Editing Fig roll (section)

==Fig Newtons<span class="anchor" id="Mass production"></span>==
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[[Image:Fig newton2.jpg|thumb|right|A plastic tray of mass-produced Fig Newtons]] [[File:Fig-Newtons-Stacked.jpg|thumb|alt=two fig newton cookies|Fig Newtons]]
Fig Newtons are a popular mass-produced cookie similar to a fig roll. In 1892 James Henry Mitchell, a Florida engineer and inventor, received a patent for a machine that could produce a hollow tube of cookie dough and simultaneously fill it with jam.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWtIDQAAQBAJ&q=+fig+newtons|title=BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts|last=Parks|first=Stella|date=2017-08-15|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=9780393634273|language=en}}</ref> The machine consisted of two funnels, one inside the other, with the outer funnel creating the dough tube and the inner funnel filling that tube with fig jam.<ref name="ThoughtCo" />

At the same time, [[Philadelphia]] baker and fig lover [[Charles Roser]] was developing a recipe for a pastry based on the British homemade fig roll. Roser approached the [[Cambridgeport, Massachusetts]]–based Kennedy Biscuit Company, who agreed to take on production and sales.<ref name="ThoughtCo" />

Kennedy Biscuit Company had recently become associated with the New York Biscuit Company, and after merger to form [[Nabisco]], trademarked the product as the [[Fig Newton]]. The cookie was named after the Massachusetts town of [[Newton, Massachusetts|Newton]]. It was one of the first commercially-produced baked goods in the United States.<ref name="ThoughtCo" />

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