We have so many figs coming in right now. This morning I made two batches of fig preserves. I filled canning jars with mostly fruit, then jarred up the remaining jelly to be used as syrup. It turns out that this is not an original idea. Syrup made from figs was used as a sweetener by the Assyrians in 3000 B.C. - a practice that continued into the Middle Ages. When sugar became scarce during the American Civil War fig syrup came back into vogue.
Tonight I used my fig syrup in a chicken marinade, then served vanilla ice cream for dessert with not-yet-gelled fig preserves on top, accompanied by Abilicious ginger snaps on the side. Delicious!
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