Fresh Figs with Hot Espresso Syrup

To reach Aden, in the Yemen, Fogg and Passepartout sail the length of the Red Sea, past the city of Mocha and its ‘vast coffee-fields’, then through the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb — the ‘Bridge of Tears’. The journey is unpredictable and rough, but Fogg still takes ‘his four hearty meals every day, regardless of the most persistent rolling or pitching on the part of the steamer’. This recipe, introduced to me by my wife and rock cake Debbie on a roofto