Dear Paleolist,

My offer of pemmican was for Moria's son only!  If she sends me her
postal address I will send her some to try.

I make pemmican weekly.  I use a dehydrator that cost $5 (garage sale).
You can buy a new one at Walmart for $20 (on sale last Sat.).

Long befor the meat is completly dry, it is sterile!  Sterilizations
charts (found in some cookbooks or food service manuals) will confirm
this. Over-drying will "cook" the meat, making your pemmican grity.

If you don't have a deli slicer (mine cost $15 at a garage sale), get the
butcher to use his. It's very difficult to slice meat thin enough
(1/8 inch) otherwise.

Tallow is beef fat (aka suet) that has been melted and had all water
removed by heating over a low heat.  It looks like white candle wax and
will keep forever without going rancid.  Pork fat (lard) will not work
for this purpose because it never gets hard enough.

Add the warm (not hot)liquid tallow to the dried beef slowly, mixing it
in as you do so.  When all the meat powder is just saturated, you're
done.

I would love to make pemmican for the multitudes who ask for it, but must
concentrate on selling books!  Spin-off products,licencing agreements and
late night infomercials are still several thousand books away.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin:A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition"
http://www.sofdesign.com/neander


Moira wrote:
>
> Dear Ray,
>
> Please add me to your pemmican list, I would like to sample it. There are so
> few foods my son can eat, he must follow a gluten free, casein free, yeast
> free diet.  It is hard to come up with tasty snacks for him to take to
> preschool, I am interested in finding out more about pemmican.
>
> Do you have the address/phone number of a manufacturer of pemmmican, or does
> it have to be made at home?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Moira
>
> ps Do you have any studies showing remission of autism in individuals on the
> Paleo diet?  As I stated earlier, I have had remarkable improvement in my
> son by going gluten free and casein free. This was a child who was in an
> opioid state, staring at fans and vacuums for hours, in a daze. Now he is
> alert. However, he still has problems with social/emotional and
> communication, although is improving.  I am wondering if the Paleo Diet
> would give him the final push towards recovery? He is addicted to carbos
> such as brown rice, potatoes, potato chips (gluten free) rice cakes, rice
> bread toast, etc. He does love ground turkey, ground beef. He does not seem
> to like fish except for orange roughy, one of the more expensive around here.
>
> At 10:09 PM 5/20/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >>For Gray-Hawk, pemmican was the "baby food" he was weaned on and he still
> >eats >it every day (it's
> >>a great vitamin supplement).  If you can't make it yourself, I'm sure
> >someone on >this list
> >>(or me) will be glad to send you a batch!
> >
> >        Well Ray, you may wish you hadn't said this but if you are serious
> I would
> >love to be able to sample some pemmican before I spend the money to buy a
> >dehydrator and invest the time it takes to make the stuff. I would even be
> >glad to compensate you for the price of the ingredients. Please e-mail me
> >and let me know one way or another and then we can work out the details.
> >
> >        Thanks,
> >
> >        Roger Stillwell
> >
> >
> >Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
> >
> >                                                 -- Unknown Author --
> >
> >"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the
> >sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"
> >
> >                                         -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 --
> >
> >"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain
> >it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through
> >the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through
> >striving after rational knowledge."
> >
> >                                                           -- Einstein --
> >
> >