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pemmican
[pem-i-kuhn]
noun
dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
pemmican
/ ˈɛɪə /
noun
a small pressed cake of shredded dried meat, pounded into paste with fat and berries or dried fruits, used originally by American Indians and now chiefly for emergency rations
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pemmican1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pemmican1
Example Sentences
Some tribes still make pemmican today and even market a commercial version.
It’s no surprise that Roald Amundsen, on his 1910-12 journey to the South Pole, packed snow knives, a sledge meter, snowshoes, mittens, skis and pemmican.
“Energy bars” of pounded berries mixed with dried deer meat and fat — called “pemmican” — were traded with fur traders and highly prized for their nutritional value.
There was food, too, including a hunk of unappetizing pemmican.
European fur traders learned and eventually adopted pemmican as a great trail food.
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