Cooking from a 100+ YEAR OLD COOKBOOK | Ep2. Sorted Food 

8:37 Jamies "Read The Book!" has the same energy as James' "Where's The Dish?"😂

"You could pour that on a child and it would remain unscathed" Way to set the mood Huttlestone!

Jaimie figuring out what egg and crumb means is an amazing moment. More of these videos please. Miss the sass on the sideline from Ebbers though. Maybe bring chefcam back?

Jamie really needs a hieroglyphics badge for being essential for decyphering the book... and also sticking to it.

Somehow, I think they earned a badge for this. They were able to interpret the recipe and pretty much make the dish. What badge? I don't know. They've cracked the code of the book.

Jamie figuring out "Egg and Crumb" meant panéed singlehandedly saved this dish from being a disaster.

Everyone's faces when Ben left the kitchen.... Priceless 🤣🤣🤣

It's easy to see Why Jamie has all those badges, he's realy improved.

“Barry, I’ve never said this sentence to you before, but… I think you’re thinking too much.” 😂 thank you for the laugh Jamie!

Their reactions to Ben leaving were good, but their reactions to Ben praising them for doing what he expected was golden 🤣🤣🤣 Well done, boys!

I was just thinking how felt like too long since the boys had to cook from the delightfully ancient cookbook 🤣

I died at Jamie's face tasting the banana with horseradish sauce.

What's interesting is that the recipe calls for a banana type that is now extinct. At the time of writing it would have used the Gros Michel banana, but it was wiped out by fungus in the 1950's and replaced with the Cavendish. I'm given to understand that a Plantain is the closest modern equivalent, might be interesting to see this done again but with a different banana type.

Let's face it, today proved how far our "normals" have come. With very little instruction, just a book that hints at methods, sending you down reference rabbit holes, they each acted like they knew what they were doing, made the right decisions (mostly), and produced the dish Ben expected. The only thing they did wrong was the polenta, and I have my doubts that would have worked correctly if they had tried it the "right" way. I'm proud of you boys, you did an *amazing* job under the circumstances.

Mike: “Well, he’s done bread crumbs. I’ve done chicken.” Barry: “I’ve had a breakdown.” Meanwhile Me: (eats metaphorical popcorn)

Everyone looks so defeated whenever the book is revealed 😅 and then when Ben leaves, panic really sets in. They do so well though, especially Barry and the endless train of sauces! I'd be in the corner in tears lol

This would make the perfect collab with Max Miller from Tasting History 😍

I really thoroughly enjoyed this video. Something about the normals deciphering poorly translated French from a hundred year-old REFERENCE book and trying to avoid having a meltdown gives me incredible joy.

I want to see the Food Team do a recipe from this book. For comparison.

In a world of step-by-step instructions, having the knowledge and ability to follow a guide like that is mad impressive.

barry just being super confused that that's actually dish and they were successful all throughout the ending esp. 11:39 🤣

When the dish was done and plated, my first thought was, "That can't possibly taste good." What a surprise, Ebbers and the boys liked it. Good job, boys.

“I’m making a pane station, it’s like a train station but with less trains.” As a former rail road employee, I laughed way to loudly after this… 😂

Just an idea: Secret badge task. Set the normals a task, with a secret box of everyday ingredients. Without warning, and they have to make 2 courses. But don't tell them its for a badge. An improvisation badge or something like that. Then only let them know once they've finished and grade them based on their performance award badges as appropriate.

When Jamie says: 'we love that book'. Barry's face says it all

Badges all round if you ask me! The fact they pulled this off is incredible!!!

Would love to see some more historical recipes / recipe book challenges. Maybe even a historical food battle?

Barry`s face the whole time during the tasting of the dish is prizelss, I couldnt stop laughing!

Being a slightly older Sorted viewer I knew what it was as soon as Ben gave the name. It was a bit of a thing in the 70's. But its also still on the menu at many Chinese restaurants in the "European" section; especially here in Scotland. [The bacon is usually wrapped around the bananas]. Though its usually a cream based gravy rather than horseradish sauce, that's a new one on me. Thought they did very well getting it on the plate as well as they did.

"I was watching Queer Eye and they were talking about gumbo." I'm dead.

The moment of realization that it was a panè process was brilliant, I loved watching the light dawn on the boys.

