This morning I made some fig jam using two of Bass' recipes:

Aida's fresh fig jam   -  http://www.treesofjoy.com/content/fig-recipes

I had been in San Diego and brought back about 6lbs of figs in my luggage. In the picture, they are at left, as well as the reddish colored jam


Also I made Sun dried fig jam  - http://www.treesofjoy.com/content/sun-dried-fig-jam

I had some dried Calimyrna figs from Costco. The brown jam was made from these.  Since my parents' fresh figs were so juicy, I used their juice instead of water called for in the sun dried fig jam recipe.

So far so good!

looks delish

Grant
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Paul,

Hi Bass,
Yes I did use the mastic...it has a lemon-like flavor. According to my wife maybe I used a tiny pinch too much. However, to me it tastes pretty good!

 man oh man...only thing missing is a hot biscuit and a piece of bacon. i know bacon bad for you...but with fig jam..the bacon is nice.
                                                                      luke

Or with peanut butter on toast. 

After finishing up some store bought fig jam, I'm going to make the dried fig and walnut preserves.  Went to the linked recipe and one of the ingredients is the above referenced Mastic.  But beside it says gum arabic.  Gum arabic, among other things is a binder used in my watercolor paint.  I have a bottle of Winsor & Newton gum arabic that I use to get more gloss and transparency in the watercolors if I need it.  Is that the same stuff as Mastic?   

Caneyscud, I believe that they are different

Paul is correct, don't use the mastic used in paint lol.

Paul is correct, don't use the mastic used in paint lol.

Thanks, that's what I thought.  However the Gum Arabic, is quite edible also and used in lots different candies and such.