Cooking Fried Chicken from 1796 |ASMR Cauldron Cooking| Real Period Recipes 

We should all have to live that life for about a year and get our brains, hearts, souls and priorities straightened out.

i just made this for my family tonight (scaled up to feed 6 people) and wow, this is probably the best fried chicken I've ever had. The gravy takes it to the next level.

I love your videos. They’re relaxing like Bob Ross videos and informational, too. I just love how quiet your kitchen is too. I can feel myself relaxing when I’m watching. My jaw literally unclenches.

Ron was so sweet cutting up the chicken for you. He appreciates his sweetheart. The looks and gestures between you two when he left the cabin and you were sitting at door was so touching! Always appreciate each other and never take each other for granted. Y’all have found in each other something so rare in the times we live in! Cherish it!

This is so very good and I love you guys you deserve this in your lives. I want you to try this. Here is my modernly written down version translated from the original 18th century receipt so that those at home can make it: Ingredients: The chicken itself: 2 Cornish hens Plain bread crumbs, 3 cups Parsley, fresh if able, 1/3 cup chopped fine nutmeg, 1 tablespoon the zest of one lemon salt & pepper to taste oil or lard (historically accurate) for frying 4-5 egg yolks For the sauce (don't think that you can skip out on this. You need this sauce in your life!): 3 cups of brown gravy the juice of half of a lemon a good dash of mushroom catsup cayenne pepper, to taste Directions: quarter your Cornish hens, which means cut each hen into 4 pieces. Do not use frozen hens. If they are frozen be sure that they are completely defrosted before doing this. In a bowl combine diced parsley, salt, pepper, bread crumbs and nutmeg. In a separate bowl whisk your egg yolks. Dredge your chicken pieces by placing them first in the egg yolks till thoroughly covered then put into your bowl of bread crumbs, rubbing around until covered well. Repeat until all of your chicken is done in this manor. Have a deep pot of hot oil or lard ready. To test if your oil is ready for frying dip your fingers into water and flick the water into the pot. If the oil sizzles on contact with the water then it is ready to fry. Do not use more than a drop or two of water to test this out for safety reasons. Once hot, fry your chicken pieces for 13-15 minutes. You can fry multiple pieces at once. I was able to fit 4 at a time in my cauldron. Once the time is through carefully remove your chicken pieces from the pot to drain. For the sauce in a pan on medium low heat combine your brown gravy with your mushroom catsup, lemon juice and cayenne pepper and stir till well blended. Have this bubbling gently for 5-10 minutes. You may either pour the sauce on the chickens and eat right away or have the sauce off to the side for dipping. Enjoy! ^_^

I love all the ASMR. The sounds of the kitchen are so soothing. The birds in the trees as well. Thank you for another wonderful video.

It looks delicious. Nice to see people enjoyed great food back in 1796. You're not only showing delicious food preparation, but history. I love good food and history both. Frying in lard. My grandmother on the farm in North Dakota used to fry with lard, and her food was always so good. Lard fried chicken with potatoes. I remember that from over 50 years ago. Great memories. Thank you for the video.

I don’t know how the heck I came across this channel.. But this channel relaxes me to the point that I can get some sleep at night.. it’s been a while, thank you and keep up the great work.. love your videos. ✌🏻🇨🇦

Your channel is like a breathe of fresh air after a heavy day. ♥️🥘

This is the era when food was fresh, not mass produced, plumbed up with who knows what . It wasn't an easy life but a pure life. Beautiful

I find this soothing. What is really cool is I can smell the fried chicken, because I'm cooking it in my kitchen with mashed potatoes and fried green tomatoes from the garden. Great video.

I like the way Justine's eyebrows go up when she likes something she's eating.

I'm currently healing from a surgery where I won't be able to have solid foods for quite a while. I live vicariously through this channel. Thank you!

Hell-o Justine, I have been watching your channel for months now. I must say, I think you are an amazing cook! It has surprised me what wonderful dishes could be made long ago on the hearth. Love your charming cabin and the warm relationship that you and Ron have. Enjoy the stories, too! Thank you both!

