the pleasure of figs + a fig & lapsang souchong cake

Home Baked - Autumn

I don’t think I really appreciated figs until one autumn we went walking in Italy. In fact, I think that up until then, figs just weren’t in my life. In Italy, we spent almost two weeks on a mostly leisurely walk from the wonderful town of Orvieto to Porto Ercole on the coast. Each day, someone would collect our bags and take them to our next destinatio…