Tub of Quesería Los Rastrojos quince paste beside cheese and quinces in a kitchen

Other regions

Membrillo

Gema y Lorenzo Carrasco in Herencia · 400 g tub

£4.30

VAT included

In London you can find it in these shops.

Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.

  • Colmado Hackney

    Chatsworth Road 61, London

    Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00

  • Despensa Northcote

    Northcote Road 74, London

    Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00

If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.

Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.

Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.

Hamburg shop with wooden shelves where a shopkeeper slices cheese
Twenty old quince trees heavy with fruit at the edge of the dairy
Quesería Los RastrojosSince 1985

Who makes it

On the edge of the Los Rastrojos dairy there are twenty quince trees that Lorenzo's mother planted. Nobody sprays them or waters them. Every October they give more quinces than the kitchen can hold.

Gema Carrasco stirs quince paste in a kitchen full of baskets of fruit

Gema started making membrillo with them so they would not go to waste. First for the family. Then to go with the cheese in the village shop.

Manchego cheese with quince paste beside a vermouth with an olive

She says a Manchego without membrillo is like a vermouth without an olive. That is why we sell it from the same house.

How it is made

  1. Gema Carrasco picks quinces from the trees at the field edge in October

    01

    The quinces are picked in October, when you can smell them from a distance.

  2. Hands press cooked quinces through a food mill

    02

    They are cooked with their skins on and passed through a food mill.

  3. A spoon stirs the quince paste until it comes away from the pan

    03

    The pulp is cooked with sugar, stirring, until it comes away from the pan.

  4. Hot quince paste poured into tubs to set

    04

    It is poured into tubs and left to set for two days.

The plain of La Mancha with vineyards, stubble and windmills in the distance

Other regions

Herencia is in the heart of La Mancha, in Ciudad Real, at the foot of the Sierra de Puerto Lápice. The quince trees grow along the field edges, where nobody ploughs.

See the region
Cut block of firm quince paste beside a halved quince

What we are allowed to say

Membrillo sets on its own, with the pectin from the fruit itself. It has no gelling agents or thickeners.

What the studies say, on the blog

What they do so it lasts

  1. 01The quince trees are never sprayed or watered.
  2. 02All the fruit gets used, the ugly ones too.
  3. 03Cardboard tub with a compostable film.
Crate of misshapen spotted quinces that are all used

Where your money goes

Gema y Lorenzo Carrasco
£1.80
47%
Transport
£0.30
7%
@seis
£0.70
18%
The shop or home delivery
£1.10
28%

Out of £3.90, the price before VAT. The VAT, £0.40, goes to the state.

How we work
A pallet of boxes leaves a village warehouse in Teruel by lorry

What the label says

Format
400 g tub
Ingredients
Quince (55%), sugar and lemon juice.
Allergens
No allergens that need declaring.
Storage
In a cool place. Once open, in the fridge.
Best before
12 months from making.
Seal
No seal
Made in
Herencia, Other regions
Hot quince paste poured into tubs to set
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