Preserving figs?

**PyreneesPlot** · 02-09-2013, 03:52 PM

Can you dry them? I make jam, but then they just grow on trees around here

Ice cream?

**veggiechicken** · 02-09-2013, 04:04 PM

What's fig jam like PP?
I don't have a dehydrator or ice cream maker - so jam or chutney is about my limit! Even then it has to be simple as I'm not that enthusiastic about cooking these days

**mothhawk** · 02-09-2013, 06:56 PM

You could freeze them in a sugar syrup.

**PyreneesPlot** · 02-09-2013, 09:16 PM

Fig jam is the mistress of jams. The God of jams. The last jam of the condemned man. Quite nice

**vikkib** · 03-09-2013, 05:05 AM

Jam sounds lovely!

Very easy, no churn, no ice cream maker, ice cream recipe:

It's so easy it's feels a bit cheaty to me but the results are very tasty!

300ml double cream
197g (one tin) of*condensed*milk (NOT evaporated!)
Half a lemon
Some or other fruit (anything from 110g up - I used about 300g of strawberries)

1) Puree your fruit and add a few drops of lemon juice

2) Put the cream and*condensed*milk in a large bowl and whisk until billowing (I wasn't sure what this meant so whisked until I got bored and then a fair bit longer!)

3) Fold in the fruit puree, taste, add more lemon juice if you want to

4) Stick in a plastic tub, cover and freeze

**chris** · 03-09-2013, 07:55 AM

You may preserve a few in my belly.

*hint* *hint*

**veggiechicken** · 03-09-2013, 07:59 AM

Better shift your belly over here then Chris - you can have the high ones

**chris** · 03-09-2013, 08:23 AM

I'm just shocked that you literally rammed them in, and they grow. I've tried for 3 years now, and my figs never grow that much, but if they do, any fruit just rots off!

**veggiechicken** · 03-09-2013, 08:42 AM

Rammed them in? Into the ground or into my mouth?
Might be able to find you a sucker or two if we (that means you) can dig them out!!

**Patchninja** · 03-09-2013, 08:43 AM

A lovely salad :
slices of parma ham on a plate, make that little cut in the top of the figs and squeaze so they open a bit. Add them decoratively to the plate! Make a salad dressing with a little olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and a drizzle of honey. Pour this over. Lovely with melon of you don't have any figs!

**chris** · 03-09-2013, 10:10 AM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

Rammed them in? Into the ground or into my mouth?
Might be able to find you a sucker or two if we (that means you) can dig them out!!

both

It's a date. Well, a fig, but you know.

**veggiechicken** · 03-09-2013, 10:14 AM

Better make it quick for the figs - or they'll have disappeared into something - like my mouth!!

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