Repost of my favorite fig bread Whitnet here you go

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I always call this my old faithful hippie bread. I've been making it forever.

I love the crunchy fig seeds. This bread is cool when you cut it, the figs look

sort of like a paisley design since they are in large pieces. I get my figs at

a mddile eastern store, their dried figs are so moist.

 

 

Fig Bread (from Tassajara Cookbook)

 

1 cup apple or orange juice (both are good)

1 1/2 cups dried figs, de-stemmed but left whole (I cut in half)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup butter or margarine

2 eggs

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon lemon or orange rind, grated

1 3/4 cups pastry flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

 

Heat the juice almost to boiling and pour it over figs, salt and butter in a

mixing bowl. Stir to melt and set aside in the refrigerator to cool.

Beat eggs, then beat in the sugar, vanilla and fruit rind. Stir this into

well cooled (room temperature) fig mixture.

Sift the flour together with the baking powder and baking soda. Mix into the

wet ingredients with a minimum number of strokes.

Grease and flour medium sized loaf pan (I used 8.5 X 4.5 size)

pour in the batter, and bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes, until a

toothpick comes out clean.

 

 

whitney <starrypryncess wrote: Donna,

 

Do you have any dried fig recipes? I love dried figs.

 

Whitney

 

--- Donnalilacflower <thelilacflower wrote:

 

> I'm in Calif. and I don't see figs often. I do cook

> with the dried ones.

> You have to try them, I think they are wonderful.

> Donna

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> Sonya Parker <spjparker wrote:

> I have never tried fresh figs only fig

> newtons. We have figs growing in Georgia?

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" Now while I shower in the rain

I watch my dolphin swim away

The one who listens to the surf

Can feel the pulse beat of the earth

And like my dolphin swims so free

The sun does swim into the sea. "

Source: Behind the Sun - Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

 

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