My Brown Turkey fig tree is only small but it's getting more productive every year. I'll need to give it a little bit of pruning this winter after it dies back, as some of the branches are getting very long and floppy.
For the past month I've been picking a few figs every week to go into the dehydrator; I cut them in quarters, slip off the skins (when very ripe, they just come right off) and then slice the fruit thinly. They take about a day and a half in my dehydrator.
It's a very nice fig for eating fresh, and the son and I have plans for some homemade fig newtons, a type of cookie I haven't eaten for years. I think I'll make some almond shortcrust pastry and fill it with some rehydrated fig paste. They're already very sweet, so I won't add any sugar.
I'm also planning them for the Christmas pudding, as my newest effort made in January had to be thrown out earlier this summer: it was covered in mold. Actually it looked like the white mold like on Brie and wasn't entirely unpleasant (I had a taste), but it wasn't the result I was aiming for. I keep putting off making the new one, but now I've got some dried figs there's no excuse.
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