Crossword clues for pemmican
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pemmican \Pem"mi*can\, n. [Written also pemican.]
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Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
Then on pemican they feasted.
--Longfellow. Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
A treatise of much thought in little compass.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1791, from Cree (Algonquian) /pimihka:n/ from /pimihke:w/ "he makes grease," from pimiy "grease, fat." Lean meat, dried, pounded and mixed with congealed fat and ground berries and formed into cakes used on long journeys. Also used figuratively for "extremely condensed thought or matter."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berry and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties. 2 An emergency ration of meat and fruit. 3 (cx dated English) A treatise of much thought in little compass.
WordNet
n. lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians [syn: pemican]
Wikipedia
Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food. The word comes from the Cree word pimîhkân, which itself is derived from the word pimî, "fat, grease". It was invented by the native peoples of North America. It was widely adopted as a high- energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen.
The specific ingredients used were usually whatever was available; the meat was often bison, deer, elk, or moose. Fruits such as cranberries and saskatoon berries were sometimes added. Blueberries, cherries, chokeberries, and currants were also used, but almost exclusively in ceremonial and wedding pemmican.
Usage examples of "pemmican".
His jerked venison, pemmican, and the other food Winona had packed for him were all in a parfleche on Pegasus.
She also explained how the chokeberry was gathered, then pulped on a stone mortar and made into sun-dried cakes and how it could be mixed with dried meats to make pemmican.
My pipe and kinnikinnick, some sewing needles, a spool of thread, pemmican and whatnot.
We were on our feet at once, put together camera, glasses, aneroids, axe, Alpine rope, with some lumps of pemmican to eat on the way, and then went off for a morning walk with the nearer of the two hills as our goal.
The pemmican we took was essentially different from that which former expeditions had used.
Turning and tossing in her blue-lighted ice cavern, pinpoint heaters and a thick fell of thermoblank keeping her far from freezing, she dreamt of cold glaciers, naked cliffs, pemmican hoosh, and of smudge-faced, canvas-and-wool-garbed men leaning steep into leather harnesses as they man-hauled impossibly heavy sledges across the high Antarctic plateau.
We lived on pemmican and lentils, and the twelve of us who went separately on what was called the Long March from the north to the south of the island and back again suffered a good deal from lack of food.
Easton and I were to take with us seventy-eight pounds of pemmican, twelve pounds of pea meal, seven pounds of pork, some beef extract, eight pounds of flour, one cup of corn meal, a small quantity of desiccated vegetables, one pound of coffee, two pounds of tea, some salt and crystallose.
Black pepper, spices, beef jerky, pemmican, canned soup and canned ham, coffee, liquor and liqueurs and a partridge in a pear tree, everything you could dream of and all measured in ton lots.
To give the pemmican lightness, he liked to mix in deer meat, if available, and the result was so tasty that word passed among trappers and guides: “.
The first, pemmican, full whack, with slices of horse meat flavored with onion and curry powder, and thickened with biscuit.
Nobody has yet worked out a handier field ration than “gorp,” the dry mix of nuts, fruit bits and carob I kept-but I tossed in a few slabs of pemmican, too.