Quince dessert (Turkish: Ayva Tatlısı) is a traditional Turkish dessert made of cooked quince fruit, cloves, sweet syrup or quince marmalade and topped with whipped cream. Served as halves with the inside slightly carved out, it is a popular dish enjoyed both warm and cold throughout western Turkey, particularly in wintertime.
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“Let the palings of her bed
Be quince and box-wood overlaid
with the scented bark of yew.
That all the wood in blossoming,
May calm her heart and cool her blood
For losing of her maidenhood.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)