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Prickly Pears: How to remove the spines



There are several ways to skin a prickley pear fruit. If you are out in the wild and need sustenance - you can burn the stickers off and peel it -- but if you are in your kitchen, you put all the fruit in a pan and boil it until it's tender. Then you mash it up and strain it through cheesecloth.