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Great show! Thanks, guys! Listen, guys, just a suggestion - I'd like to recommend a sorta vintage cookbook called Dining with William Shakespeare by author and researcher Madge Lorwin. I used it a lot back in the '80's (yes, I am that old now Lolz). There are a number of really well researched and explained recipes in that book. While the emphasis may be on the Shakespearean part, it's really a fun read. I happen to like Shakespeare, being an old former member of the Thespian Club. But it really is both interesting and fun to read if you're into historic cookery. I've seen used copies of it on occasion at Amazon. Cheers 'n' besos, guys!
The smaller wild ones are still a thing, and they taste great. And by far better than most of the mostly just good looking cultivated ones. Just collecting them is a big pain in your backside.
Wild strawberries are incredible. And i agree, it's far superior to most cultivated ones in flavor, still picking them is a pain but if you have them growing on your property and around it, it's a nice little thing to do in the summer.
When Max says it’s the best thing he has made, you HAVE to run, not walk, to the grocery store. And I can confirm, it is PHENOMENAL! I added whipped cream on it. It was a huge hit with friends.
@@frankcohen8662 - The cookbook came out well before this episode. But he gives the recipe and method here in this video and on his "Tasting History" page - get there through the description.
The fact that he was committed enough to attempt to grow his own berries. This is a fantastic channel, gotta admire the work ethic and production value
That one subdued "... Y'all" <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="968">16:08</a> just tells you that this was a winner without needing to say anything else.
@@malloryoates8580 the pie weights aren't actually a problem, you can use dry beans, like navy beans or kidney beans or whatever, from the grocery store. Even a pie pan isn't hopeless, if you have any kind of high sided baking dish. The sieve though, that's kind of a problem.
@@malloryoates8580 Modern flour doesn't require as much sifting as it used to. Just try not to pack it down when you measure it. And for the berries, maybe a couple layers of cheese cloth or a colander?
My garden is overgrown with those tiny strawberries. I never thought of making a tart, though. I usually pick and eat them while weeding or grooming the roses. Which, I just realise, sounds far more romantic than it actually is.
I spent years growing strawberries as a teen and learned that you can control size by controlling the runners. Keep them trimmed back and you got bigger berries. Let them spread freely and you got smaller berries. If you want more plants you let a runner root then cut the stem attaching it to the parent plant.
I don't know if they can be successfully over-wintered. (I have a poblano pepper plant I bought last year that only gave 1 pepper after the deer chewed on it. I then kept it on an enclosed porch all winter - NYS - and it is going crazy THIS year! It still looks sad and leggy, but I already got 1 big pepper and there are a bunch more coming. _Jurassic Park_ was right - "life will find a way"! )
@MossyMozart they grow wild all over europe and northern asia, so they're pretty frost-resistant. I would also recommend fragaria × vescana, a hybrid of the wild strawberry and the garden strawberry (which is already a hybrid. Strawberries are crazy.) The fruits have much of the aroma of the wild strawberry, but are closer in size and shape to the garden strawberry. There are a bunch of different vescanas from different reeding programs. The version I know is the "Florika" from germany, so the other hybrids might be different in some ways.
Hi, Brit here. My grandma made strawberry tarts with this exact technique (barring the saffron) throughout my childhood. She'd also occasionally add a layer of homemade strawberry jam to the bottom as well! Goes well with crème fraiche and mint or a little Chantilly cream.
@@jansalava1046 Some varieties of strawberries can be very tasty, especially if you take them from local producers ^^ The tasteless beets are usually imported from big glasshouse plantations, that harvest them before maturation ^^
Fun fact. The “seeds” on the outside of strawberries are actually the botanical fruits called achenes, and there is a single seed inside all of the achenes.
Fun fact: Not only Julius de Berry was renamed Fraise, after the Fraise, but his great-father is believed to be named Chantilly, which is a sweet whipped cream often eaten with strawberries ^^
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 That sounds like a good idea for weed control, but I'm wondering about the distribution of nutrients between the two layers of crops.
@@erzsebetkovacs2527 Good question. Strawberries can be intercropped with leafy greens and legumes. Vegetables grown for leaves take up a lot of nitrogen, which is precisely what you want to scale back for strawberries when they're about to fruit.
Dude. The way your eyes popped when you had that first bite spoke volumes about how amazing the dish was. I don't think your face has ever been that expressive. Thanks for sharing this one with us.
I just want to comment on the comments section in every single one of Max's videos: you guys are consistently so wholesome and so welcoming, sharing stories of your family's histories and foods, or just bring super friendly! It's such a wonderful place to be on the Internet and i appreciate you all 💜
On a business trip in Brussels in a fancy restaurant (the boss was paying) I had "Fraise du Bois Chantilly ". Tiny wild strawberries and whipped cream. Still remember that luxury 49 years later.
