Tools to forage prickly pear, part 3. Following historical Indigenous methods, in this video, I make a pair of juniper wood tongs and a grass brush to forage cactus fruits with only Paleolithic technology. Among the Apache, Cahuilla, Northern Cheyenne, Comanche, Diné, Hopi, Jemez, Karankawa, Kiowa, Seri, Tohono O'odham, and other American Indians, prickly pear fruits were historically gathered with wooden tongs and the spines were rubbed off by a grass brush, rolling on the ground with a branch,

This method of preserving pears was handed down to me from my grandmother, to her mother, and then to me. It is a treasure in my household to have a jar of pear or fig preserves! Obviously, I had to make a pan of cheese biscuits to go with them. 😉 For pear preserves you'll need pears and sugar and a few basic tools you probably already have in your kitchen. For the preserves: One quart prepared fruit One cup of sugar You can multiply this as you need to. For four quarts of fruit you'll need fou