Dried Meats: Jerky Recipes and Pemmican Recipes

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Jerky Recipes

Hans' Jerky Recipe
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My main food is jerky made from ordinary ground meat ("organic" 10 % fat,
or game) as I buy it in the shop (sometimes frozen). I mix cautiously with
a little olive oil and seasoning (herb) or grated raw carrots. NO SALT.
Then I just spread "meatballs" onto the dehydrator wire mesh with the help
of a fork. Dry at 30 degrees C (=centigrades). Can be stored (above the
fridge) for at least a month without any spoilage.
Cheap, easy, practical, tasty!
From: Hans Kylberg 


Hans' Recipe for Dried Meat
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You can certainly dry meat in any dehydrator. In fact it is easier than
most veggies/fruits. Just cut thin slices, or do as I do: Buy lean
ground meat, mix with herbal spices (such as thyme), and smear with
a fork directly on tray mesh, making flakes 1 - 2 inches across and
1/16 - 1/8 inch thick.
From: Hans Kylberg 


Basic Beef Jerky Recipe
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Use lean beef with as much of the fat trimmed off as possible.
     (Actually, just about any meat should work -- the original
     recipe calls for buffalo.)
Cut into strips about 1/8" thich and 1" wide. (I tend to cut
     mine a little thicker.  Doesn't really matter, just be
     consistent.)
Marinate strips in sauce for at least 30 minutes. This
     gives it a slightly salty taste and helps bring out the
     flavor when dried.
"Jerk" or pull strips lightly and lay out on an ungreased cookie
     sheet in a single layer.
Set oven at the lowest temperature, and keep it propped open
     while drying the meat. It should not get above 140-150F
     during the drying process. If you have a gas stove, you
     might be able to get away with the heat generated from the
     pilot light.
Dry the meat until it is tough and chewy. The original recipe
     says 12 hours or overnight, but I've found that around 4
     hours is sufficient in my oven. The drying time is really
     dependent on your oven. I suggest testing a small piece
     every hour or so until it gets to the right consistency.
DO NOT over-dry the meat. It tends to powder and loses flavor
     if it's over-dried.
	I've experimented with spices a little - I've found that a mix
of curry powder, cumin, garlic powder, turmeric, and white pepper adds
quite a punch to the flavor. After marinating, coat the meat on ONE
side ONLY with the spice mix and then place on the cookie sheet.
	(Since curry is rather over-powering, dipping both sides loses
the meat jerky flavor and all you taste is spice.)
	The jerky keeps very well in an airtight container, or it can
be frozen (make sure it's _very_ airtight).
(The basic recipe is from The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American)
From: the rec.food.recipes archives


Beef Jerky Recipe
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   For each pound of meat:
   1 tsp. salt
   2 tsp. FRESH black pepper - Fresh flavor is important!
   3 tsp. marjoram
     Garlic powder - Optional

Sprinkle above ingredients onto a *THICK* steak. Pound in with mallet. Cut
beef into strips and lay on oven rack with aluminum foil underneath to
catch drips (If available, an arrangement like a roasting pan is perfect.
Heat oven to 150 degrees F and open oven door slightly to allow water to
escape. Cook 7 to 8 hours, or until the meat is dry and slightly brittle --
It should "splinter" when bent.
From: rec.food.cooking


Jerky Recipe
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We've made Jerky for years from beef and venison, and I believe this will
work for almost any kind of meat.
We cut the meat into thin strips, the thinner the strips the crunchier the
jerky comes out, maybe 1/4" thick will make chewy jerky. By the way, cut
all the fat off the meat as you're stripping.
Lay out the strips on a cookie sheet lined with foil, turned up at the
edges so juice won't get over everything. Lay out in rows and a single
layer. Sprinkle liberally with black coarse ground pepper, or spices that
you like the taste of.
Set the oven to WARM, and leave in the oven overnite, or 8-10 hrs. This
causes very slow drying. Store in a plastic container, jar, or can after
well cooled. Too much moisture left in the meat will cause mold, and
putting it away while warm will cause sweating inside the container.
From: moynes_r@qis.dofasco.ca (Richard Moynes) in rec.backcountry


