Making Pemmican

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afternoon guys Dave can write the Pathfinder school out here with another series or another video in the series of the 21st century long hunter what we started talking about yesterday when we talked a little bit about food and we can learn a lot about what food you need to carry on the trail to help sustain you by what the long hunters and frontiersman carry to the 18th 19th century what we're going to do today is we talked a little bit about pemmican we've talked a little bit about corn meal or corn flour we've got some corn flour over here that I've put a mixture together with that we're going to use to make us some Cajun flavored hush puppies and we're going to use that same tallow that we have rendered down that we're going to boil the hush puppies in once we get that done or we fry the hush puppies and I should say once we get that done we're going to use that same towel to make pemmican so stay with us we're gonna have a good time today and we'll be right back all right folks as we talked about earlier we're gonna move on to making some pemmican it's a real good high protein food especially this time of year with winter coming on you know we want it you know you want to have a high calorie you know food yeah nice fatty food that you can have around camp especially you know like I said as winter's coming on the cold or nights so one of the things we want to do first is I have some jerky here and just a hammerstone we found in the stream you know something you might use for flint knapping and basically what you want to do is you want to pulverize this and just get it as fine as you possibly can and then I don't know if you can see just how fine I'm getting this we want to use whatever we've got here when we go to make this pemmican because this mixture is a one-for-one so we don't have a whole lot of jerky here but we're going to use what we've got all right folks

as I'm continuing on here I did want to take a moment to talk to you about the greatest value of pemmican is that is a good fatty food and I can't drive that point home enough and that is something that that calorie intake this time of year but some things I do want to mention as we make this it's basically just jerked meat and the fat the tallow but smoking lies there but traditionally the Indians would add whatever they could find on the trail whether it might be you know nuts berries wild edibles anything they could get just to have a little bit of taste to it and to add to the calorie value of it and and just like this time of year you can still find some walnuts on the ground if you chose to add that etc it's only limited by your imagination slow them surely get it there all right so we've let this cool down a little bit now and basically what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of dip this in a little bit at a time and Jeremy's going to mix it as we go and it'll solidify in the air and this it's really a one-to-one mixture so what you really want is a paste when you're done the only time not just pouring this in there is because I don't want to make a big mess and have dripping all over the board you could do this in a container if you wanted to but it's just as easy to do it like this and you're just needing a big ball of dough basically at this point just trying to get all that scraped up into a big waxy feeling ball of grease and you can see there's almost enough in there now we're going to put a little bit more in there and work it in and then we'll let it sit there and set up and dry and then we can just put that into a bandana and put in our haversack it's important that you let stuff like this breathe you know jerky and fat and tallow and things like that need to be able to breathe err they'll go rancid on you so if you lock them into a plastic bag or something they're not going to be able to breathe they're going to collect moisture and it's going to go rancid you can see basically just got a big wad ball there we put just a little more grease in there I think you have to look to and once he gets that set up we'll just let it sit and dry into a big hard ball and that would be your pemmican that you would put into your hammer sack and you just eat bites and pieces off of it as you go and you're gonna get all that fat and all that meat protein at the same time take you got enough that's perfect consistency time let her sit there and dry for a few yeahshe turns out yeah it looks good alright now we've let this set for a few minutes and hardened up I just take my cotton bandana and as dave said earlier you want to make sure you put it into a container that allow it to breathe just set it right in here wrap it up now we don't have a lot of pemmican we weren't able to make locks we didn't have a lot of jerky but as you saw in the ball size that we did have be enough easily to sustain you for a day on the trail so I've just tied it up tied the ears it's a nice little container slip it right on my haversack now I've got a quick easy meal out on the trail your little tip that we used to do out when I did the living history you do obviously you do cooking around the camp eventually comes time to do the dishes not all of us carry the you know soap and water especially for traveling light one thing a little trick that we used to do was go out and just grab gather some wild wheat and use the stock just grab you know maybe something about size your wrist and then all you do take Patchett knife whatever you may have sketch off a nice even area take it fold it half find out where your other in to be cut that off

you take a vine or or even a piece of Bank line like I have here just tie it up

now you have a nice little pot scrubber you just found while walking down the trail

I'm Jeremy Janie instructor here at the Pathfinder school I want to thank you for your support and your comments keep them coming we always look forward to them and I look forward to seeing you again out on the trail you