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Growing up, I never ate figs; I don’t think my parents really had it around the house. So if I don’t know anything about figs, why would I suddenly make fig bread?

Well, the other day my husband was apparently very hungry while reading the Bible. He began talking about the Bible’s fig bread. I took the hint, and found this delicious version. Not to say this is the Biblical version, but the recipe made a fig lover out of me!

Kitchen Kit

  • 2 bowls
  • stand up mixer or bowl with a hand mixer
  • wooden spoon
  • loaf pan, convection paper
Tastes heavenly!

Ingredients

  • Baking spray with flour
  • 1 cup dried, pitted figs
  • boiling water (1 1/2 cup)
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest (from 1 orange)
  • 3/4 cup whole milk

Directions

  1. Place figs and boiling water in a medium bowl. Let soak for 10 minutes, drain, and pat dry. Remove and discard any stems. Slice figs into thin slices. Set aside.
  2. In another bowl, combine dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk and set aside.
  3. Oil spray a loaf pan and line with convection paper. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Now all the prep is ready!
  4. In a stand up mixer: beat sugar & butter. Add eggs one at a time beating each time. Add zest and beat.
  5. Add to stand up mixer: alternate 1/3 dry mixture, gentle beat, 1/3 milk, gentle beat, alternating until everything has been added. Start and end with the dry mixture.
  6. Hand stir in sliced figs, leaving a few aside to decorate the top of the loaf.
  7. Spoon batter into loaf pan, and sprinkle the top with the few extra fig slices.
  8. Bake about 45 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
Fig Bread

Inspiration

Southern Living Fig Bread

7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees, and honey 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

The Bible, Deuteronomy, 8.7-8.9