I saw this this morning on The Guardian.
I’ve been making David Lebovitz’s Fig Chutney for a long time, I water bath can for 15 minutes, I still have several left over from last year.
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I’m canning cherries in syrup today and I’m about to lose my shit on these lids. I’ve had a 50% fail rate. Now trying with a new set and will never buy this brand again!
So frustrating!!!
Interesting! I’m still ruminating about whether I should reprocees the figs to fill add some more syrup and some lemon juice to make it safer and keep better. I have found about five recipes for whole preserved figs, six inluding yours,but none seem to require a significant amount of lemon.
Do yours turn out to be fully submerged?
What brand???
i empathize. i had dismal failure rates this year and switched to Denali lids, abandoning my many many stockpiled boxes of Ball lids.
9 pints drunken peaches (5 bourbon and 4 brandy).
Everything was cold packed. I put 4 quarters per jar, used a light syrup and full 1/3 c. spirits per pint. Don’t eat peaches and drive! 
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Ball - the originals that came with the jars themselves. I had a package of Kerr lids on hand too, so I switched to those and had no problem. Never again, Ball!
Ooooof. Thanks. All the lids I used today were Kerr, but I have plenty of Ball from last year on hand.
I have not made the preserved figs, just jam and the Lebovitz’s chutney. I thought the recipe would be of interest to people with unripe figs.
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Busy day. 100 lb tomatoes made into passata and pressure canned. 1/2 bushel peppers roasted and vacuum sealed. The shelves are starting to look happy again.
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Thatzalottatomatoes! Well done.
100 pounds gave us 36 1 litre jars. When there are 2 of you, it’s very doable.
Those pickled pears look good. Do they stay crunchy? I’ve never done pears before.
Starting this years pepper jelly season.
“Those pickled pears look good.”
Thank you! I haven’t tried them yet, but perhaps I will after the recommended 72 hours.
I love overnight maceration!
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I always stock up on plums, pit them, freeze 8 cups in ziplock bags and make plum butter in the middle of winter. Just defrost them and add the sugar. Works with apricots and strawberries too.
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I do the same with berries and jam: blueberries, raspberry, strawberry - all good for jam any time of the year.
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These plums
Were macerated overnight with aspirations of making shrub, but it wasn’t nearly enough, so i made jam.
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