Give me a rock, some fresh meat and I can smear suet into the meat.
:)
Katy
********************
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Barber" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [P-F] making pemmican
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if "rendered" fat was used in any way prior to the
> development of copper or cast iron cookware? I know that primitive peoples
> could boil water in clay or skin containers by dropping hot stones from the
> fire into the water, but this method might not work for suet.
>
> If they were not able to render the fat, then pemmican might be a rather
> recently developed food.
>
> Tom Barber