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
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
Aronia
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Aronia is a genus of deciduous shrubs, the chokeberries, in the family Rosaceae native to eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps. The genus Aronia is considered to have
Pemmican
…mixed with rendered animal fat (tallow). Dried fruit may be added: cranberries, saskatoon berries (Cree misâskwatômina), and even blueberries, cherries, chokeberries, and currants—though in some regions these are used almost exclusively for ceremonial and wedding pemmican—and European fur traders also noted the…
Chokeberries
Aronia berries.
Aronia flowers and leaves (Aronia melanocarpa)
Purple chokeberry (Aronia prunifolia)