pemmican
/ˈpɛmɪk(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
A pressed cake of pounded dried meat mixed to a paste with melted fat and other ingredients, originally made by North American Indians and later adapted by Arctic explorers.These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones....
- Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky.
- It was also made into pemmican, a mixture of ground buffalo meat, service berries, and marrow grease.
Origin
From Cree pimecan, from pime 'fat'.