Cactus rubies
Cactus rubies recipe in the candy category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/3 cups light corn syrup
- 1 1/2 cups red cactus juice
- 2, 1 3/4 ounces, packages powdered fruit pectin
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Recipe method:
- To obtain the cactus juice, gather very ripe red purple tuna fruit from prickly pear cactus with tongs.
- Wash by overflowing water in container.
- Put fruit in a large pan and barely cover with water.
- Stickers will cook and strain out.
- Boil fruit until soft, occasionally mashing down and cutting through the fruit to release the juice.
- Strain through a cloth in a colander.
- This juice may be canned in fruit jars and used for candies and jellies or used immediately.
- Use two large pans because candy foams.
- In one pan, mix sugar and syrup and bring to a full rolling boil.
- Simultaneously, cook foaming juice, pectin and baking soda mixture in another pan until foaming sides down, stirring both mixtures.
- Pour pectin mixture slowly into sugar mix and boil together about 2 more minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove from fire, stir a bit more to allow bubbles to escape and candy to clear.
- Pour into buttered 10 x 6 inch glass dish.
- Let stand at room temperature until set, several hours.
- Turn out on sugared wax paper.
- Cut into squares and coat with more granulated sugar.
- Allow to dry at room temperature before storing.
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