My parents had an uncontrolled patch of small strawberries in the back yard. I firmly believe that large strawberries were a mistake. They scaled up the size, but they didn't scale up the flavor.
Probably Fraise des bois not fraise du bois. Basically "strawberries of the woods" Otherwise it sounds like your strawberries come from a wood next to the town of Chantilly
And here I thought that wild berries, including forest strawberries, are poor people's food. Just get on your bicycle and ride to the forest and spend your weekend picking free food.
In Denmark, we call the smaller wild variant “forest strawberry” and our literal name for them is “earth berry”. As a child, I always put them on a thin straw/grass and ate them like a kebab 😅🍓
@@TastingHistory and in Sweden they are given the mysterious moniker 'jordgubbe', which means... Earth... Boys? But not boy as in a child, boy as in... 'buddy', as in how one cowpoke would address another. Why? I could not say.
It turns out I am drastically more likely to sit through the advertisement when you have just proven that not only are the subtitles top notch but that someone has taken the time to care about how they are placed within the video so that they don't sit over the top of in video text. Thank you so much for that care and attention.
Bees must love you. *_And they can use all the help they can get!_* Maybe you can add some clover just for them? There are lots of folks these days that have replaced their lawn grass entirely for clover. Also, look for "tapestry lawn" - it doesn't have to be grass-free; it can be mixed into lawn grass.
Took me a second, mind's not what it used to be-- for a heartbeat, I thought, what the heck could he have said about... and boom!😄😄 Thanx for the chuckle! Take good care!😊
In Poland we actually distinguish between wild strawberries and domesticated strawberries as plants with different names that are separately cultivated so it's actually relatively possible to get to buy wild variety.
That makes a lot of sense because the flavours are quite different. The Swedes also have separate names for them (I'm a Norwegian, and we don't, unfortunately). The tiny, wild strawberries are just PACKED with flavour, and I urge you to try them if you have a chance!
And "poziomka" does carry that close-to-earth factor, too. You can easily buy seeds, or seedlings of them, too, for container planting. And yeah, the aroma and flavour is vastly different.
well now i know why the strawberries at the edge of my granparent's farm were so tiny and tasted so good--they were just some wild ones they let grow there since it ended up benefitting them.
That story about the descendant of Frezier 800 years bringing back the Chilean strawberry to France resulting in cross-breeding is so amazing and cool!
I am extremely grateful Max, I have been watching your videos for a year and when I worked the night shift in a hotel they accompanied me in my solitary work. For months I thought what Chilean dish could be interesting enough to recommend on your channel and it didn't occur to me. We Chileans have many good recipes but with few stories. Finally Chile appeared and in what a beautiful way, we have always had good fruit and especially strawberries (we call them “frutillas”), but I had no idea of the historical value that these have!! I will probably be talking about this for weeks 🎉
You talking about the "pineapple strawberry" made me laugh! When I was a teen, I took a summer job in the kitchen of a home for the elderly here in Vienna. We always prepared different fruit platters for breakfast (depending on what was available) and one day we had some strawberries to add to them as well. I was put in charge of manning the fruit section and SO MANY old folks came up to me, gleefully expressing how happy they were that there "finally was some pineapple on the menu again!". I was so confused, thinking at first that maybe they were confusing the canteloupe we also offered for pineapple, but they were all locked onto the strawberries, repeatedly calling them pineapples. I was at a loss. Until, later at home, my mom laughed and explained that, apparently, in certain parts of Austria the commonly available strawberries used to be a variety that was called "Ananas-Erdbeere" (Pineapple strawberry). Thus, there are to this day SOME people (mostly older folks now who grew up speaking certain austrian dialects) that still refer to all strawberries as pineapple. Leaving 16-yo me endlessly confused. 😂
Strangely, there's a wild strawberry that grows as a weed in peoples lawns. Yes they make little, tiny berries. Perfect for birds who eat the ripe berries and spread the seeds when they do their business later.
Back in the day, they (or something similar) grew in my grandparents' garden too. I had some, they were incredibly watery and frankly, not worth the effort.
So that's what I have found here and there in my yard- teensy weensy strawberries. Lots of mental illness in my moms family tree- thought I'd finally 'fell off some kind of edge' lol
Strawberries, especially the smaller perennial, make an EXCELLENT garden border. They also fill in those weird spots, like btw the garage or house, and a walkway/driveway. Grow strawberries! Not as crazy or hard as you think!❤
The only surviving folk song in the original Cornish language pre-revival is called Delkiow Sivy which translates to "Strawberry Leaves" because the chorus has the refrain "Rag delkiow sivy ra muzzy teag" which means "For strawberry leaves make maidens fair". The song dates back to at least 1698 when it was first written down by Thomas Tonkin 😊💖
The wild strawberries are so highly aromatic it almost seems unnatural. I grow a wide variety of strawberries in my garden, but the tiny wild ones that I also grow are always worth picking, even though it's quite the laborious work.
