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Figs in Syrup

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. Soda
  3. Sugar
  4. 3 quarts of figs

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. For 3 quarts of figs, use a syrup made from 1% qts.
  2. of water and 1 qt.
  3. of sugar.
  4. Plunge figs in a solution of % c.
  5. soda and 3 qts.
  6. boiling water and allow to remain about 15 minutes or until water is cold enough to put hand in comfortably.
  7. Rinse figs twice in cold water.
  8. Drain and add to the boiling syrup.
  9. Cook until figs are clear and tender ait (about 2 hrs.).

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Colander
Source https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Credit

From Cather Historic Cookbook - Dallas County Home Demonstration Cook Book, Selma, Alabama 6783492, printed page 11, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/dallas-county-home-demonstration-cook-book-selma-alabama-6783492

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.