Recipe: Appetizing Quince spoon sweet from Pelion

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Quince spoon sweet from Pelion. Intensely flavorful, and bordering on exotic, few things bring to mind Greek tradition like the delectable "spoon sweet". This ancient Greek delicacy was born as a method of preserving the intensely flavorful fruits that only Greece can produce.. This spoon sweet is made from quince, and would typically be served with a Greek coffee and a glass of water.

Crunchy with a bright yellow colour, the quince spoon sweet makes an ideal combination with Greek yogurt giving a refreshing taste.

Quince is a winter fruit grown for centuries by the Ancient Greeks.

In mythology, it's mentioned as "golden apple" as it represents fertility, welfare, and love.

You can have Quince spoon sweet from Pelion using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Quince spoon sweet from Pelion

1. You need of quinces (5 pieces).

2. You need of sugar.

3. It’s of water.

4. It’s of blanched almonds.

5. You need of bit of rose geranium.

Weigh them and put the quince back in the pot with the same amount of the sugar.

Over recent decades, Pelion's women have formed cooperatives making spoon sweets and jams, and visitors can buy them, while also watching how they're made.

The spectrum of spoon sweets follows the seasons: quince and apples in the fall; bitter oranges, orange rind, lemons or lemon rind, bergamot, citrons, and grapefruits in winter; strawberries, apricots, and green, unripe figs in spring; watermelon rind, plums, cherries, sour cherries, and grapes in summer.

In another Lefkada recipe, quince is cooked with eggplant and sweet potatoes.

Quince spoon sweet from Pelion instructions

1. Wash and quarter the quinces..

2. While removing the seeds from  the quinces, keep them in water with lemon juice so that they dont get dark..

3. Continue by cutting them into slices and then thin sticks, still keeping them in the water with the lemon..

4. Rinse them and start counting in glasses. Fill each glass to the brim and pour into the pot. Using the same glass, measure he sugar. Use one glass less than you used for the quinces. Using these measurements I had 8 glasses of quince and 7 glasses of sugar. Also, add a glass of water..

5. Wash a sprig of rose geranium and add it to the pot..

6. Add the almonds..

7. Boil everything over high heat..

8. Gradually the sweet will begin to thicken. Id doesnt have to thicken too much since it will do so while cooling. Its color will get darker. Remove the rose geranium. When it cools you can store it in jars..

Quince pairs up amazingly with chestnuts in both sweet and savory seasonal dishes.

Kozani stakes a claim on "ladera" made with quince as the main ingredient, but arguably the country's most unusual quince pairing is with octopus in a dish from Pelion.

Spoon sweets are a great example of a little goes a long way.

This is a very sweet dessert, therefore, you do not need much to satisfy your palate; a few small spoonfuls is usually all you need.

You can also try this quince spoon sweet on a bit of Greek yogourt, or even some vanilla ice cream.