I actually disagree with the food team's vision of what the dish should've looked like. Their image has the horseradish sauce drizzled over the dish when the book specifically says to serve it separately. Other than that, I thought the team did a terrific job puzzling out the path to the dish and it's fun to watch them solve the puzzle of HOW to cook it, as well as trying to actually cook it in so short a time!

I want a Pass It On with a recipe from this book. Twould be a catastrophe.

I LOVE THIS Not having Ebbers there giving hints makes it amazing.

Oh, boys. Spaff definitely figured out more of the book than I ever expected. You have evolved SO MUCH, SPAFF. Mike, you are a gem. Well rounded cook. Just a machine. Barry. Stop flapping. You can do this. You are good at stuff. Stop flapping.

In Australia "Maryland" refers to the chicken leg and thigh cooked and served as one piece - so as soon as I saw this recipe I was saying "It's a chicken recipe, guys, come on!"

Something to consider here is that a banana from 100 years ago was a completely different ingredient from a modern banana. due to various crop diseases that have attacked banana crops over the years different species of banana have come and gone from our grocery stores. This is also why banana flavored candy doesn't really taste like banana, because those candies were originally formulated based on an older cultivar of banana that we don't really eat anymore. A banana from 100 years ago when this recipe book was written was most likely a more starchy less sweet product that probably would have had a very different taste when fried comparted to a modern Cavendish Banana.

The guys should get an Auguste Escoffier-badge for that performance!! That was amazing adaptation and quality.....

"OW THATS A CHOPPING BOARD ON MY FOOT" no thats not a chopping board on your foot is a bloody good reminder why chefs use steel toed shoes

My favourite moment in these challenges is always the moments when Jamie gently reminds them to check the book.

Of course we want to see more of the 1914 Recipe Book videos 👏🏽

I love the historical recipes! Any chance of seeing something from The Forme of Cury? Doesn't get more historical than that and I'd love to see how the lads tackle it!

I'm really impressed with the succession of sauces! By the way farine is french for flour, so I think farinised sauce (or whatever it was) just means a sauce thickened with flour.

I love these episodes because the guys work together and the genuine friendship comes through

They each deserve a teamwork badge and a detective badge for figuring that out and getting it done!

I love having a job where I can bask in Sorted content without being bothered. What a great way to start the day!

I am so lucky. Sorted videos are on at 9:00 AM where I live.What a great way to start a day.

I'm genuinely impressed by how well they did

YES! The 1914 cookbook episodes are always my favourites. They're the ones I've rewatched the most. :)

I love whenever the guys have to work together to recreate a recipe from a book. Have you thought about trying any recipes from Jack Monroe (cooking on a bootstrap)? I've seen many people mentioning enjoying cooking on a budget, and how to stretch money so this would fuse those two together.

Jamie telling Ebbers that they love that book, and the look on Barrys face is priceless.

So fun thought is the banana they used was probably a very different flavor profile because of the banana fungus extension

I love this, it's like an escape room but cooking.

"The combination of banana and bacon, a little odd." Elvis would like to have a word with you.

Guys, this was brilliant. I LOVE these episodes where you figure out how to cook something from Le Répertoire de la Cuisine. They're always such a fun journey!

I am not sure if they got it right, as I do not know exactly what I am looking at. It was fun to watch full of chaos and yelling. I don't think I have ever seen the team spend so much time reading. probably because they didn't believe that this was really the correct dish they were putting together.

I love all the Repertoire de Cuisine episodes! I would love to see an episode where the normals and the chefs all cook the same entry separately and see what they come up with.

I'm currently rewatching old stuff and it's fun to see how much the "normals" have improved

Chef's skills challenge idea: Theme-palate 1-blind tasting ingredients trying to guess them. 2. Blind guessing liquids (sauces or drinks) 3. Make a dish that pairs the ingredients to a sauce or drink. To make it extra hard, they only get to use the ones they guess right. Figure this could be repeated to intermediate and advanced levels.

That book would take years off my life. I think they all deserve a badge for being able to decipher it as well as they have.

This was amazing. Brought me back to cooking school when reading those old recipes.

I can’t tell you how your videos make my day better and I really needed this today. Thank you guys!

I love this series. It's really awesome to see their thought processes and team work.

yes more of this please!!! it's always so interesting seeing the normals piece together what they know along with the cookbook to make these old recipes.

