Cydonia oblonga - Quince Marmalade

This post 'Cydonia oblonga - Quince marmalade' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog

 Tyra's Garden/ Tyras Trädgård

Some argue that the Quince was the 'apple' Eve got in the paradise, could it be possible ?

 Some people say it was. It is a very exciting fruit with an exceptional and exotic fragrance and taste. Stunningly beautiful and very photogenic too, don’t you think. I wish to get a plant into my jardin de potager this year, maybe I can get hold of one here in Sweden, otherwise I just have to go and abroad to get one. (Wishful thinking)

You can see how the flower of the Quince looks like here in another post about Quince, Cydonia oblonga

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Nu har jag då gjort mitt livs första Kvittenmarmelad och det var inte alls svårt. Jag måste säga att den blev sagolikt god. Jag tror den passar utomordenligt väl till både steken, på rostat bröd och till ost! Vill ni se mer av Äkta Kvitten Cydonia oblonga så har jag ett inlägg här där även blomman är med. Hoppas nu att jag kan få tag i ett litet Kvittenträd till min köksträdgård.

Don't be a stranger my friend - Do write something!

TYRA

Quince - Cydonia oblonga

This post Quince - Cydonia oblonga was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden

Quince

Photos by Kenneth, and the illustrated  Cydonia oblonga wikipedia 

Original book source: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885.

Quince Marmalade

500 gram of quince-pulp

500 gram of sugar

1 lemon, squeezed

Remove the core of the quinces and cook in boiling water till tender to the fork. Drain and cool. Sift the pulp. Add sugar and lemon. Boil this mixture for 10 minutes, stir well, you don’t want it to burn in the bottom of the saucepan. I use a sugar this pectin added and then I just have to bring it to boil and simmer it for 1 minute.

This Quince marmalade in great together with cheeses like a Pecorino, Mature Cheddar or why not perhaps the greatest of then all the Queso Manchego  (Viejo).

Cotognata

I similar recipe with quince is the Cotognata. Quince paste, Salento style

This typically Sicilian dessert Cotognata  is customary to make it in a small mold, in the shape of a fish or leaf. But you can make it in a pan and then cut it in to pieces and roll/dust them with fine sugar. Let you Cotognata dry in a cool and airy place.

This is what wikipedia says about this sweet.

- Dulce de membrillo or Carne de membrillo in Spanish, marmelada in Portuguese, codonyat in Catalan, Cotognata in Italian, is a sweet spread or a dessert,  (quince paste, quince jelly, quince candy or quince meat).Traditionally and predominantly from Portugal, Italy (exported when the South of Italy was Catalan) and Spain, dulce de membrillo is a firm, sticky, sweet reddish hard paste made of the quince (Cydonia oblonga) fruit.

Did you know that the word marmalade comes from the Portuguese word marmelada, meaning "quince preparation"


I found this Persian recipe I just have to try later...it has lime and cardamom in it.
MORABAA-YEH BEH 2 kg of small quinces, 1,5 kg sugar, lime and cardamom

Äkta Kvitten - Cydonia oblonga

Bilderna till mitt kollage har "Kenneth på Söder tagit"

Kenneth berättar i Allt om Trädgårds forum att han har äkta kvitten i sin trädgård.

- Jodå, jag har den äkta kvitten Cydonia oblonga, och årets skörd ligger hemma i köket nu.

Läs mer om Kvitten och Kenneth här  i Allt om trädgårds forum Mycket inspirerande, jag vet vad jag skall plantera i vår i min lilla potager. Jag tror att ett litet Kvittenträd skulla trivas bra där. Där är det ju nästan som ett litet mikroklimat, väl skyddat från hårda vindar och soligt är det ju också.

It is Mosaic Monday at The Little Red House

CHANGE

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Time for me to change the header and to make a small change in the design.

Winter blue and Indian red?

poster from easy art

Winter apples or apple blossoms?


