I have mostly made fig preserves with Hardy Chicago/Celeste prior to this year. With an over abundance of Violette de Bordeaux, I made a few jars of Hardy Chicago/VdB preserves and noticed the preserves are more distinctly red with a different flavor than usual.

Does anyone have a favorite mix of varieties for fig preserves (jam).

Scott, that looks awesome!!  It looks sooooooo good.  Nice post.

ick... Sorry

I don't like figs unless they are fresh.

Looks good! Don't make any jams myself but maybe if I had too many figs I would...

That looks spectacular.  I hope I get enough figs all at once to do that many times over.

Scrumptious.

Awesome scott,I ll take three jars thank you!
Lol

Great looking jam, I will have to try some red, I made several jars from Mission, Turkey and Kadota that turned out to be some of the best jams compared with other fruit jams. Yum Yum!
Good going Scott!

Nice ...hopefully one day I will have enough to make my own jams

Five Star Jam Award...

Jam on it!

Scott,

      I envision  your jam smack in the middle of those thumbprint cookies. Dozens of them. Then I wake up hungry.

Wow Aaron, what a coincidence, those were exactly my dance moves after eating that jam! :)

I made some this past year with a combination of MBVS and Gino's Black figs.
Turned out GREAT and had a reddish hue when done.

What's left of my atreano balsamic jam

Scott, that's really inspirational. Its just gorgeous!

FiginQueens,  I'd sure like to have your recipe.  Pretty please?

 I dont need the bread, just a spoon.  umm, umm, heaven

Soni-
Here you go. Figs, sugar, balsamic, and lemon juice. I was intentionally trying to find a non pectin recipe. The actual recipe is at the link although I find I need to simmer it around an hour or more to get the consistency I want. I start with the recipe suggested amount of balsamic and then add more as I taste. I cut the figs into 8 or 10 pieces but the atreano figs are huge. http://traceysculinaryadventures.com/2012/10/fig-balsamic-jam.html

I would like mine on a biscuit please!

The vinegar and sugar make the jam taste like the best strawberry jam ever. Next time add some salt and use a hand blender to chop up the figs more. Trust me....you will be glad you did!

Snaglpus- will def try that next time. I always plan to blend it but get lazy.