2/15/17

Fig Jam





Making sweet things to put on toast without refined sugar:
Figs, dates, and lemon. My second batch had a slightly higher date-to-fig ratio, but I love the crunchy fig seeds, so I prefer this one:

4 oz dates
8 oz figs
2 T lemon juice
1/2 t lemon zest
1 c water

Boil figs for 10 minutes, replace figs in water with dates and let them soak for ten minutes, blend everything together with an immersion blender.
Alternatively, just slow cook into jam.
Jar and process in pressure cooker canning cycle for 10 minutes, check to make sure they sealed.
I made a quadruple batch and will have fig jam forever.

3 comments:

  1. Yum! I'm too tired to make anything with lemon zest. Even the acts of lemon juicing is exhausting and I love lemons. I'm hoping to preserve some tomorrow!

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    1. Invest $5 in a reamer. Also, you can use a vegetable peeler to cut off the zest, dice it up, and freeze it.

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  2. Brilliant. This weekend I just made D do it.

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