Decisions, decisions...which one to take...hm

Well you already know the answer.

A warm indian red for the border and an impressionistic photo of my appleblossoms.

What do you say, do you like it?

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Inga stora ändringar men jag tyckte det var dags för lite förändring på utseendet. Det var lite svårt att välja, skulle jag ta det kalla eller varma, blått eller rött, vinter eller sommar, Yin eller Yang? Ja...så här blev ett impressionistiskt photo av äppelblom kombinerat med en varm rödton på kantdekoren. Vad säjer ni, ser det bra ut?

December Frost in Garden

As an amateur photographer I find things like frost crystals, fog, mist and water are just wonderful, it is a great way to capture a bit of 'drama' into the pictures. This is 'Lucia' once again singing the final verse - of the last song of the season. This Rose has been so fantasic this year 'in floribus' for almost 6 months!

In the soft sunlight of December - Lichtkönigin 'Lucia'

And once again the last of the explorer rose The Canadian 'John Davies' now dressed in a coat of frost...

...even a simple straw looks spectacular with the frost crystals

The sloe bitten by the frost, my 'topiary' Blackthorne, now is the best time to pick the berries!

and last a picture of the thornless Bramble

I wish you all a lovely weekend/ Tyra

Harvest of my Sea buckthorn

This post 'Harvest of my Buckthorn' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyra's Garden

Harvest Monday in Tyra’s garden - Tomatoes, blackberries and Sea-buckthorn.

~HAVTORNSKÖRD~

Harvest of my Sea-buckthorn

I planted my Sea-buckthorn bushes a few years ago, three Juliet (female) and one Romeo (male plant) and this is my first harvest ever! This amazing power-food-berry has a fantastic exotic taste and of all the berries of the earth Sea buckthorn is probably that one berry that contains most vitamins in large quantities.

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This is what Wikipedia says about Sea-buckthorn berries - The fruit of the plant has a high vitamin C content—in a range of 114 to 1550 mg per 100 grams with an average content (695 mg per 100 grams) about 12 times greater than Oranges— placing sea-buckthorn fruit among the most enriched plant sources of vitamin C[1]. The fruit also contains dense contents of carotenoids, vitamin E, amino acids, dietary minerals, β-sitosterol and polyphenolic acids.

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Havtornsbären - Honplantorna producerar orangefärgade bär med en diameter av sex–nio millimeter, som är mjuka och saftiga och rika på C-vitamin (120 milligram C-vitamin per 100 gram bär, odlingsvärda sorter innehåller 300–1 300 milligram C-vitamin per 100 gram bär). En del sorter innehåller också mycket A-vitamin och E-vitamin. Av bären kan man bland annat göra saft. Havtorn är förmodligen det av alla jordens bär som innehåller flest vitaminer i stor mängd.

That was all for today, have a great week!

Ha det gott/ TYRA

Blossoms and Blooms in Tyra's Garden

This post, 'Blossoms and blooms in Tyra's Garden'' was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/
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Blossom and blooms in my garden just now. Thousands of tiny blossoms of plum, apple, pear, cherry and crabapple adds splendour to my garden now in this glourious month of May.

Blackthorn Prunus spinosa

Buds and blossoms of Apple





The magnificiant fragrant Malus silvestris var. parapisiaca tree is in full bloom right now and in the evenings it fills the air with a most wonderful scent.




Pears at the top 1. Bartlett (also called a Yellow Bartlett, known as the Williams outside North America) 2. Red Bartlett (organic; presumably a Red Williams in other countries) 3. Red Bartlett (several distinct varieties are called "red bartletts"; not sure store's name is correct but that's what it was labeled) 4. D'Anjou 5. Bosc (organic) 6. Comice 7. Concorde 8. Seckel (they really are that small relative to others) Pear picture and text from Wikipedia

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This is my contribrutions to the Blooming Friday Flower Power Parade, meet more participants here at Katarina. Roses and Stuff.


