Glazed Figs in Muscat

Fig trees grow in every hedgerow and wall in Languedoc, seeding themselves promiscuously; some wild figs are deliciously juicy, eaten straight from the tree, others, like the proverbial barren fig tree, dry and shrivelled.

Although they are officially described as either figues violettes or figues blanches, they come in a huge number of varieties and can be deep purple, brown, blue, emerald green or golden; tiny and sweet or huge and luscious. Once there were commercia