The Mysterious Secret

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“The fig fruit is actually a syconium, a fleshy hollow receptacle with multiple ovaries. There are two types of fig trees; male trees (or caprifig trees) and female trees. Caprifig trees have inedible fruit from which pollen is used to pollinate edible figs, hence they are considered to be male trees. Female trees produce edible fruit, although they have both male and female flowers. Important Turkish fig cultivars such as ‘Sarılop’, ‘Bursa Siyahı’, ‘Yeşilgüz’, ‘Morgüz’ and ‘Göklop’ are female trees and require cross-pollination for fruit set, which is carried out by the caprifig wasp named Plastophaga psenes. P. psenes lives in the fruit of caprifig trees. Mature wasps carry pollen with their wings and feet from the male flowers in the caprifig to female fruit through the ostiole hole. The ostiole is the opening of the involuted fig inflorescence through which the fig wasps enter to pollinate. In male trees (caprifig), three different fruit types are formed in three periods that contribute to the life cycle of the wasp.”
http://cakagida.com.tr/what-are-the-benefits-of-dried-figs/

Don't wait for fresh fig season to make jam.
Fig Jam (with dried figs)
Ingredients
1 cup Dried Figs (rinse the dried figs in cold water)
3 cup water
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/ 4 tsp anise seed or 1/ 5 ground anise seed
sugar tt
walnuts tt
vanilla tt
pinch of salt
Combined all ingredients and bring it to rapid boil then lower heat and simmer until figs are soft and plump (about 20 minutes).
Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
💙🎈Enjoy! 🎈💙

For a sweeter jam add raw honey and for a more jelly-like texture add pectin or agar-agar or mastic. ¼ tsp well-crushed mastic = Arabic gum (found in Greek or Middle Eastern grocery stores) or agar-agar or pectin
Stored in sterilized container for later use.
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