.jpg) Homemade fig rolls | |
| Type | Pastry |
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| Place of origin | Western Asia |
| Main ingredients | Fig paste |
Thefig roll orfig bar is a biscuit or cookie consisting of a rolled cake or pastry filled withfig paste.
Figs have been a popular food sinceancient times, originating in the areas of theMediterranean andAsia Minor.
EarlyEgyptians may have invented the first fig roll—a simple pastry made with fig paste and a flour-based dough.[1] In theMiddle Ages, the Arab physicianIbn Butlan is recorded to have recommended eating figs with biscuits, or sugared bread—an early instance of what could be considered a fig roll.[2]
Fig rolls were popular withBritish immigrants in the United States in the late 19th century.[3]
Fig Newtons are a popular mass-produced cookie similar to a fig roll. In 1892 James Henry Mitchell, a Florida engineer and inventor, received a patent for a machine that could produce a hollow tube of cookie dough and simultaneously fill it with jam.[4] The machine consisted of two funnels, one inside the other, with the outer funnel creating the dough tube and the inner funnel filling that tube with fig jam.[3]
At the same time,Philadelphia baker and fig loverCharles Roser was developing a recipe for a pastry based on the British homemade fig roll. Roser approached theCambridgeport, Massachusetts–based Kennedy Biscuit Company, who agreed to take on production and sales.[3]
Kennedy Biscuit Company had recently become associated with the New York Biscuit Company, and after merger to formNabisco, trademarked the product as theFig Newton. The cookie was named after the Massachusetts town ofNewton. It was one of the first commercially-produced baked goods in the United States.[3]
Valeo Foods produces two snack foods similar to traditional fig rolls - "Jacob's Fig rolls", which are sold only inIreland, and "Bolands Fig rolls" (named afterBoland's Bakery) which are also sold in theUnited Kingdom.[5]
Jacob's Fig rolls are produced by theJacob Fruitfield Food Group. They are the most popular brand of biscuit in Ireland, with sales of 8.3 million packets each year.[6]
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