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Pemmican

Pemmican is a concentrated food conisting primarily of finely pounded cooked red meat mixed with melted fat, similar to beef jerky. Pemmican often includes a number of other ingredients, flour, molasses, and suet being common.

It was invented by the native peoples of eastern North America, and widely used in the fur trade[?] as a high-calorie food that could be stored for long periods of time.



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