Biltong
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Biltong is a form of air-dried, cured meat which originated in Southern Africa. Various types of meat are used to produce it, ranging from beef to game meats such as ostrich or kudu. The cut may also
Sliced beef biltong
Homemade beef biltong sticks
Beef jerky
A display in a shop that sells biltong, Johannesburg
Pemmican
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Pemmican is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries. A calorie-rich food, it can be eaten raw or used as a component of prepared foods such as stews. Historically, it was an impor
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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