figs Quotes

“I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. Catch, he says. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river.”

Figgie hobbin is a light, Cornish pudding on plum duff, creamy-white in colour and sweetened with raisins, which are called “figs” in Cornwall.