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n. - Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat.

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  • This consisted chiefly of pemmican, which is frozen or dried reindeer-flesh kneaded with the fat into a kind of paste.
  • They also brought back pemmican, which is made by chopping buffalo meat very fine, and mixing it with the tallow from the animal.
  • In Canada, we had pemmican, which is dried meat and fat mixed together, and buckwheat groats, which is sort of like a barley porridge.
  • This kind of pemmican was first produced for the use of the
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