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At Christmas we always have a very traditional dessert that goes from generation to generation, I am talking about nothing more and nothing less than this delicious dessert "sweet of milky".

The milky or papaya candy has a good durability time, it is made very easily and although most of us who make it use the same ingredients each one gives it a particular touch.

Papaya or milky candy

Ingredients:

• 2 kilos of milky or green papaya
• 1 kg of paper (sugar cane molasses)
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of bicarbonate
• One and a half teaspoons of cloves and water

Your preparation

• We take the milky green

• With a knife you slice it lengthwise and leave it to the watchman to throw away all the milk it contains.

• Then they are peeled, all the seeds are extracted and the milky is chopped into small, thin slices and left in the sun for several hours before cooking.

• In a pot with water place the chopped milky with a spoonful of bicarbonate are put on the fire and left for 10 minutes to remove the bitter taste of the fruit and to soften it better.

• It's removed from the fire, they're sneaked in and washed in cold water.

• In a pot with about 12 cups of water, melt the paper and sugar. Once it boils, add the milk and cloves and cook for about 2 hours or more, until the syrup begins to firm up but does not become thick.

• I like the milky one to be somewhere in between, not watery. When you get this, the candy's ready.

• Turn off the stove and serve.

The candy is kept in the fridge in glass jars or in a sweet shop and can be stored for several weeks.