Categories: conserves, jams, jelly, marmalades, preserves
Ingredients
- 4 cups chopped prickly pears
- 1 cup sliced lemon
- 2 oranges
- 1 or more cups sugar
Directions
- Peel orange, and scrap off excess white membrane from peel and fruit. Chop peel and pulp. Add 4 cups water to lemon and orange. Let stand 12 to18 hours in cool place.
- Boil until peel is tender. Cool. Measure lemon, orange and liquid. Add chopped prickly pears, and 1 cup sugar for each cup of combined pear, lemon, orange and water.
- Boil to the jellying point. Pour boiling hot into hot jars. Set at once.