A Recipe For Making Pemmican
Here is a recipe you can use if you want to try making your own supply of pemmican.
1. Take two pounds of beef and cut it into small strips.
2. Prepare the beef by either;
a. Cooking it very well and letting it dry until it is hard, or
b. Putting the beef in the sun until it is very dry.
3. Crush the beef by either
a. Pounding it with a hammer until it turns into a powder, or
b. Putting it through a meat grinder.
4. Add about one half-cup of raisins for each pound of beef. (Other
....berries can also be used if you prefer - like chokecherries, ....raspberries or currants.)
5. Put the ground beef and berries into a pie plate and pour hot beef fat
or sheep fat on top until the beef and berries are covered. Be careful!
Hot fat can cause very bad burns.
6. Stir the hot fat, ground beef and berries together until the fat begins to
get hard.
7. Let the mixture cool and cut it into squares just like you would fudge. It
better to make a little more pemmican than you think you need.
Remember, pemmican does not spoil. The pemmican you make will
not spoil for two or three years if you take care to keep it as cool and
dry as possible.
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