Old Fashioned Fig Preserves like Grandma made
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- During the Fig Season July 2013 I picked about 20-30 gal figs per week for a 3 week period. I made Strawberry Fig Jam (link to that video below), Old Fashioned Fig Preserves & even froze whole cleaned figs. All of this from that 1 Fig Tree that I have shown in some of my pervious videos.
Strawberry Fig Jam Video
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The formula/Recipe I use:
1 Part Figs (32 C Figs)
1/2 Part Sugar (16 C sugar)
Mix clean figs & sugar in your pot. Bring up the temp & continue to cook with syrup bubbling slightly for 1-2 hours. Syrup will not appear very thick, this is ok, it will continue to thicken up as it cools & even more so when it is refrigerated (after opening jar).
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Yummy! Fig preserves and biscuits, I'm salivatin' !
Thanks for sharin', Red.
Best wishes~
Great video. This fig preserve video look so much like my mom and grandma use to make. I'm going to go and find myself some fresh figs and cook this fig recipe. Then like a fat hungry little boy living on the farm, I'm going to sop them up with several cans of biscuits .
Wow. I was even older (48) when I tasted fresh cherries for the 1st time last year in Utah! Thanks so much!
I sure do love figs in any way shape or form and you got some mighty fine preserves! I do like the big ones, though I know you don't so no worries, just a matter of taste. So good, thank you for sharing. Sure wish I could grow fig trees here. You are fortunate, and good for you! God bless!
Thank you SO much for doing this video. I'm pretty sure this is how my Grandmother did her fig preserves. She left hers whole though :) I haven't had them since I was a child and I miss them, so I'm happy to know now how to do them myself. I think it's so important to carry on such traditions. Thanks again for sharing :)
I've hot kettled figs, my mom did it the same and no one ever got sick from it.
Enjoyed your video. I for one love fig and ginger jam. Just nothing beats fig jam, certainly my husbands favourite. Thanks for sharing.
I am so glad you posted this video. I planted two fig trees this year. I can hardly wait for them to fruit so I can use this recipe. Thanks so much for sharing it.
I made raspberry and strawberry fig preserves this summer. I water bath them. I planted my own tree this year so I look forward to home picked next year.
I never even tasted a fresh fig until I was about 35. Anyway, your preserves look good.
LOL Thanks Auntie for stopping by.
Ohhh I just love that stuff too!! Yea that is one way to get them mashed! LOL
I love when I have those lil extras to test!! LOL
Thanks so much! Yes I am very fortunate to have my fig trees. I guess that is the Blessings for putting up with this Heat & Humidty! LOL I just love Figs also.
I was thinking of adding some raisins to the fig preserves....
I want some right now!
Thank you for this video! I have three fig trees and waste them most years before I can eat them all. I will be preserving them this year for the first time. Wish me luck!
Like grandma made? With me it was more like grandpa made I miss him and the way he fixed figs
EXACTLY HOW I DO IT!! YUMMY, XO, LORETTE
Thanks so much! Sure have been missing you but I saw a vid from you uploaded that I have to catch up on. Glad you are doing ok. Best wishes back to ya.
looks good...i liked it
That is awesome!! I wanted to do some Raspberry this year but could not find any Raspberry Jello? Weird. Maybe I can find some next year?
Yes I also water bath my Jams. Mainly, I think because I feel that the Jam mixtures are not quite a HOT as the large pot of Fig Preserves so am not comfortable that the vacuum will form.
Good for you planting your own tree!! Looking forward to hearing how it does for next year. Thanks for stopping by.
Ohhh Bread & Butter pickles are so delicious!! Funny, my birds ate way less figs over here also!! Isn't that strange?
Yes that is my breakfast every AM~toast/biscuits with Jam/preserves & Coffee!! Cajuns gotta have their Coffee! LOL
Sorry I did not make myself clear~you did not miss it. I just let them seal on their own (they have lasted a couple years this way). Yayyy for your Grandpa~smart man planting that tree so many years ago!
Yes try a small batch like this & see if you like them. With the ratio you can make as big or small a batch as you desire. Also you can freeze the cleaned (& stem cut off) for cooking later if you choose. Wishing you the best with them & any more ?? just ask away. Let me know how it goes.
Awesome!!
Yes Mam~~I did not Water Bath them at all. My Grandmother never did, My Mom doesn't & I never have. I do Water Bath my jams & Jellies but mostly because I am following recipes (that I am not familar with them with long family history) so I follow what the Recipes says.
Sadly sometimes I think Safety Regulations are put in place for those who have no sense? lol Like Expiration on Eggs? I ignore the expir dates mostly & use my Eyes & Nose to determine because we sure did not grow up with all those
Miss your videos how you been hope your well.
Hello hun, I was wondering, do you use any water with your figs and sugar when making preserves? Or do you just use sugar and figs? thanks
Just sugar and figs. The figs make their own liquid.
Kitchen scizzors to cut the ends😊...
You just open kettled them? No water bath, or anything? I used to do tomatoes that way in the 1950's and 1960's, and we always did jams and jellies like that. In fact, we just put wax on top. I never did figs, because I had a zillion jars my grandmother and my mom had made. Back then, we didn't know jelly could ever go bad. (Well, I guess it can't. I have some 5 so old it's trying to crystalize.)
I am not sure if I missed it or not but do you water bath these or just let them seal on their own? I know some people do that so I was just wondering. Looks yummy! I have a fig tree behind my shop that my grandpa planted before I was born. I've only eaten them fresh never cooked so I may try this since I always have tons of figs. Thanks! Take care :)
Ok hope I can explain this in text..lol
1 part can mean any amount measured....such as 1 Cup...then your sugar was equal 1/2 Cup. Notice where I said 1 PART Figs to 1/2 PART Sugar. So the actual measured amount can be any amount.
More examples: 12 Cup Figs to 6 cups Sugar. Your sugar amount will always be 50% less or one-half the measured amt of figs.
I have never actually done Pears this exact same way. But I have done them where I don't measure? just by taste?
You could possibly try a small amount of pears using the Ratio of
3 Parts Fruit to 1 Part Sugar & this will turn into this type equation such as :
6 Cups Fruit
2 Cups sugar
Another way to look at the Math is like this:
3 Parts X 1 cup.....= 3 Cups
1 Part X 1 cup.......= 1 Cup
If you use this equation, then you can always figure your specific amts depending on the Amt of fruit you have available to you. Let me know u need more help understanding this. I really do not mind. Thanks for asking
Send us a couple of tons please....
How much sugar??
did I miss the part where you were giving instructions on the recipe when I skipped over your rambling?
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