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Dulce de membrillo is made of [[quince]] fruit, [[sugar]] and water, cooked over a slow fire. It is sweet and mildly tart, and similar in consistency, flavour and use to guava cheese or guava paste. It is sold in squares or blocks, then cut into thin slices and spread over toasted bread or sandwiches, plain or with [[cheese]], often served for [[breakfast]] or as a snack, with [[manchego cheese]] or [[mató cheese]]. It is very often used to stuff pastries. | Dulce de membrillo is made of [[quince]] fruit, [[sugar]] and water, cooked over a slow fire. It is sweet and mildly tart, and similar in consistency, flavour and use to guava cheese or guava paste. It is sold in squares or blocks, then cut into thin slices and spread over toasted bread or sandwiches, plain or with [[cheese]], often served for [[breakfast]] or as a snack, with [[manchego cheese]] or [[mató cheese]]. It is very often used to stuff pastries. | ||
Guava cheese, although it contains no quince fruit, is also called | Guava cheese, although it contains no quince fruit, is also called membrilyo in the Philippines, a former Spanish colony, where it forms a part of the traditional nochebuena array on Christmas Eve. | ||
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