Fig and Ginger Jam

Name: Fig and Ginger Jam
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 5 h 30 min
Total time: 6 h
Yield: 3 cups
Ingredients: 2 lbs fresh figs, stemmed, peeled, and quartered; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 1/2 cup water; 1 thin-skinned lemon, quartered and thinly sliced (remove any seeds); 2 tablespoons chopped crystallized ginger

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Recipe by ratherbeswimmin

Make fig jam when you have lots of fresh figs and you have grown tired of eating them out of hand.

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READY IN: 6hrs

YIELD: 3 cups

UNITS: US

INGREDIENTS

Nutrition

2

lbs fresh figs, stemmed, peeled, and quartered
1 ¹⁄₂

cups sugar
¹⁄₂

cup water
1

thin-skinned lemon, quartered and thinly sliced (remove any seeds)
2

tablespoons chopped crystallized ginger

DIRECTIONS

Combine the figs, sugar, water, lemon, and ginger in a slow cooker.
Cover and cook on LOW for 2 1/2 hours, stirring twice during cooking.
Remove the lid, turn the cooking temperature to HIGH, and cook 2-3 hours longer, until the jam reaches your desired consistency.
Ladle the warm jam into clean spring-top glasses (or use screw tops with new lids); let stand until cool.
Store, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 2 months.
OR spoon into small plastic storage containers and freeze for up to 2 months.

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