1. Soak dried figs for about 10 minutes in warm water, then cut the stems off. Grind together figs, dates and pecans. When grinding, put a few figs, a few dates, and some pecans, alternating until all ...

To prepare the fig cookies, the first step is to make the shortcrust pastry. Pour into the bowl of a stand mixer the softened butter cut into cubes (1), a pinch of salt (2), and the zest of half a ...

Featuring fig jam, dried figs, and fresh figs (for those glorious few weeks when they’re in season), our best fig recipes earn rave reviews. Bake up a batch of fig bars or a fig cake recipe, simmer ...

For many Americans, their only association with figs comes in the form of a Fig Newton. And indeed, once upon a time, most of the figs grown in California ended up in fig pastes and cookies like those ...

This week, the newsroom staff at The Sentinel, took part in a blind taste test of fig cookies. They compared Nabisco's Fig Newtons with Benton's (Aldi's) Fig Bars. Besides the taste, the cookies ...

Is your only experience with figs eating a cakey Fig Newton bar cookie? If so, you might be surprised to bite into a fresh fig. Sweet and juicy, they’ve sometimes been said to have a taste that is a ...

Although dried figs are available all year long, now's the time to enjoy fresh figs - an end-of-season pleasure that helps say farewell to summer and hello to autumn. No matter which variety of figs ...

The availability of fresh figs, as opposed to dried ones, has increased lately. From left are a sliced Brown Turkey fig, Brown Turkey fig, Sierra fig, Tiger fig and Black Mission fig. Silvia Flores ...