No badges were up for this video, but I'm so impressed with the normals ability to decode the book, that I feel like they all, or at least Barry and Jamie, deserve some kind of badge.

Barry got through the hot mess sauce instructions very well. Those instructions were crazy!

MORE!!! I love the chaos of these videos with this cookbook. Its so funny

I LOVE this concept so much, I hope to see it again. Watching the guys panic but draw on their knowledge from years of this show is so interesting, and it's really cool when Ben comes in surprised at how close they got to what he was expecting.

Who else was waiting for Jamie to eat that slice of bacon that was left over?

I lived in Maryland for nearly 30 years, so this is so funny to me. They do have excellent chickens, but bananas, polenta, and horseradish sauce...not so much.

Absolutely one of my favorite types of videos by you all. I would even appreciate even longer episodes of this.

Excellent job, Normals. Excellent. You guys have come a very long way. BRAVO!

Can we have an episode in which they find a way to create a dish where the main ingredient is what they dont like. In which then they actually enjoy it

LOVING THE VIDEO SO FAR!! 👍👍 Request: Kindly try famous dishes from Pakistan too. You'll love them a lot and won't regret a bit.

Phenomenal job, guys! You really pulled through on this one. I’d love to see more of the challenges, as it’s been really cool seeing the three of you learn to navigate these oddly formatted cookbooks (by today’s standards).

Definately keen to see more of these. Love it

Surprisingly impressed with how well they did at working out the logic of the book

I’m surprised the boys didn’t know this dish! It still features on the occasional Irish menu, although usually with pineapple instead of banana. Apparently it was a big thing here in the 80s!

You guys make me smile 😊 This cookbook stresses me out, and you guys just roll with it! Your food looks delicious, and I love watching you ❤️

My favorite cookbook challenge to watch on Sorted Foods is that lovely 1918 cookbook. Keep it up! I learn something new every single time. Guaranteed!

More! All the videos that have centered around this book are brilliant. Now off to see if anyone else on youtube has ever tried to make this bizarre combo.

I loved this! I’ve also loved the guests that you’ve had! SO! I suggest that you bring Max Miller from “Tasting History” to the studio as a guest judge! Give the Normals an old recipe and have them compete for the “Ye Olde Intuition Badge”

This book is just a fountain of entertainment.... as long as I never need to go near it. Honestly I loved the pure chaos and desperation unfolding as the boys tried to understand what that book even wanted them to do. And look at the result!

I enjoy this type of video. Every time they have cooked with this book it has been so much fun to watch. And all in all, Barry had the hardest part and nailed it. The only thing is that if they had searched and read every part of the "recipe" they would have known about the polenta earlier, but they still pulled it off.

Is it me or Jamie really shine in this episode

“Cooking from a 100 yr old cookbook”. Translation: watch three grown men have a breakdown in 3…2…..1…….

There is a simple method to quick bread crumbs. Take premium bread double toast in a toaster to dark but not burned. Then tear into pieces & toss into blender pulse on highest speed. More blender time smaller bread crumbs & dry herbs garlic or chilies make the crumb even better.

One of my favourite series! Love seeing them figure out this book

not a chef but as soon as mike read "egg and crumb" i was like, oh we are going to be paneing some kind of meat! Jamie out here with the singular braincell

Been waiting for this all day lads!

An all around fantastic video!! I always love these videos in particular, but actually seeing the book being deciphered and an actually correct final dish? An absolute treat to watch. Perfect video from start to end

Loved it - so entertaining and a very good riddle solver session - I am amazed and impressed and still laughing

The look on Barry's face when Jamie said "We love that book," was just perfect hahaha. Can't wait to see the next one, these are my favorite episodes of Sorted!

well done!!! I would definitely like to see more like this. It's not just fun to watch you figure it out, but also to see these older recipes :)

More of these please! This was so fun!

This has become one of my favorite videos. Please keep making more like this!

Definitely need more of these cause honestly had such a laugh!! Thanks boys

Great job guys! 👏 Great video! Great job interpreting the recipe...u did way better than I would have done!

Please do more!!! Also Barry descending into giggles, an absolute highlight !! :D :D

Honestly great job done by the three, only critique I would point out is that as a group they really didn't think about something that has become fairly well known in that book even just by watching the videos using the book, make sure you read all the way to the end of each section, if that was done the garnish would have been seen sooner and would have been started earlier. It's a minor thing so picking out something like that is a testament to a great job!