Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  8                     cactus pears -- (about 3 pounds
                        -- total)
  1                cup  simple syrup
  2        tablespoons  fresh lime juice -- or to taste

Preparation:

Line a baking sheet with plastic wrap. Wearing rubber gloves, wash cactus pears and with paper towels rub off any prickly fuzz left on skin. Halve cactus pears lengthwise and with a spoon carefully scoop flesh with seeds into a blender, leaving thick shells intact. Add syrup and lime juice to blender and puree until smooth. Pour cactus-pear puree through a fine sieve into a bowl and discard seeds. Put cactus shells on baking sheet and freeze while making sorbet. Freeze puree in an ice-cream maker. Scoop sorbet into frozen shells, smoothing surfaces so they are level. Freeze filled cactus shells at least 6 hours, or until frozen hard. Frozen sorbets in shells may be wrapped individually in plastic wrap and kept in freezer 1 week.

Nutritional Information:

266 Calories (kcal); trace Total Fat; (0% calories from fat); trace Protein; 69g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 5mg Sodium