PEMMICAN RECIPE
This is my recipie for pemmican. If you don't follow certain parts of this to the letter, you will poison yourself and probably die, taking yourself out of the gene pool, hopefully before you have bred.
You will need
1/LEAN MEAT amount up to you (I use venison)
2/Redered Tallow (I use deer)
3/Dried fruit, corn, nuts or any combnation, and I mean DRY. As little moisture as possible.
4/Some maple sugar, if you want.
Slice LEAN meat thin, NO FAT (fat can & will go rancid, poision you and you will die or wish you had). Dry this in an appropriate manner until it is dry enough to pound into a stringy powder, then dry it a little more.
Chop or pound the fruit, nuts, sugar, corn to the consistancy that you want it. USE UNSALTED NUTS
Mix with the meat in a bowl.
THIS IS IMPORTANT
So it is in red.
Melt the tallow until it JUST goes liquid and mix it into the above mixture, a little at a time. **This HAS to be cool enough that it does NOT cook the meat. If it cooks the meat it WILL go rancid and you will meet your ancestors and they will point at you and make sly, witty remarks at your expense and won't talk to you much for you poisoned yourself after being told how to avoid it.**
Add just enough tallow that when mixed you can squeeze it into balls and it will stick together. A little fat goes a LONG way. You may want to add a tad more in real cold weather, but use it judiciously.
Leave it ball shape or pack into a parflech or how ever you want to store it.
A friend of mine used to roll the balls in pounded maple sugar when they were still a little warm, you could do this with pounded corn, nuts &ct.
