SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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Pemmican anyone?
Okay I like to keep foods around for those nasty times. You do have to cycle through these foods from time to time though. I have been doing that and this evening finished off the last of my supply of Pemmican.
Now Pemmican is a great food source, especially if you are going to be active. It sounds disgusting but it really isn't.
Take a couple of pounds of lean meat, thin slice it, spice it and smoke it to a fair thee well. In other words make a bunch of jerky. Just keep the salt content down a bit lower than you usually would.
When the meat is done smoking render down a couple of pounds of fat. Skim it and set to the side while keeping it molten.
For each pound of meat I add a cup of Raisins, a cup of dried Cranberries and a cup of Pecans. Feed this through a grinder then make sure it's mixed well. This makes quite a pile. In a large mixing bowl add the rendered fat and mix well. Form this mixture into small logs and lay them out on some wax paper until they have cooled and hardened. (I have a small mold I use for this. It's one inch wide by one inch deep by six inches long.) I usually line a cookie sheet with the wax paper and load it up then put it in the fridge until the logs have cooled and hardened.
Once they have cooled and hardened you can freeze them.
(You can of course put them in burlap and let them sit around but they don't last as long.)
You can use them to make soups or even eat them as they are. The only problem with them is the calorie count, in other words high. Oh and they taste damned good.
Cat
Okay I like to keep foods around for those nasty times. You do have to cycle through these foods from time to time though. I have been doing that and this evening finished off the last of my supply of Pemmican.
Now Pemmican is a great food source, especially if you are going to be active. It sounds disgusting but it really isn't.
Take a couple of pounds of lean meat, thin slice it, spice it and smoke it to a fair thee well. In other words make a bunch of jerky. Just keep the salt content down a bit lower than you usually would.
When the meat is done smoking render down a couple of pounds of fat. Skim it and set to the side while keeping it molten.
For each pound of meat I add a cup of Raisins, a cup of dried Cranberries and a cup of Pecans. Feed this through a grinder then make sure it's mixed well. This makes quite a pile. In a large mixing bowl add the rendered fat and mix well. Form this mixture into small logs and lay them out on some wax paper until they have cooled and hardened. (I have a small mold I use for this. It's one inch wide by one inch deep by six inches long.) I usually line a cookie sheet with the wax paper and load it up then put it in the fridge until the logs have cooled and hardened.
Once they have cooled and hardened you can freeze them.
(You can of course put them in burlap and let them sit around but they don't last as long.)
You can use them to make soups or even eat them as they are. The only problem with them is the calorie count, in other words high. Oh and they taste damned good.
Cat
