Recipes for an Abundance of Figs

 We have three fig trees and are getting a bumper crop of figs right now. Do you have any suggestions or recipes we can use for all these figs.

 The obvious answer is to send a large gift box to the people at your favorite Web site that answers your food and cooking questions for free! Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

If you will be selfish, though, and consume them all yourself, you're sure to like some of these recipes:

• Insalata di Frutta (shown below)
• Fresh Fig Galettes
• Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Prosciutto and Figs
• Fig Spoon Sweet
• Summer Treat Fig Ice Cream

Insalata di Frutta
From Italian Food, by Elizabeth David

Ingredients:

peaches
apricots
plums
fresh purple figs
little sugar
little lemon juice

Instructions:

Peaches, apricots, plums, and fresh purple figs, all peeled and cut up into rather small squares. Make it in the morning for the evening, add a little sugar and lemon juice, which will dissolve to a syrup, and serve it very cold.

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