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    I think your point is excellent. Corn would hold no more sugar than berries. Corn it is!!
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    although after more reading i have come across references to berries whos sugar content are higher than others and how they might not be the best. like modern cranberry harvesting produces a sweet cranberry that isnt good. but berries have SIMPLE sugars and corn is a complex dextrose sugar so would that make a difference since simple sugars break down easier than starches? i dont know why that would make a difference but for some reason i think it would haha.

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    Okay. Well, in that case, I told you so. Or not, whichever is right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aflineman View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    I think your point is excellent. Corn would hold no more sugar than berries. Corn it is!!
    I would go with the berries,they seem a little more easily digested by the body than corn.
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    found this interesting video. part of it is a good breakdown on corn. part 2 he shows how to roast osage red corn. which is basically just watching him stir a pot of it but anyway...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQtjxpvf8Ak

    he says the osage red will keep forever when toasted so it could presumably be used in pemmican

    rick: i win.

    that said, he also claims pemmican is disgusting.

    im interested to know who here has eaten it and who likes it (or what they have done to make it taste good) and who doesnt.

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    I've eaten it plenty, I like it. Considering the recipe it probably isn't too terribly appealing to most modern day palettes.
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    Everything tastes better with Tobasco!!!!
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    You've hit one topic I wanted to broach on this forum, right square on the head! Fine info, my thanks!

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    Does anybody have a link or info on how to render fat? The link in the first post is down and the article didn't mention how.

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    Glad this was brought up as I was researching Pemmican a month ago going into early Summer here. The wife and I do a ton of canning and ehydrating as well as freezing when the farmers markets get going.

    I;m finishing 100# potatoes in the next day and working through 100# onions as well as shelling about twenty # pecans and Brazil Nuts. Next week we'll be picking strawberries and shortly after blueberries then the FM again.

    Any way back on topic...

    As far as drying meat? Simplest method is one of the round dehydrators with a fan one can get at Wally World [[or whatever the equivalent is in great Britain] Humidity does not factor in.

    I make a LOT of jerky and my old method used in Texas and Florida with high heat/humidity is to season the meat, marinate in Worscheshire and pepper sauce overnight then take a metal clothes hanger. At one end on the straight bottom metal right before it loops upward simply cut it then use pliers to bend a fish hook on that end. Where it goes up with the curve use the pliers to bend another fishhook so the two hold together when 'hooked'.

    Push the strips of meat along the bottom wire leaving a gap until it it full then hang it from a nail outside underthe eaves or porch where there is a breeze. Heat of the day and breeze and it is done in a day.

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    ~sigh~ One coherent sentence would be nice, eh?

    If not dry you can finish in the oven on about 100*.

    Never had an issue with bugs just some grit and drippings outside so newspaper is good if over carpet.

    Now that's a basic jerky recipe but it might work for the Pemmi. I would not hang it without the seasonings however.
    Last edited by Satanta; 04-12-2011 at 11:53 AM.

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