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Stewed California Figs

Name: Stewed California Figs
Ingredients: 680 Gramme Dried fig — DRIED California figs, one-and-a-half pounds; 43 Gramme Sugar — Granulated sugar, one-and-a-half ounces; 0.25 Lemon — Lemon peel/rind from quarter fruit; 1 Cinnamon stick — Small cinnamon-stick piece; 118 Millilitre Red wine — Claret wine, one gill; Water — Cold water for four-hour initial fig soak, discarded; Water — Fresh water for cooking figs

Type: Dessert

By Alexander Filippini · Posted Sep 29, 2026

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Soak 1.5lb dried figs in recorded cold water four hours, drain. Put with sugar, quarter-lemon rind, cinnamon piece, gill claret and SEPARATE clean water nearly to cover; cover and slow-boil twenty-five-minute guide.
Step 2
Off heat rest thirty minutes, remove rind/cinnamon, transfer figs to deep compotier with actual syrup; cool/serve by selected safe route.

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