Dear Mother, I have received a quantity of fresh figs and have no clue how to dry them.
Fresh figs are fat, juicy and packed with tiny edible seeds.
They can be dried most quickly in a low oven or in one of the plastic drying machines you see advertised. But they just naturally take to sun drying using Mother's own free solar energy and free or low-cost materials. If you just leave your figs out in the sun, they will be fed upon by all manner of wildlife and can rot before they dry. They should be split and drained of juice, then protected as they dry inside screened drying frames. On a pair of sawhorses in full sun, lay one frame with screening down.