pemmican
Noun
Meaning
Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
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The things that really separated Indigenous pemmican from mass-produced European stuff, per Anthony, was the gentle drying of meat, use of berries for flavor, and the absolute caution never to burn the animal fat.
In comparison, pemmican is a meat-based food that is nutritionally complete but is composed of dry meat fibers and fat in a 1:1 ratio by weight.
Insofar as I know, you can’t buy traditional pemmican from trail-food manufacturers, but you can make it yourself like your ancestors did.
Like an ass I mixed a small spoonful of curry powder with my melted pemmican – it gave me violent indigestion.
Similarly, in camp, people ate pemmican only when other food was scarce.
Traders ate pemmican sliced and dipped in honey, which they called Indian bread.