Fig Newton

This is not my recipe, but a recipe that I got off a Cook Book, the following notes was supplied from the Cook Book as well:

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Until the late 19th century, many physicians believed that most illnesses were related to digestion problems, and recommended a daily intake of biscuits and fruit. Fig rolls were the ideal solution to this advice. They were a locally produced and handmade product until a Philadelphia baker and fig lover, Charles Roser, invented and then patented a machine in 1891 which inserted fig paste into a thick pastry dough. Cambridgeport, Massachusetts-based Kennedy Biscuit Company purchased the Roser recipe and started mass production. The first Fig Newtons were baked at the F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery in 1891. The product was named after the city of Newton, Massachusetts.

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The Kennedy Biscuit Company had recently become associated with the New York Biscuit Company, and the two merged to form Nabisco—after which, the fig rolls were trademarked as Fig Newtons. It'll probably ring a lot more bells if I show a pic of the figgy treat.

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Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about. Those who have had these biscuits know that they are sweet and syrupy, with both the pastry and the filling being deliciously soft and chewy.

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It's a simple recipe and therein lies its effectiveness:

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The Biscuit and Yellow Cake form the delicious sugary, buttery pastry, the Brown Sugar adds that brown/ baked sweetness and the Fig is the filling. FA Fig is one of my favorite 'niche' flavors.

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This is interesting. Sort of a non-descript, juicy, fruit flavor. I get mostly yellow peach and passionfruit, with some juicier pear notes. Really hard to pin down and it changes a bit every time I pick it up. Strong natural sweetness and moderate density.

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Inhale is very sweet and a bit dark. Tastes a lot like the syrup in canned pears. Warm with some harshness, hard to take really deep lung hits. Exhale starts with a warm and dense juicy yellow canned peach flavor. Some high perfumey green notes, not really defined enough for a peel. More of a indistinct harshness. Back half ends up tasting quite a bit like a Passionfruit syrup, as some bright red fruit notes creep in. Still sweet bordering on syrupy. Clean finish, even that pronounced sweetness fades out pretty quickly. And then adds, interestingly.

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Harder to recommend for bakeries, that juicy note is going to be distracting if you want to keep defined edges and layers in your flavor. I don't think it'll taste bad per se, but it's going to be like pouring a fruit syrup straight on top of you nice fluffy or crispy pastry. I don't claim to have anywhere near the palate that CR does but, in this recipe, it works brilliantly for me. Fig Newtons are moist so the syrupy nature of FA Fig Fresh fits for me. The vapor is sweet and decadent but not cloyingly so. It is right up my alley. It's not as "bright and cheery" sweet as Funfetti, more of a dark treacly sweetness.

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Mix with 60/40 VG/PG