2020年10月21日 · The fruit is called tuna. The leaves, cut into strips, are nopalitos. There's a spineless pear cactus variety. Not to be confused with "blind pear", which lack the long spines but have a lot of tiny reddish spines that are hard to remove.

2020年11月17日 · • 2 1/2 cups prickly pear juice • 3 Tbsp lemon or lime juice • 1 package powdered pectin • 3 1/2 cups sugar Directions: 1 quart of prickly pear cactus fruit should make about 2 1/2 cups of juice. Pluck the fruit from the cactus with a long-handled fork or tongs.

2024年4月30日 · Prickly pear can be enjoyed raw, or made into jam. Whatever you prefer, it’s all delicious. The early settlers of San Pedro would exchange prickly pear jam with one another. With all of the conveniences I’m accustomed too, I find it difficult to devout time to make something like prickly pear jam. I might give it a try soon.

2024年5月3日 · If you go to whole foods, they have prickly pear syrup and jam. I mix that in with lemonade to make a pretty great version. I think Shamrock also has prickly pear flavored syrup in their ginormous aisle of flavored syrups. it goes fast though.

2013年9月13日 · For those familiar with cactus pear, the problem should be apparent: there were just way too many tiny, hard seeds. You can't chew them, and I don't know if they're safe to swallow (and even if they are, I don't just want to swallow a big spoonful whole; I …

Prickly Pear jam was fairly common when I was a kid in the 70’s but prickly pears were lining the highway so it was free if you had the motivation to go pick it. Then they introduced the “cactoblastis” moths and they really did blast it away. Rare but not unheard of to get the jam now.

I grew up in west Texas in the desert and I have warm memories of my grandfather coming back from hunting trips with bags of prickly pear fruit. He would make jars and jars of jam on the ranch that the kids would smear all over waffles! He had one of those old western style cast iron waffle irons and made amaaaaazing waffles.

2023年2月12日 · I have made prickly pear jelly as well. I agree with the low sugar pectin and would add that you use citric acid instead of lemon juice as well. My batch has a wonderful flavor but the subtle taste of lemon brings out a tartness in the prickly pear that might be offensive to some. It’s worth a try. The color of this jelly is phenomenal!

2017年10月30日 · Copied and pasted from the album they linked above: I played around with various recipes but pretty much kept a 1 to 1 ratio with the fruit juice/pulp to sugar and about 3 tablespoons of pectin per cup of fruit juice/plup (ex. 3 cups of fruit juice/pulp / 3 cups of sugar / 9 tablespoons of pectin).

To make syrup: Take about 6 prickly pear and cut into chunks, 4 cups water and 2 cups sugar and the juice of 2 lemons in a pot and simmer for 30 mins. Allow to cool and strain thoroughly. Add the syrup and 8 cups water to a picther, about 2 cups sugar, the juice of 2 lemons and slice 3 limes.