To make Quince koeckjes
To make Quince koeckjes1
Take whole Quinces, rub them clean, cook them in water, let them boil unpeeled until they are soft, take them out, cover them with a cloth until they are luke-warm, remove the skins also the core and the hard parts and mash them [the quinces] very fine, take as much Sugar as [you have] Quince pulp, mix together and place on the fire, let it boil; when it has been boiled sprinkle a clean board with Sugar and place it on there, form little cakes. Let them cool, place them on a stoof2 with fire until they are dry; you can save them in clean paper as long as you please.
1 koeckjes: little quince cakes
2 stoof: enclosed chamber for drying foods
Translation by Peter G. Rose. In: The Sensible Cook. Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World. Syracuse University Press 1998, p.102
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