Who We Are

Hi! We’re Matt and Clare, the founders of Quince and Apple. We make small-batch preserves, carefully hand crafting each jar for your eating pleasure. And when we say hand crafted, we mean that the two of us are actually in the kitchen slicing, dicing and caramelizing until all hours of the night. Matt carefully tests each step of the process, tasting and tweaking to ensure each batch is up to our exacting standards. This artisan-centered approach allows us to always use the highest quality fresh produce, adjusting for the differences in season and variety. Enjoy!!

Why Buy

Chow.com, a national food blog, files us under "stuff we want to eat right now” and dane101.com says, "they're onto something good!" Readymade.com calls our preserves "artisanal and intriguing" and recently featured them in an online gift guide. Most importantly, our customers consistently tell us they love our preserves and they’ve never had anything like them.

Indulge yourself or give a jar as a gift – we’ll hand-write your message on a full-sized notecard.

How to Use

Eat our preserves with eggs and toast, spread on sandwiches, on top of ice cream, mixed into yogurt - or just dig in with a spoon.
Our preserves are naturals on a cheese plate and versatile for cooking. Check out our recipes and pairings for each flavor.
And send us your ideas...you might end up featured on our blog!

Monthly Archives: February 2010

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Willy Street Co-op Producer Profile

We here at Quince and Apple have been co-opers for a long time. When we met, I (Clare) lived at Nottingham Co-op, a 21 person student consortium down by the UW campus, and Matt became a member soon after. His first job out of college was as produce buyer at the Mifflin St. Co-op, and [...]

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Prestigious Award!

We were honored to discover our inclusion in the grand-prize-winning All-Wisco burger! This delicious burger is topped with Q&A’s Shallot Confit with Red Wine and Carr Valley Billy Blue goat cheese. Mix those tasty treats with Fountain Prairie grass-fed ground beef and a Fayze’s Talame Bun and you got yerself one serious burger. This delectable [...]

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Valentine’s Day Open House

Join Potter’s Crackers, Terra Source Chocolates and Quince and Apple for a delicious evening of samples, pairings, kitchen tours, and Valentine’s gift ideas! Hosted at the Madison Enterprise Center, where our kitchens reside, this event will give you a chance to see how small-batch foods are really made! Tuesday, February 9, 4-7pm Madison Enterprise Center [...]

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Valentine’s Day Boxes!

We’ve put together some beautiful Valentine’s Day Boxes filled with Potter’s Graham Crackers, our most aphrodisiac preserves and Gail Ambrosius chocolates and confections. Yum! All of the products featured in this box can also be found on Foodzie, an online consortium of artisan producers selling delicious goods from across the country. In honor of Valentine’s [...]

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