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pemmican
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[ pem-i-kuhn ]
noun
- dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
pemmican
/ ˈɛɪə /
noun
- a small pressed cake of shredded dried meat, pounded into paste with fat and berries or dried fruits, used originally by American Indians and now chiefly for emergency rations
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pemmican1
1735–45; < Cree 辱첹·, derivative of 辱· he makes pemmican (mixing together the grease and other ingredients), he makes grease < Proto-Algonquian *·ɲ, equivalent to *pemy- grease + *-· make
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pemmican1
C19: from Cree 辱â, from pimii fat, grease
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Some tribes still make pemmican today and even market a commercial version.
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It’s no surprise that Roald Amundsen, on his 1910-12 journey to the South Pole, packed snow knives, a sledge meter, snowshoes, mittens, skis and pemmican.
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“Energy bars” of pounded berries mixed with dried deer meat and fat — called “pemmican” — were traded with fur traders and highly prized for their nutritional value.
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There was food, too, including a hunk of unappetizing pemmican.
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European fur traders learned and eventually adopted pemmican as a great trail food.
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