Sun-Dried Figs Preserved with Seawater and Bay Laurel Leaves

In this video you can see how we are harvesting and preserving our figs. The fig tree (Ficus carica) can give a lot of figs in one day, which we can't eat all directly. Therefore we need to preserve them. We preserve our figs by drying them for a few days on the sun. If the figs are dry enough, we put them shortly in boiled seawater and afterwards we let them dry one more day on the sun.
The use of seawater is a traditional way of preserving figs, nowadays people use mostly sulfur (which leaves a less nice taste). We also show in this video an old method for storing our figs. We put the dried figs on a rope and combine them with leaves of bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). Those leaves are a repellent for insects and give the figs an extra nice flavour. The end result is a 'necklace' of tasty dried figs.
00:00 Harvesting figs
01:05 Selecting the figs for drying
01:24 Drying the figs on the sun
02:02 Collecting seawater
02:22 Selecting the sun-dried figs
02:56 Making the figs sterile with seawater
03:31 Putting the sterile figs back on the sun
03:52 Shaping the figs
04:16 Collecting branches of bay laurel
05:04 Making the 'necklace'
06:03 Result
#figs #driedfigs #sundriedfigs
This is a video of Taste of an Island. On this channel you can find videos about the food we grow on our homestead on the Croatian Island of Mljet. Check www.tasteofani... for more information.
Disclaimer: Our videos don't give any professional (food) advice and the use of the information from the videos is completely at your own risk. In our videos we just want to show you all the things we do around food. We are still learning and making mistakes, so always check professional sources if you want to do something similar as is portrayed in the videos.
NL: In deze video kun je zien hoe we onze vijgen oogsten en conserveren. De vijgenboom kan in een dag een grote oogst geven, die we niet in een keer kunnen opeten. Daarom moeten we de vijgen preserveren. We laten hiervoor de vijgen een paar dagen in de zon drogen. Als de vijgen droog genoeg zijn, koken we ze met zeewater en vervolgens laten we ze nog een dag in de zon drogen.
Het gebruik van zeewater is een traditionele manier om vijgen te conserveren. Vandaag de dag gebruiken de meeste mensen zwavel (dat een minder fijne smaak achterlaat). In deze video is ook een ouderwetse methode voor het bewaren van vijgen te zien. De gedroogde vijgen rijgen we op een draad en worden afgewisseld met bladeren van de laurier (Laurus nobilis). Deze blaadjes weren insecten af en geven een extra lekkere smaak aan de vijgen. Het eindresultaat is een 'ketting' van heerlijke gedroogde vijgen.
Dit een video van Taste of an Island. Op dit kanaal kan je allerlei video's over de eetcultuur van het mediterrane eiland Mljet vinden. Kijk voor meer informatie op www.tasteofani.... Hier vind je ook Nederlandstalige artikelen over de eetcultuur op Mljet.
Disclaimer: Onze video's geven geen professioneel advies (over voeding) en het gebruik van de informatie uit de video's is volledig op eigen risico. In onze video's willen we alleen laten zien welke dingen we rondom voedsel doen. We moeten nog steeds veel leren, en we maken nog steeds fouten - kijk daarom altijd op professionele bronnen als je iets vergelijkbaars wilt doen als wat is te zien in de video's.

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