pemican
/ˈpɛmɪkən/
noun
- A food made from dried, pounded meat mixed with fat and sometimes berries, originally made by Indigenous peoples of North America as a high-energy, long-lasting food.
- Modern hikers sometimes make a version of pemican for lightweight camping meals.
- Pemican was an important food source for fur traders in the 1800s.
- The explorers carried pemican on their long journey across the plains.