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What to do with unripe figs?
You can through unripe figs Cooking in syrup delicious use. Raw, unripe figs are poisonous. First boil twice in water dissolves the slightly poisonous milky sap in unripe figs, which is contained in all parts of a Ficus carica plant.
Can you eat unripe figs?
are unripe figs slightly toxic raw. You can eat cooked unripe figs because the toxins are dissolved in the boiling water. If a healthy adult eats a single, unripe fig, there are usually no toxic after-effects to complain about. After eating large amounts of unripe figs, typical symptoms of poisoning appear, such as nausea and vomiting.
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All parts of a fig plant are slightly poisonous. The reason for the toxicity is a milky sap that is released when pruning fig tree flows in torrents and causes allergic reactions on skin contact.
How to use unripe figs?
You can use unripe figs deliciously Cooking in syrup. The preparation is so easy:
- Ingredients: 500g green figs, 750g sugar, 250ml water, lemon juice, cinnamon stick.
- Put on gloves and score the unripe figs in a cross.
- Boil the figs in water for 15 minutes, drain off the cooking water and repeat the process.
- Boil the water and sugar to a syrup.
- Simmer figs in the syrup for 15 minutes, leave for a day.
- Scoop figs out of the syrup.
- Boil the cinnamon stick in the syrup for 20-30 minutes.
- Add figs and lemon juice, stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Pour the figs in syrup into a screw-top jar.
Tip
Unripe figs will not ripen
Unripe figs resist all efforts to fruit mature to permit. Unlike post-ripening fruits such as bananas and apples, unripe figs do not produce ethylene, also known as ripening gas. You should put a fig tree in a bucket together with its unripe fruit in the winter quarters. At least there is a chance that these are fruit-like inflorescences that will mature next year.
