Heavenly Fig Jam Recipes

Steps:

• Add figs, honey, and lemon juice to medium size saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, lower heat and cook until thick; approximately 1 hour, stirring frequently.
• Add walnuts and cook an additional 10 to 15 minutes.
• Pour hot jam into steralized 1/2 pint jars, put on cap, screw band firmly tight.
• Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes or as recommended for your altitude.

Steps:

• Prepare canner, jars and lids per safe canning practices.
• In a large, deep stainless steel saucepan, combine figs and water. Reduce heat, cover, and boil gently until softened, about 20 minutes. Let cool slightly. Transfer to a food processor fitted with a metal blade and purée. Measure 3 cups.
• Return puréed figs to saucepan and add orange juice and lemon juice. Whisk in pectin until dissolved. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring frequently. Add sugar all at once and return to a full rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil hard, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Immediately stir in orange-flavored liqueur, if using. Remove from heat and skim off foam.
• Ladle hot jam into hot jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust headspace, if necessary, by adding hot jam. Clean rim. Center lid on jar. Screw band (ring) down until resistance is met, then increase to fingertip-tight.
• Place jars in a water bath (boiling-water) canner, ensuring they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil and process for 10 minutes. Remove canner lid. Wait 5 minutes, then remove jars and cool. Check lids for seal after 24 hours. Lid should not flex up and down when center is pressed.

Steps:

• Place apple habaneros and 1 cup sugar in food processor and pulse till very fine. Place into a large nonreactive heavy bottom pot. Add everything but the sugar. Stirring in the pectin to dissolve.
• Bring to a full rolling boil,(a boil that doesn`t stop when stirred).
• Add sugar and return to a boil. Boil for 1 minute.
• Remove from heat and ladle into sterilized jars. Leaving 1/4 inch head space.
• Wipe rims and place lids on add screw tops.
• Process in a hot water canner for 10 minutes.
• Remove and leave in a draft free spot to seal for 24 hours.
• Label and store in a dark cool spot.

Steps:

• remove stems from figs.
• put figs and lemon juice in a processor, process until figs are chopped.
• put chopped figs, water, syrup and salt in a saucepan.
• bring to boil, lower heat to simmer and cook 25 minutes until thick.
• cool, serve.

Steps:

• In a food processor place sugar, lavender, and ginger process to make the ginger and lavender into bits. The sugar will become somewhat powdered. Place into a large heavy bottom pot.
• Place the figs and lemon juice and zest into the processor and pulse 5 to 6 times just to a coarse chop. Add to pot with sugar.
• Heating to a slow boil then raise heat to a fast rolling boil for 15 minutes stirring most the time. At this point you`ll see the juice turn vibrant dark red and it is pretty syrupy. Add the pine nuts.
• Spoon into sterilized jars.
• Process for 10 minutes in a hot water bath.