Mesquite Beans
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Photo by Gertrude Meyer
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Mesquite Beans
Mesquite beans were stored and ground into meal and flour. It was used to make tortillas, bread, and molasses.
The bark was used for basketry, pottery, fabrics and medicine. The trunk & branches were used for firewood, in the manufacture of bows, arrows, mortars and furniture. The sap was used as a snack, and for glue and dye.
The leaves were used for tea, and medicine. And even the thorns were useful to the native people. They were used to as awls and for tattooing. To learn more about just how important mesquite beans were to southwestern culture, follow this link. You can even order meal and flour so that you can sample some authentic southwestern cuisine.
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Photo by Pat Tyler
Ranger Petru showed us some reconstructed ovens they used to bake their bread and tortillas.
Photo by Gertrude Meyer
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