Preserving figs?

[veggiechicken]

Any simple ways to preserve figs please? I've just picked 26 of the little beauties.
I've been eating 2-3 fresh ones each morning (yes, I know!!) but they're ripening too fast for me to eat them all fresh.
Too good to waste - so any ideas welcomed! Thanks

[PyreneesPlot]

Can you dry them? I make jam, but then they just grow on trees around here

Ice cream?

[veggiechicken]

What's fig jam like PP?
I don't have a dehydrator or ice cream maker - so jam or chutney is about my limit! Even then it has to be simple as I'm not that enthusiastic about cooking these days

[mothhawk]

You could freeze them in a sugar syrup.

[PyreneesPlot]

Fig jam is the mistress of jams. The God of jams. The last jam of the condemned man. Quite nice

[vikkib]

Jam sounds lovely!

Very easy, no churn, no ice cream maker, ice cream recipe:

It's so easy it's feels a bit cheaty to me but the results are very tasty!

300ml double cream
197g (one tin) of*condensed*milk (NOT evaporated!)
Half a lemon
Some or other fruit (anything from 110g up - I used about 300g of strawberries)

1) Puree your fruit and add a few drops of lemon juice

2) Put the cream and*condensed*milk in a large bowl and whisk until billowing (I wasn't sure what this meant so whisked until I got bored and then a fair bit longer!)

3) Fold in the fruit puree, taste, add more lemon juice if you want to

4) Stick in a plastic tub, cover and freeze

[chris]

You may preserve a few in my belly.

*hint* *hint*

[veggiechicken]

Better shift your belly over here then Chris - you can have the high ones

[chris]

I'm just shocked that you literally rammed them in, and they grow. I've tried for 3 years now, and my figs never grow that much, but if they do, any fruit just rots off!

[veggiechicken]

Rammed them in? Into the ground or into my mouth?
Might be able to find you a sucker or two if we (that means you) can dig them out!!

[Patchninja]

A lovely salad :
slices of parma ham on a plate, make that little cut in the top of the figs and squeaze so they open a bit. Add them decoratively to the plate! Make a salad dressing with a little olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper and a drizzle of honey. Pour this over. Lovely with melon of you don't have any figs!

[chris]

Rammed them in? Into the ground or into my mouth?
Might be able to find you a sucker or two if we (that means you) can dig them out!!

both

It's a date. Well, a fig, but you know.

[veggiechicken]

Better make it quick for the figs - or they'll have disappeared into something - like my mouth!!