Rubaboo

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I've eaten jerky and pemmican all my life, usually as a trail food. They will keep you alive in an emergency but we never used it more than as a pocket snack while hunting, hiking, or fishing.  Night time found camp fires and cast iron cook ware.

 

I never even considered making rubaboo stew out of it and haven't made pemmican in years and I made my last jerky to sell at a rendezvous over 25 years ago.

 

That said, I think I'll pass on this stuff for......well, forever.

[Subdeacon Joe]

I've never made pemmican.  I have made a fair bit of jerky.  Sometimes I've made soups and stews with jerky.  Just treated it like salt beef - rehydrate it in some hot water, then cut it up.

[Rip Snorter]

Not much of a fan of jerky,  but reading all of Capstick's books, I always wanted to try Biltong.  Apparently it can be ordered online, most things can!  Generally dry enough out here to even make some.

[Alpo]

35 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

I always wanted to try Biltong

That, I have had.

 

There was a guy that decided he was going to make his fortune in the water buffalo business. Some of them got out. One lost an argument with a semi.

 

This fella I knew that worked out near the water buffalo farm asked the buffalo's owner what he was going to do with the corpse. And the owner said that if he wanted it he could have it.

 

He made a lot of biltong. Sliced up the meat, covered it with black pepper to keep the flies off, and air dried it. No putting it in the dehydrator. No putting it in the oven. He hung it on strings in his kitchen and have three fans blowing on it, and left it there.

 

It was pretty good. He gave me a few pounds of it, and I ate it over the next four or five years.

 

But he moved to nebraska, and I ain't got no connections with the water buffalo farm owner, so I don't reckon I'm going to get any more. Not for free, anyway.

 

I did order some from a place in South Africa one time. Also ordered some ginger beer. Didn't like it. Ginger ale is better. The stuff I got from South Africa wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as Steve's. And I had to pay for it.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Try "Basturma."  It's easy to make,  but time consuming.