"Primitive" Cooking & Food Preparation

Of Lard & tTallow, as an ingredient in Pemmican

feeds@yuku.com (Shaykh Idris) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:52:40 GMT

Just to carify what i have said elsewhere about lard & tallow, got from a book by John & Geri McPherson
http://www.prairiewolf.org/
That Lard is soft, and comes from swine, bear, raccoon &, presumably, other predators and scavengers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lard
& that Tallow is hard, and comes from cattle, sheep, deer, &, presumably, other browsers & grazers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallow
Prariewolf states that tallow is the...

Wild Child

feeds@yuku.com (SGTKaveman) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:33:03 GMT

Here is an interesting website:

http://www.feralchildren.com/en/children.php

Please see "Sidi Mohammed", the Ostrich boy. Note that the description says he lived on grass. During the Korean War I've heard & read that starving people ate whatever they could find: bark, grass, etc.

Is it possible to survive, and thrive, on vegetation alone?

Akutaq, or, Eskimo Ice-cream

feeds@yuku.com (ShadowoftheSun) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:22:17 GMT

G'day, folks, from Australia. Pleasure to meet you all- this is my first post. I'm an 18 year old anthropology/archaeology student with a deep, deep interest in paleo era technology and skills- my goal is to end up being an experimental archaeologist so I can find whether things we know about the past are feasible or not.

Enough of me being boring, here's what I came to talk to you folk about: akutaq! Has anyone here made, or had, akutaq before? A canadian friend of...

Primitive small game cooking

feeds@yuku.com (SGTKaveman) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:00:26 GMT

Jim Redfearn recently told me about this concept: The best way to cook a squirrel is to kill it, leave it whole (don't gut it, leave the head on, skin on, feet on... everything) then dig a hole, build a fire, let it burn down to coals, wrap the squirrel in green leaves or something that won't burn, and cover it with coals, then dirt. Come back in a few hours.

Anybody ever tried this? Or something similar?

I once saw a movie called "Walkabout". It's...

deer breakfast sausage

feeds@yuku.com (Mikemazz) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:31:13 GMT

Does any body have any good breakfast deer sausage recipies that you dont need to add pork to?

wood stove recipes

feeds@yuku.com (mohawkwoodman) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:50:29 GMT

anyone wanna share any good wood stove recipes. i get to work at 8 and have coals ready for cooking by 9 and can throw in some hickory oak and apple on them coals. i got pork ribs deer tenderloins roast cuts neck cuts im used to just wrapping my meat in alot of foil with some onions and peppers sometimes bbq sauce and adobe seasoning. And eathing it at lunch .any other ways of cooking with a different style and ingrediants?

How long to age wild rabbits ?

feeds@yuku.com (aquatex003) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:28:28 GMT

I aged the deer i killed this year,for the first time and it turned out great. Any one ever aged rabbit? Can i do it in my refrigerator? How long?

Anybody make homemade bacon??

feeds@yuku.com (oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:41:59 GMT

Well does anyone make it and if so what all kinds of critters work well? Also would like to see some methods. Mike Smyth

meat and tea

feeds@yuku.com (BCbud) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:57:46 GMT

I have read somewhere that a person can survive a winter on meat and pine tea alone, any thoughts on this matter?

Using Dacite to Cut Meat clip

feeds@yuku.com (Rocks in Head) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:13:56 GMT

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to directly put the video on here. Ive done it before but cant make it do it again.

I'm in charge of dinner tonight so it is Venison on a stick! Good stuff. I was overly paranoid of loosing flakes in the meat So I used a large flake with a thick unknapped but sharp cutting edge. Of course, it worked wonderfully. It is kinda shaped like an ulu. Anybody else use stone to prepare food? I suppose there isnt much to discuss: sharp rock, cut...

container cooking without stones

feeds@yuku.com (Twisted Cord) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:37:10 GMT

I have seen a couple of posts on here about boiling water/cooking with hot stones. I know cooking in bark containers and other containers can be done without using hot stones. The trick is to keep flames lower then the water level in the container; the water displaces the heat reaching the container. It's the same principle as the boiling water in a paper cup trick.

Anyways...I was wondering if anyone on here has done this. Does it matter what liquid is in the container and does...

Coffee Pot

feeds@yuku.com (Opie) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:29 GMT

Greetings to all,

I am looking for a good percolator coffee pot that can be used camping and on a wood stove. I find coffee pots with plastic parts on the lid-as expected they do not hold up to the daily grindhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEawdGbv0xg&feature=sub

Cheers,
Paul

www.historyanew.com

dog nutrition

feeds@yuku.com (BCbud) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:04:57 GMT

I was wondering if anybody knows about dog nutrition and what is required for a healthy balanced diet. I assume all they need is meat but I hate to assume. any suggestions?

agave

feeds@yuku.com (panbreaux) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:36:06 GMT

is agave still good to eat after it flowers?

Grubs in hickory nuts

feeds@yuku.com (WIoutdoorguy) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:23 GMT

I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of grubs are in shagbark hickory nuts and if they are edible.
They are yellowish in color and are between 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch long with black heads.

Rob

Our way of processing acorns

feeds@yuku.com (Coyotlviejo) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:52:09 GMT

I'm looking forward to RocksInHead's upcoming post on how they process acorns, but in the meantime, here's our method.

First of all, this year is a GREAT acorn year!� We've gathered from a number of spots, but the best has been a tree in town that has lots of BIG acorns.

We try to get them cracked and shelled before drying them.� Here the kids are using my...

food prep for pemmican

feeds@yuku.com (aquatex003) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:43:27 GMT

I am attempting a jerky pemmican recipe. I was looking online for some sort of food grinder. when I google it I get everything from meat grinders to electric processors.I came across a food mill for making corn meal and flour. Is that what I need ? What do you guys use?

Just thought I would share this.

feeds@yuku.com (aquatex003) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:55:35 GMT

A couple of months ago I found an interesting plant in a field that I had never seen before. The field had cattle on it for years and ,as far as I know had not been cultivated for many years. We had some dozer work done on it and all kinds of plants that I had never saw started coming up. I posted some pics of this particular here on PP and immediatly got a name for it. Queen Annes pocket melon. After reading the story behind the name I found out its also called a Plum granny ( if I remember...