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Fig Preserves with Lemon

This delicious preserve can be enjoyed on toast or with your favorite aged cheese!
Course Snack
Cuisine French
Keyword Preserves
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 4 hours

Equipment

  • Pint cannings jars

Ingredients

  • 1 lemon quartered and thinly sliced
  • 3 pounds ripe figs rinsed, and quartered
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 cup water

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  • Spray 9x13 casserole pan with non-stick spray
  • Scatter sliced lemon in bottom of pan. Follow with sliced figs.
  • Pour sugar over the figs and drizzle water over entire pan.
  • Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake for 2 hours.
  • After 2 hours uncover pan and stir.
  • Return pan to oven and increase oven temperature to 400 degrees.
  • Bake for additional 1 ½ hours.
  • Pour hot fig preserves into prepared half pint jars.
  • Jars must be hot & sterile and your lids must be new and hot to seal.
  • If your jars seal with a “pop” preserves will last one year.

Notes

recipe from Liana Krissoff’s Canning for a New Generation