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My Oupa Toy is a low-key green fig bottler extraordinaire. Ouma does the cooking and recipe stuff, but every year towards the end of October, itʼs Oupaʼs hands that are scalded by the fig treesʼ sap. Heʼs the picker. As well as the patient sous chef who sands down each individual figʼs skin and presses a tiny cross on the bottom-end of the fruit with a sharp knife. ʻSo the syrup can soak up through the entire fig,ʼ heʼll tell you.

Itʼs a sight to behold: my Oupa Toy in his La-Z-Boy watching the rugby with a mountain of figs to one side, and a bowl of -spiked water to the other. The prepped figs are doused in this mixture, to keep their bright green colour intact when bottled. Oupa has many stories to tell about the blue

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