quincing [kwins-ing] verb

the act of transforming raw quince into an edible form + a quince and chamomile jam

I spent the weekend quincing. I know this is a word that doesn’t appear in any formal lexicon, but I discovered it when I was reading Simply Quince by Barbara Ghazarian. Until this last weekend, I hadn’t heard of Barbara, but came across her name when I was searching my cookbook collection for quince recipes. In a small footnote in Kevin West’s book Sav…