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pemmican

/pem-i-kuhn/US // ˈpɛm ɪ kən //UK // (ˈpɛmɪkən) //

煎饼果子,自制食品,煎饼,煎饼馃子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.

Examples

  • At the worst, an abstract ideal is pemmican to carry the voyager through the long nights until the ice begins to break.

  • Hoosh is a stodgy, porridge-like mixture of pemmican, dried biscuit and water, brought to the boil and served hot.

  • The pemmican we used consisted of powdered dried beef (containing the important protein, myosin) and 50 per cent.

  • Ordinary pemmican is readily eaten, but not appreciated by the dogs in the same way as seal meat.

  • After depoting a pick, shovel and some pemmican, we started back, thinking it might be possible to reach the Hut the same night.