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I forsee sone preserves in the near future
Wish those were mine, our's are getting big but still green.
Thanks E-Z I learned something! I didn't know figs were grown in Mississippi, I thought that they were grown out West or over seas!Quote:
Originally Posted by E-Z Poleholder
should be easy to make preserves as they should already be cooked in this heat
You ain't just whistling Dixie there G
Put up 20 quarts of Italian Honey Figs and Brown Turkey figs one 4th. They sure was good on a big ole cathead bisquit! Watch out for them Yellow jackies!
OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!
Love me some fig preserves. I've tried several times to get a fig tree to grow but they die every time.
I have never gotten one to live either Scott
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I got 5 of them in my surrounding yard. They make big ones and little ones.
You silly hill-billy, figs been growing in Sippy all my life. Love em straight off the tree if you can keep the birds out of em!!Quote:
Originally Posted by DMW1960
Them look good Gene, Tam saw em and was wondering where that tree was.
I'm not sure how far north figs will live, however, my brothers fig tree is in Nashville. we always had plenty in SE Ark where I grew up.
This is the biggest fig I've ever seen.
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"WOW" just need a hot grannies biscut!!!!!
Fig preserves & buscuits.......................uuuuummmmmmmm!!!!!
My grandmother had a tree big as that last one on the old home place, when I was a child. We used to eat them right off the tree. Mamaws preserves and buttermilk biscuits with fresh butter...Ummmmmm!
Got any muscadimes growing, I love them things preserved too.Ever killed a squirel with a purple face? They are the first to get them!Sometime they both end up on the table at the same time.Fried squirrel smothered with bisquits and muscadimes!!
YUM! YUM!THAT IS A HUGE FIG TREE!!
OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!
When I got done with my PT test last year April made biscuits and I ate 15 of them and a quart of figs at one sitting. I was stuffed and high on real food!
Brings back some good memories dont it??? I miss Honey's (my grandmother) cooking some kinda bad!!Quote:
Originally Posted by feelay
Them there figs will make the earth move the next day for sure!I like them dehydrated dried like a prune.Soak them in rum and use them in a cake.Get them drunk so to speak!Real good flavor!
OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!
The best! I sure miss her and her biscuits. I make a pretty fair biscuit, but can't touch the ones she made!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
When Thanksgiving came mine always made up several trays of em and put em in the freezer and got em out as she needed em, we never knew how many would be there for breakfast. We bird hunted in those days and from Thanksgiving day til the end of February we hunted 3 or 4 times a week. Havent had biscuit in years that could even touch hers out of the freezer. Things were simple then and cooking was the same way. Tam makes a cake that is very simple and ole school, my favorite.Quote:
Originally Posted by feelay
You ever noticed how your grandma could make a meal to feed 10 hungry folks outa nothing.There would be so much on the table you hardly had room for your plate!!
OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!
Cook for 20 and would have it any other way, man those were the days.
Growing up at home, always had 2 pans of biscuits on the table for breakfast. Eggs, bacon, oatmeal or grits and home made jellies or molasses. For dinner, 1 pan of biscuits and a pan of cornbread. Veggies and fruit were what we grew or bartered, canned and froze. Meats were served on sunday and holidays. Most trips to the store were for milk, sugar, flour, spices and some canned veggies we didn't grow. Loaf bread and lunch meats were for my dad's lunch. If the other kids in the neighbor hood wanted to play a game of ball or something. And I had to help my parents with veggies. They would jump in and help until my parents would say that's enough. If offered a pbj on a leftover biscuit with home made jelly, they would run over each other to get their's first.
My stepdad called this morning. The vacate lot next door has 2 fig trees and loaded. I have 2 5 gal. buckets full. Now to pick beans.
Guess what these and at least one more layer will be by tomorrow afternoon.
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Wish it was that way now.Life is moving way to fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by canebreaker
Mines gettin around ripe
Frozen or canned.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveJ
Jelly,jam,preserves, heck my aunt makes a fig cake thats out of this world
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i have made 17 pints so far but my tree is really just getting going good. Heaviest picking so far should be on Wednesday I think.
They will be preserves. Never tried frozen, how does that work?Quote:
Originally Posted by canebreaker
I gotta get out and see if I can find some figs to pick. I love 'em raw off the bush as well as preserves.Thumbs Up
I think we will get one more pot of preserves, don't know how many pints that will be but I'm sure Carol can tell. Have to fight the birds and ants for them. I had to move the 2 trees 3-4 times before I put them on the south side of the house and a storage building to get them to live thru the winter. Going to have to cut them back pretty good this year, getting too big for where they are at. When I was pretty young I had a great-aunt that had the biggest fig tree I have ever seen, I know the main limbs were 5-6-7 feet in diameter or more, too big for the cold to hurt, this was in east central GA. Wish I had a pix. She would always invite us kids over with our BB guns and to help ourselves to her figs.Quote:
Originally Posted by tritonman
My trees are still young and u put 2 more in the ground this year��
Got my hands full right now to make preserves. So freeze them and make it later.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveJ
Not Carol's way, she's a get it over and done with. Got 12 pints and more to pick and can.
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Never tasted them. Compare them to something.
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I had the time to can 16, 1/2 pints of figs last year. I slice them, not whole like yours. But not yet this year, put it on the back burner for now.
Finished up with a load of butterbeans last night. Picked, shelled, prepped and into freezer.
Picked 2 buckets of peas this morning, taking breaks while shelling them. Got 5 buckets of tomatoes to can today too. Got to spend some time with grandkids today since I was busy this weekend. Apples are ready for picking and canning. Looking for peaches and field corn.
"Never tasted them. Compare them to something."
Great home made jelly.
Aint no comparison I can think of, a home made biscuit and fig preserves is hard to beat.Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter7711