{"id":23092,"date":"2026-11-03T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=23092"},"modified":"2026-11-13T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:53:40","slug":"daily_4259_-_sticky_quince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/11\/03\/daily_4259_-_sticky_quince\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4259 &#8211; sticky quince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4259_quince_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a week of pumping sugar into the Japanese quince, I feel done with it. It tastes good, and it&#8217;s sinking to the bottom of the syrup, like it&#8217;s done in the past. Maybe not perfect, but good.<\/p>\n<p>I drained all the pieces and dried them in the oven. 6 hours yesterday after work, and two more hours this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The end result is <i>very<\/i> sticky, even after all the drying. When I try to pack the pieces into jars, they stick to each other and pile up. I don&#8217;t recall them behaving like this before. Maybe I should have drained them for longer? Rinsed them?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4259_quince_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4259_quince_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week of pumping sugar into the Japanese quince, I feel done with it. It tastes good, and it&#8217;s sinking to the bottom of the syrup, like it&#8217;s done in the past. Maybe not perfect, but good. I drained all the pieces and dried them in the oven. 6 hours yesterday after work, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23094,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions\/23094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}