Figgy
From deliathecrone 17 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 2
This recipe is particularly good when made with raspberry wine. It comes from Cindy Renfrow's book, "Take a Thousand Eggs or More: A Collection of 15th Century Recipes".
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup dried black figs, stems removed* shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups red wine shopping list
- 1 slice stale bread shopping list
- 1/4 cup seedless raisins shopping list
- dash mace powder, or to taste shopping list
- dash cinnamon powder, or to taste shopping list
- pomegranate seeds for garnish shopping list
- *Another time, try using half figs and half currants, and serving this with vanilla ice cream! shopping list
How to make it
- "Figee. Nym figes, & boille hem in wyn, & bray hem in a morter withlied bred; tempre hit up with goud wyn/ boille it/ do therto good spicere, & hole resons/ dresse hit/ florisshe it aboue with pommegarnetes."
- Grind the bread to crumbs in a blender. Set aside.
- Put the figs and 3/4 cup red wine in an enamelled pot. Simmer gently over low heat until the figs are tender, about 5 minutes.
- Put the figs in a blender with some of the wine, and blend to paste.
- Pour the fig mixture back into the pot.
- Add breadcrumbs. Stir.
- Add 1/2 cup red wine. Stir.
- Add spices and raisins. Stir.
- Heat to boiling and stir until thickened to desired consistency.
- Pour the figgy into a fancy serving dish and garnish with pomegranate seeds.
- Serve warm.
- Makes 1 cup.
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Reviewed by 5 people-
Yumola, love figs and this sounds really, really, really good. You've got my 5 and I will be trying this SOON. Thanks for yet another great post.
chefmeow
in Garland loved it
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Wonderful post. The the recipe name..Figgy. A 5 for sure!
dtour
in Somewhere In Florida loved it
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Wonderful, just love figs! I've ordered a fig tree to plant in a large pot as the winters here would kill it. Can't wait to see some results!! j
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