Fig-Pie
Written by Ithacorama Portal on 15.02.2012
It is an easy, tasteful sweet for the Lent. It doesn’t contain eggs, butter, not even oil, so it’s health and you may eat it during a lent when you cannot consume oil. It doesn’t have cholesterol and is beneficiary for those with constipation problems”.
Ingredients:
- 3 strings of dried figs from.
- ½ cup grated walnuts.
- ½ teacup almonds, with their skin, slightly browned, chopped in big pieces.
- ½ teacup sesame slightly browned.
- 1 coffecup sugar brown or white.
- 1 big tablespoon honey.
- 2-3 tablespoons cognac.
- Ground cinnamon, at will
- Ground clove, at will.
- Caster sugar for the wrapping.
- Few drops of seed oil for the shaping.
Execution:
Cut the fig stem and mince them. If you have and want, pass them through the mince machine. Put them in a bowl with all the other ingredients apart from the caster sugar and the seed oil. Work them well so that they are mixed and they become a lump. On the counter or on marble, drop some drops of seed oil, put there the lump and give it a cylinder shape. Sprinkle a lot of caster sugar and cut into grummets. It is preserved out of the fridge. If you want wrap the grummets in cellophane and serve anytime.