Jerky Recipe
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   To make jerky, take a raw piece of beef round or chuck, quite lean
and slice it thin, across the grain. Lay the slices across the racks
of the dryer for two days and nights -- test it by breaking a piece,
it is dry enough when it cracks in two when you break it. The smaller
and thinner you cut the pieces of meat before drying them, the quicker
they will get tender as you soak and cook them
(remember, its easier to slice thinly if the steak is partially frozen)
    One pound of sliced beef dries to 4 ounces of jerky, making
    A ratio of undried to dried meat of about 4:1.
Before drying the meat, you can season it with some combination of the
following spices: paprika, pepper, salt, or other concoctions. Garlic is
wonderful on jerky. I recommend
rubbing the meat with cut cloves of garlic before slicing it.
A marinade will change the taste slightly, and cause the meat to take
longer to dry. Marinating tenderizes the meat however.
From: THE HUNGRY HIKERS BOOK OF GOOD COOKING, by GRETCHEN McHUGH


General Jerky Method
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All recipes use 1 lb lean meat, thinly sliced. (3/16-1/4 in thick)
In a small glass bowl, combine all ingredients except meat. Stir to mix
well. Place meat 3-4 layers deep in a container, spooning sauce mixture
over each layer. Cover tightly and marinate 6-12 hours in the 'fridge,
stirring occasionally and keeping the mixture covered.
I can't really help with drying instructions, but i'd say somewhere between
7-10 hours, depending on how you like it.
From: rec.food.preserving


Salmon Jerky Recipe
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I slice the filets in 1/2 cm thin slices leaving the skin on (most of the
oil is underneath the skin so you don't waste it neither oxydise it that
way ) put in the drier at body temperature and dry hard for storage and
half dried for delicacy to eat on the spot.
No need for anything else that will spoil the taste that is superb on its
own especially with coho or sockeye (the best species of salmon).
Dried that way the salmon keep its "instinctive stop" sharp and clear. If
your body metabolism don't want salmon you will know it clearly if it want
it the taste is sublime.
When you season you can bypass this instinctive response and eat something
that will become a burden on your metabolism.
I am under the impression that putting salmon in Brine or lemon juice or
whatever which interfere in the osmotic balance between inside and outside
of the cells, will use up Enzymes as well as heat, triggering all kinds of
chemical reactions  altering the originel nutrient content. By adding
honey or sugar  even more so (proteins and sugars combine)
The oil is highly oxydable, so to store dry salmon keep in air tight jar
inside the fridge in darkness.. (it is why it is so important to leave the
skin on while drying .
Once dried insert a round ended knife between the skin and the flesh, you
can easily separate the two and scrape the skin to get the fat layer. (The
best when you need that kind of fat.)
From: jean-claude on the PaleoFood list


Pemmican Recipes

Chicken Pemmican
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Dry chicken in dehydrator, process in food processor; add melted coconut
butter/oil and put in paper muffin cups. I freeze these so I won't eat them
all at once.
From: Susan Carmack


Coconut Oil Pemmican
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Susan Carmack wrote:
>I think I ate too much pemmican with coconut oil last night!
>But it tastes so good!

Yes it does. It is the most delicious dish I have ever had.
I mix in some thyme or dried lingonberries. Yum.
I can't resist it, so I eat too much.
From: Hans Kylberg on PaleoFood list


Pemmican Recipe
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2 cups buffalo jerky or beef jerky, shredded
1 cup dried chokeberries or tart red cherries, chopped
6 TBSP tallow (beef fat)
Combine all ingredients and form into 6 patties. Refrigerate until serving.
From: dgkmom@pinn.net (Diane Karnbach)


Pemmican Recipe, According to Ray
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I make pemmican by grinding up several lbs of dehydrated eye of round
slices with a handfull of dried cherries in a food processor or blender
(or between rocks if you're a purist). The meat should dried until
brittle to facilitate grinding and eliminate any moisture which could
facilitate bacteria or mold. To this I add tallow until the dried
meat is totally saturated. It's then done. Total time (apart from
dehydrating meat) 15 minutes.
I save tallow from broiling (cheap) hamburger during the previous week. I
leave the broiling pan in the oven after the burgers are done for about
10 minutes at 350 then leave it in the warm oven until I do the dishes.
I then srain out the tallow into a bowl. As it now contains no water, it
dries hard and white (it can be substituded for wax in making candles).
If kept dry, pemmican will keep longer than you will live. Beware of
condensation in airtight containers. I keep mine in a cassarole dish
with a loose fitting glass lid on top of (not in) the refrigerator.
From: Ray Audette 
Author "NeanderThin: A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition"


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     Title: Hudson Bay Company Pemmican
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"There is little object in travelling tough just for the sake of
being tough."- The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England
Trading into Hudson's Bay, an early employee manual.

