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CONCENTRATED FOODbl 157cents a pound, equivalent to six pounds of freshbeef.Pemmican is sometimes eaten raw, sometimesboiled with flour into a thick soup or porridgecalled robiboo, or, mixed with flour and water andfried like sausage, it is kno^vn as rascho. The pemmicanmade nowadays for arctic expeditions is preparedfrom the round of beef cut into strips andkiln-dried until friable, then ground fine and mixedwith beef suet, a little sugar, and a few currants.It is compressed into cakes, and then packed so asto exclude moisture. It can be bought ready-madein New York, but at an enormous price when soldin small quantity, and the tins add considerably tothe weight. If one has home facilities he can makeit himself. Leave out the sugar, which makes meatunpalatable to most men. The sugar item should beseparate in the ration.Desiccated meat is disagreeable, and not nearlyso nutritious as pemmican, which is already concentratedas much as meat should be, and has the advantageof containing a liberal amount of fat.Army Emergency Rations.—In 1870 therewas issued to every German soldier a queer, yellow,sausage-shaped contrivance that held within its paperwrapper what looked and felt like a short stick ofdynamite. No, it was not a bomb nor a hand,grenade. It was just a pound of compressed dry•pea soup. This was guaranteed to support a man'sstrength for one daj^ without any other alimentwhatever. The soldier was ordered to keep thisroll of soup about him at all times, and never touse it ^intil there was no other food to be had. Theoffid'di name of the thing was erbswurst (pronoMncedairbs-voorst) which means pea sausage.Within a few months it became famous as the"iron ration" of the Germans in the Franco-Prussianwar.Our sportsmen over here are well acquaintedwith erbswurst, either in its original form or, atpresent, as an American "pea soup with bacon" done