Dried Figs
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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 3 ingredients
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- Three cups of sugar, 1 cup of water.
- Dissolve in preserv- ing kettle and put into it as many prepared figs as it can cook at a time.
- Let figs cook till tender when pierced, but not too soft.
- To prepare figs gather with stems, peel off the thin dark skin, leaving the stems on.
- After cooking as directed lift from syrup and with a silver fork press the juice from each, and on a dish, in single layers, put in the sun to dry for 2 days.
- Press flat and roll in sugar, then dry in sun again, and so on till dry enough to pack in glass pars, pint size.
- The syrup can be saved and cook others in it, then used as syrup.
- — Mrs.
- W.
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Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Vegetable peeler
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Kettle