Give me a rock, some fresh meat and I can smear suet into the meat.
:)
Katy
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From: "Tom Barber" <[log in to unmask]>
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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