https://www.aglaiakremezi.com/fig-and-lemon-jam/ Editorial, Recipes and more Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:05:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.aglaiakremezi.com/fig-and-lemon-jam/#comment-352 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:05:42 +0000 https://www.aglaiakremezi.com/?p=3097#comment-352 […] Not all figs will mature to become edible, and this is yet one more of their peculiarities.  There are hermaphrodite fig trees that bear abundant crops of small dark green figs in the spring.  These are the ones used to make spoon-sweets, the famous fruit preserves offered to guests around the coasts of the Aegean.  Sykalaki (fig spoon-sweet) is one of the most difficult unripe fruit preserves, as it requires a long and complicated process that involves soaking the fruits in a solution of copper sulfate. I tried to bypass this somewhat scary step, but my preserves were totally unacceptable, so after a few failures I abandoned the endeavor. Instead I make various fig jams, usually adding lemon or other citrus fruits to balance the fig’s overpowering sweetness. You can try my Sweet and Sour Fig jam with caramelized sugar, cinnamon and balsamic vinegar that I whip up with the leftover, over-ripe figs that we don’t consume on the spot, but you can also make it with good quality dried figs. Try also the luscius Tipsy and Fragrant Fig Jam and the zesty Fig and Lemon Jam. […]

]]> https://www.aglaiakremezi.com/fig-and-lemon-jam/#comment-329 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:41:29 +0000 https://www.aglaiakremezi.com/?p=3097#comment-329 […] I don’t particularly like fig jam; I find it too sweet and one-dimensional. But, again, we had many figs so, for the first time, I decided to create my own different version of this jam, adding equal amounts of figs and lemons –my favorite fruit– making a Fig and Lemon Jam. […]

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