Weekend Cooking: Synthetic Quince from The Suffrage Cook Book

Between 1886 and 1920s, Suffragists used cookbooks to promote their causes and rebut smearing propaganda that paint them as neglectful mother and wives that allow children to starve (sound familiar?). The following recipe was quoted from The Suffrage Cook Book published in 1915.

An Accidental Discovery

I put too much water with my rhubarb and had a whole dishful of beautiful pink juice left over, about a quart. In this I cooked some apples, quartered, and stewed till soft, and just as an experiment added a saucerful of strawberries—also "left over."

The result, being served, looked and tasted exactly like quince, except that the apple was a little softer.

Charlotte Perkin Gilman (Writer of "The Yellow Wallpaper")

From The Suffrage Cook Book complied by L. O. Kleber: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26323/26323-h/26323-h.htm

Further Reading: The Forgotten Cookbooks That Fueled Women’s Suffrage