pemmican

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Someone could make a version of berry soup by soaking and boiling up pemmican which is drymeat and berries pounded together into a kind of energy trail mix.

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  1. noun A food prepared by Native Americans from lean dried strips of meat pounded into paste, mixed with fat and berries, and pressed into small cakes.
  2. noun A food made chiefly from beef, dried fruit, and suet, used as emergency rations.

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  • But the Chihuahua still preferred the taste of boot leather to pemmican, and he wouldn't let go. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-02 - February
  • Someone could make a version of berry soup by soaking and boiling up pemmican which is drymeat and berries pounded together into a kind of energy trail mix. —  prairiemary
  • This consisted chiefly of pemmican, which is frozen or dried reindeer-flesh kneaded with the fat into a kind of paste. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
  • Their contents were flour and pemmican, made into a thick soup called Rubbiboo As pemmican is a kind of food but little known in this country, I may as well describe how it is made. —  Away in the Wilderness
  • Five years later some travellers discovered this pemmican, and it was found, at that time, to be fit for food. —  Away in the Wilderness
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