Preserving The Bounty

Some days we have to step back from our "routine" and do what is needed.  This year Mom's fig tree is once again producing a great bounty of figs.  I have no idea which variety of figs these are, but they make great preserves.  The figs looks something like this.

I usually pick them with just a little green left at the stem end.  Otherwise, the birds get them before I get the chance.

Today I made ten half pints of flavored fig preserves. I use the old standby "Faux Strawberry Preserves" recipe.  But I generally change it a bit. The recipe uses flavored gelatin (like Jello) instead of more traditional things like pectin.  Here are the first five I took out of the canning water bath.

Ten glorious jars of "Straw-Cherry" preserves are now sitting on my table. There is also about a third of a jar that went into the refrigerator. Those will be used to flavor my breakfast yogurt one day soon.

If you want to read about my process, I blogged it last year.   Right now, I am relaxing and listening as the jars "plink" sealed.  One just plinked - it may have been the final jar.

(You can also go to the search bar in the top left corner of my blog and type figs and enter for even more posts about my adventures in making preserves.)

I have more figs in the freezer and the tree is full of green figs as well as some in various stages of ripening.   Isn't it delightful what God provides for us?

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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