Pemmican: pound a quantity of jerky until shredded. Cut fresh fat
into walnut sized hunks and try out over a slow fire or in an oven.
Pour the hot fat over the shredded jerky and mix into a sausage meat
like consistency [a 50/50 mix]. Pack mixture into waterproof bags.
Add dry berries if desired; do not salt. It takes 5 lb of meat to
make 1 lb jerky so pemmican isn't overly fatty, just concentrated.

From Wilderness Cookery by Bradford Angier of Hudson Hope, B.C.,
published by Stackpole Books, 1961

Also:

Preserving game meat, not jerky: Cut meat into large strips, make a
rub of 3 pounds salt, 4 tb allspice and 5 tb pepper. Drape over wire
and air dry one month. Slice thin and eat raw or use in stews.

From Wilderness Cookery by Bradford Angier of Hudson Hope, B.C.,
published by Stackpole Books, 1961

Pemmican: try adding dried apricots, ground walnuts, allspice or orange
peel to the mix. Small seasoned pemmican balls make interesting
appetizers.

From The Complete Hunter Venison Cookery, Cowles Creative Publishing
Posted to rec.food.preserving by Jim Weller on 31 Jan 99

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Pemmican Recipes posted to rec.food.preserving by Jim Weller (in Yellowknife)

Lots of pemmican recipes start by grinding or shredding jerky but the
authentic way, at least in northwestern Canada is to dry the jerky until
it is brittle, then pound it with a rounded stone on a flat stone
"anvil" until the meat separate into fluffy fibres. Some "pound meat" is
almost a powdery dust. Then you add the melted fat and the optional
berries.

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      Title: Pemmican By Dorthea Calverley
 Categories: Native, Preserving, Game, Venison
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
           Venison or buffalo
           Saskatoon berries or
           Chokecherries
           Melted fat
 
  During the summer the Indians dried Saskatoon berries as well as meat.
  When the chokecherries were ripe the band assembled at some convenient
  spot to make pemmican.
  
  To the chant of traditional songs, the women beat strips of dry-meat
  (a hollow log, up-ended, and bound with a thong of rawhide to prevent
  splitting served as a container) with stone pounding implements until
  it was almost like powder. The mass was mixed with melted fat in a
  bark trough, then packed very tightly into skin bags, and sewed up so
  that no air could enter, folding the skin over until no air remained
  in the bag. Saskatoons and chokecherries pounded up, pits and all
  added to the flavour, if not the digestibility. Some women, as in any
  society were very clean and careful when preparing food, and some were
  not. A well-known good pemmican-maker commanded a higher price as a
  bride.
  
  "Sweet" pemmican was made by cracking the big animal bones and boiling
  them with water. The melted fat came to the top, and when congealed,
  was used for mixing.
  
  Also the paunch or stomach of the animal was used as a container.
  People who are horrified by this idea should remember that until a
  very few years ago sausage casings were made from the cleaned
  intestines of pigs or lambs.
  
  If kept dry, pemmican would remain good for years. Even today, many
  native people embarking on long trips into remote areas make a supply,
  for it is one of the most concentrated foods known to man. It will
  sustain life indefinitely and needs no refrigeration.
  
  The Indians used pemmican for emergency rations due to the large
  amount of work involved in making it. They killed fresh meat whenever
  they could. The Pouce Coupe Prairie was famous for good quality
  pemmican, but the whole Peace River country "exported" it for
  centuries before the white man arrived. It was partly to raid the
  country for Peace River Pemmican that the Cree made their periodic
  raids from the Edmonton area.
  
  After the fur-trade began, pemmican was sought after as well as furs.
  The fur brigades needed great amounts to carry them on long journeys
  to Lake Superior, during which time the voyageurs had no time to stop
  and hunt. In fact it was to help the Indians to shoot more buffalo for
  pemmican that the white men gave them guns. With their new weapons and
  with the added incentive of obtaining trade goods for the product, the
  Indians forgot their ages-long tradition of conservation. Where they
  used to take no more than they needed, they now slaughtered
  mercilessly and wantonly. By 1830, the herds of bison no longer
  wintered on Pouce Coupe's Prairie, but clung in one's and two's to the
  coulees and isolated valleys. In 1906 the last, a tame one, was shot
  near Fort St. John.
  
