Spooooooooooooonnnn!!! Sweets - Figs

Every day this week I'm going to sample a different spoon sweet and let you know what I think.  For those unfamiliar with spoon sweets, they're pretty much fruit preserved in a syrup.  It's kind of like jam, only it's much juicier and the fruit is most often whole, or only sliced in half.

This is very, very sweet.  Figs are pretty much one of sweetest fruits that I know.  Put them in a syrup and they get even sweeter.  This variety of fig spoon sweet uses unripened figs instead of the mature figs, so maybe it makes it a little less sweet.  The texture is kind of chewy, but the sweet flavour just overpowers.  In fact because of the subtle flavour of the fig, all you pretty much taste is sweet.  Don't get me wrong, I love the sweet flavour, I just like something else to accompany it.


CC