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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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