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'''Hoosh''' (occasionally spelt '''hooch'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org/themes/antarctica/gallery/resource/?id=560 |title=Sledging rations |accessdate=2007-04-25 |last=Ponting |first=Herbert |work=Antarctica Extreme Wilderness |publisher=[[Royal Geographical Society]]}}</ref>) is a thick [[stew]] made from [[pemmican]] (a mix of dried meat, [[fat]], and cereal) or other meat, thickener such as ground [[biscuit]]s, and water.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s416262.htm |title=Antarctic English... |accessdate=2007-03-12 |date=[[2002-01-05]] |work=Lingua Franca |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/AquaticEcosystems/Antarctica/Glossary.cfm |title=Antarctic Expedition: Glossary |accessdate=2007-03-12 |publisher=[[Smithsonian National Zoological Park]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hince |first=Bernadette |title=The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English |year=2000 |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |location= |isbn=095774711X |pages=169}}</ref> It was the common food of early twentieth century [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] expeditions, used, for example, by the expeditions of [[Robert Falcon Scott]] (1910-1913) and [[Ernest Shackleton]] (1914-1916).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Priestly |first=Raymond E. |year=1914 |month=January |title=Work and Adventures of the Northern Party of Captain Scott's Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.2307/1778808 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398(191401)43%3A1%3C1%3AWAAOTN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |accessdate=2007-03-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0402/expert.html |title=Ask ''Adventure'' |accessdate=2007-03-12 |year=2004 |month=February |work=[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic Adventure]]}}</ref>
Sometimes, the term was also used for mixed food rations for ponies and mules (e.g. in ''The Worst Journey of the World'' by [[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]]).
==See also==
*[[List of Antarctica expeditions]]
==References==
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[[Category:Stews]]
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