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From Fredericksburg, TX, Home Kitchen Cook Book (Ninth Edition 1967)
Fig Preserves
3 cups figs, cut up
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 box strawberry or blackberry jello
Combine all ingredients in large saucepan and cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
Pour into jelly glasses. Mrs. A. C. Kast
--Another Recipe--
Strawberry Figs
6 cups figs (packed) Be sure cut off stems
6 cups sugar
2 large or 4 small boxes strawberry gelatin
1 box Sure Jell
Mix all ingredients in a large pot. Cook very slowly, stirring to prevent
sticking. Cook until figs become transparent and the mixture is thick.
Spoon into sterile jars. Makes about 4 pints.
I use the smaller jelly jars to have more. Gail San Antonio,Tx.
--ANother Recipe--
This is one of the best preserves I made while raising a family in Phoenix.
It uses figs and strawberry Jell-O.
Mock Strawberry Preserves
3 cups of crushed figs 1 box of Strawberry Jell-O
2 cups of sugar
Mix ingredients together and bring to a boil. Boil for five minutes. Pour
into prepared glasses. Cool and refrigerate. Keeps indefinitely. (Not
really, my family ate it too rapidly too give any lengthy time frame.)
Marilyn C.
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