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How to pronounce pemmican in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pemican
Type of meat

Examples of pemmican

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Back then, pemmican was a mixture of dried ground venison, fat and dried cranberries.
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They have only a strip of dried pemmican, which even the wasted Scott cannot stomach.
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American Indians made pemmican, dehydrated cakes of jerky-like meat, fat and wild berries.
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By the time trade reached the Winnipeg area the pemmican trade developed.
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Blackfoot Indians used fresh berries in soups, stews, and pemmican.
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Others were working as free traders, or buffalo hunters supplying pemmican to the fur trade.
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This allowed for the tough meat to be dried and made into pemmican.
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Lunch, when it existed, was often just a chance to get a piece of pemmican to eat along the way.
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They traded with the tribes for prepared foods, such as processed roots, dried meat, and pemmican.
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More examples
  • Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
  • Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food. The word comes from the Cree word pimu00EEhku00E2n, which itself is derived from the word pimu00EE, "fat, grease". It was invented by the native peoples of North America...
  • A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties; An emergency ration of meat and fruit
  • Dehydrated buffalo meat mixed with fat and occasionally berries.
  • An Indian word for pounded, dried meat combined with dried berries or currants, mixed with melted fat and stored in cakes. It could be eaten as it was or turned into a rich soup by adding water and heating it over a fire.
  • Once a main source of food for the Plateau Indians, made from animal fat, fish, camas root and salmon.
  • Dehydrated food strips made from mixed ground meat, mashed fruit, salt, and spices
  • A food made chiefly from beef, dried fruit, and suet, used as emergency rations.
  • A mixture of pulversied dried beef, rendered beef fat and berries - wonderful snack food