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!

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Daily Candy!

By clare | Published: March 19, 2010

Wow, we were featured on TastingTable and DailyCandy all in one swell week. Hello, Chicago! We love the city, probably the majority of our friends live in it, and now we have even more excuses to come down all the time. But don’t worry – Madison, WI still holds our hearts. The DailyCandy article says: [...]

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Heavy Table

By clare | Published: January 26, 2010

Hello 2010! Since our last blog post, we’ve moved into a new kitchen and had our first holiday season, which went great. In the midst of the craziness, we ran into James Norton and Becca Dilley, authors of The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin, doing a book signing at one of the cheese shops we sell [...]

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Figs and Black Tea – 77 Square’s latest obsession!

By clare | Published: August 31, 2009

Calling our Figs and Black Tea preserves “ambrosial”, 77 Square, Madison’s weekly Arts and Entertainment rag, features us in this week’s “Recent Obsessions” column! Here’s what they say: Grilled cheese sandwich as haute cuisine? A heavenly combination — and recent obsession — that combines cheesemaker Brenda Jensen’s brilliant new Bohemian Blue (Hidden Springs Creamery) with [...]

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Our first national press!

By clare | Published: July 1, 2009

Wow! We’re having an exciting day! We just found out about this post on Chow, a national food blog, featuring our Orange Marmalade with Lemons.

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Our first press!

By clare | Published: July 1, 2009

Quince and Apple is featured on dane101.com, Madison’s everything-interesting blog, in an article written by Emily Mills. “Clare and Matt Stoner Fehsenfeld have a simple—but delicious—idea: Bring fresh preserves to the upper Midwest. And that’s exactly what they’re doing with Quince & Apple, their recently launched small business based right here in Madison. They’re joining [...]

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