Anyone Ever Made Their Own Pemmican?

[brunner]

Has anyone on here made their own pemmican?

What did you make it with?

Did it really last a long time not refrigerated ?

Taste?

School me I'm interested!!!

[westtexducks]

What the heck is pemmican?

[OUTDOORSMANEVERETT]

Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food.

[3DW5]

What the heck is pemmican?

X2.....

[OUTDOORSMANEVERETT]

And no I don't I prefer tasty delicious deer and fish

[3DW5]

Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food.

Welp I just learned something new on the Internet....

[westtexducks]

Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food.

So its sausage

[Jhill313]

What the heck is pemmican?

Just off the top of my head.

Pemmican

Traditional method of drying meat for pemmican demonstrated at Calgary Stampede
Chokeberries (Aronia prunifolia), sometimes added to pemmican

Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food. The word comes from the Cree word pimîhkân, which itself is derived from the word pimî, "fat, grease".[1] It was invented by the native peoples of North America.[2][3] It was widely adopted as a high-energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen.

The specific ingredients used were usually whatever was available; the meat was often bison, moose, elk, or deer. Fruits such as cranberries and saskatoon berries were sometimes added. Cherries, currants, chokeberries and blueberries were also used, but almost exclusively in ceremonial and wedding pemmican.[4]

Contents

1 History
2 Traditional preparation
2.1 Serving
3 Boer War
4 Modern pemmican producers
5 Modern protein bars, "pemmican-inspired"
6 Modern food brands named "pemmican"
7 References in literature
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

History

The voyageurs of the Canadian fur trade had no time to live off the land and had to carry their food with them.[citation needed] A north canoe with six men and 25 standard 90 lb (41 kg) packs required about four packs of food per 500 miles (800 km). Montreal-based canoemen could be supplied by sea or with locally grown food. Their main food was dried peas or beans, sea biscuit and salt pork. (Western canoemen called their Montreal-based fellows mangeurs de lard or "pork-eaters".) In the Great Lakes some maize and wild rice could be obtained locally. By the time trade reached the Winnipeg area the pemmican trade was developed.
See also: Métis buffalo hunt § Pemmican trade
Metis drying buffalo meat, White Horse Plains (St. Francois Xavier), Red River, Canada (Painted in 1899 by William Armstrong)

Métis would go southwest onto the prairie in Red River carts, slaughter buffalo, convert it into pemmican and carry it north to trade at the North West Company posts. For these people on the edge of the prairie the pemmican trade was as important a source of trade goods as was the beaver trade for the Indians further north. This trade was a major factor in the emergence of a distinct Métis society. Packs of pemmican would be shipped north and stored at the major fur posts: Fort Alexander, Cumberland House, Île-à-la-Crosse, Fort Garry, Norway House, and Edmonton House. So important was pemmican that, in 1814, governor Miles Macdonell nearly started a war (see Pemmican War) with the Métis when he passed the short-lived Pemmican Proclamation, which forbade the export of pemmican from the Red River Colony.[5]

Alexander Mackenzie relied on pemmican on his 1793 expedition across Canada to the Pacific.[6]

North Pole explorer Robert Peary used pemmican on all three of his expeditions, from 1886 to 1909, for both his men and his dogs. In his 1917 book Secrets of Polar Travel, he devoted several pages to the food, stating, "Too much cannot be said of the importance of pemmican to a polar expedition. It is an absolute sine qua non. Without it a sledge-party cannot compact its supplies within a limit of weight to make a serious polar journey successful."[7]

British polar expeditions fed a type of pemmican to their dogs as "sledging rations". Called "Bovril pemmican" or simply "dog pemmican", it was a beef product consisting of 2/3 protein and 1/3 fat, without carbohydrate. It was later ascertained that although the dogs survived on it, this was not a nutritious and healthy diet for them, being too high in protein.[8] Members of Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1916 expedition to the Antarctic resorted to eating dog pemmican when they were stranded on ice for the winter.[9]
Traditional preparation
Ball of pemmican

Traditionally, pemmican was prepared from the lean meat of large game such as buffalo, moose, elk or deer. The meat was cut in thin slices and dried over a slow fire, or in the hot sun until it was hard and brittle. About five pounds of meat are required to make one pound of dried meat suitable for pemmican. Then it was pounded into very small pieces, almost powder-like in consistency, using stones. The pounded meat was mixed with melted fat in an approximate 1:1 ratio.[10] In some cases, dried fruits such as saskatoon berries, cranberries, blueberries, or choke cherries were pounded into powder and then added to the meat/fat mixture. The resulting mixture was then packed into rawhide bags for storage.

A bag of buffalo pemmican weighing about 90 lb (41 kg) was called a taureau (French for "bull") by the Métis of Red River.[11] It generally took the meat of one buffalo to fill a taureau.[12]
Serving

In his notes of 1874, North-West Mounted Police Sergent-Major Sam Steele records three ways of serving pemmican: raw; boiled in a stew called "rubaboo"; or fried, known in the West as a "rechaud" [1]

"The pemmican was cooked in two ways in the west; one a stew of pemmican, water, flour and, if they could be secured, wild onions or preserved potatoes. This was called 'rubaboo'; the other was called by the plains hunters a 'rechaud'. It was cooked in a frying pan with onions and potatoes or alone. Some persons ate pemmican raw, but I must say I never had a taste for it that way." (Sam Steele 1874)[13]

[solocam_aggie]

So its sausage

Haha!! That was my thought too

[Randy]

Google is working overtime today

[npe001]

Looks horrible on google! lol looks like a meat soap bar.

[Man]

Welcome to 2015...we have protein bars now

[dbaio1]

So its sausage

[bloodtrailer28]

my grandfather used to make a big batch every now and then...haven't had it in years. it really wasn't ever that good though.

[louieagarcia]

Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food.

I call that barbacoa!