your posting abt the pemmican nutrient brick has ruined my LIFE. ill just be sitting thinking "man im hungry but i dont feel like cooking and no food sounds appetizing. i wish i had some pemmican!!!" and i cant get it bc i live in europe!! also thanks for posting abt pemmican bc i knew abt the concept from my polar explorer craze but i didnt know that it was native peoples who came up with it which goes to show anti-indigenous racism is everywhere. anyways. Nutrient Brick.
Yes you can my darling!!!
You need dried meat, preferable dried smoked meat. Beef will do in a pinch. Moose, bison, deer, elk are some traditional ones, caribou and musk ox are made further north. I bet goat would be delicious in pemmican honestly, any lean, earthy red meat is good. I've heard of people using salmon even.
You put that dried meat in a food processor. Give it a whirl, anywhere from fine to chunky powder will do.
Add in dried berries. My people would use saskatoons, chokecherries, highbush or lowbush cranberries (aka lingonberries!) You could get away with strawberries or blueberries if they were reeeeaaaal dry. I think black or red currants would be delicious. Has to be nice and dry, so you can grind it nice and fine,
One those are combined into a big pile of glorp you start to stream in melted animal fat. Bison, moose and bear are all old school possibilities. You could use lard, or beef tallow if you're a hippy.
Nowadays some people like to add salt or spices, my people didn't eat a lot of salt traditionally. You could make teriyaki pemmican if you like. Salmon lingonberry pemmican. Beef beef berry might be most accessible in some regions, but that's basically a hamburger at that point.
Anyways stream in enough fat while mixing to make it come together and smush it into a ball. Or a square. Make Bob le',éponge and Patrick. I bet you could get real cute with onigiri molds.
Traditionally we would keep our dry meat and pemmican in envelope like pouches made of dried animal skin, or rawhide. The rawhide absorbs moisture and helps keep the pemmican dry.
But you could use a tupperware.