This looks absolutely delicious! It reminds me of the ice storm we had in February. The electricity was off a couple hours and I was hungry. By candlelight I mixed flour, shortening, an egg and enough milk to make a batter. I placed an iron skillet on some hot coals from the fireplace I’d sectioned off and added the batter to the melted butter in the skillet. Those pancakes were looking delicious until I decided to spray a can of aerosol cooking oil into it. I almost singed off my eye brows but I ate pancakes that night!

I find myself watching your videos multiple times a week to help calm my panic attacks. It really soothes me so much. I love these videos

Reminds me of my grandmother's fried chicken. She always used seasoned bread crumbs, too.

Do you know what I am absolutely amazed at? Your amazing ability to tend the coals at the exact heat you need. As a camper who cooks outdoors, I wish I could do that!

Outside the chickens are like "HEY WHAT'RE YOU DOING IN THERE AND WHERE'S HENRIETTA AND BARB?"

I truly enjoy your videos, they are so satisfying and wholesome, plus the bonus of some great food recipes from the past! Keep up the good work!

These videos are so incredibly peaceful. Thanks so much for posting!!

I never thought I would like videos like this but happened upon yours. Now I can’t get enough of them!! I just love watching all your amazing recipes. Thank you for all the hard work and time you put into these. ❤

I love watching you cook, Justine. The sounds of the kitchen really are comforting. I've noticed when I'm cooking after watching a video I take time to be in the moment and enjoy the process of cooking for my family. Thank you for sharing these wonderful videos.

I always love watching you guys💕 The natural sounds in the kitchen while cooking ❤💯

Wow...I just love this channel. The ASMR is real soothing, Its wholesome and educational too. Thank you!

I just love your channel so much. It’s so soothing 🥰 Thank you for the great content!

This type of ASMR is very unique in my opinion, you earned a subscriber for this.

I love every episode! Very soothing and wonderful way of helping us feel like what it was really like being there! Hugs and Love you two!

Well that's dinner sorted for the night then, I was gonna have a sandwich but now I've gotta dig out my Dutch oven. Edit: that "Yep, nailed it" smile at the end was great.

*the preparation is beautiful & those chickens looks so delicious*

It was hard to cook back then. Always having to have a fire going, even in summer. She makes it look easy and she doesn't even sweat. 😁❤️

Love the little looks and gestures between you- so sweet! Justine, you certainly know the way to Ron's heart! That chicken looks sooo good; Can't wait to see the Chew and Chat when Ron takes that first bite! Love you guys- from CT

I just discovered you guys a few days ago but man I love this channel and I love what you do. You guys are the cream of the crop and I could watch your videos all day long. ❤️

Thank you for helping in your way to preserve knowledge that otherwise may be lost. There should be more people like you, cheers.

I adore your channel so much ! It’s become a new part to my bed time routine. I was struggling finding a channel that really did the trick for me ! And this is it !!🥰🥰

Thank you for sharing this peace and calm. It’s much needed

That looked fantastic Justine. Looks like a great recipe. Thank you

Y'all's videos are so nice and quiet. Please don't ever change that!

Love the old times ,watching you both was like ,we are back in the past.Thank you so much .new fan here from the Philippines🇵🇭

I love how slowly and quiet you move whelping your cooking. It's so relaxing and enjoyable to watch.

I watch many utube channels about gardening, food preservation, sewing & quilting, etc., but your channel and Ron’s channel are the two I watch just for fun. I love them. I love history, especially American history and I love the cooking history you present. I have 4, gr. gr. gr. grandfathers who all fought in the American revolution. I also have one home raised chicken left in the freezer that I’ve been trying to decide if I’m going to grill or fry. Guess what I have decided! Blessings from Idaho, TeresaSue 👋🏻

Looked delicious I'm craving fried chicken now, also if I may recommend. Next time when you're breading any food, try the dry hand wet hand technique. Use one hand strictly for the egg wash and the other hand for the breading. I find doing it that way, you won't have those clumpy fingers and your breading stays cleaner as well.

I will try this recipe! My husband loves this kind of food! Well done! Always love seeing the loving relationship between you and Ron!

