Fig Jam

 

This image is not mine,
but this is what I 
know to be a fig.

My neighbor gifted me with some fig and I was in a tizzy trying to figure out what the heck to make with them.  You see, what y'all call a fig, is not what I grew up calling figs...totally different animals...and to add insult to injury, I've never eaten what y'all call a fig (now do you see why I was in a quandary?).

So what is a fig? The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world, both for its fruit and as an ornamental plant. So now that we know a little about what a fig is, I still have to figure out what to do with it.

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So, what does one (meaning me) do? I turned to my arsenal of Pampered Chef gadgets and choose the Pampered Chef Deluxe Cooking Blender for this experimental journey and wouldn't you know it, although there are recipes for jams, the fig isn't one of them.  Not only that the basic recipe requires pectin...y'all, I never heard of pectin nor did I have any in the pantry...enter Randall's delivery for the win.

What I love about the DCB is that you basically add the ingredients...in the order listed, turn it on, and then let the blender do the work.

Ingredients:

1/4 cup of water

1 lb of fresh fig

1 package of Pectin (original)

2 1/2 cup of sugar (I used Cane root sugar) 

Add the first three ingredients to the blender and let it do what it does, add the sugar when it tells you to "add" the sugar, and voilà...fig jam is done.