Cold Desserts Recipes - Fresh Figs in Honey and Wine

 

Ingredients

• 450ml dry white wine

• 75g clear honey

• 50g caster sugar

• 1 small orange

• 8 whole cloves

• 450g fresh figs

• 1 cinnamon stick

• mint sprigs or bay leaves, to decorate

For the cream

• 300ml double cream

• 1 vanilla pod

• 5ml caster sugar

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Method:

1. Put the wine, honey and sugar in a heavy-based saucepan and heat gently until the sugar dissolves.

2. Stud the orange with the cloves and add to the syrup with the figs and cinnamon. Cover and simmer very gently for 5-10 minutes until the figs are softened. Transfer to a serving dish and leave to cool

3. Put 150ml/~ pint/M cup of the cream in a small saucepan with the vanilla pod. Bring almost to the boil, then leave to cool and infuse for 30 minutes. Remove the vanilla pod and mix with the remaining cream and sugar in a bowl. Whip lightly. Transfer to a serving dish. Decorate the figs with the mint sprigs or bay leaves, then serve with the cream.