It tasted just as good as I remembered.
While figs are harvested in August in our part of the world, some older trees in some varieties like my "Violette de Bordeaux" will produce an early, small flush of fruit, generally not more than about 20. They grow rather large and ripen six weeks ahead of the real crop: a tease, but a tasty one.
While D.H. Lawrence waxes poetic on the eating of a fig, my early ones hardly ever make it to the kitchen. They taste best right there under the tree.
My bird loving friends will be happy to know that some feathered hoodlum beat me to the harvest this morning and already took its tally and that, by the way, it was the ripest one!
That white drop is sap that the fig sheds when you pick it. It is a variation on latex, very sticky. Some people are allergic to it. Good thing I am not!!!! |
The birds gotta eat too!
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