Quince Wine

We started some quince wine yesterday. We decided to try this this year instead of quince jelly and luckily there was a recipe in our First Steps in Winemaking book. First we picked the quince from the bush in our backyard. Before we started we were planning on having enough for one gallon, hoping we might have enough for 2 gallons. It turned out we had enough for more than 10 gallons! That's over 200 quince! Luckily we decided to do 5 gallons because it was tough dealing with just that many. The rest are still in our garage, maybe we'll do something with them later. But after processing 100 quince, I am a bit sick of them right now.

Quince Jelly

Our quince bush was full of quinces so we harvested them to make some jelly. We got a little over 5 pounds of quince. We used the instructions here
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/quince_jelly/

Last year we made apple and quince jelly which was good - nice and sour. This year's should be even more sour without the apples. We had to throw away most of last year's because of mold but that was the first thing we had ever ever canned and we didn't have a proper rack or jar lifter or lid lifter so I'm sure they won't get moldy this time.