Fig roll

Fig Roll

Homemade fig rolls
Type	Pastry
Main ingredients	Fig paste
Cookbook: Fig Roll

The fig roll or fig bar is a cookie or biscuit consisting of a rolled cake or pastry filled with fig paste.

Mass production[]

United Kingdom and Ireland[]

A store-brand fig roll from the United Kingdom

In the UK and Ireland the biscuit is made by McVitie's, Jacob's, and Boland's Bakery. During the mid 1990s Jacob's produced a limited edition of a chocolate version of the biscuit.

United States: Fig Newtons[]

Fig Newtons

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.^[1][2][3] At the same time, Philadelphia baker and fig lover Charles Roser was developing a recipe for a pastry based on the homemade fig roll likely brought to the US by immigrants from Britain.^[1][3] Roser approached the Cambridgeport, Massachusetts based Kennedy Biscuit Company, who agreed to take on production and sales.^[1]

Kennedy Biscuit Company had recently become associated with the New York Biscuit Company, and after merger to form Nabisco, trade marked the product as the Fig Newton.^[1]

Now a trademarked product of Nabisco, the unusual shape of Fig Newtons is a characteristic that has been adopted by many competitors, such as the generic fig bars sold by most supermarkets, and Newman's Own Fig Newmans (an organic variety).

India[]

Britannia Industries in India produces fig rolls.

See also[]

• List of cookies
• List of pastries

Footnotes and references[]

External links[]

• 21st Century Fig Festival - a comparison of fig rolls
• Felicity Cloake: How to make the perfect fig rolls