Fig Bread Help

Hi mredwood, I think what you may be looking for is the Spanish fig log called pan de higos. A quick google search should turn up a few recipes. I have made it a couple of times. The recipe I went with contained dried figs, toasted hazelnuts, icing sugar, lemon zest, period and melted chocolate. It was delicious. Hope that helps. Regards, Gary

Often, I am successful in finding something that I cannot identify by name, by typing in a "best fitting" description in a web image search(yahoo, google, etc).

So in this case you might try searhing for images of "fig bread", then maybe, fig and nut bar, or Spanish fig and nut bar, etc. Often, clicking on the resulting images will lead to more details, recipes, etc.

In this case, just a general web search(not image) for "fig and nut bar" the first hit was a link to a recipe at chow.com. They describe it as similar to something called a "pan forte", which brings up other search possibilities, and so on. 

Panforte?   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panforte

Looks like a possibility.

This is just a guess but it sounds like if it's as hard as candy, it's a turron (a Spanish nougat) with figs and nuts. (If it's more like fruitcake or less in density, see the earlier replies above.) If turron, you could try a basic nougat or turron recipe and add the figs and nuts, and use a very thin unleavened bread for the top and bottom.

I've tried to translate one for you from Spanish but it was so oddly written that I had to do some interpretation along the way. I have NOT tested this.

Almond Nougat, Nuts and Figs recipe interpreted (and untested) by Dragonbones based on a confusingly written recipe at http://www.euroresidentes.com/Recetas/navidad/turron-almendras-nueces-higos.htm

 Ingredients   

160 gr. sugar

100 gr. honey

100 gr. almonds, peeled and toasted

100 gr. other nuts , peeled and toasted

30 gr. Turkish figs, preserved (dried)

1 egg white

2  wafer sheets (I think these are large sheets of wafer as used in church for communion, aka communion hosts - just very thin unleavened bread) , presumably cut to fit pan size.

1 "aluminum pan  100 x 150 x 10  (sides greased?)

Place one wafer sheet in aluminum pan. Cook sugar and honey together to 159 º C. in copper pot, stirring gently with wooden spoon.  Beat one egg white until peaks form, and add to mixture. Continue stirring and cooking for 10 minutes. Add chopped dried figs and nuts.  Pour out onto a marble slab to cool slightly. Use spatula to gather the still fluid mixture and transfer into the aluminum pan atop the wafer sheet. Work and flatten with spatula, cover with remaining wafer sheet, and let cool. Unmold.

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