To Preserve Green Figs
Take the small green Figs, slit them on the Top, and put them in Salt and Water for ten Days, and make your Pickle as follows.
Put in as much Salt into the Water as will make it bear an Egg, then let it settle, take the Scum off, and put the clear Brine to the Figs, and keep them in Water for ten Days; then put them into fresh Water, and boil them till a Pin will easily pass into them; then drain them and put them into other fresh Water, shifting them every Day for four Days; then drain them, and put them into a clarified Sugar; give them a little Warm, and let them stand till the next Day; then warm them again, and when they are become green give them a good Boil, then boil some other Sugar to blow, put it to them, and give them another good Boil; the next Day drain them and dry them.