Pemmican
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Pemmican is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries. A calorie-rich food, it can be used as a key component in prepared meals or eaten raw. Historically, it was an important part of indigenous cuisine in certain parts of North America and it is still prepared today.
Pemmican ball
Chokeberries (Aronia prunifolia) sometimes are added to pemmican.
Demonstration at the Calgary Stampede of a traditional method of drying meat for pemmican
Bison meat drying at a Métis settlement in St. François Xavier, Manitoba, Canada (1899), Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-492-2
Tallow
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Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton suet, primarily made up of triglycerides.
Tallow made by rendering calf suet
An 1883 ad soliciting tallow from butchers and graziers for soap production in the Hawaii newspaper The Daily Bulletin
A tallow candle