Oh.My.Goodness this recipe for fig preserves made in the crock-pot looks amazing. Reader Sheryl Benefield sent us over this recipe and I must admit I am putting it on my “to make” list for sure!
So simple and d’lish… without turning on your stove and standing over the heat!
Ingredients
4 Cups Ripe Figs
1 Cup Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
4 Small Jars, Rings, Lids Prepared For Canning
Instructions
- Wash, dry and remove stems from figs.
- Put in large dish and sprinkle with sugar.
- Place lid on dish and refrigerate at least 12 hours (I usually do this process overnight).
- Turn crock-pot on high.
- Take figs from refrigerator – there should be a sugar/water mixture in bottom of pan.
- Gently spoon figs in crock-pot with all the juice mixture.
- Add lemon juice and vanilla extract.
- Place lid on crock-pot.
- Check every 30 minutes – gently moving figs around.
- Turn off after 2 hours.
- Divide figs and juice into 4 small prepared jars.
- Top with lids and rings.
Notes
Store fig preserves in the refrigerator.
http://crockpotladies.com/recipe-categories/breakfast/crockpot-fig-preserves/
Question: If you don’t want to use white refined sugar, what substitute sweetener would you recommend for making these preserves?
Hi Denise,
While I did not create this recipe (it was sent in by one of our readers) I would think you could use honey instead of refined white sugar.
According to this article I found (http://www.pickyourown.org/SubstitutingHoneyForSugar.htm) you could use 7/8 of a cup of honey to replace the 1 cup of sugar in this recipe.
If you try it, let us know how it turns out for you!
Heidi
Marvellous recipe!! Any idea how much 4 cups of figs are in either metric or imperial?? Thanks!
Isabella, to be quite honest I am not sure on the conversions to metric or imperial. In this recipe you use 4 (8 oz.) jars so I would think if you have similar sized jars where you live you could roughly estimate it. I found this conversion table (http://www.jsward.com/cooking/conversion.shtml) but I am not 100% sure on what the proper conversions would be.
Thank you so much for that. What a good conversion site. I do have others, but not as useful as this one. I have managed to find the relevant info needed in a very old cookery book! One cup of pears, figs, dates, etc, weighs whole, 5 ozs, chopped, 3 ozs. In metric this would be 150 and 75 grams respectively. Cheers!