Nothing captures summer quite like a jar of homemade fig preserves on the shelf. Making your fig preserves turns a classic favorite into something truly special, letting you savor the rich, natural ...

Rai Mincey is a food writer and baking enthusiast whose focuses include culinary history, seasonal cooking, and Southern cuisine. She splits her time between Birmingham, Alabama, and Tulum, Mexico.

Hot buttered biscuits and homemade fig preserves. Need I say more? Figs are one of the most widely planted home fruit trees in Louisiana. They thrive with little effort and produce crops of juicy, ...