How to make Pemmican
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I like the history of it. The natives wasted very little parts of the buffalo. http://www.sd4history.com/unit3/buffalouses.htm
I went to Head Smashed In in Alberta a few years ago which was very interesting. http://history.alberta.ca/headsmashedin/
I went to Head Smashed In in Alberta a few years ago which was very interesting. http://history.alberta.ca/headsmashedin/
Me and some friends made it for a month long canoe trip down the Seal river in the early 90’s. It tasted “ok”. I’m sure with today’s options you can make it tastier. We could see how it is valuable as “food that will keep you going” and as Canada was being explored, a good with a high caloric value that you could pack anywhere and simply wouldn’t rot was worth its weight in gold.
Have fun, add some berries if you can an kudos for reaching into our past to better understand our ancestors!
Have fun, add some berries if you can an kudos for reaching into our past to better understand our ancestors!
I doubt it is tasty, if it was, it would had remained in our kitchens. Other survival meals like hard tack, jerky or salted beef/ fish are still around
This meal was probably the result of over abundance of buffalo in ancient North America, and it died once it become scarce
This meal was probably the result of over abundance of buffalo in ancient North America, and it died once it become scarce
Crackers made in 1962 for nuclear fall out shelters are still edible, but I wouldn't want to eat any.
i once left a Macdonalds bun in a plastic bag for about 3 months. No sign of mold whatsoever; I wouldn’t feed that to a raccoon.
I remember as a kid we would get pemmican from the reserves in Northern Alberta as we had friends who lived in Lac La Biche. It was moose meat pemmican. It actually was pretty good, a little gamey. You could see the blueberrys crushed into the meat. It would last forever. It was very very dry. I remember bringing some to school as were learning about Native life in Canada. Most of the kids did not like it. It looked more like this:
https://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/640/Food/Beef-Jerky-Meat.jpg
https://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/640/Food/Beef-Jerky-Meat.jpg
Cool, might try it for camping some time.
Made me read up on pemmican diet, ketosis and rabbit starvation though....
