Recipe Redux – Fig Preserves

This month’s Recipe Redux theme is Raising the Bar on Food in a Jar. I’m sure you may have noticed on Pinterest that meals in a mason jar are all the rage from Overnight Oats (which I should probably try but my bowl works just fine) to Salads. I guess if I didn’t work from home this would have more appeal to me because it would be convenient to take on the run. I have a feeling that some of my fellow Recipe Reduxers will have some brilliant take on this month’s theme with some amazing ideas that will tempt me to jump on the bandwagon.

Look closely and you’ll see our fig tree in background just to left of E

But I just go on board the home canning bandwagon. I tried my hand at it last year with some pickled okra and apple butter. Right now one of my fig trees is bursting with figs, one of my favorite fruits. I’m the only one in my family that will eat them, except E decided the other day she liked them too – on that one occasion. She hasn’t touched them since, except for dipping a waffle into the preserves.

The fun of working from home – E photobombing my set.

Well, there is also nothing better than homemade fig preserves. I remember my sister made some many years ago that were divine. She, of course, has no recollection of making them much less if it was a family recipe she used. So I went about creating my own. In my slow cooker of course. I don’t want to spend hours over a pot on the stove stirring so it doesn’t burn. And I must say, the results are delicious. I used Celeste figs, though any variety will do. I also used less sugar than typically called for because Celeste is such a sweet and juicy variety. The preserves are still plenty sweet and I probably could have used even less sugar.