Pemmican, Jerky

[scone]

ok more of a question than recipe … why wasn't they used may have been but have found nothing in
my readings … recopies out there you would think the militaries would use them … Wrong place I think? But is food....

 

[major bill]

Not sure, but perhaps it is the military was unfond of the taste. Pork and beef do not normally need extra fat.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

I've had it made out of venison with the dried berries in it. I don't know if that is a northeastern Indian/early Colonial thing. I can see doing it with beef jerky. I can't see doing it with pork or anything remotely fatty as that and having it be good. The fat, for one thing, wouldn't allow for it to hold together and I think the taste would be so gross as to be uneatable.

And I think the military wouldn't be using it because it would be labor intensive to do it right. Otherwise, the food product would be horribly rancid and create even more deadly molds/mildews than they were already coping with.

 

[donna]

Never had it. But saw many used it like Lewis and Clark, and during Indian Wars the military had it.

Just have to research it more.