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Trudy’s Ocracoke Fig Cake | Cook Along with Trudy Austin
Sheri Castle joins Trudy Austin in the kitchen and learns the secrets to her prize-winning Ocracoke fig cake. Figs are so important to Ocracoke life that the town hosts an annual fig festival that includes recipe contests, including a traditional fig cake category, which Trudy Austin (a ninth-generation Ocracoker) has won more than once.
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