  Archeological "digs" have not taken place in the area, except for
  fossils. Pioneers yet living know where "Indian Hill" is, a few miles
  west of Dawson Creek. Hector Tremblay Jr. in an interview here in
  August, 1973, remembered the great summer pemmican making gatherings
  there not fifty years ago. There was an Indian cemetery there too, now
  ploughed over.
  
  The white pioneer women knew the preserving quality of fat. It was
  customary to grind up quantities of beef or moose, fry or bake it in
  patties, and pack it in crocks. Over it enough rendered lard was
  poured to cover it well. Crocks of preserved meat were lifesavers when
  gangs of men had to be fed at threshing, wood sawing, or "building
  bee" time.
  
  Sometimes black, rounded masses are ploughed up when breaking fields.
  Many people believe them to be pemmican, or even "fossilized
  pemmican". There is not a chance in a thousand that is anything more
  than a kind of giant, underground fungus known as "tuckahoe". Museums
  must have dozens turned in, for some people cannot be persuaded that
  they have not made a notable find. The comparatively lightweight and
  "mushroom" smell when they are dug up convinced the informed person at
  once as to their nature. They are fairly common.
  
  By Dorthea Calverley
  http://www.calverley.dawson-creek.bc.ca/Part01-FirstNations/
 
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      Title: Pemmican and How To Make It Part 1
 Categories: Native, Info, Preserving, Meats, Venison
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1    Info file
 
  When the white men set out across North America, a reliable supply of
  portable provisions was one of the major problems. Lacking the skills
  of the native hunters, it was doubtful that they could live off the
  country. They knew something about preserving food, a necessity for
  sailing ships, but it was limited to salting and pickling. The
  resultant salt pork and hardtack were unappetizing fare but they kept
  life in a man.
  
  The Plains Indians had a better solution to the problem, and one on
  which the fur traders and explorers came to depend. The answer was
  pemmican. The Cree word Pimikan meant, roughly, manufactured grease,
  but there was a lot more than that to it.
  
  Basically it was buffalo meat, cut with the grain in thin slices or
  strips and dried in the sun or over a slow fire. A smoking fire added
  flavor and was useful for keeping the flies off though if meat racks
  were high they tended to be clear of flies. The dry-meat was then
  spread on a hide and pounded by stones or mallets to become "beat
  meat" which was tossed into a rectangular rawhide container (hair on
  the outside) about the size of a flour sack. To the dehydrated,
  crumbled meat was added one-third or more of melted fat and the bag
  was sewn up. The fat might be mixed with the meat before or after it
  was bagged. While the pemmican was cooling the bag was turned from
  time to time to prevent the fat all settling on one side. Compressed
  in a skin bag that was greased along the seams to eliminate air and
  moisture, it would keep for years.
  
  In the best pemmican, which was limited in quantity, the meat was very
  finely pulverized and only marrowfat, from boiled broken bones, was
  used. For variety and flavour dried fruits such as chokecherries,
  Saskatoon or Service berries might be added. The pemmican bags were
  flattened for easier handling. At times, rendered fat was stored in
  rawhide bags, left in a round shape to distinguish them from the
  pemmican bags. Marrow, while better tasting, was comparatively scarce
  and did not keep as well as ordinary tallow and would be preserved in
  bladders. The bags of pemmican weighed 80 to 90 pounds and it was
  estimated that each bag accounted for two buffalo (bison). So high was
  the food value that three-quarters of a pound was a reasonable day's
  ration but hard working voyageurs were more likely to consume between
  one and two pounds each in a day.
  
  Moose and elk meat was sometimes treated similarly but the results
  were not so satisfactory. In some regions fish pemmican was made by
  pounding dried fish, mixed often with sturgeon oil, but it was more
  usual, as it is now among the Crees, for the pounded fish and the fish
  oil to be kept separately, the oil in animal bladders.
  
