Reply With QuoteI use a regular dehydrator. I just wash them and pat them dry then dehydrate for about 24 to 36 hours. They are sweet when finished. I can eat them like candy. Way better than store bought.
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Thanks for the comments. Saute this year was the first time I tasted dried figs but they were store bought. I thought they were pretty good but would love to dry some myself. If I find time I might try some. Do you do them whole or cut in half, and what are you drying them with. The netting has worked just fine and the chickens do there part.
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I use a regular dehydrator. I just wash them and pat them dry then dehydrate for about 24 to 36 hours. They are sweet when finished. I can eat them like candy. Way better than store bought.
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Saute, another way I want to try and keep some is the way an old farmer I met a couple of years back did it. He would peel the figs, mash them with a little sugar, put them in small containers like yogurt cups and freeze them. When he got the urge to eat some, he'd take a cup out of the freezer and set it on the counter for a little while to soften, then he'd eat it like ice cream.
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I am checking our little fig tree twice a day they are plentiful but no ripe ones yet.
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oh I am going to make fig ice cream and fig sorbet this year. Thanks for the idea. Last year I made satsuma sorbet and lemon sorbet with the extras when the freeze came along.
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Keep checking Cappy. Figs are late this year because of the cold Spring but it shouldn't be too long. That one fig was way ahead of every other fig I have.
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The wife always picks at me for constantly checking the stuff in da yard. I walk around 3 or 4 times a day just looking watching for first fig garden sprouts, or the fruit thats almost ready. Done looked at the fig tree 2 or 3 times already today and its noon.Pretty sure I aint gonna miss the figs ripening.
I dug this recipe up from or blog for saute86 try this lemmony treat. Very easy freezer trick.
http://cappyandpegody.blogspot.com/2...for-grown.html
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Thanks. I have a gelato machine that I use to make ice cream and sorbets. To make sorbets I ad fruit puree to simple syrup and churn. I sure like the lemon pepper jelly one. My favorite is lemon curd.
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Gene that is an impressive looking fig. I saw a tree with figs like that once in Winnsboro several years ago. I should have taken a cutting then. i might want to see if I can talk you out of a cutting this winter.
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