Ingredients
- FRUIT PUDDING:
- 20-25 tunas (prickly pear cactus fruit)
- 2 Rome, McIntosh or Winesap apples
- 3/4 c. sugar
- 1 tsp. apple pie spice
- 1/2 tsp. mace
- 3 tbsp. flour
- 1/2 c. raisins OR pecans, chopped (optional)
- TOPPING:
- 3/4 c. brown sugar
- 1/4 c. granulated sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 c. flour
- 1/2 c. butter OR margarine
Directions
Peel and slice tunas and apples (as for a pie). Mix rest of pudding ingredients together and add to fruit. Mix all together. Mix all topping ingredients except butter or margarine together. Add butter and cut up or mix with fork until mixture has texture of cornmeal. Spread over top of fruit mixture. Bake in oven at 325 degrees for about 45 minutes to 1 hour (until fruit is bubbly and oozing around edges of topping). For quicker preparation, cook fruit 10 minutes in microwave before adding sugar, flour and spice mix. Tunas are NOT user-friendly. Pick with leather gloves. Wash and scrub with scrubby to remove spines (wear rubber or thick plastic gloves). Blanch for 1 minute in boiling water, drop in cold water until cool enough to handle. Remove and drain. (Don't let them soak in water or they will get mushy.) Peel by cutting off top first, then rest of skin. Slice in half and remove seed sac with tip of teaspoon, i.e. scoop out as you would with a cantaloupe, starting at top (widest) end. Most of time seeds will come out all together with enclosing membrane.
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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: Personal Collection
Submitted By: I Dunno
IDunno4@hotmail.com
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