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[ewt]

Due to one set of students ill and another out for the afternoon and rescheduled until Tuesday, I don't start teaching until 16.30 today.

Made beef jerky. venison jerky and pemmican. Blenderthing did NOT like the dried fruit; all the smoke came out and it won't work. pfy is off buying another one since it did not belong to us. I really really want to build that solar dehydrator now, or failing that get or make an electric one. I will definitely be doing pemmican again when the Saskatoon berries are ripe; buying dried berries that have no added sugar or vegetable oil is expensive, especially compared to "all you have to pay is your time and effort" foraged berries. It would be really neat to be able to easily preserve a lot more food without having to add loads of sugar , vinegar or alcohol to make it work, and dehydration is probably the simplest answer. Also, yay for food that is lightweight and nutritious. Also yay for jerky that is WAY cheaper than the additive-laden stuff from the shops.

Lunchtime now-ish I think.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

What happened to the dried fruit - did the blender whizz round and round without contacting anything, or did it grab the blades and not let them move?

[arkady.livejournal.com]

When blending dried fruit, you really need to add a little bit of water.

[pasdeschiens.livejournal.com]

Recipeeeeees (or what (not) to do lists), when you find stuff that works, plz :)

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Mostly we just found recipes on the interwebs. Jerky is just "cut meat up into small strips, marinate, stick in fan oven for a long time on a low setting with the door open" and pemmican is jerky that is ground up plus dried fruit that is ground up plus fat to bind it together.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

You need one of those "WILL IT BLEND" blenders.

[crankles.livejournal.com]

What kind of fat did you use for the pemmican?

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

We used beef suet, but I'm considering whether coconut oil would work.

[shuripentu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how do you make jerky?

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Recipes vary, but it's usually along the lines of:
-cut beef into thin strips
-marinade in yummies
-lay out in fan oven set to low setting and leave for manymany hours until done