Hoosh

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Hoosh
Alternative namesHooch
Type Stew
Main ingredients Pemmican (dried meat, fat, cereal)

Hoosh (occasionally spelt hooch [1] ) is a thick stew made from pemmican (a mix of dried meat, fat, and cereal) [2] or other meat, thickener such as ground biscuits, and water. [3] [4] [5] It was the common food of early twentieth century Antarctic expeditions, used, for example, by the expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott (1910–1913) and Ernest Shackleton (1914–1916). [6] [7]

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Sometimes, the term was also used for mixed food rations for ponies and mules (e.g. in The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard).

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