I was shown how to dry a salmon in the Yukon by a local man (aboriginal).
Split, score, and hang in sunlight is all it takes, over smoke from "willow". He said the reason for the smoke is to Keep
the Flies Off. This is true.

William



01/03/01 19:01:44 PM, Lorenzo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> Lorenzo writes:
>>
>>
>I think it was to keep the meat from rotting and to keep the
>flies off.  This could have been going on for a long time.
>I am sure it does not make the meat more nutritious.
>Remember the Native American girl who escaped from her
>captors with her baby and a horse.    She  killed the horse,
>made it into jerky and walked several hundred miles back to
>her tribe.
>
>Lorenzo
>