Tallow
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Tallow is a rendered form of beef, pork, 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
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
Tallow
…and animal feed. A significant use of tallow is for the production of shortening. It is also one of the main ingredients of the Native American food pemmican. With a smoke point of 480 °F (249 °C), tallow is traditionally used in deep frying and was preferred for this use until the rise in popularity of plant…
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