Fig-Plum Jam
The first recipe started out as a regular fig jam.
Ingredients
- 4 cups fresh figs, ends cut off and quartered
- 1 cup purple flesh plums, pitted and chopped (6 small)
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 T. bottled lemon juice
- 1 pc. Zest of one lemon
Instructions
- In a bowl add figs and 1 cups of sugar. Put into the refrigerator for at least an hour or overnight.
- In a stainless steel or enamel dutch oven, on medium high heat, empty figs and sugar scraping from bowl and cook figs until they are soft. Cook stirring occasionally for 25 minutes.
- With either an immersion blender or potato masher break up and mash figs leaving small pieces of the fruit throughout.
- Add lemon zest, lemon juice and additional cup of sugar. Mix into figs.
- Add cup of plums and cook for additional 15 minutes. Bring the recipe back to a boil, then turn off heat.
- Ladle fig mixture into half pint jars, wipe rims carefully, add hot lids/rings and process in a water bath for 10 minutes at a full boil.
- Make 5 half pint jars.