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 Very soft, almost cake-like, biscuit tube with filling of fig paste. Slightly flattened and usually formed with longitudinal ridges along its upper surface. Typically 1.5ins long, 1.2ins wide, 0.6ins thick, but somewhat variable. First known by this name from advertisments by the 'Consumer's Tea Company' of Coventry ( Coventry Herald - Friday 13 April 1894, p5) and referred to in the Report of the second Guildhall school conference on diet, 1913. They get a mention in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'; "A bag of figrolls lay snugly in Armstrong's satchel."  Home-made fig rolls from www.delightfulrepast.com  2013  |
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