THE TRANSFORMATION 
OF THE QUINCE 
Wuat Was ONLy A CookING Fruit Now DELIcious 
Raw 
formula for cooking the quince. His rule was 
this: Take one quince, one barrel of sugar, and 
sufficient water. 
This rule was given, I hasten to explain, at a 
time when my Pineapple quince had not been 
developed. 
Had Mr. Beecher tasted one of these perfected 
quinces he would have seen that his joke no 
longer had its former force. For my Pineapple 
quince, and one or two others that have been de- 
veloped even more recently, retain very little of 
that acrid quality which Mr. Beecher’s barrel of 
sugar was designed to hide. 
On the contrary, the new quinces, when fully 
ripe, are to be compared in texture of pulp and 
in edibility with some of the best apples, rather 
than with their quince forebears; and at the same 
|: IS said that Henry Ward Beecher once gave a 
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