The Fig
Recipes To Eat Fresh Figs
When figs are served at the table uncooked hold them by the stem and with a small knife cut the fruit across twice, at right angles…
Stewed Figs
Figs may be stewed in three different ways, if the dried fruit is used: No. I. Wash figs and place in cold water over night, using a pint…
Baked Figs
Place fresh figs in a small crock or earthenware dish, with a little sugar and lemon juice or that of other fruit. Cover and bake slowly…
To Freshen Figs
Place dried figs in an enamelled colander and steam until soft and filled out in appearance. Remove and prepare further for cooking as…
Stuffed Figs
Remove the inside of steamed or fresh figs and mix the part removed with chopped nuts moistened with a syrup of sugar and tart fruit-juice…
Little Fig Cakes
Beat together five eggs. Add to this a pinch of salt, a cup each of sugar and chopped nuts, and a half cup of raisins, the juice of one…
Fig Layer Cake
Use any of the plain foundation cake batters (see Introductory Recipes) and bake in layers. For filling use the real fig jelly, or the…
Fig Filling or Jelly for Cake
Chop or shred one pound of figs and boil until tender in one coffee-cupful of water, in double boiler. Add one and one-half cups of sugar…
Fig Snow for Filling
Mix fig pulp (fresh or steamed, or stewed) with whipped cream or meringue as for banana filling for Banana Layer Cake. FIG PUDDING OR PIE…
Fig Bread Pudding
Soak three cups of breadcrumbs in one and one-fourth pints of water and beat into this four eggs, a pinch of salt, two tablespoons of…
Fig Blanc Mange
Make as for Banana Blanc Mange; using one cup of fig pulp and one cup of chopped nuts and a little lemon tincture. Prepare a sauce with the…
Fig Ice-Cream
For two quarts of fig ice-cream mix one quart of cream with two cups of sugar and freeze partially. Then add to the mixture two cups of fig…
Fig Ice
Peel two quarts of fresh figs and stir well with the juice of one lemon and its grated peel, or one teaspoon lemon extract, some fruit acid…
Fig Candy
Boil over a slow fire one pound of sugar and a half pint of water until the syrup hardens when dropped into cold water. Add half a teaspoon…
Candied or Crystallised Figs
Proceed as in third method for drying until the syrupdipping stage is reached. At this point, on removing them from the boiling syrup drain…
Fig Jam
If dried steam first till very soft. If fresh and ripe place them in a double-boiler, heating through perfectly but adding no water. They…
Fig Jelly
Slice the figs into the preserving kettle, covering bottom of kettle with cold water. Add slices of unpeeled lemon, one lemon to one and a…
Preserved Figs
Heat figs through thoroughly in a steamer, doubleboiler or slow oven without water, then drop them into a heavy, boiling syrup; remove and…
Pickled Figs
Pick figs which are barely ripe, though fully swollen out, and leave stems on the fruit. Place in a jar of fairly strong brine and let…
Cakes of Figs
Cook ripe, peeled figs slowly in double boiler with a little sugar and flavouring (if liked), till smooth and thick. Almonds may be added…
To Dry Figs
There are several methods in vogue for this, a California treatment of them (Dr. Eisen's) reported by the Department of Agriculture (Div…
The Date-The Cocoanut
Phœnix Dactilifera Cocos Nucifera-Phœnicacea THE HE date, whether fruit or tree, instinctively brings to mind the islands of the desert…