I had to wrestle this month’s Can Jam challenge to the ground. I love the ingredients that the Cosmic Cowgirl chose for us: apples, pears, and quince. (Stephanie is also the proprietress of a beautiful new preserving business, Confituras, in Austin, Texas.) I’d had a big success with my Quince-Orange-Cardamom Marmalade a few weeks ago. In that post, I mentioned an astonishing quince chutney that I had tasted — an unexpected gift from the woman who had so generously given me the quince themselves. I decided I wanted to try to make that same chutney myself. And so it began. [...]