50 year Old Shepherd Recipes Venture into the kitchens of the past if you dare by trying these old fashioned recipes of a bygone generation of Shepherd homemakers
FIG PRESERVES by Mrs. W. N. Blakely - 1956
I have used the following fig preserves recipe many times and obtained it from a fig plant, so you can depend on its being good. Use 5 lb. figs, 1 lb. sugar, and 2 cups water. Peel figs very lightly, leave a small stem. Boil sugar and water for 20 minutes, before adding figs. Then simmer 3 ˝ to 4 hours. If some seeds come to surface, remove before canning. Figs turn dark because they are cooked too long or too fast.
From “Shepherd’s Recipe Roundup” book, compiled and sold by the Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Shepherd Methodist Church in 1956.