1 buffalo
16 lbs. choke cherries

Take one buffalo. Skin. Cut the meat in thin strips and sun-dry on racks (takes several days to dry). When meat is dry, pound it into a coarse meal. Set aside.

Break and boil bones of buffalo. Skim off fat and extract the marrow from the bones. Render all fat from buffalo in cauldron (or in hide-lined pit in ground with hot stones). Pound choke cherries into coarse meal. Retain seeds and skins.

When buffalo fat becomes liquified, add meat, fat, and cherries. Place mixture into bladder or water-tight skin containers (parfleches) and seal (sew shut).

NOTE: This mixture has been know to last for as long as 80 years!