[Sca-cooks] anything like period fig newtons?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
>>CAT FIGHT! CAT FIGHT!     Chirhart(Comfortably sitting in the bleachers
>>Sipping on an RC cola and eating fig Newton's that ant period)
>>
>
> This got me to thinkin. We have discussed figs here and a few period
> recipes using them. (see figs-msg) And they did make pastes of
> some fruits for pastry fillings, seem to remember.
>
> Is there any evidence for period filled pastries, perhaps even
> something like a fig newton?

The closest I can think of offhand would be a fried rysschew, closed.
Possibly more like a Texas (or southern, I'm a little vague on this
lore) fried pie, only full of fig goop.


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