This morning I awoke to a bucket full of very ripe figs on the kitchen counter. Ellis, Linda and Alden had picked them yesterday afternoon after the grapes thinking that we would eat all of them fresh. After eating our fill, we still had quite a bit left!!! I decided to try my hand at making fig preserves the way I remembered my mom doing it. They are delicious!!!
Here is what I did:
- Put enough figs (minus the stem end) in a large dutch oven to fill it half way. Added 1/2 cup of water, 2 cups of sugar and one thinly sliced and seeded lemon.
- Cook over simmer for about 2 hours until they looked to be the consistency of jam.
- Ladeled the preserves into hot jars and processed them in the water bath canner for 10 minutes.
This made 7 1/2 small jars of fig preserves. The jars were 1/2 pint size.
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