Make your own fig preserves from scratch with this easy canning recipe
Prep Time
1 hr
Dificult
Medium
Servings
2 hrs 30 mins
Ingredients
Instructions
In a large mixing bowl place figs and sprinkle with baking soda. Pour the boiling water over the figs and soak for 1 hour.
Drain figs and rinse thoroughly with cold water. In a large Dutch oven combine the sugar and the 4 cups of water; bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
Add the figs and lemon slices to the syrup in the Dutch oven and cook for 1 hour
stirring occasionally.
Spoon figs into hot
sterilized jars and spoon syrup over figs
leaving 1/2 inch of head space. Top jars with lids and screw bands on tightly. Process for 10 minutes in a hot water bath.
Eddie Stroud