Name: Fig Bars
Yield: About 24 cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¼ cup honey; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; ¼ cup sugar; 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour; Pinch each of ground cinnamon and ground cloves; 1 cup water; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) cold unsalted butter; ½ teaspoon baking powder; ⅓ cup sugar; ¼ teaspoon salt; 2 large eggs; 1 pound dried figs, Calimyrna preferred

Preparation info

About
24
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

About

This cookie, which was introduced at the turn of the twentieth century, has remained one of the most popular of all American cookies ever since.

Ingredients

Sweet Pastry Dough

2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
⅓ cup sugar
¼

Method

To make the dough, stir the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl to combine. Cut the butter into 8 or 10 pieces and rub into the dry ingredients until there are no large pieces of butter visible. Be careful that the mixture remains cool and powdery. Beat the eggs together lightly and with a fork stir them into the dough until it masses together.
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