Lily’s Mum’s Fig Jam

Food / Good Reviews / Thrifty

What a way to elevate cheese on toast! We bought some of Lily Huseyin’s mum’s home made fig jam today. At $5.99 a tub it sure beats Maggie Beer’s smooth bland jellies. The jam is chunky and sticky with a handful of yummy fig soaked almond pieces. Lily’s tip is to nuke it for 20 seconds before use. You can buy the jam at Jim’s Fruit Barn at 308 Argyle Street in Moss Vale. Lily and her husband Halil have the freshest and cheapest selection of fresh fruit and veg that we have seen yet in the Highlands. We picked up two punnets of incredible blueberries at $1 a pop.  They were considered seconds as there was one slightly squishy berry tainting the entire lot apparently.  The menfolk in Lily’s family travel to the wholesale markets in Parramatta six days per week to source fresh stock. They leave at 2am every day except their precious ‘lie-in Thursday’, traveling at only 80km per hour in their old truck then spend half an hour on arrival hustling for a car park!  Then they fill the truck and bring back their goodies especially for us.  When figs are available, Lily and her mum add the jam to the store’s offering.  The Huseyins are the unsung fruit and veg heroes of SoHi and we salute them.

Image courtesy of Cuisine.com with recipe linked in case you want to make your own fig jam.