Prickly Pear Sorbet

Prickly pears (literally ‘figs of India’ in Italian) are the fruit of a cactus native to North America that was introduced to Europe in the 17th century. The cactus now grows wild all over the southern Mediterranean and is considered a noxious weed in Australia. In Sardinia rows of prickly pears were often planted to divide land – they make a good fence because they grow very large and you can’t get past them because of the spikes. The land owners were the meanest: the fruit would fall on t