Japanese Quince / Cidonija- You must try these fruits

Here in Latvia people go mad for the Japanese Quince or Cidonia as its' called here. Only they call it just Quince and it's not just 'Quince as you'll find out in the video.
I tell you everything you need to know about how they grow, what they really are and how to process them from the very sour bush fruit into something really yummy
Chaenomeles is a genus of three species of deciduous spiny shrubs, usually 1-3 m tall, in the family Rosaceae. They are native to Southeast Asia. These plants are related to the quince (Cydonia oblonga) and the Chinese quince (Pseudocydonia sinensis), differing in the serrated leaves that lack fuzz, and in the flowers, borne in clusters, having deciduous sepals and styles that are connate at the base.
In 2018 we left the UK to come to Gita’s family homestead here in north Latvia, not far from the Estonian border and now we live somewhere nowhere in the middle of a forest in a house built by Gita’s grandfather. We’re videoing our journey and trying to give you some insights into how we’re living here.
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