Fig Preserves
Description
Serve fig preserves with strong flavored cheeses or pork recipes.
Ingredients
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Serves
4-6
- 2 cups fresh figs
- 2 cups boiling water
- ½ cup + 2 Tbs sugar
- 1 cup water
- ¼ lemon, seeded and thinly sliced – no need to peel
Methods/steps
- Place figs in a bowl. Add the boiling water and let them stand for 15 minutes.
- Drain the hot water, rinse the figs with cold water and drain again.
- Heat up 1 cup water, the sugar and lemon slices in a pan. Simmer for 10 minutes. Discard lemon slices.
- Add the figs to the syrup and simmer until they are transparent. If necessary, remove figs and boil syrup until thickened.
- Cover figs with thickened syrup over figs and let stand at room temperature overnight.
Additional Tips
Use firm figs.
It is easy to double, even quadruple, this recipe and can the excess fig preserve. If you attempt to do so, simmer figs in syrup until they are transparent just 2 cups at a time, remove and process other batch. You’ll get better results. Process 8 oz jars for 10 minutes in the pressure canner.
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