Recipe: Prickly Pear and Apple Crisp

Prickly Pear Crisp

Fruit pudding:
20-25 prickly pear cactus fruits
2 Rome, McIntosh or Winesap apples
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp apple pie spice
1/2 tsp mace
3 Tbsp flour
1/2 cup raisins or pecans, chopped (optional)

Topping
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 c. flour
1/2 c butter

Peel and slice prickly pear fruit and apples as as for a pie.

Mix rest of the fruit pudding ingredients together and add to the fruit.

Mix topping ingredients except butter together. Add butter and cut up mixture with a fork until mixture resembles cornmeal. Spread topping over fuit mixture.

Bake at 325 for 45 minutes to 1 hour.