Rick, It takes a lot of fresh figs to make enough dried fig jam for fig bars. You can get fig jam by the pound -- just use that.
Reserve fresh figs for the delights they can truly be. Some people like them just as they are; others prefer them poached in port wine with a good dose of white sugar, a piece of cinnamon stick, and some orange zest. The easiest way to eat fresh or poached or glaceed figs is to stand them up vertically, cut from stem to base almost but not all the way through in an "X", and then use your knife to scrape out the interior of each quarter, slide it through the pool of sauce (if any) on the plate, and mound it onto your fork. If you have some sponge cake it goes well with poached figs, and a light tea to really finishes the meal just right. I love figs. I just picked up some dried Black Mission Figs from the Farmer's Market for desserts. So Rick, you like dates? Usually people who like figs also like dates, and vice-verse. I never knew how many variety of dates there were until recently. My favorite are the Medjhool. They go quickly around here. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 7:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Figs So, anyone here ever grown figs? I have two little fig trees in my front yard. They each had like 30 little figs on them and I went out to look at them this evening, and noticed a couple of them had been partially eaten. These are "brown figs" and I guess they turn a kind of purplish brown color when ripe. None of the figs on my tree were completely turned.. but some of them were partly purplish-brown, and were somewhat soft. Still small - only about an inch long. There were a lot fewer on the trees than there were originally so I'm assuming that some of them have already been eaten by birds or squirrels. I decided to try one - I picked two that looked suitable, and cut them open to make sure they "looked" good... bit in, and sure enough, they tasted pretty good. I guess they're ripe or the birds wouldn't have eaten them. They were soft.. and kind of pinkish on the inside. Sweet tasting. Pretty good. Maybe another year or so and I can pick enough figs to make some fig bars http://southernfood.about.com/od/datesandfigs/r/bln430.htm http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/RECIPES/RECIPES/Desserts/Fig_Bars.html something to look forward to! -- Rick Root Check out CFMBB, BlogCFM, ImageCFC, ImapCFC, CFFM, and more at www.opensourcecf.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
