I've never heard of the fig and strawberry combination, Tums, but if they're better than figs alone, they must be great.
I remember Mother putting up corn, tomatoes, okra, string beans, peas, etc. and it looked like a real job. In fact, last week I trashed a pint of fig preserves that she had put up in the early eighties. The jar began leaking so they had to go.
My grandmother had a quart of string beans that had been put up in 1904. Still looked like they had been put up yesterday. My genius nephew opened the jar and dumped them out sometime in the 1970s because he wanted the jar. He's the same nephew that decided to enhance a bonfire by throwing a bucket of gasoline on the lowering flames. Yep, hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. He's still alive and still brilliant.
