I come from a very large, loud, loving Italian family. We had a tradition where we gathered every Christmas Season for weekend to make these wonderful fig cookies. My Granny started making these in 1956 with just a few relatives and making about 500 cookies. We stopped in 1989, by then we were busting out of kitchens and making 3000 cookies in one weekend. Many great times were had, lots of cackling laughter, many cold beers, and maybe a few tears thats also went into our cookies. We stopped when my Gramps had a stroke. My cousin Kelly was getting married this year, she got us together, and I am so glad she did. Hopefully we will get do this again in Dec. usually the first weekend for the twins birthday. 
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