the pemmican brief

Pemmican Brief

the ultimate survival food

Calum

From the appearance of Mankind on Earth till just very recently, we lived as an integral part of nature, eating what grew or was hunted. Tribes, clans, peoples, moving through their territory, harvesting berries here, nuts there and catching lots of fish at the right time.

Everything has a season, and when the time came to harvest animals, we would be at the right place, to take the ones less necessary, the ones we needed, and prepare a store of food for the winter and more. We found that red meat can be preserved, raw and vital, as Pemmican.

Dehydrated, lean flesh, mixed with rendered fat (not cooked) equally, pressed into compact shapes and kept cool and dry lasts for years! Sealed in clay or wrapped in hide, these Paleolithic Protein Bars were our primary food source and provided for our complete nutrition.

Simple, even stone age, tools are all that is required to fry fat till it runs liquid: a large, platter like stone over a huge fire, runnels to send the liquid fat, rich in vitamins and minerals, to the hide bags it would cool in before being mixed with the dried meat.

Racks of woven sticks, over low fires in the sun, would dehydrate the meat, carefully stripped from the bone, sliced, shredded and pounded. When the meat was fully dry, the fat would be reheated in the bags and then combined evenly, mixed thoroughly, and pressed into molds.

Today we render fat from grass fed cattle, buffalo, deer and elk, in stockpots on the stove, never cooking it- just liquifying, filtering, and separating it from the yummy cracklings (like pork rinds) and the meat slice and grind with steel tools and dry in a modern dehydrator.

We form it in little cakes to go on salads, bars to slice and serve with sprouted seed flatbreads, and sheets for pizza, lasagna and pie. We eat our Pemmican bars after we hit the gym, when we go hiking or to the beach, we give it to our kids for lunch at school: it's life.

Pemmican is the original superfood, all the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids from some of the healthiest animals on earth, harvested responsibly, prepared conscientiously, preserved perfectly, and perfectly digestible by every healthy human being and our pets.

Dogs and cats fed pemmican their whole life may well live 50% longer.