Well this is all from me - I wish you all a lovely weekend with a lot of gardening!



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LOLove TYRA

A 'Slipper Walk' - I just had to catch that light.

This post, A' Slipper Walk'..., was originally uploaded and written by Tyra at the blog Tyra's Garden http://waxholm.blogspot.com/

When I woke up this morning it was freezing cold outside -6 C, the sky was heavenly blue, the light was pale pink and so beautiful. Time was tight, I just had to catch that light, it lasts for just a few minutes. I'm off, time for a 'slipper walk'. I jumped into my slippers, grabbed my camera and rushed out for a quick photo shoot in the garden, I sincerely hope that my neighbours didn’t see me, or they would for sure have thought that I’ve gone bananas. Can you picture me running around half-dressed and in my slippers with a tripod in my hand?

Beautiful crystals of ice on the glass of one of the greenhouse windows.

Brassica oleracea 'Nero di Toscana' in the greenhouse. It looks rather nice I think, I wonder if I can get it to bloom this season and give me seeds ?

The sundial and the view from my garden towards the east and the lake.

Frosty Brassica oleracea 'Nero di Toscana' in the potager. The hares hasn't found it yet. They usually have a feast of the last of Kale and Cabbages.

The greenhouse windows covered with crystals

Leaves of Bramble Rubus (Blackberries in September) still hanging on to the vine.

The field where the flax grew and the Allotment down by the lake.

A very cold and lonely looking greenhouse.




The last picture shows my old and very un-pruned Pear tree. I must do something about that tree it looks dreadful. By the way, when during the year is the best time to do it?

That's all folks! Brrr...


After this nippy 'slipper walk' the breakfast taste wonderful.
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TYRA

Emma Karp Lundström - An Apple Artist

Apple painting from 2006 – ‘Äppel, päppel, pirum parum’. (nursery rhyme)

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Garden Designer, coach and apple artist Emma Karp Lundström

Artist, project managers, stress consultant and garden creator - After many years, Emma Karp Lundström moved back to Gislöv. Based on the family farm she now wants to strengthen the image of Österlen as one of Sweden's most beautiful ‘gardens’. For several years she makes the annual Apple Painting in Kivik, and last year she initiated the project, Österlen lights, which got the district to bubble with energy and the sparkle in late autumn.

WORLD'S LARGEST APPLE PICTURE/PAINTING 104 sq.meters

With 70 000 nails, 30 000 apples, 10-12 apple varieties Emma and her team of 8 workers/assemblers creats a stunning over 100 sq.m. big apple painting which has a lifetime of 4 weeks.

For five days each autumn Emma Karp Lundström along with a team of apple workers creates the annual apple painting in Kivik. Early Monday morning, the workers, warmly dressed, with thermoses and really heavy working gloves arrives. In sun, hard wind, rainfall, or cold weather, the workers chooses, loads, composes with apples and assembles or 'paint' the world's largest apple painting. On the Friday afternoon is ready. One painting -30 000 apples! Ready for the grand opening of the annual famous Kiviks Market that commence on the Saturday morning.

It was in the spring as Emma saw the amazing painting, many hundreds of years old, plentiful and so full of life. She was inspired, thinking and thinking again how to make it possible as an apple construction. Here you can see the result, in the port of Kivik.

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An Apple installation at the Hallwyl House

Hallwyl House at No 4 Hamngatan was built between 1893 - 98 to designs by Isak Gustaf Clason (1856-1930), Sweden´s most renowned architect at the time.

The 'apple painting' in Stockholm

The painting remained until the end of October. Here it is ready, the apple painting on Hallwylska palace, so hurry there that you could not see it in Kivik.

All picture are Emmas.

Thank you for letting me borrow them and show the world what a brilliant woman you are.

More Apples at Blomingwriter with the wonderful post by Jodi DeLong

How'd you like them apples ?

TYRA