Fig!
So the figs are ripening around here…I have no idea what variety they are. They came with the house. I have to head out pretty early to fight off the chipmunks.
I got roughly a gallon over the last few days. The husband loves them, me, not so much. Since no human could or should eat a gallon of figs in a few days, I decided to try fig jam.
I sort of followed the recipe from Pick Your Own. I cut way back on the sugar…ours are pretty sweet as it is. I used 5 cups chopped figs to 1 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup lemon juice. I don’t use pectin (too cheap to but any!), but if you boil slowly for about an hour or so they gel pretty well. All of this made exactly 3 half pint jars. Sorry for the bad pic, but at least here you can see the speckled a bit. Fig preserves are pretty if nothing else.
We also did more tomatoes the other night. I tried making paste. A LOT of work!! 15 tomatoes ended up making 1/2 pint plus a few extra teaspoons. I think the tomatoes we have right now are too juicy, maybe I’ll try it next time with Roma tomatoes. The stuff tastes amazing, but I am not yet convinced it is worth it.