flewing

“Quinces are valued principally only as a culinary fruit for flewing, baking, making marmalade, and to enrich the flavour of Apple-pies, tarts, &c as be - ing of a very heightened fragrance when fully ripe, but generally too hard and af - tringent to eat raw, as before obferved.”

Internet Archive: The British fruit-gardener : and art of pruning : comprising, the most approved methods of planting and raising every useful fruit-tree and fruit-bearing-shrub ... The true successful practice of pruning, training, grafting, budding &c. so as to render them abundantly fruitful: and full directions concerning soils, situations, and exposures