14 DECEMBER 1945, Page 14

• The Best Jelly The war has taught most of

us that a number of despised kinds of fruits are edible and worth preservation. Among a number of experi- menters one tells me that he considers the quinces, borne by the orna- mental Cydonia japonica of several species, made a jelly quite unique in flavour, whether qualified or no with a padding of apple. It is, I think. a general experience that the flavour is agreeable, even to_ the palate of those who do not like the common quince. Apple jelly (thought prefer- able to hip jelly of which the vitamin experts approve) is often a rather dull concoction, but it can be made the best of all, to my taste, if flavoured with a leaf or two of the scented geranium, infused during the making.