How do you get the figs in a fig role?!
How do you get the figs in a fig role?
Answers:
FIG SWIRLS
For pastry dough
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
4 oz cream cheese at room temperature
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
For filling
1 cup packed soft dried Mission figs (8 oz), hard tips discarded
3/4 cup mild honey
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
2 teaspoons grated fresh orange zest
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Make pastry dough:
Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
Pulse butter, cream cheese, yolk, and vanilla in a food processor until smooth, then add flour mixture and pulse until dough just forms a ball.
Halve dough and form each half into a roughly 6- by 2-inch rectangle. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 1 1/2 hours.
Make filling:
Purée figs, honey, juice, zest, and cinnamon in cleaned food processor until almost smooth.
Make logs:
Roll out 1 piece of dough between 2 sheets of wax paper into a 10- by 8-inch rectangle (about 1/3 inch thick), long side facing you. Remove top sheet of wax paper and gently spread one fourth of fig mixture over bottom half of dough, leaving a 1/4-inch border. Using wax paper as an aid, roll dough, jelly-roll style, halfway, enclosing fig mixture. Flip dough, with wax paper. Remove paper. Spread with one third of remaining fig mixture and roll in same manner, to form an S-shaped log. Make another log. Chill logs, wrapped in wax paper, until firm, at least 4 hours.
Bake cookies:
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
Cut logs crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices and arrange slices about 2 inches apart on lightly buttered baking sheets. Bake until pastry is pale golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool.
Cooks' notes:
? Unbaked logs can be chilled up to 3 days.
? Cookies keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in an airtight container at room temperature 1 week.
Makes about 4 dozen cookies.
Same way you get the sausage in a sausage roll.
Is it you who's been stealing the figs from the tree in my garden??
They just grow like that, you pick them off the tree, give them a bit of a rub against your trouser leg and pop them in a box.
Mash up the figs, spread them on the roll, roll it up and bake if necessary. Simple, huh?
You thick, or what?
Well if you read the packets you'll find that the middles are made from fig paste, which means the figs have been mashed into a paste, this is to make it easier to spread on the biscuit pastry,and to brake down the seeds,
Boil or mash the figs before you put them in a pastry.
have you not seen the fig roll add
it clearly states that aliens do it cos they have more hands
and can do it quicklier
as i said its an add
Put them in the dough before baking.