I just discovered your channel and wanted to send out my appreciation for the beautiful, hard and honest work you do! Thanks for putting your work into the world ❤️

Who knew I would be binge watching this content. Excellent telling of history

Good video, simple clean and very good demonstration.

I find your videos relaxing. I feel like we are glimpsing back into history and seeing what life was like back then. The chkn and sauce look delicious.

Love this video especially the soothing sounds from the environment and the food preparation is so relaxing

I luv what u r doing! Please don't stop bc of negative comments. U r bring back a realistic earth friendly way of living and moral values. I mean people getting back to family and communities and not an instead gravitation world we have now.

Wow! The chicken looks amazing! I'm glad you showed us your chickens outside. I know there here for the long haul but, I still worry about them every time you make a chicken dish. Lol And who would have guessed the sauce would have mushroom catsup as one of the ingredients.🤣🍄

I really love that there is no talking at all. It's as if we're secretly peering in on the life of an average, unassuming 18th Century housewife, just trying to eke out a living on the harsh frontier. I love it. You've got something really special here, and I'm glad I could take part in it.

Just the sounds of the kitchen are so lovely....but the love put in to making this meal is extraordinary

I love this channel so much. Can you please do one with the fried chicken, white rice and buttermilk biscuits dinner in the near future, please? I was told that that was a real peasant meal back in the day for hard-working men, soldiers, hunters, etc. that is guaranteed to satisfied hungers in a time of need.

This looks beyond delicious. I am going to a nearby organic meat market on Sat. for some chickens to can and will definitely make this dish. And I am enjoying the different style of head coverings Justine. Thanks so much. In Joy

You two have it made in the shade! Looks like you absolutely love each other, and love the way you're living. Totally awesome! 👍🙂

I swear watching you cook in such a calm environment always helps me to destress if I'm anxious or depressed. Thank you for these videos - they help to ground me.

Oh my goodness. That looks delicious 😍

It never occurred to me how far back foods like this go in history 👍

I tried this but with chicken, it was so good, and absolutely a must to do again. Thank you so much it has inspired me to try more of your recipes. Good job Justine

The way you guys look at each other was so sweet and wonderful it made my eyes water up instantly, I adore that!!!!

!Que bonito lugar, tranquilo, junto a lla naturaleza,!comida exquisita! Y la cocina con su fuego de leña,! necesitamos un lugar así muchas mexicanos!! saludos desde Cuernavaca México,!

I think there should be more funny interactions between the two of you. I still love the beginning of the ice cream video 🤣

Your videos relax me after a stressful day. Thank you.

I absolutely love this. So peaceful and humbling

We cook a lot of food on the wood stove at our off grid deercamp, but I love this fireplace that has room to pull out coals and cook. Where can I find one of those pots you fried the chicken in? So cool, thanks.

That looks delicious. I can taste it from here. You didn't say how long you let it deep fry in such a setting as that. Funny, eh? ....that no-one in the 18th century thought of opening a fast food chain that sold only fried chicken!!!

Your Kitchen is Beautiful !!!💕💕💕 Thank you ! 👏👏👏

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!! I think I like it so much because she is slow with movements.....shows everything from start to finish. Also, heartwarming to see the husband and her. I used to LOVE cooking. But not anymore. I am in a long slum. Hate the Hamberger helpers and mac and cheeses. I would like to be in this time period. My parents lived off the grid when I was growing up. HUGE white cook stove, would heat water....all cast iron. In a way makes me sad to have strayed so far from knowing where everything came from. Please keep up the excellent videos! I made a chicken thingy that was made on another video. The one with the gravy Bacon wrapped around two chickens. And the story behind the recipe.....just really, really showed to love of the recipe.

This looked so good and sounded so crispy! The chicken looked like little cornish hens.

Looks great! Going to make this myself! My ancestors came over before the Revolutionary War. As part of the Virginia Colony. We have chairs, books, coal bin and tables from early 1800s. No one is allowed to touch. Lol. I do have cast iron but not sure of where they were gotten. I don't get to use them often. I don't want to scratch the glass stove top. But I'm doing this fried chicken recipe for sure. What is mushroom catsup?

