WAiyu jelly, known in Taiwanese Hokkien as ogio, and as ice jelly in Singapore, is a jelly made from the gel from the seeds of the awkeotsang creeping fig found in Taiwan and East Asian countries of the same climates and latitudes. The jelly is not commonly made or found outside of Taiwan and Singapore, though it can be bought fresh in specialty stores in Japan and canned in Chinatowns. It is also used in Taiwanese cuisine.
WA Buccellato [buttʃelˈlaːto] is a Sicilian circular cake. Buccellato contains figs and nuts. It is traditionally associated with Christmas in Sicily.
WCuccidati, and also known variously as buccellati, Italian fig cookies or Sicilian fig cookies, are fig-stuffed cookies traditionally served at Christmas time.
WFig cake is a cake prepared with fig as a primary ingredient. Some preparation variations exist. It is a part of the cuisine of the Southern United States, Greek cuisine, and the Appalachian Mountains region of North America. It is also a part of the cuisine of Ocracoke, North Carolina, which has an annual fig festival.
WThe fig roll or fig bar is a cookie or biscuit consisting of a rolled cake or pastry filled with fig paste.
WFiggy Pudding is a rather vague term used for a class of traditional seasonal winter dishes usually forming sweet & savory cakes, containing a sour-sweet creamy layer of honey, fruits and nuts, as well as a flavorful savory filling of rich herbally accentuated pork sweetmeats. In later times, rum or other distilled alcohol became often added to enrich the fruitfullness of the flavor.
WKleiner Feigling is a brand of naturally-flavoured fig liquor, made by BEHN in Eckernförde, Germany. The production of Kleiner Feigling started in 1992 and since then has reached annual worldwide sales of 1,000,000+ cases. The name translates literally to Little Coward and is a pun on the words feige (cowardly) and Feige (fig), which are homophones in German.
WMakroudh is a cookie from the cuisines of the Maghreb and Malta. It is filled with dates and nuts or almond paste, that has a diamond shape – the name derives from this characteristic shape.
WA mendiant is a traditional French confection composed of a chocolate disk studded with nuts and dried fruits representing the four mendicant or monastic orders. Each of the ingredients used refers to the color of monastic robes. Tradition dictates that raisins stand for the Augustinians, hazelnut for the Carmelites, dried fig for the Franciscans, and almond for the Dominicans.
WNewtons are a Nabisco-trademarked version of a pastry filled with sweet fruit paste. Fig Newtons were the most prominent. They are produced by an extrusion process. Their distinctive shape is a characteristic that has been adopted by competitors, including generic fig bars sold in many markets.