Quincy
FADE IN
Scene: A common or garden Garden in the suburbs of South East London. A quince tree is laden with fruit.
Laden with Fruit
Partyspanner: “This is going to be the year that I actually make something with this fruit”
Tom: “What fruit?”
Partyspanner: “This quince”
FADE OUT
Montage of images of Partyspanner going to work, arguing at a petrol station, frowning at some paperwork and then laughing uproariously with a work colleague.
FADE IN
Exterior – Garden. Quince tree is completely bare of fruit.
Partyspanner looks bewildered and then starts burrowing through the oriental grasses under the tree to find the fruits, swearing as she gets more cuts on her inner arms than an emo.
Close up of harvested Quince
Quince
Partyspanner: “I’m going to make some chutney!”
FADE OUT
FADE IN
Partyspanner is crying as she peels and attempts to core a fruit which is, literally, made out of rock. The viewer can feel her frustration as she tries, and fails, repeatedly to get some kind of flesh from the fruit.
Interior of quince
Partyspanner: “SOD THIS!” (said angrily)
“I’m going to boil the crap out of this thing and then push it through a sieve, there’s no way I can peel and core this amount of quince without triggering arthritis”
This is a BRILLIANT IDEA!
Partyspanner watches TV like a dullard, slack jawed.
Voiceover by partyspanner: “I wonder why no one on the internet, or anywhere in my myriad of cookery books, hasn’t thought of boiling the flesh off the fruit before – they must all be idiots! I think I’ve invented a thing! I am a genius”
Boiled Quince
It becomes clear that the reason no one boils the fruit is because the flesh just turns to mush and leaves the peel and the core.
Partyspanner shakes her head and gets to peeling the remainder of the quince fruit.
MUSIC: “You’re My Favourite Waste of Time”
FADE OUT
ADVERTS
FADE IN
Partyspanner is visiably sweating, but has managed to peel the quince and has a bowl full of grated fruit and a bowl of peelings and cores.
Partyspanner: “FUCKING QUINCE!”
Partyspanner is peeling apples – the first experiment in boiling the quinces has resulted in serious lack of fruit for the chutney – apples will make up the difference.
Close up of apples:
Apples
Interior: Kitchen. An array of ingredients, peelings and spices:
Many ingredients
Partyspanner: “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING HERE!”
Oliver: “What time are we setting off the fireworks?”
Partyspanner: “I AM BUSY!”
Oliver: “Yeah, when are we going to do the fireworks though?”
Partyspanner: “WAIT! hang on, let me just…wait…I”M BUSY!”
Oliver: “Can I have a sparkler now?”
*CENSORED*
Partyspanner: “I’m going to roast the spices first. I’m using turmeric, garlic salt, juniper berries, mustard seeds, ground cumin and half a chilli – starting with the mustard seeds in a little oil “
Roasting spices
Partyspanner then adds the chopped onion and ensures that all the ingredients are incorporated
Onions and spices
Partyspanner then adds the fruit – both apples and grated quince and shakes over some black onion seeds.
Apples and quince
400g sugar and 500 ml of cider vinegar and a teaspoon of of salt is added to the mix, and the chutney is left to simmer for hours…
MEANWHILE – Partyspanner has discovered that a big bag of marshmallow has gone missing (SUBPLOT)
After 2 seconds of interrogation, Oliver admits that he ate the marshmallows.
FAST FORWARD 3 HOURS
Interior – Kitchen. Everyone is coughing and eyes watering from the vinegar vapours
Partyspanner: “The way to tell that chutney is ready is when you can run a wooden spoon through the mix and leave a trail that isn’t immediately filled”
Chutney
Tom: “MAN ALIVE! The house smells like FEET!”
Oliver: “Mum? What’s for dinner? It smells AWFUL!”
CANNED LAUGHTER
Partyspanner “Leave me alone”
FADE OUT
FADE IN
Sterile Jars
Interior: Kitchen.
Partyspanner: “Time to bottle up”
Partyspanner spoons the chutney into the jars – getting rid of any air bubbles and placing a piece of waxed paper on the top of each jar.
Jars with wax discs
The jars cool
And are then topped by a cellophane wrapper and lid
Spiced Quince and Apple Chutney
THEME MUSIC
This Chutney needs to mature for a couple of months…To Be Continued.
Posted on 11/06/2011, in Cooking and tagged apples, humour, quince, quince chutney, quincy, spiced quince and apple chutney. Bookmark the permalink. 18 Comments.
never had a Quincy before..but a vegatable peeler didn’t work?
So who will be the lucky recipient of a jar of “this house smells like feet”?
You.
Lol! Can’t wait for the sequel, “Quincey Uncovered: The Melba Toast Chronicals”
Hahaha! That said, I’ll bet that chutney will taste stunning. I got a similar response to my courgette pickles, but at the rate those are disappearing from the fridge, the smell didn’t put anyone off
http://www.edibleparadise.com/articles/cooking-basics/250-peeling-and-cutting-quince.html
a potato peeler works…go figure.
BTW it looks good, it would be probably very good on fresh homeade bread.
Love you jeanne!
Ha. I love you. You make me proper Laugh Out Loud.
ps Don’t send me any of the smelly foot chutney please.
*makes note*
Go to Tesco, buy some Tesco finest chutney, in the middle of the night throw out your chutney and replace with Tesco chutney but in your jars. Force all doubters to taste and then eat their words.
Not very ethical but very satisfying.
I believe in my chutney. If I build it, feet will run.
And to think my sister was annoyed because she couldn’t make Quince Jam this year. Sounds like way more hassle than it’s worth! Hope it tastes better than it smells
They are EVIL. The smell of them though is incredible. Not the foot smell (that’s the vinegar) the raw smell of a quince is amazingly good, it scents the whole house with fresh apples.
So why not just have apples…?
Love it. This is why I don’t do jam/chutney, Cakes yes, chutney no,
I’m making jam this weekend. I thinkive gone clinically insane.
Brilliant story – had me chuckling. I make Dulce de Membrillo every year and definitely don´t peel (I learnt this through several years of quince jelly making)!