Having nothing to do with the fabrication of the Newton’s, well, other than the eating, Stan is right. The dough is the issue. John, you might want to pick up a copy of “Fig Heaven” byt Marie Simmons.
Having nothing to do with the fabrication of the Newton’s, well, other than the eating, Stan is right. The dough is the issue. John, you might want to pick up a copy of “Fig Heaven” byt Marie Simmons.
Recipe for FN’s. IP am sure, John, that if you closely follow your wife’s directions you will be succeful.
Well, we've never had the opportunity to get fresh figs but rarely, and if we did, I'd eat them before they could be used. So we use dried figs from the grocery store, as they are always plentiful.
I guess you'd want to dry them very thoroughly, because they need to be chopped very finely, and you don't want mush.
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We have friends who dehydrate them with good result. My neighbor tells me they freeze them.
Figs are just plain delicious! I am surprised that they are not more popular.
My SIL in LA has a couple of trees and tried to ship us a fairly large box of them. They don't travel well
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Interestingly, I've had more than one neighbor turn down free figs because "there are wasps/eggs/larvae inside" and they don't want to eat bugs. The Brown Turkey fig is self pollinating and no wasp is necessary, but even if the wasp was present they are minute, a natural and symbiotic part of the fig ecosystem and have been dissolved by an enzyme produced by the fig long before the fruit ripens. I think people equate the crunch of the seeds with the thought of "eating a bug" and miss out on a delicious treat.