Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

  Making and canning your own fig jam  is also quite easy. If you've never tasted it, it is quite amazing.  If you like strawberry jam, you'll love fig jam. Here's how to make it, in 13 easy steps and completely illustrated. These directions work equally well for regular sugar, low sugar, fruit juice-sweetened and Splenda-sweetened jam. Any variations will be spelled out in the directions inside the pectin, and below! Figs - fresh figs - about 2 dozen large figs like Brown Turkey or 40 smaller ones, like Celeste - in either case, in total, about 3 to 5 lbs (it depends on the density of the figs, which varies quite a bit based on weather, variety and degree of ripeness) makes 7 jars (8 ounces each) of jam.Sugar - About 4.5 cups of dry, granulated (table) sugar, if you use the low or no-sugar pectin; otherwise 7 cups of sugar are needed for the full sugar pectin. It is possible to make low-sugar,  fruit juice-sweetened, or Splenda-sweetened fig jam; I'll point ou

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves