A Regular Folks Supper 200 years Ago - March 1820 

I appreciate the authenticity.

who the hell thinks butter and MILK weren’t ‘invented’ or found in 1820? milk has been used since AT LEAST 6,000yrs ago, but probably even longer. butter has been around for at least 9,000 years… Americans started using butter in 1607 by Jamestown colonists. google is free…

@@brandirae99 If I had a dollar for every person commenting that they, "didn't have metal back then" I'd be able to buy land today. I can't be too upset at these people. I guess that I'm more mad at their teachers who failed them terribly. Iron has been around since at least 3,500 B.C. and tin just as long. Yes, they had metal pots and pans and knives back then and had for a very, very, veryyyyy long time. If you were to go back in time and tell these folks then that they didn't have metal they'd think you were deranged as much as someone today would if you told them the same. It was such a normal part of their daily lives that it wasn't even questioned in fact iron pots were mandatory for survival even the very poor would have saved up to have at least one iron pot.

Thank you for this amazing historical cooking channel. It's so interesting not just what they ate but how they cooked before. I like how you used a cloth for the rising of the dough. It drives me nuts in the modern videos when they use paper towels. What an unnecessary waste! We can learn from history.

U writing this is just giving energy to trolls. Thos that know respect what your doing and thos that don't clearly have a lot of growing to do and plenty of life yet experienced. Anything else in between is irrelevant and doesn't need validation for their claims.

Same. Great hearing the birds while cooking.

What about farts and burps? I bet they haven't changed much.

Never thought of that. Interesting

I wouldn't mind this in the winter. but in the summer? With all those layers on? I would be miserable. I wear tank tops in the snow.

I moved to the Azores ... and the only sound here where am is birdsong and cows. Apart from when I start making a racket :) But yes, it sure changes so much and effects your mood and outlook tremendously. I think humanity has a bit of a problem.

Same....I am straight up captivated and transported to that little house.

How do we know she is nice?

@@mikesabin8568 well, isn't it obvious? All that care and attention to making her meals doesn't come out of a heart that's anything shy of nice, lol, good point tho...got me thinking. 😊

@@jebidesse its not obvious… Mean and bad people cook too… everyone needs to eat… She may be nice… but have you met her? If you haven’t, the answer is not “obvious”. Assuming someone is nice just because they cook slow is a logical fallacy

Ironically I am unlikely to watch many of her videos precisely _because_ there is no audio commentary as I watch many videos while I am doing other things in the kitchen, garage, or office, so _having_ to watch the video for the subtitles is inconvenient for me. 😞

Ditto 🥰

Ditto

You were very fortunate, all my grandparents passed when I was still an infant but my parents told me all about them.

Amen!

I grew up in the NYC area. I’m of Italian/irish descent. In the summer we would travel upstate to a house my grandpa had bought in the 1970’s. When we were there it was like going back in time. The house was a hunting lodge/inn in the 1800’s. We had a wood burning stove which we also used for heat. It was quite an adventure for me as a kid. I was obsessed with keeping the fire burning and warm.

If Biden stays in office this what home cooking will look like!!!😂😂😂😂

@@Goodboy0953 they are outlawing wood stoves too, from what I understand-- we will own nothing

Nothing odd about it! You only have to look at the myriad videos on here where people are building their own cabins or opting to live in the country or even off-grid.

You'd do it three times and buy a microwave

It doesn't sound odd at all. In fact, it is a step towards the right direction - more natural approach of living life. If I were you, I would go to a cheaper country and buy a house in the countryside.

I'd be willing to bet lots of folks went without the beef.

Still is a full time job

It's much easier cooking now than it was back then most meals don't take that long because of ovens and stoves

Notice how when electricity came out the very 1st things that were electrified were all of the women's chores

Full time job being a housewife.

200 years later, we’re in the same boat.

@@alaefarmestatesllc I was going to say the exact same thing 🤣. I was watching this...looking wistfully at the beef...

My mother was born in 1930 on a farm in central OK. She said that family did not have beef as a meal very often. Pork and chicken were their typical meat dishes. The family consisted of about eight children at one time, and two more children were added after the eldest two or three were gone. Children and grandchildren were bathed in a tub inside the kitchen and outside during the summer. I watched my grandmother make biscuits on a wood burning oven and stove. In the 1950s, my great grandparents continued to live in their 1910 farmhouse without electricity or running water. Clothes were washed on a gasoline powered washer outside the house. Though my grandparents and great grandparents had limited material comforts, my cousins, aunts and uncles remember a very happy life being on the farm and in the country with our very large family.

@@alaefarmestatesllc that's no joke!!

😂😂 cheaper to rent a car now then buy beef 😂😂

It's a lot of work 😂

I was thinking the same thing!!

Yes very interesting

You clean as you go, it took me a while to realize this when one day my sink full of dirty dishes was giving me disdainful looks.

I’d also be interested in that.

There were wood burning stoves during the 1800s. Very expensive, but they did exist.

I am amazed at house and how this fire place works for cooking.... I was a bit concerned that she might catch her dress on 🔥. Can you imagine having a toddler in there.

@Bonnie Upton the sad fact is that has happened in our past history. If children weren't dying of an illness or from something gong wrong during birth or outside accidents, it was known to happen around the fireplace more often than you'd think.

Back then, kids obeyed parents.

And Johnny Adjourner

I can only imagine that burns were a real problem. I was trying to imagine a few little kids running around inside the cabin and seeing the potential for catastrophe there. I'd probably catch my skirts on fire.

@@PamelaClare same but luckily wool is naturally fire retardant!

I think they would think the same about all of our appliances with the buttons.. not to mention touch screen.. all the options.. confusing.

She is deliberate and conscious in every step. Not a motion wasted, calm and methodical.

Most people today would die of hunger even if the raw materials was available.

everybody worked endless hours except the rich. and what would you rather do---work in your own kitchen cooking your own food your own way, or do whatever it took to induce whomever owned the means of production to supply that housekeeper with the hundreds of commodities needed to actually put a meal on the table---the groceries, the floor, the fire, the very table itself?

Takes stay at home mom to a whole other level thats for sure! Can you imagine if your kid was like" i dont like this!"? An asswhippin for sure i would imagine! Or your little butt went to bed hungry!🤐✌💙💜

Wow, did she have to go through the dust bowl? I’m curious to hear more!

Are turnips with butter good? Looked quite delicious

@@knogne5073 I'm curious too.

So u were amish? Lmao

I grew up with my great grandma this reminds me of her

When you don't have to leave the yard to go to work, it's amazing how much shit you can get done.

Chopping wood a months worth of wood can be spent in a day or two if you have enough wood nearby. The house could be built in a couple months depending on how big you want it and how many people you have. The cast iron would be the most expensive part, but could literally last several generations. You could have your grandma's Dutch oven or cast iron skillet. That being said, this would still be a hard life. Especially with nothing to really occupy your time with except work on the farm.

Don't forget about water

@@gregoriodecker2692 I actually thought about that right after posting. Yep, gotta have a fresh water source and go fetch it. Daily.

Not to mention collect and boil the water, unless you managed to have a well, which was a massive undertaking back then. The amount of time it would take to get to town to buy and sell things etc.

My aunt did this, well into the nineties. I miss her cooking…

I have a sour dough pot. I have to confess I got the starter from King Arthur flour. Best waffles ever.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I attempted to have sourdough once, but I don't think I did it right, but someday I think I will attempt again. I looooove sourdough bread. Yum!!!!

awwww

Im glad times like these are over. Portraying a woman in a kitchen like this is demeaning and sexist. Im glad Trump is out of office or this dumb notion of women belong in a kitchen mentality would still be here today.

The saying goes "a man builds a house, and a woman makes it a home." pretty accurate

God... all of you in comment section are spoiled! Stop feigning for our traditions cowards! Live it or be quiet! Spoiled! This is how we live day to day. We aren't zoo creatures!

@@show_me_your_kitties lmao calm the f down

Why don't you commend the men? Seriously this man woman thing is ridiculous. Men worked the fields or whatever... Really? We would all starve if women worked the fields. Go experience farm life because nobody on a farm is wasting time on man woman bs we all know our place and are too busy helping eachother instead of wasting time picking whom is more important.

@@mikez650 lol I completely agree ..I hate when people mention that ...we work together, the end.

Hog slops also

I have chickens as well. I give them everything

EXACTLY! Same here!

Yeah, me too. Chickens and the pigs.

The chickens in the video weren't exactly crazy about it, though 😂🙈

I saw a man here in Indiana pick up a deer off the side of the road that had been there for at least 7 day's. I passed it every day going to work, so I know how long it had laid. The guy picking it up looked happy as can be. Some can't even afford the grocery store price, so they're resorting to road kill. Crazy world these day's....

I want her to bake an apple pie in that Dutch oven!

@coogan8825 I'm just stating what I'd seen. Our small town of 2000 people isn't hiring at McDonald's which pays $11 hr. I know because my teenager works there.

@coogan8825 you can say Trump screwed everything up, but I'm a believer that this has been going on waaaay before the orange man. Government is corrupt on both sides my friend.

@@featheredcoyote5477 Ewww, unless you LIKE getting God knows what diseases. Deer meat is nasty af. Too.

Truly so.

"Don't breathe"

@@coffeehigh420 Women are good at that, LOL

Glad I’m not the only one….ASMR

The thing is it would have also been needed to be lit during hot summers.

@misternimbus2573 you bow kneel in front of trump

Awe, prayers for you sister. Having delivered 6 (and miscarried a few) I completely understand. Sending you no-nausea vibes and prayers for a healthy baby and a healthy you!!❤❤❤❤

But just imagine the women who were sick like you, doing this all day for months?? And then having a newborn or more children??? Insane!!! No wonder the lifespan was so short then. 😵‍💫

Hope you feel better soon…

@@kayb2446 biden 2024 FDJT

Nope!

No, I love it too!

a lot of ASMR goodness

No, it’s very relaxing and calming, no tv blaring in the background😄

I especially love the fire crackling!

Agree!

Im So glad you pointed that out!

Unintentional ASMR

@@audwan4 Visual ASMR for history nerds! I love this channel :)

10:32

You don’t need to go back that far, people still live like that these days

The little salt scoop was so cute ☺️

I was raised by my great-grandparents until I was about 9. We didn’t have electricity or water for a long time. I remember pumping water from the well and fishing, shrimping and crabbing for our meat and cooking it over a wood burning stove. I’m pretty sure we ate possum and raccoon a few times.

Honestly this looks like places in modern day Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Mideast. Really no difference and they all have basically the same clothing.

I was just hoping she'd show us those ankles..😍😍😍

That's what I thought! So calming. No talking, no music overlay, just kitchen noises. Ahhh.

And also very enlightening.

Same. I have ADHD and am honestly shocked I sat through it... but I did 😊

Same 😂😂😂

Same! I accidentally clicked this and then 13 minutes later I’m still here 😂

Imagine Gordon Ramsay back in them days 🤣

What bothers me with videos/recipes like these is actually the liberal use of meat. That was not something regular folks ate for an everyday supper in those times. Maybe for christmas or other special occasions, but not for regular supper. Most of the food in those times, at least from what I gathered from history in college, were cheap carbohydrates in the form of root fruits, grain and (in coastal areas) occasionally some fish.

Beef is the only food product that's cheaper now than pre pandemic

@@samuelhakansson6680 you're wrong, that's why it bothers you.

@@alavista4218 I'm not, you are.

Beef, it's what's for dinner.

@Bob Donald it’s a joke Bob.

@Bob Donald actually it is a COMMON JOKE on this channel😃

@Bob Donald Santa doesn’t exist bob donald

If only I could afford a flux capacitor . . .

@Bob Donald Are you serious? 😄

That was my favorite part. It's funny (to me), but 200 years or so later, there's obviously been many, many changes, but if you are someone that has any kind of "livestock" animals, be it chickens, ducks, goats, pigs or what have you, you can still give them scraps. I've had goats for the past 11 years, and they absolutely LOVE vegetable and fruit scraps!

In a time like the early 1800's, you wouldn't want to waste anything. Feeding the scraps to your livestock means that the scraps will eventually become food for you again, through harvesting whatever from the livestock, be it eggs or meat or etc.

I agree. I have to say though, that chickens must have been different 200 yrs ago. Mine won't touch peelings of root vegetables. The pigs however...

Do you also remember the chicken being slaughtered . I mean you make is sound all bucolic and champetre but for the animals it never was, was it ?

@@Churdington Harvesting, call it slaughter.

😂 all we eat lol wtf 👀😭

5th gen Floridian. Our parents used washboards, lived in the woods, and caught, killed, cleaned, and cooked everything they ate 💯💯. They built their own homes as well. My mom talks about the chicken running around with its head cut off or the neck snapped 👀😩💀. I was born in 1984 and grew up cleaning and gutting animals right here in Florida USA

River water?...Yum!!

@@princesssroyal What? It is obvious that they have to kill them, if not what would they have to eat?

@@sodera4ever it's the use of the word killing instead of using slaughtering... I just found it funny nothing personal

That pot is called a Dutch oven. Now we know why it's called an oven.

i mean, try baking biscuits with constantly rising temperature. it's not going to cook very evenly!

@@evvieelmore i

@@diggydude5229 i learned what a Dutch oven was the hard way.

Cast iron takes a while to heat up, but once it is it retains heat very well. It actually does require a preheat.

The History of 'APRONS' I don't think our kids know what an apron is. The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and ...on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.. And when the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls. In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner. It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes. Send this to those who would know (and love) the story about Grandma's aprons. REMEMBER: Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw. They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron - but love...❤

Also came in handy for drying tears off children's faces. 😊❤

My grandma yes yes

50 years ago?🤣 come on. You’re remembering something that wasn’t. I’m 60. Yeah. We didn’t have NEARLY as many things as now, but come on. We had mainly everything we have now. Just not as many (that we really don’t need). But. I always use an apron. Why get your clothes dirty🤷‍♀️. Btw, my mother never used one. She was at work with computers.😉

Yes and no

And satisfying.😊

Fuck modern gadgets, this is real life.

@@andrewevans7992 Well, I like the internet part, music and movies streaming, taking pictures and calling. But the rest? social media, mobile games and all those other nonsense, hell no. This platform was better, before the shorts and all that.

It looks relaxing. That's a LOT of work.

Execpt for a knife. That was some of the scariest knife handling skills I've ever seen.

FYI it wasn't filmed 200 years a go.

​@@prospectorsoils1240😂

@@tomsonfire3740exactly 200 years ago it was much more exceptable to cut or mame yourself. Try to follow along with basic knife safety “always cut away from yourself”. My retard friend always says “remember to cut towards your friends and not your self”. I guess he is really scary in hunting camp.

You say that, even though I bet you wouldn't survive in that era for long.

Yup, looked like some well rested barm... although, given the modern era might have simply been modern yeast allowed to sit for awhile. Modern yeast is great... until you want to grow more of it... and you wind up with a sourdough anyway, lol. More people need to make beers at home, if only for the yeast ;)

I'm not sure how you make homegrown yeast, but I was wondering if the scalding temperature of the milk and butter killed the yeast? I thought yeast wasn't supposed to go into liquid above 110 degrees. Is it different with homegrown yeast? Just curious, I am a baker.

@@TheNoonie50 1) I don't mean to answer in place of Early American, only in addition to, since this is simply RU-vid. Yeast is all around. You don't exactly plant it like a seed, but pretty close. You can find yeast already growing on many things in an obvious fashion, but it really is all over already. All you have to do is give it a helping hand if you want it to thrive greater than the other fungi out there. It's just a single cell organism that wants to thrive and multiply by converting sugars and starches into CO2 and alcohols through it's natural digestive processes. The ratio depends on how much oxygen is available... the success depends on how well it can out-compete it's competitors. As a baker, I'm sure you have at least heard of 'starter' before... that's basically little more than a colony of 'good' yeasts... and it requires sustenance and pruning, or it will die within it's own waste products. Yeast is a fungi, like mushrooms (one name we give to the fruiting bodies). Yeast is different from other fungi because it is single-cell... it doesn't have differentiation... so no fruiting bodies to be purposefully collected in order to aid in it's propagation. Either way, you can 'grow' more yeast... the same way you prepare store bought yeast prior to making bread... feed it and give it a good and warm environment. If you were to 'condition' some of your yeast as normal.. then take some out prior to adding the flour... and put it in a continaer... add flour... and keep feeding it while pouring off any hooch that forms and perhaps splitting it as needed... you would be 'growing' more of that yeast. This doesn't work well with modern lab created yeast though as it's very specific and kind of fragile instead of being hardy. You would likely end up with wild yeasts taking over the container... a little at a time... entering each time you opened it. Sorry for the low-tech explanation, others could do better with more time, experience, vocabulary and education.

@@TheNoonie50 Sorry, I missed half your question and still welcome every bit of input from others such as Early American. Quickly though... the temp that a yeast survives at, depends on the yeast, to some degree on the hardiness. I normally use a 115F mark for the high end instead of 110F... but the temp of any liquid added to a vessel can quickly change based on the ambient temp of the vessel and it's conductivity to heat... great insulators like glass will not chill added liquids as quickly as a metal container, for example. This is actually why I check the temp of the liquid IN my vessel instead of checking the temp prior to pouring the liquid in... plus after a moment, it will always be a bit cooler... more so if the vessel is highly conductive... even more so the larger it is. This obviously depends on the ambient or starting temp of the vessel/container.

I’m guessing many people made use of breads that could be made without yeast. Also wouldn’t you need to be careful with how much salt you use because it can kill the yeast?

Im sure she just used tap water or store bought lol

@@parkerblacl8876 no stores no plumbing

I think they dug wells. I'm a country gal raised in the hills of NC. We have well water to this Day here.

and nowadays, realtors and sellers are closing those fireplaces off to sell as a modern home!!! it's a shame. i was afraid of the oven as a kid, i didn't understand the concept of it getting hot without fire. so i would cook stuff like biscuits and carrots in the fireplace to learn. hell, the first grilled cheese i ever made was perfectly grilled in my fireplace!

Yee yee

Wow, that would have been so amazing experience. I must say you are lucky to experience

i'm sure her family was happy for all that hard work. may have given her joy and peace to do it... people have lost their way in this day and age....

Lol children got treated different back then. They were treated as adults.

Obesity probably not an “epidemic “ back then either.

cute

They must’ve been thinking “here she goes making another video again” 🤣

Chickens nowadays are so spoiled! I bet 1820s chickens would have been much more grateful for those scraps!

@@pranavjosep2119 Considering how chickens have been commercialized and now billions spend their days in industrial farms almost never seeing sunlight, I’m inclined to disagree that chickens today are more spoiled.

Underrated comment.

Amazing! Also if you do not know, Jesus will fulfill you more than anything in this world, I speak from experience (from when i did Romans 10:9-13), he loves you and wants to be in a meaningful (not romantic) relationship with you. :) “that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬-‭13‬ ‭KJV‬‬ “and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.” ‭‭Mark‬ ‭1‬:‭15‬ ‭KJV‬‬ If you want proof that Jesus and the Bible are true look a documentary called “Ron Wyatt discoveries 2022” on RU-vid and a RU-vid channel called Expedition Bible. They both examine archeological sites and discoveries that prove the Bible, and even reference secular sources. (Just don’t convert to 7th day Adventism after watching the documentary) And lastly if you don’t know the gospel and want to be saved search up “abc’s of Salvation Teenmissions” on Google and it should be the first or second result. When you click on it read the whole thing, and do what it says and have faith in Jesus while you are doing it, do not doubt, and if it is hard for you to do what it says, ask Jesus to help you, have faith that he will, and *he will.* God Bless :)

Wow, thats amazing. My parents moved us to the LA suburbs in the 70's and so much of it was still orange groves... i cant imagine what it must have been like decades before then. Good health and long life to you. :)

Miss the old days

Oh Teresa! I'm 68 and sure wish I had your memories! When young, I just never paid attention to exactly what my grandmother was doing to make our meals. Would love to experience that. Such love through cooking our meals. I envy you!

We heat 100% with wood in northern Indiana. I will agree, the management of wood and coals as well as how and where to place them, definitely made me smile. Not to much, not to little. Perfect!

How did the women ever be able to cook like this w/ babes in the house?! Not able to put one on your hip as you are cooking!

Apparently, it's a rare ability nowadays because I'm the only one among my family and friends that can and I'm always asked to start and keep the fire. At least I'm always warm.

Is it going to just die with you or will you be having multiple children like your grandma?

More props to ya man, but no, not at all lol. Looks extremely boring.

Yes sir. And I think it is God nudging me.

@@MichaelSmith-fm5ln We had to escape the madness of Southern California years ago after I got out of the military. Moved to central Louisiana, then to here in Arkansas. I think you can see God much more clearly when you live a simple life out in the country.

Living that life, mostly. The silence is beautiful and I can choose myself ...do i wants the bird song today or the radio??? That's part of the beauty. I can make that choice

This is a beautiful thing.

Same. Saw a guy in here like- how nice it would be to have a wife like that. While it’s cool to watch, this was literally half the day, and the other half was nursing/ taking care of kids and animals. It was hard and thankless, and I am glad to have my modern kitchen. Imagine having time every day to make a 3 hour meal!

@@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis I don't see how that's hard my family meals take like 4 hours to make

It wasn't thankless. The male equivalent to this is working all day in a field or hunting. Both men and women back than were incredibly greatfull to have and please each other. They were partners who needed each other and that wouldn't have worked without love and gratitude that went both ways.

I mean, they could literally just boil potatoes with meat over a big roaring fire. That shouldn't take too much effort although it's a pretty heartless and tasteless meal lol

For a 21st century girl who relies on junk food, snacks and packed, genetically- modified food, this is a typical answer ...you can screenshot this to decorate your tik tok shit posts

Amen!❤

cute

Check out James Townsend and son. Stuff just like this.

What a kind compliment 😊 I also suggest LiXiQi ❤️

@@s.w.7328 Thank you very much!

You're looking backwards with rose tinged glasses. Housework wqs back breaking and time consuming. Doing thr laundry took hours of boiling water, adding lye, mashing th3 clothes and agitating it. Then rinsing and hanging out to dry. Go chop some wood and tell me how wonderful it is, especially in subfreezing New England winters. Try to take a bath in freezing cold water. Go boil it up. Haul buckets of water in from the pump. Heat up the water. Scrub yourself with harsh chemical home made soap. The father would get the first bath, the reuse the water by thr mother, then reuse thr water by thr kids in descending order. You can imagine how scummy the water got by the time it got to the 3rd kid. Not like walking I to the shower at home and just turn ing in and getting hot water and nice scented soap and shampoo.

Not allowed, seems controlling.

@@jessicamartin787 It's for a reenactment. Of course there are rules and guidelines for those who want to participate. Rules for people like you.

@@jessicamartin787you are not invited.

@@jessicamartin787 Just let people be happy buddy

@@somepeoplecanthandlethetruth trust me, I'm good on that.

😅yes I laughed too I was like...the nerve of them being so picky 😅

@Naomie-O what's your problem?

Chickens absolutely hate 🥕 and turnips. At least mine do. Mine love spaghetti and pork.

