Juice the quinces cold
Quinces are usually juiced by boiling or steaming. With this procedure the fruits become soft and can be pressed. The hot juice can be filled into sterile bottles and stored for a longer period of time.
Cold juicing is also possible, but it is a bit more complex.
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Mash production for cold juicing
In order to get as much juice as possible in the cold pressing process, it is necessary that you make a kind of mash from the fruit.
- Cut the quinces into as small pieces as possible.
- Freeze the fruit pieces in suitable containers.
- Thaw the whole thing again after a week.
- Chop up the now soft pieces of fruit in the food processor.
Instead of making mash by freezing, you can also finely shred the quinces. However, you need a very powerful shredding machine for this. You can squeeze the resulting snippets just like the mash.
Pressing the mash in the fruit press
The fruit press is a barrel-like container made of wood or metal. Line the container with a fine cotton cloth and add the mash. Seal the container and turn the spindle. This spindle now presses wooden or metal discs down onto the mash and squeezes it out. The juice runs out of the opening provided for this purpose through a sieve. The sieve filters out all solid components. The result is a clearer quince juice.
The refreshing juice has a slightly bitter taste, it can be drunk pure or mixed with other juices.
If you want to fill and store the juice in bottles, you have to boil the juice and pour it into sterile bottles while hot.
If there are large quantities of quinces, you should try to have your harvest juiced in a wine press. These companies, which are mostly found in fruit areas, have large presses that effortlessly squeeze out your quince juice.
