pemmican

How To Use pemmican In A Sentence

• Clearly, there's no shortage of readers eager to hitch a sledge-ride into the lost world of pemmican, finnesko, man-hauling and hoosh, satisfyingly sealed off in time by the jagged crevasse of World War I.
• They were mostly French Canadians, they drank lake water mixed with wine and ate nothing but buffalo pemmican, and they sang the land alive.
• These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones.
• Having partaken heartily of frozen pemmican, I stuffed my pocket, bundled the rest into a bag on the sledge, and started off in high glee, stimulated in body and mind.
• Franklin's expedition carried nearly 8 000 lead-soldered tins containing meat, soup, vegetables and pemmican - a pressed cake of shredded dry meat.
• Biltong, pemmican, jerky, bresaola, Parma ham and bacon are dried meats.
• Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky.
• Your true specimen of manuscript reader is the faithful old percheron who is content to go on, year after year, sorting over the literary pemmican that comes before him, inexhaustible in his love for the delicacies of good writing, happy if once or twice a twelve-month he chance upon some winged thing. Shandygaff
• Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky.
• Once again the cooker boiled, and for that night we had a really good square meal -- more than enough of everything -- pemmican with pieces of pony meat in it, a chocolate biscuit, "ragout" raisins, caramels, ginger, cocoa, butter, and a double ration of biscuits. South with Scott