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jerky from Australia
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Jerky has been around for as long as humans have eaten meat, it can be made from any meat or fish. Jerky is very filling and being fat free is so much healthier snack than chips etc. Traditionally jerky is hot. This is because hot pepper was used to keep the birds away from jerky while it dried on the sun.
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Salt and sugar preserve jerky to some degree, then the moisture is dried off. It will keep forever - even if you dropped it in the dirt you could dust it off and safely eat it. At Billabong we take the extra precaution of heating jerky to bacteria killing temperatures.
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Jerky is known by many names including "sharmoot" (Northern Africa), biltong, hard tuck, bush tucker. The word jerky is a corruption of the Spanish "charqui", referring to meat from wild goats captured by early sailors. The recipe that days was simple - salt and sun made the meat well preserved for long voyages. American Indians then adopted this term from the Conquistadors and had improved the recipe by adding hot pepper and spice.
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Well, jerky has been around for thousands of years on every continent including so that we now have something healthy and "bloody good" to eat when we're having a beer.
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