I have been wanting to make homemade fig preserves for many years. So today I am going to share How to make homemade fig preserves with you.
My obsession with making fig jam or homemade fig preserves started over 10 years ago when I bought a self-pollinating brown turkey fig tree
If you have ever planted a fruit tree you know it takes a few years for the fruit tree to mature enough to bear fruit.
Well, let's just say someone came a little too close to the base of my fig tree a couple of times too many with a lawnmower or weed eater.
The fig tree has been gone awhile now but I still have dreams of growing my own figs one day.
Fresh Figs are only available in the grocery stores for a very short time here in Florida and they are usually very expensive.
Last summer I got lucky and caught some brown turkey figs on sale and snatched a couple of containers up.
Since it was an impulse buy I had no idea how many figs I would need so I bought a couple of containers and hoped I had enough to make a batch of fig preserves.
I love the way this homemade Fig Preserves recipe turned out.
It tastes great on toast and on a bagel with cream cheese. I can also see using it as a filling for cakes or a strudel.
Enjoy the recipe Summer will be here before you know it and when it's fig season you will be looking for the perfect homemade fig preserve recipe!
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How To Make Homemade Fig Preserves
Ingredients
- 6 cups brown turkey figs ( stem trimmed and roughly chopped)
- 7 cups sugar
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup bottled lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest ((optional))
- 1 teaspoon margarine or butter (to cut down on foaming (optional))
- 3 ounce packet Certo liquid pectin
Instructions
- Wash, trim stems and slice figs into 4th.
- Add first six ingredients to a large pot and let sit about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile boil jars.
- Put flat lids in a small pot of water and boil then turn off the heat.
- On medium heat bring ingredients to a full rolling boil.
- Boil for about 10 minutes.
- Stir in packet of liquid pectin.
- Continue stirring until ingredients come to a full boil. Stop stirring and boil for exactly one minute.
- Remove pot from hot burner.
- Allow preserves to settle.
- Skim foam off top.
- Fill jars.
- Process 20 minutes in a hot water bath.
Recipe Expert Tips
- Use any variety of fresh figs to make preserves.
Nutrition
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Allyson @ Southern Sunflowers
Your labels for the canning jars are cute. I featured you at last week's #HomeMattersParty. Hope you can drop by and take a look!
Crystal Green
This sounds like a good recipe. I absolutely love fig preserves and have no clue how to make them. I believe I'd totally ruin it even with this easy-to-follow directions. I will stick with finding someone who sells it. 🙂 However, that's becoming harder and harder to do anymore.