Yesterday, on the way home, I decided to try a place nearby called "Sandy
Lane Meat Market. Since they usually have less of a selection of meat that
a supermarket, I hadn't thought of them. Anyway, I am all out of pemmican,
so I asked the guy cutting up some piece of meat if they had any suet. He
asked me how much I wanted. He came out of the walkin with a 4lb chunk of
it (don't try to tell me that cows are eating right either!). Then I asked
him about getting a piece of raw meat thinly sliced. He asked what I was
going to do with it and I told him that I was going to make pemmican. He
pointed at a particular roast and told me that it would probably be right
for the amount of suet I got. When he was cutting it up, he asked me, "you
want me to trim the fat off this, right?" I was surprised and I said,
"Yeah, why, you know what I'm talking about?", and he said , "oh yeah", as
if it was no surprise at all that I wanted to make pemmican. Anyway, he
did all this for no extra charge. Not too shabby. I forgot to ask about
uncured bacon, though...
John Pavao
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where does one >find a butcher these days?
>John Pavao
Hi, John
Try your yellow pages under "Butchers" or "Abbatoirs" (abbatoirs often have
an on-site store) In large cities butchers can be hard to find, but why
not
take a Saturday drive to a rural area and check the phone books there? The
city closest to our farm is Lindsay, Ontario - population 18,000 - but
there
are four butchers within a half-hour drive.
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