Today's Special Recipe - Cactus Pickles
Ingredients:
Prickly pears . . . . . . . . 2 qt
(Measure before cutting)
Sugar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 cup
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Preparation:
Remove skins of prickly pear fruit. (They`re more easily handled if you burn off the spines first.) Cut in halves lengthwise and remove seeds. Tie the pickling spice and cloves in a small piece of cheesecloth. Combine bag and all ingredients but pears. Cook pears in the syrup until transparent. Remove cc bag. Put pickles and syrup in canning jars with two-piece lids (you know, the flat part with rubber around edge and the screw-on outer ring.) Process for 15 minutes..
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