pemmican in English

noun
1
a paste of dried and pounded meat mixed with melted fat and other ingredients, originally made by North American Indians and later adapted by Arctic explorers.
These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican , for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones.
noun
    pemican

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1. And they'll make pemmican...

2. Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: Briguing, pemmican, strummel, drammock, wastel, and zoic

3. Uncertain what to use for bait, he wadded some pemmican into a ball, the way he had seen his father roll dough.

4. White trappers and hunters learned from the Indians how to prepare light-weight survival rations like "pemmican" and "jerked" beef.

5. Franklin's expedition carried nearly 8 000 lead-soldered tins containing meat, soup, vegetables and pemmican - a pressed cake of shredded dry meat.

6. Johansen prepared the sledging rations (42,000 biscuits, 1,320 tins of pemmican and about 220 pounds (100 kg) of chocolate), while other men worked on improving the boots, cooking equipment, goggles, skis and tents.

7. The Native Americans often used moose hides for leather and its meat as an ingredient in pemmican, a type of dried jerky used as a source of sustenance in winter or on long journeys.

8. ‘Biltong, pemmican, jerky, Bresaola, Parma ham and bacon are dried meats.’ ‘He home-cures pancetta and Bresaola and knows exactly what to do with a glut of damsons.’ ‘Being hung out to dry isn't always a good thing, but Bresaola beef is an exception.’ ‘I'm particularly fond of the Bresaola and Parmesan.’