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Figs
Topic Started: Jun 16 2017, 05:03 AM (191 Views)
Jolly
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Up to my eyeballs and I need to pick some more.

I know what some people will be getting in the Christmas goody baskets...For the curious, we do both regular and strawberry figs. Our regular figs follow a recipe similar to Besh's...Here's his:

http://www.canningacrossamerica.com/recipes/old-fashioned-fig-preserves-by-chef-john-besh/

You see a lot of recipes on the web calling for lemon juice. I've never put lemon juice in fig preserves in my life.
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brenda
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Yummy! I've never made fig preserves. Lots of work?
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Strawberry-fig sounds excellent. Do you use the actual berries or gelatin?
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Jolly
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brenda
Jun 16 2017, 05:36 AM
Strawberry-fig sounds excellent. Do you use the actual berries or gelatin?
Strawberry jello and figs. Helps to run the figs through a food processor before cooking them down. Since it's open bath type stuff, you can use pint commercial glass jars (as long as a mason lid fits), so you don't lose a good canning jar if you give some away.

Good jars don't seem to come back home... :weeping:
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brenda
Jun 16 2017, 05:26 AM
Yummy! I've never made fig preserves. Lots of work?
Some, but not bad. We sugar like Besh does, but we cook out different. If you notice in his recipe, he brings them up to a hard boil and cooks on high heat. We tend to sugar them, then start them at night...We'll star with a boil, then go down to a simmer and cook for maybe an hour. Then cut 'em out and go to bed. The next morning, we turn the heat back on and simmer for a couple of hours or so. The simmer has to be hot enough to produce the foam. The foam is eventually going to dissapate and then the fig syrup should coat the back of a spoon...we like a fairly thick syrup, which is why we cook a bit longer at a lower heat.

We tend to eat them on biscuits, but fig preserves make a great fig cake, which is wonderful with a cup of coffee.
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Jolly
Jun 16 2017, 09:58 AM
brenda
Jun 16 2017, 05:26 AM
Yummy! I've never made fig preserves. Lots of work?
Some, but not bad. We sugar like Besh does, but we cook out different. If you notice in his recipe, he brings them up to a hard boil and cooks on high heat. We tend to sugar them, then start them at night...We'll star with a boil, then go down to a simmer and cook for maybe an hour. Then cut 'em out and go to bed. The next morning, we turn the heat back on and simmer for a couple of hours or so. The simmer has to be hot enough to produce the foam. The foam is eventually going to dissapate and then the fig syrup should coat the back of a spoon...we like a fairly thick syrup, which is why we cook a bit longer at a lower heat.

We tend to eat them on biscuits, but fig preserves make a great fig cake, which is wonderful with a cup of coffee.
All that residual heat helps cook it while you sleep. Smart!

I've had commercially made fig preserves, but never fig cake. Will have to look that one up for hubby. I bet he'd like it, especially with coffee.

I've not seen figs for sale here in quantities for canning. Just not the right climate.
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bachophile
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I love fresh figs off a tree
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bachophile
Jun 16 2017, 10:19 AM
I love fresh figs off a tree
So do the dogs.

I tend to chunk them the over-ripe ones and after a couple, they start to lean in. An old man on a short step ladder is not comforted by two 85 pound labradors leaning in from each side.
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bachophile
Jun 16 2017, 10:19 AM
I love fresh figs off a tree
yep.
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Catseye3
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For fig lovers, I'm posting Greek Yogurt with a Fig, Date, and Honey Swirl from Food Network on the Cooking Thread for y'all.
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Jolly
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Wife found a new fig preserve recipe she wants to try, but it calls for the no-sugar sure-jell...Uses red wine, figs and strawberries...I don't have any of the no-sugar stuff, so I'll have to get some.
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It is possible that I have never even seen a fig.
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Used to have a fig tree in LA. The bees loved them. I never knew what to do. Now I would make fig-bacon jam.
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