{"id":2330,"date":"2017-09-08T15:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalland.com\/blog\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2022-11-30T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:33:11","slug":"hunters-wife-series-fig-conserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalland.com\/blog\/hunters-wife-series-fig-conserves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunter’s Wife Series – Fig Conserves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have a fig tree in your yard that\u2019s dropping overripe figs right now? Here\u2019s a quick and easy recipe you can make to keep all those figs and enjoy them later!<\/p>\n

We here in the South would probably call these \u201cFig Preserves,\u201d but my neighbor, Joyce, an England native, calls them Fig Conserves. If you are a study of the English language, \u201cconserves\u201d is probably a better word for this fabulous, easy jam. This is Joyce\u2019s personal recipe and loved by everyone in the area. Joyce rations it out in exchange for favors \u2013 a trick she learned from living in the South for six decades.<\/p>\n

Shortly after moving into the neighborhood, Joyce asked her husband to plant a fig tree at the front corner of their house. He went big and bought four fig trees, but the only one that thrives is the one located where she told him to plant it. To this day, she still wonders why he bought four trees when one would have been enough. I reminded her that sometimes when we love someone, we go all out!<\/p>\n

Joyce recently attempted to use her \u201cnewfound\u201d southern charm on our new neighbors. She tried to convince the young man to pick figs for her, and failed tremendously. He had no idea he was expected to stop everything, climb on a ladder, and pick figs.<\/p>\n

After regaling us with this story a couple of weeks ago, my husband and I went over to help her pick the figs and do a little pruning. And after 3 hours of pruning in 95-degree heat and humidity, we came home with 19 cups of figs and a couple of BI-LO coupons which expired the next day. The grocery coupons ended up in the trash, but I will be handing out jars of Fig Conserves to clients and prospects for weeks to come!<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n