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Fig-cake (fruit)
Food prepared from figs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Fig cake.
A fig-cake is a mass or lump of dried and compressed figs,[1][2][3] usually formed by a mold into a round or square block for storage, or for selling in the marketplace for human consumption.[4][5] The fig-cake is not a literal cake made as a pastry with a dough batter, but rather a thick and often hardened paste of dried and pressed figs made into a loaf, sold by weight and eaten as food in Mediterranean countries and throughout the Near East. It is named "cake" only for its compacted shape when several are pounded and pressed together in a mold.