# Fig Recipes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fig-recipes/365881 "2006-07-24T22:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fig-recipes/365881/1 "2006-07-24T22:15:29Z")
I have a good friend and a next-door neighbor who have fig trees. Both of these trees are producing abundant amounts of fruit. Does anyone have any recipes for fig jam; or fig chutney? Other fruit ingredients are fine - I just need to do something with all these darn figs! ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fig-recipes/365881/2 "2006-07-24T22:28:49Z")
These are lovely eaten as part of an antipasto - with fresh mozzarella or proscuitto. Or as a dessert with marscapone and some honey drizzled over the top. If you want to cook them they can simply be grilled, or you could make a [fig frangipane tart](http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/freshfigpuffwithlave_11733.shtml) . For more inspiration here is a link to a fig recipe search in [Cuisine](http://www.cuisine.co.nz/index.cfm?pageid=349&6C414FA2-2D2C-4AD8-A215B404AE8EEDE5), my favourite New Zealand foodie magazine. Lots of uses in salads and desserts there. Damn, I wish it was fig season here! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fig-recipes/365881/3 "2006-07-25T03:12:41Z")
I try to like cooked figs, really I do. But I have to admit that I like them best eaten plain and raw, as long as they’re pulpy and sticky with sugar. A little prosciutto on the side, maybe, but that’s it. Yay! Fig season! ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fig-recipes/365881/4 "2006-07-25T03:37:52Z")
I love them fresh and raw - and am stuffed right now! However, between the two trees I have so many I need to find something to do to preserve them. They don’t keep long.