Categories: conserves, jams, jelly, marmalades, preserves

Ingredients

• 4 cups chopped prickly pears
• 1 cup sliced lemon
• 2 oranges
• 1 or more cups sugar

Directions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Boil to the jellying point. Pour boiling hot into hot jars. Set at once.

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