Fig Pincushions

If you can resist making cookies called Fig Pincushions, then you are stronger than I am. The name here has been borrowed from Aunt Jenny’s Old Fashioned Christmas Cookies (1952), and I played with a recipe for Fruit Puffs from Cookies Cookies (1959). To give my cushions a richer crust, I substituted butter for the shortening and added an egg yolk. I made my own super-easy fig jam and brushed the tops with an eg