Akutaq

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Akutaq is a food in western Alaska and northern Canada. It is a Yup'ik word, meaning something mixed.^[1] Other names include agutak (Inuktitut: ᐊᑯᑕᖅ), Eskimo ice cream, Indian ice cream, Native ice cream or Alaskan ice cream. Traditionally it was made with whipped fat mixed with berries like cranberries, salmonberries, crowberries, cloudberries(also known as salmonberry in Alaska), and blueberries, fish, tundra greens, or roots with animal oil or fat. It may also include whitefish, caribou tallow, moose tallow, walrus tallow, or seal oil. There is also a kind of akutaq which is called snow akutaq. 

Akutaq

Iced akutaq made from raspberries and blueberries
Alternative names	Eskimo ice cream, Native ice cream, Alaskan ice cream
Type	Dessert
Place of origin	United States, Canada and Russia
Region or state	Alaska, Canadian Arctic, Sakha and Siberia
Created by	Eskimo of Alaskan Natives, Yakuts and Native Siberians
Serving temperature	Cold
Main ingredients	Meat or fish, fat, sweetener, berries
Cookbook: Akutaq   Media: Akutaq

Recent additions include sugar, milk, and vegetable shortening.^{[citation needed]}

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  Akutaq made from raspberries, blueberries and vegetable shortening
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  Tumnaq, a wooden bowl used to make akutaq

See also

• Tolkusha
• Pemmican

References

1. ^ "Lesson One: Words". Alaskool. Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-10.

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