about my quince scrap aka the fruit skin and cores. We save all the peelings, seed and knobby bits, using it for the juice portion of the quince recipes, but the scrap also inspired a new flavor, Quince Rose & Meyer Lemon Marmalade.
Enjoy the entire collection!
New To Quince? Start here…
Perhaps you’ve seen or heard tell of this fruit (thought to be the “apple” of Adam & Eve) but you’ve never gotten to taste it? This bundle will give you the full scope of this fruit’s powers, with each jar of showing off a different side of quince.
Quince Preserves Bundle
Beautiful Quince.
We always bundle savings when you bring home a collection. That’s what this whole category is about!
Two options:
6oz Bundle - 1 6oz jar of each quince flavor:
Quince Orange Ginger Pear Marmalade
Quince Fig Pear Conserve with Meyer Lemon
Quince Cranberry Apple Marmalade
Quince Meyer Lemon Rose Marmalade
Quince Rose Geranium Grappa Marmalade (my favorite and the one for the quince curious and the quince lovers)
2+6 oz Bundle - A mix of sizes & flavors
2 oz Quince Fig Pear Conserve with Meyer Lemon
6 oz Quince Cranberry Apple Marmalade
6 oz Quince Meyer Lemon Rose Marmalade
2 oz Quince Rose Geranium Grappa Marmalade
2 oz Quince Orange Ginger Pear Marmalade
Try Quince with Cheese!
Forget figs, Quince is the classic fruit to pair with cheese.
Superb with fresh goat cheese (chevre) and a wonderful base sauce for roasted vegetables. The most lovely Vermont cranberries, Scott Farm quince and Champlain Orchard apples come together to make this perfect seasonal nod to Vermont’s late autumn.
This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, VT quince, apples, cranberries, lemon juice.
Looking for a figgy jam? Try this!
A most versatile cheese pairing companion. The flavor has a more subtle set of flavors, which is part of what makes it wonderful for cheese, but it also makes a nice addition to any collection of VSP flavors as it provides contrast to the punchier flavors.
This honey sweetened conserve contains: pear, quince, honey, lemon juice, organic dried figs, meyer lemon zest, dark rum.
A mild citrus marmalade that brings together soft quince jelly with slivers of Meyer lemon fruit. A dash of rose water at the end of the cooking process heightens the rosiness of the quince. A beautiful garnet color, this marmalade sells quickly at markets.
This honey sweetened marmalade contains: honey, VT quince, Meyer lemons, lemon juice, rose petals/rosewater.
Pear and quince pieces suspended in pear & orange jelly with strips of orange rind intermingled and honey candied gingery for warmth. A very mild marmalade with the spotlight on the pome fruits of pear and quince.
I always want to eat this with cheesecake! It’s also wonderful with cheddars.
This honey sweetened marmalade contains: organic/VT pears, VT quince, honey, organic navel oranges, lemon juice, candied ginger (honey, organic ginger, water).
Quince Lovers (and curious alike)
Quince Rose Geranium Grappa Marmalade
One of the most beautiful flavors made by V Smiley Preserves. This is the thing to eat with Sheep's cheese.
The quince comes from Scott Farm in Dummerston Vermont and gets a light infusion of rose geranium from our farm.
The preserve has a velvet, semi-firm set. The jelly is interspersed with pieces of honey-poached quince pieces.