Thank you, so much, for doing these amazing videos!

I absolutely love your videos! Thank you so much

Looks amazing! Is there a video for the mushroom catsup? I've seen it in a lot of your videos I would love to try it 😋

Your videos are my refuge! Would love to know more about this mushroom catsup, struggling to find a good explanation online :)

You are awesome!! Thank you for keeping history alive in our minds.

The birds singing as you prepare the meal so relaxing!

I didn’t realize they had video back in 1796. Wow, great find and the quality is amazing!

Oh, gosh, I used to love fried chicken and other fried foods, but there is nothing in the world that would make me prepare fried foods at home with the most advanced deep fryers, etc., much less like this on a hearth. Grease splatters everywhere! How do you keep things cleaned??

Hi. I JUST ran across your channel. I love it so much. Newly subscribed. You are such an adorable couple. I cannot wait to try these recipes. Thank you. Your videos are so calming and soothing to watch.

Excellent Justine!! I can’t have deep fried foods but that looked oh so delicious!! 🐓🍗

Hi there! Im new to your channel and love everything about it. I have a few questions about it all. Is this full time living for you both? Do you grow and harvest all of your own food? Do you practice 1800 medical practices? Just curious because of how legitimate your whole set up is. I absolutely love your content. Thank you for sharing.

This is NOT fair!!!! First I want a beautiful wife this this lady, 2nd I want one that can cook.

So nice seeing the love between you two. Great fried chicken video!

Oh my goodness! I should NOT watch your channel when I am hungry. Having this tomorrow for dinner. Thanks for the modern receipt. Love your channel.

This looks amazing 😋 I will follow your recipe for sure ☺️ thx for sharing ☺️

Okay... this isn't even fair!! Making me watch you make this incredible looking fried chicken and awesome sauce... Just torture me why don't you?!! Lol Love your channel and have watched all your episodes over and over ... This channel and Frontier Patriot... Including all the drama episodes ... Please do more!! You two are the cutest couple ever and please keep going!! Keep the receipts coming!!

I drove 12 hours to get to my vacation spot and I’m lying here by the ocean watching this!!! I’m content. I love your videos!!❤

First time am watching your video.. Wow it's so awesome. It remembers my grandma's cooking. Delicious chicken mouthwatering! Beautifully made 👏

I love this channel, so glad I found you guys

Love these videos. They're very relaxing. And the fried chicken looks delicious.

That looks so delicious! I'm definitely gonna try it!🥰

You make it look so easy God bless you and thank you

Great dish, Justine!! I bet that dash of "Kyan" gave it some pep! The brown gravy sauce was definitely alittle different than what I expected a sauce to be. Even still, I bet it was tasty! Sidenote..when reading the "receipts" the s's ALWAYS throw me for a loop 😅

That recipe looks like, and I’m sure that it is delicious. Your videos are more than just good recipes, it’s a way of life. Thank you.

This channel is addicting. So relaxing! I love it. ❤

Reminds me of growing up on our farm Ne in the 50's, not of "grid", but definately rustic compared to todays kitches. These similar type of dishes and meals. Most of our kitchen items were from the grandparents, so early 1900's. Many of our items were considered antiques but they just seem like the every day utensils and cookware to us.

A couple of years ago when I learned how bad processed seed oils are, I started buying olive and avocado oil for cooking, and more recently lard for frying and pastry crusts. It's amazing how much better the flavor is when frying in lard. And as a really nice bonus, when you make pie crusts with lard and are rolling them out, you don't get splits at the edges. The dough just stretches as you roll.

Recently moved into a little tiny house, or what was a 2 story barn shaped structure in a backyard. It’s been built out normally but seeings how there’s no room for much I’m forced to begin a new kind of life and the nature of these videos gives me such inspiration to reverse time and be happy about it. Thanks!!

I can watch your videos anytime I’m looking to feel good! I haven’t tried, but I will be making one of these yummy dishes soon. Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials! Cheers!

I love how every time you take a bite of what you’ve just cooked, you smile.