Originally Posted by coolmantoole
I have a nearly full bag of Celeste figs in the freezer which I add to every day.  When it gets full, I will make my first batch of fig preserves for the season.  I might make fig jam late, but I make so much jam from other fruits I get, that I tend to focus on whole preserves with figs.  They are sooooo yummy on wheat crackers and sharp cheese.  I would like to know though if the berry flavor survives the jamming process with Madera figs.  So far I have not noticed one variety of fig tasting that different from other varieties once preserved.  But this is the first year where my older fig trees are big enough and produce enough figs where I can preserve the different types completely separate from one another.  I would admit that that last year I was really hoping that the strawberry flavor of Green Ischia figs would survive the preserving process.  But I last year I couldn't tell that it did.  God bless.

Marcus