Fig preserves

Figs are magical. Floral, soft and sensual, they are symbols of fertility, abundance, and enlightenment in various cultures around the worl...

Fig preserves made from figs harvested from backyard tree is an easy to make recipe and delicious on muffins, or crackers and cheese. Small batch canning.

I LOVE FIGS! Here's my figs story and an easy preserved figs recipe. These are great to save and use on fresh hot breakfast biscuits. What do you put figs on?

My maternal grandmother’s name was Martha Stephenson Hardin (I’m named Stephanie in honor of the Stephenson surname) and she was an orphan. The very fact that she and her sisters, Agnes…

Fresh figs, citrus, sugar, and vanilla transform into a delicious sweet preserve with this easy fig jam recipe. No special equipment needed!

A breakfast at my granny's place is just not complete without the homemade biscuits and preserves. Not to mention the bacon, sausage eggs and whatever else she might decide to throw on the table. As a child I didn't much care for preserves - something about the mushed up fruits just set me to crying -but I sure did love the "syrup" that came along with them. I don't mind the fruit that much these days ;-) Anyway, back to the preserves... since we're inching along through summer and since she…

Finally, after struggling through hurricanes and hard freezes, our Celeste Fig tree began bearing enough figs for us to can them. Last year it only yielded a handful a day, but those few handfuls of figs rarely made it into the house, because between us and the birds eating them as they ripened, they never stood a chance of us making any kinds of plans for storage of any kind. This year, thanks to no major storms, and the tree finally growing big enough to survive a freeze, it began to bear…

ADVOCATE-TESTED RECIPE

If you can cut up some dried figs and add sugar, balsamic vinegar, water and lemon juice then bring it all to a boil, you can make this delicious balsamic fig jam! That's all there is to it! And check out the post (above) for a zillion ways to use it!

Thanks to a wonderful friend who gave them to us and my mom who helped them pick the figs for us, we ended up with about 8 gallons to work with. Barry and I are the only ones in our house who like…