Aegean Kithchen

The producers who grow figs mostly have olive groves and therefore olive oil. In this way, they make medicine from fig and olive oil. They fill the figs in the jar and add enough olive oil to cover them. They keep the jar in the shade for 3 months. When winter comes, they eat one of the figs in the jar before breakfast. They say that figs prepared and consumed in this way significantly strengthen the immune system and therefore they are not sick.
Sometimes they put figs to sleep in fresh milk. First, dried figs are cut into thin slices lengthwise. At that time, the milk is started to be heated. When the milk boils on a stone, it is taken from the heat and chopped figs are added and crushed thoroughly with the help of a fork. By adding the remaining hot milk to the crushed figs in hot milk and mixing it with a fork, the figs are distributed homogeneously everywhere. This mixture is then left at room temperature for 1 hour. In the meantime, the hot fig milk starts to cool and freeze and take the form of pudding. At the end of an hour, this fig milk dessert is put in the refrigerator and left for 5 hours to cool. At the end of this period, the milk dessert, which has cooled down, is cut into baklava slices and served.