pemmican
/pem-i-kuhn/US // ˈpɛm ɪ kən //UK // (ˈpɛmɪkən) //
煎饼果子,自制食品,煎饼,煎饼馃子
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
Examples
At the worst, an abstract ideal is pemmican to carry the voyager through the long nights until the ice begins to break.
Hoosh is a stodgy, porridge-like mixture of pemmican, dried biscuit and water, brought to the boil and served hot.
The pemmican we used consisted of powdered dried beef (containing the important protein, myosin) and 50 per cent.
Ordinary pemmican is readily eaten, but not appreciated by the dogs in the same way as seal meat.
After depoting a pick, shovel and some pemmican, we started back, thinking it might be possible to reach the Hut the same night.
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