Cooking Marathon! - 18th Century Cooking Season 16 

I waited 1 hour and 6 minutes because I don't even remember watching that particular video.

That's funny😂

me too!!

As a teacher I tell you we'd rather be talking about this sort of history than the stuff in the state standards. Still, you've got to in order to keep your job.

@@evierivka402yeah just keep teaching kids about being trans instead of

@@MattWalkerLoth What?

@@evierivka402 that’s what schools are these days, teaching kids about being trans and all the softness of ‘yes little timmy you can identify as a toaster if you want’

Look in the Bible. THE rich ate a poor diet. Full of sugar and empty calories. The poor ate well on beans and potatoes and vegetables.

@@user-oe6wq7pu8dThe Bible is not an accurate history source. Lmao.

I agree. Both Ryan and John have great narrating voices Imo.

Grist mill? I’d LOVE to see one! Growing up I heard about them, but all the ones near me were torn down long ago.

In Clifton Mills, Ohio they have a working mill and restaurant and sell corn meal, etc. Also a mill by Greenville, OHIO called BEARS MILL

I fell in love with that recipe, if it‘s the same we‘re thinking of. I loved the fact that it was basically the cheapest thing you could make for the hardest of times back then and enjoying it as well as appreciating the fact that we have all these things so readily available nowadays is an amazing experience.

@@user-kp2jz3qv2k Couldnt have said it better myself. The fact that I used potatoes that I grew from my own garden to make it really made the experience. I'm so grateful for being born when I was.

Sounds good, I havent seen him make potatoe soup. I am used to Idaho potatoe soup

That would make a lot of sense!

Barley doesn't bake well, it was better used for "liquid bread" aka. beer. In Norway, though, they made flatbread with barley, it being the only grain that could grow there.

They would have likely made barley dumplings boiled in soup, mostly with beef and vegetables. It's a very common stretcher for meals in New England. I happen to pound the barley into a mash with mushrooms to form dumplings.

@@rayf6126they really did love barley in New England! In the town I grew up in before I moved to the south, I had been exploring some old abandoned silos that were a popular hang out for teens that smoked by some train tracks and my friends and I found that the silos still had signs and some old nasty mummified grain. The silos contained barley, peas, corn and I don’t remember the fourth one. I think rice? I thought it was incredibly fascinating to find some beautiful giant abandoned history. I always imagined that was how food was distributed at one point

Even Rome regulated bread loaves

Why do you think the church had pie bake offs and picnic basket lunch dates. It was so the unmarried girls could show off their cooking skills to the fella whom won the bid on the food which came with a date of the girl whom fixed it.( on the spot at the church) money was used for a church fund that was to raise money for a project. The minister was usually the auctioneer.

Had a lot of cats. For mice and rats. But even then they lost food to rodents. So eventually they began using huge earth clay pots to keep rodents and bugs out. I use huge mason jars and recycled pickle jars. For rice and flours. Beans I put in metal tins.

No there wasn’t , that’s why they always wore dark brown pants !!

If you're that upset, just either deal with the music or don't watch it.

@@michaelcannistraci95 i was just thinking out loud; honestly the thought occurred to me several months ago; i'm still new to this channel EDIT: I'm sure they'll improve it all as times goes on, this is obviously a place of high production standards

Well you’ll see as go along that music and this channel go hand in hand

@@michaelcannistraci95 oh yes, it's thematically very appropriate, unfortunately during these extended length episodes (which are great to show the timing of various steps/process), the music becomes entirely grating and detrimental to overall enjoyment and comprehension of the video. I could understand high points having the music but over the course of the entire video, it's far too loud ultimately for a backing track. I had thought before, perhaps the musical compositions just lack sufficient depth/musical range, and become tiring in their repetitive simplicity. I'm not sure if this is stock music or something they've developed in house. I think they would benefit from getting some custom music written and performed for the channel. This existing music is frankly, trite. Maybe it's historically correct music and I'm just failing to appreciate that; they do take great care in most other aspects of the production. (I should note, it's not a question of music taste or style as such, more about the balance of things in a production, and the emotional depth and narrative-assistive function of the backing music; how it helps set the scene and tell the story, or starts to cheapen the feel of things through a bombastic presence.) I'll certainly keep watching to see how they evolve their production methods, as things only ever seem to be improving in this warm corner of RU-vid.

​@@christianherald, the back ground music is custom to this channel. Jim's Red Pants have been special guests.

AI isn't a comprehensive historical resource, lol. Also, that kind of defeats the purpose of having humans with nuances in their brains do the work for other humans. AI does not have access to rare and out of print antique cookbooks.

AI is notoriously bad at coming up with recipes. Why on Earth would you want to take the human out of something that is inherently human???