First Nations of B.C. use salal as a food.

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First Nations of B.C. have harvested and still do harvest salal berries as an important food source. In the past, coastal First Nations, for example the Coast Salish, Tsimshian, and Kwakwaka’wakw, harvested salal berries in late summer and ate them fresh or dried them into cakes to store for the winter. To make the dried cakes, fresh berries were mashed and boiled in boxes, then poured into cedar frames and dried over an alder-wood fire. These cakes were about 3cm thick and as much as 30cm wide and 90cm long. Over the winter cakes were stored in cedar boxes inside. When they were ready to be eaten, the cakes were soaked in water, then broken into pieces and mixed with fish grease. Today, First Nations continue to harvest salal berries, usually making jams and preserves.

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