  David Thompson in 1810, described pemmican in detail: "...dried
  provisions made of the meat and fat of the bison under the name of
  pemmican, a wholesome, well tasted nutritious food, upon which all
  persons engaged in the fur trade mostly depend for their subsistence
  during the open season; it is made of the lean and fleshy parts of the
  bison dried, smoked and pounded fine: in this state it is called beat
  meat: the fat of the bison is of two qualities, called hard and
  soft;...the latter...when carefully melted resembles butter in
  softness and sweetness. Pemmican is made up in bags of ninety pounds
  weight, made of the parchment hide of the bison with the hair on; the
  proportion of the Pemmican when best made for keeping is twenty pounds
  of soft and the same of hard fat, slowly melted together, and at a low
  warmth poured on fifty pounds of beat meat, well mixed together, and
  closely packed in a bag of about thirty inches in length, by near
  twenty inches in breadth, and about four in thickness which makes them
  flat, the best shape for stowage and carriage...I have dwelt on the
  above, as it (is) the staple food of all persons, and affords the most
  nourishment in the least space and weight, even the gluttonous French
  Canadian (the voyageurs) that devours eight pounds of fresh meat every
  day is contented with one and a half pounds per day: it would be
  admirable provision for the Army and Navy."
  
  By Dorthea Calverley
  http://www.calverley.dawson-creek.bc.ca/Part01-FirstNations/
 
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      Title: Pemmican and How To Make It Part 2
 Categories: Native, Info, Preserving, Meats, Venison
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1    Info file
 
  James Isham, writing fifty years earlier, comments on the quality of
  the marrow-fat, it being "...fine and as sweet as any butter or fat
  that is made, moose and buffalo fat they reserve after the same manner
  in great quantities." He mentions that the meat, cut in slices, is
  dried on poles over a fire, which takes about four days, and then
  pounded or beaten between two stones till some of it is as small as
  dust. "Pemmican" he claimed, was "reckon'd by some very good food by
  the English as well as natives."
  
  There were three ways of eating pemmican. There was the soup or stew
  called rubbaboo in which a lump of pemmican was chopped off and put in
  a pot of boiling water. If it was available, flour was added and
  possibly wild onions, sometimes a little sugar, occasionally a
  vegetable and a scrap of salt pork. Frying the pemmican in its own fat
  resulted in what was called rousseau (or rechaud or richot) and to it
  also might be added some flour or a suitable wild plant for flavour.
  The third method was to hack off a lump and eat it raw, a slow
  process, since it dried extremely hard, but a satisfying concentrated
  food for the travelers with no time to stop.
  
  Though they realized its worth, not everyone enjoyed pemmican, no
  matter how prepared. A party from Boston traveling to the Saskatchewan
  to see the solar eclipse in 1860 commented that "rousseau is by
  comparison with the other palatable, though it is even then impossible
  to so disguise it as to avoid the suggestion of tallow candles; and
  this and the leathery, or India-rubbery, structure of the meat are its
  chief disqualifications. But even rousseau may lose its charms when
  taken as a steady diet three times a day for weeks."
  
  While it is known that pemmican lasts for a long period it is doubtful
  if there is any lying about now. At times a strange lump of organic
  matter is dug up and is claimed to be "fossil pemmican." This is a
  trap for the unwary for in a all likelihood this "relic" will turn out
  to be a fungus known as tackahoe (Polyporus tuberaster) which is found
  in the prairie black soils in conjunction with aspen.
  
  The first step in making pemmican is to procure a moose, or other
  large animal. The raw meat is sliced, as thinly as possible, in sheets
  or strips. A rack is built to hang the sheets and strips of meat on
  and this rack is enclosed in a canvas shelter, or a lumber smokehouse
  is built. A slow fire of dry poplar, willow, or other hardwood is made
  under the meat and kept going till the meat is completely dried and
  smoked. This takes two or more days.
  
  The dried meat is then partially enclosed in a moose hide or a strong
  canvas bag and pounded with a heavy instrument such as an axe or a
  wooden mallet made for the purpose till the meat is in very small
  pieces or, for the best pemmican, completely powdered. In these days
  after pounding, the meat might be put through a grinder.
  
  The best parts of the animal fat are taken and rendered. The bones of
  the animal are broken up and boiled for their marrow content. The
  rendered fat is heated to boiling point and put in a container. Then
  as much of the pounded meat as can be absorbed is added to the hot
  fat.
  
  This is now pemmican and it is put in animal hide bags, or, more
  probably today, in moulds such as small dishes to set. Such is the
  food on which the western travelers of former years depended.
  
