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I used some in a beef stew last week, from the new Holly Bell (ex Great British Bakeoff) cookbook. Was called Baghdad beef stew. I didn't held out much hope as a very odd combination of ingredients (beef, cinnamon, onion, carrot, raisins, figs and almonds), but it was lovely.

In medieval times the fig symbolised female genitalia - fig leaves in the bible may be a joke it seems, monks being humorists as well as clerks and so on (dark age hipsters). For men's bits it was pears.


In a Carry On kind of spirit, I would therefore suggest serving interleaved slices of fig and pear, perhaps with a reduction of spiced mead drizzled over the top, should you have some about you.

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