I bought a box of the black figs at Trader Joe’s, and also had a fair crop picking today. In looking for a way to use them I ran across a recipe for fig ice cream that called for 2 lbs of figs.
And then it says ‘about 20’. I look at my 1 lb box, which was about 20, and 1 lb of the ones I grew, that was more like 30-35, and I’m thinking ‘what kind of figs was the writer expecting?’
What kind of fig grows to be an ounce and a half each? My celeste figs are maybe three quarters and are a little bigger than an actual quarter.
What’s your opinion on the flavor, does it taste like anything to you, does the skin have a scent? Is the skin rough or tough, and how long has it been producing for you?
I have a fig cultivar that it’s figs sometimes looks a lot the figs you showed for the cultivar Impellizzeri, yet it’s certainly not the same fig I have based upon your description, the fig in that photo only the breba get that big on the cultivar I have, actually the breba on the one I have probably gets a little bigger than that. The cultivar I have is not ‘Just generic figgy flavored’ The one I have has a great scent to the skin as well. I have not tried the figs of the one I have grown outside of California, California is where I rescued it from, I was told that grown in the State of Georgia it’s as good as if it were fig wasp pollinated yet it was not.
The blacks were pretty good. The greens I tried earlier in thee week were trash. These are the first good figs I had bought.
Another poster claimed they were good, better than what they could grow, in another thread. Why is why I tried to make a point of checking the local Trader Joe’s for a while to get some.
