Let’s dive into this traditional method of meat preservation. Before you make pemmican, you'll need dried and shredded meat.

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Polar explorers Vihljamur Stefansson and Robert Perry (and their sled dogs) subsisted on pemmican, and little else, for months at a time. To make pemmican I cut lean grass-fed beef steaks into thin ...

The ingredients in pemmican provide high-energy and protein in one small serving that will last for months if properly stored. Leda Meredith has been preserving food since she was a child at her ...

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Native Americans incorporate venison into stews and the Thanksgiving feast would have been a good opportunity to make that happen. The colonists were known to enjoy venison, a type of meat they ...

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Think, for example, of long-lasting, portable foods like pemmican, which Indigenous populations ... most instant food is ultra-processed, don't make the mistake of overlooking the many uses ...

Miles Macdonell issued the Pemmican Proclamation which banned the export of food from Red River and thereby prevented the North West Company from supplying its trading posts. The Pemmican ...