Welcome to my channel! This space serves as a library of my projects, research and creative endeavours. Mostly history with a bit of whimsy mixed in. Home of the multi-hyphenate historian.
Congratulations on finishing your Masters thesis. Ive really enjoyed watching these videos. So what's next for you, are you going to continue making videos?
@jackiejames4551 I will absolutely be making more videos! Access to the historic kitchen is a bit beyond my capabilities going forward, but I will still be doing culinary history/cooking videos, as well as getting back into the textile history and crafting videos I was making before the MA 😊
I recall my grandfather telling a story about one family in his community in 1930s Atlantic Canada who were so poor that they would go from house to house asking for "shorts" to make paste to hang wallpaper. Everyone in the community knew they weren't hanging wallpaper, but were instead making "shorts bannock" to eat. Shorts were apparently common enough that one could ask a neighbor for them, based on that story, though my grandfather couldn't explain what shorts were other than "poor flour", which makes me wonder how many of the ingredients I consider too commonplace to need an explanation will be completely foreign in two generations. Thanks for sharing this series with us. It's been informative and fun.
Great video - a new book "Irish food history, a companion" by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman has just been published by the Royal Irish Academy. If you would like a copy I would love to buy it for you. Its a series of essays - the blurb says " Irish Food History: A Companion brings the reader on a gastronomic odyssey from earliest times and the start of the hunter-gatherer community, all the way to the abundant world of modern Irish cooking, safe in the hands of the world’s most highly regarded food historians"
Fantastic work Holly, one of the best master's theses I've seen! The shot of you driving away from the historic kitchen with your dress caught in the door was very funny.
Great video and thanks for taking us a long. To help keep bottom from burning, try not to put the coals under the dutch oven but a few a long the sides.
A great video Holly..! I've enjoyed your series very much and hope you will continue to produce content. If I may make a suggestion.. concentrate your heat on the top of your Dutch oven with just a few coals underneath. Good luck with your thesis..!
I think there's a bit of an "ick" factor with suet falling out of favour too. Most people have that reaction when I tell them that there used to be suet in the "Farmer's Market" brand of mince meat pie, which I noticed a few years back had been relabelled as mince fruit pie, with no suet in the ingredient list anymore. To our modern sensibilities mixing animal fat (or meat) in with what has become a sweet dessert pie I guess is just too icky for many people. Having said all that, it does look really good, and not too hard to prepare.
"Ah, What an excellent thing is an English Pudding." Either sweet or savoury; baked, boiled, or fried. Made in cloths, basins, or plates; they're all good!
@@xanzibar5374 You probably would have seen what I have here, about mid-forearm to wrist length. The sleeve is cut with a curve in the elbow to make working easier, but this also shortens the sleeve slightly
Were winter coats commonly made with shorter sleeves back then? It seems like that was a common thing. Edit: seems like they were. Guess it was for longer gloves back then.
This is so interesting! I love history, and was browsing your channel when i found this video. I had to watch because my 96 year old Polish grandma has always made a similar dish for me since I was little and told me she used to eat it on the farm growing up (with 13 brothers and sisters)! Her version uses actual rice, milk, butter, sugar, and cinnamon 😊 Thank you for what you do!
It’s just lovely and exactly what I’m looking for to make for myself. I can take my small hand sewing projects with me and work on them while waiting at appointments. Thank you again so much for sharing this tutorial. ❤ forever grateful
Thanks for the inspiration Holly! I just finished my first Huswif. However, I think I need some hand sewing lessons because it took me a very long time to complete!
Holly! How wonderful to find you here - heard your excellent interview on CBC today and so interesting to learn what you are doing now. Hope you are well 😊
