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Need fig preserves for Ocracoke Fig Cake?

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Linda Peedin Lane of Selma sells preserves and jellies out of her home. She has fig preserves, strawberry-fig preserves and fig pickles, which is based on a 60-year-old recipe and you eat them on the side with a meal like pickles. She also sells grape jelly, made from local grapes. A half pint sells for $5, and a pint sells for $8. 

If you would like to order some, call her at 919-965-2325 or 919-612-0042.

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Andrea Weigl has been the food writer at The News & Observer since the summer of 2007. She has won a handful of awards from the Association of Food Journalists and the Society for Features Journalism. Her profile of chef Ashley Christensen titled "A Force of Nature" will be published in the sixth edition of "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing." She is serving a three-year term on the James Beard Foundation book awards committee. Follow her on Twitter at @andreaweigl.

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