  By Dorthea Calverley
  http://www.calverley.dawson-creek.bc.ca/Part01-FirstNations/
 
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      Title: Hudson Bay Company Pemmican
 Categories: Canadian, Info, Camping, Preserving
      Yield: 1 Info file
 
      1    Text file
 
  "There is little object in travelling tough just for the sake of being
  tough."- The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading
  into Hudson's Bay, an early employee manual.
  
  Pemmican: pound a quantity of jerky until shredded. Cut fresh fat into
  walnut sized hunks and try out over a slow fire or in an oven. Pour
  the hot fat over the shredded jerky and mix into a sausage meat like
  consistency [a 50/50 mix]. Pack mixture into waterproof bags. Add dry
  berries if desired; do not salt. It takes 5 lb of meat to make 1 lb
  jerky so pemmican isn't overly fatty, just concentrated.
  
  From Wilderness Cookery by Bradford Angier of Hudson Hope, B.C.,
  published by Stackpole Books, 1961
  
  Also:
  
  Preserving game meat, not jerky: Cut meat into large strips, make a
  rub of 3 pounds salt, 4 tb allspice and 5 tb pepper. Drape over wire
  and air dry one month. Slice thin and eat raw or use in stews.
  
  From Wilderness Cookery by Bradford Angier of Hudson Hope, B.C.,
  published by Stackpole Books, 1961
  
  Pemmican: try adding dried apricots, ground walnuts, allspice or
  orange peel to the mix. Small seasoned pemmican balls make interesting
  appetizers.
  From The Complete Hunter Venison Cookery, Cowles Creative Publishing
  
  From: Jim Weller
 
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      Title: Saskatoon Pemmican Recipe
 Categories: Native, Camping, Dried, Fruits, Venison
      Yield: 3 Cups
 
      1 c  Jerky; beef or venison
      1 c  Dried Saskatoon berries or
           -dried blueberries
      1 c  Unroasted sunflower seeds or
           -crushed nuts of any kind
      2 ts Honey
    1/4 c  Peanut butter
    1/2 ts Cayenne [optional]
 
  This version uses peanut butter rather than melted suet or lard as the
  binding agent, which is more palatable for today's health conscious
  diets.
  
  Grind [or pound -JW] the dried meat to a mealy powder. Add the dried
  berries and seeds or nuts. Heat the honey, peanut butter and cayenne
  until softened. Blend. When cooled, store in a plastic bag or sausage
  casing in a cool dry place. It will keep for months.
  
  From: Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada, published by the National
  Museums of Canada, ISBN 0-660-00128-4
  
  Posted by: Jim Weller
 
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      Title: Pemmican Recipe As By the Dooleys of Boise
 Categories: Venison, Native, Preserving
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      4 c  Dried meat
      3 c  Dried fruit
      2 c  Rendered fat
           Nuts
           Honey
 
  4 cups dried meat - depending on how lean it is, it can take 1 - 2
  lbs. per cup. Use only deer, moose, caribou, or beef (not pork or
  bear). Get it as lean as possible and double ground from your butcher
  if you don't have a meat grinder. Spread it out very thinly in cookie
  sheets and dry at 1800 overnight or until crispy and sinewy. Regrind
  or somehow break it into almost a powder.
  
  3 cups dried fruit - to taste mix currents, dates, apricots, dried
  apples. Grind some and leave some lumpy for texture.
  
  2 cups rendered fat - use only beef fat. Cut into chunks and heat over
  the stove over medium (or Tallow) heat. Tallow is the liquid and can
  be poured off and strained.
  
  Unsalted nuts to taste and a shot of honey.
  
  Combine in a bowl and hand mix. Double bag into four portions. The
  mixture will last for quite a while without refrigeration. I have
  eaten it four years old. It actually improves with age.
  
  HINT: Vary the fat content to the temperature in which it will be
  consumed. Less for summer. Lots for winter. Not only is it good energy
  food for canoeing, but an excellent snack for cross country skiing.
  This recipe was originally from a Chippewayan Indian Guide as he
  learned it from his father. No buffalo chips!
  
  This recipe was submitted by the Dooleys of Boise. Our thanks to them.
  Winter 1981 (Vol. 4, No. 1) Newsletter for Voyageurs
  http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/pemmican.html

  From: EdibleWild@onelist.com
  
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