@@kinghenry7888 My chickens eat carrots.

Same thing happened to me when I offered potato chips to a street dog in Tijuana. “No. Thank you’”

Honestly, this looks easier than many people's lives now. She didn't have to sit in rush hour traffic breathing in car exhaust, she didn't have to put on makeup or flat-iron her hair for some "workplace standards", if she had any bills at all it was probably just rent, she doesn't have to take her car to the gas station or garage, she doesn't have to check her email four times a day, she doesn't have to listen to her neighbors fighting and decide if she needs to call the cops, she doesn't have to deal with a boss or coworkers or customers, she doesn't have to clock in or out, she doesn't have to answer a phone or respond to dozens of texts, she probably only goes grocery shopping once or twice a month since she's producing most of her own food, she doesn't have to call maintenance people when stuff breaks down because it's all fixable by hand, she doesn't have to sit and listen to some quarterly performance review by someone who doesn't know a damn thing about her or her job.... I may be projecting a bit. But honestly, this quiet homey lifestyle looks so good to me.

@@itzakpoelzig330 I agree with you. More people need to watch Little House on the Prairie to get a feel for how simple things could be back then, but you had a different set of problems as well. You either earned your keep, or you died. People nowadays don't understand how anything works.

@@itzakpoelzig330 There's a part of me that wishes most of us could be employed with a simple life of subsistence and community, but still have the tech that actually improves life like medicine and defends our country. But the system is set up for all of us to be spenders, and the first question most people would ask about my idea is "who gonna pay for it?" not "would the benefits be worth it?"

@@itzakpoelzig330 why don’t you just be a housewife then?

@@SB-lp7yj Great idea, thanks!

I was thinking the same. Just scrape them lightly with the blade edge of a knife. Almost no waste.

Vegetable broth can be made with the peelings.

My mother use the whole carrot, except the stems, cleaned them well with a scrub brush, we liked them with skin on, she was a great depression child as well. My grandmother taught her well to be waste not want not so to speak

@@beckygriggs7827 I just asked a similar question before reading yours. I agree that carrots are better just scrubbing them instead of peeling them. The chickens might disagree.

@@beckygriggs7827 shoot... I STILL don't peel my roots. I see no reason to waste it in any way... the only time I peel anything is if I do it intentionally to create 'waste' to go into stock. That's it. I acknowledge that I'm a little odd, but washing most (not all) of the dirt (which is nutritious) off is good enough for me. If it's not gritty, I'm happy. Every bit of veggie waste throughout the week has two options here... into my mouth as it is, or into the stock bag in the freezer... same for egg shells/etc. After it simmers for a couple of days... then and only then is it fit for composting. Bones might get one last processing into powder, any chunks left from that can compost.

God bless you interesting your videos lots of love from lndia Punjab1

Man I love mashed turnips

I have tried turnips and I couldn't eat them. I mean if I absolutely had nothing else to eat I would but. I feel they are something you would have to be use to eating.

I like to make a combination of white turnips and carrots boiled together in bite size pieces. drain, a little butter and some mint for garnish. It's a nice change from the rich dishes on a holiday table, colorful and very tasty! My aunt used to make mashed rutabagas for Thanksgiving. I didn't like them but had to eat them. Very strong flavor. Years later I figured out that she was not peeling them deeply enough, gave a very sour, bitter taste.

None of you liked them? What spoiled brats you must have been. As a child I gobbled them down.

@@show_me_your_kitties they were probably poorly seasoned and boiled to hell.

Hi Logan...It certainly does ring very true in our current times...My vegetable beef soup is now plain vegetable soup without meat & a marrow bone...I'm glad that at least I have a small appetite...

Damn, what a great treasure

I wish you would publish them.

I intend to be one of those grandmothers that leave hand-written recipes. 😍

Probably better than we do, now.

Ancestors lol😂

They died before they reached 40 or 50

Boil. All. Food.

@@rickwyant then you wouldn’t likely be here likely due to high mortality rates, so false