Has anyone tried it? What does it taste like? Where can we buy it?
Polly
Pemmican
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Hi Polly,
Pemmican, (as you probably know), is a traditional food of North American Indians. I don't remember ever trying any, and I've never run across any in any of the stores I've been to, but I have been on hunting trips where native American Indian guides, (Apache), carried it with them, and ate it for a mid-day snack.
Pemmican is just dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with fat and dried berries. Here's a site that offers pemmican bars for sale:
http://www.vitacost.com/BearValleyFruitnNutPemmican
If you want to try making some, there are a lot of recipes listed here, for both jerky and pemmican. Ray Audette's recipe for pemmican is on this list, if you go far enough down the list:
http://paleofood.com/jerky.htm
Some health advocates consider pemmican to be the perfect food:
http://www.physicalmind.com/pemmican.htm
Love,
Wayne
Pemmican, (as you probably know), is a traditional food of North American Indians. I don't remember ever trying any, and I've never run across any in any of the stores I've been to, but I have been on hunting trips where native American Indian guides, (Apache), carried it with them, and ate it for a mid-day snack.
Pemmican is just dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with fat and dried berries. Here's a site that offers pemmican bars for sale:
http://www.vitacost.com/BearValleyFruitnNutPemmican
If you want to try making some, there are a lot of recipes listed here, for both jerky and pemmican. Ray Audette's recipe for pemmican is on this list, if you go far enough down the list:
http://paleofood.com/jerky.htm
Some health advocates consider pemmican to be the perfect food:
http://www.physicalmind.com/pemmican.htm
Love,
Wayne
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Polly, and all,
I make pemmican often - we have freezers full of meats like caribou, moose, venison that don't get eaten within a year, or two so we make jerkey, and then pemmican. I'm the only one in my family that eats the pemmican however. Alan and Lannie just don't get it since they don't have to eat like I do.
How does it taste? It tastes like dried jerky mashed with fats and whatever else you blend into it. Depending on what spices you use to make the jerky also---I'm trying to cut down on salts and like to add dried berries along with fats. It often carries me through my day nicely.
This is a very healthy and enjoyable snack, or dinner.
Love,
Joanna
I make pemmican often - we have freezers full of meats like caribou, moose, venison that don't get eaten within a year, or two so we make jerkey, and then pemmican. I'm the only one in my family that eats the pemmican however. Alan and Lannie just don't get it since they don't have to eat like I do.
How does it taste? It tastes like dried jerky mashed with fats and whatever else you blend into it. Depending on what spices you use to make the jerky also---I'm trying to cut down on salts and like to add dried berries along with fats. It often carries me through my day nicely.
This is a very healthy and enjoyable snack, or dinner.
Love,
Joanna
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Thanks Joanna - always wondered about that. So it would depend on what's mixed in and the personal preferences of the person eating the pemmican whether it was judged "good" or "bad" for taste.I have to admit that I'm a bit in awe of you, Joanna. Sounds like a lot of work to make.
Love, Shirley
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Joanna,
I agree with Shirley - you amaze me. You are the AUTHENTIC hunter-gatherer in our little cave, I think. You are so lucky to have access to all of those healthy, range-fed meats!
I see on the internet that Conagra makes Pemmican. I have written them to find out where to buy it in my area. But it is probably not as healthy as the pemmican you make yourself with the wild game.
Love,
Polly
I agree with Shirley - you amaze me. You are the AUTHENTIC hunter-gatherer in our little cave, I think. You are so lucky to have access to all of those healthy, range-fed meats!
I see on the internet that Conagra makes Pemmican. I have written them to find out where to buy it in my area. But it is probably not as healthy as the pemmican you make yourself with the wild game.
Love,
Polly
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Yeah, I'm a lucky MC'R to live in a hunting family, for sure. It's alot of work though, but the benefits of it are helping me in recovery I'm quite certain.
I started being interested in making pemmican after Karen mentioned it awhile ago and I had lot's of old meat in the freezers and I wanted a staple meat that I could have on hand all the time to eat whenever I felt the urge. This is perfect, and healthy.
If your not hunters, you can just go to the grocery and buy some older cheap cuts of meats and make jerky, and then pemmican. Buying free range is great but if you cant, after you dry it and then smash it to smilerines it's as close as you can get to heaven and health.
Love,
Joanna
I started being interested in making pemmican after Karen mentioned it awhile ago and I had lot's of old meat in the freezers and I wanted a staple meat that I could have on hand all the time to eat whenever I felt the urge. This is perfect, and healthy.
If your not hunters, you can just go to the grocery and buy some older cheap cuts of meats and make jerky, and then pemmican. Buying free range is great but if you cant, after you dry it and then smash it to smilerines it's as close as you can get to heaven and health.
Love,
Joanna
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Pemican Is excellant. I love it. Mike and I make Jerky out of deer for us and one grandson that just loves it. We have made pemican on occassion. I like to eat it, and Jerky when I work, cause I don't always take time to eat. Love Oma
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Joanna, if it's not a big pain, could you describe how you make it? I'd like to try, but a step by step description would really help. Knowing that you eat it, and like it helps a lot . . .
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I agree that you Joanna is a very special Cave Lady 
Polly, I think I have seen a link on Audette's site to a place to buy pemmican?! Or is it a recipe in his book "Neanderthin"? Check out the book to see if it has a recipe, I am pretty sure it does.
Love,
Karen
Polly, I think I have seen a link on Audette's site to a place to buy pemmican?! Or is it a recipe in his book "Neanderthin"? Check out the book to see if it has a recipe, I am pretty sure it does.
Love,
Karen
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Karen,
Audette's recipe is in the list that can be accessed by the earl that I posted above, 8 posts back, in this thread.
Love,
Wayne
Audette's recipe is in the list that can be accessed by the earl that I posted above, 8 posts back, in this thread.
Love,
Wayne
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