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Olia Hercules

Christmas cheese and quince shortbread recipe by Olia Hercules

Christmas cheese and quince shortbread.
Christmas cheese and quince shortbread. Photograph: Joe Woodhouse

In 2015, a national newspaper held a Christmas fair and invited me, a budding young writer, to come and sell some baked goods. As a freelancer and single mum, my finances were extremely limited. So I asked my best friend Caroline to help me make something out of nothing.

I had a lot of quince jelly from the previous year and a large piece of a Swedish equivalent of parmesan – västerbotten.

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