In our garden you'd also find those wild woodland strawberries, both red and white/yellow. Though I'm not a strawberry fan (certainly not the big, pale, tasteless, watery strawberries from the supermarket), but I do love these wild strawberries. And indeed the aroma is so intense!
they smell and taste so much like the strawberry scented erasers and gel pens from way back in middle school that its actually upsetting the first time you try one
When I was little, my aunt had a big patch of those little strawberries and they were my most favorite thing ever. They didn't grow a lot of strawberries, but it was so satisfying when they actually did! The way we had to wait for them to ripen, and then go looking for the reddest ones, and they were so little they went perfectly with the little kitchen playset. Such good memories!
We still very much eat "wild strawberries" here in Sweden, we even grow them ourselves out in our garden here on our farm. We call them "smultron" but I would say they taste pretty different from modern strawberries. We usually string them on a long straw like a necklace and ate them like that. They actually gave name to another thing called a "smultronställe" which is a very special, pretty spot you keep to yourself, just like how you would keep the place you pick your smultron to yourself.
Smultron is not the same as wild strawberries, even if Bergman's film Smultronstället was translated as Wild Strawberries. Smultron is fragaria vesca, and wild strawberry is Fragaria ananassa
Max, when you're reading very old English texts please remember the the "y" was used in early printing to represent the older English letter "þ" (thorn) which is pronounced as "th" . So "ye" is pronounced "the"!
@@veryberry39 Indeed. English lost a bunch of letters because the imported printing presses didn't come with types for them, and printers initially were too stingy to have them custom-made: ƿ, þ, æ and ð. (w, th, ae, and th). ƿ and æ were on their way out anyway, but þ and ð presented a problem. y was used for a while, but that wasn't very smart because there are plenty of ys already in English, before they settled on th for both. Also, those letters not being part of the Latin alphabet but either being Nordic runes (ƿ, þ) or modified Latin (ð is a modified d, easier to see in the uppercase version: Ð) made them unpopular as they were seen as old-fashioned and outdated. This explains why they weren't added back when types were produced locally.
> So "ye" is pronounced "the"! Except, thorn is the unvoiced version of eth (ð|Ð), and the "th" in the definite article for all native speakers of modern English is voiced. But yeah in printing terms, you are correct y == þ. Aaand eth and thorn were somewhat interchangeable. And with all things English… it's a mess! A beautiful, wonderful splashpuddle of contradiction and weirdness.
Here in the UK we have a thing called "pick your own" where members of the public are allowed into fields to harvest the fruit themselves, with the containers being weighed once they were done. I imagine that, if you asked nicely, you could add some leaves to the haul.
Reminds me of huckleberries. Huckleberries make absolutely amazing ice cream and are great in pancakes, but it takes ages tromping through the forest to collect even a cup.
makes me think of the wild grapes that grew in the corner of the Ontario backwoods I grew up in; tiny and hard to find many the birds hadn't eaten, but if you spent a day or two collecting a bucket of them, they beat the pants off any commercial grape for any purpose.
English dude makes dillegrout for the English king, gets an estate and an income. French dude grows strawberries for the French king ... gets a new name.
France was in one of those periods where the monarchy had spent all its money on gambling debts, lost wars, and failing colonial ventures, with which it alternated its periods of glory.
King: “and thus henceforth, you shall be known a-“ Dude: “but I like my last nam-“ King: “-AND HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE CALLED MR STRAWBERRY! BECAUSE YOU ARE VERY GOOD AT STRAWBERRY! TAKE US FROM THIS PLACE MR CARRIAGE DRIVER (ancestor of Adam Driver)”
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="957">15:57</a> The look on Max's face, I could tell the taste was that good. It's like he could hardly wait to tell us how good it was.
I absolutely love your videos!! You've really inspired me to get back into cooking. I was wondering if you would do a video on Horn and Hardart's Automat soon? It's such an underrated piece of history
I really enjoy that painting of "Charles the Simple" No one is happy and he looks like he's saying "IDK what you guys want from me. Kinging is hard, GOSH."
In Polish the small strawberries are called 'poziomki' and the name actually reflects their horizontal (horizontal = poziomy) nature. The 'regular' strawberries are on the other hand called 'truskawki' which derives from a word 'trzask' meaning 'to crack'. Apparently the fragility of these plants had to be so irritating (or maybe uncommon when compared to other types od berries?) for Polish people that they ignored the more obvious features of strawberries like growing them under banches of straw that other nations decided to conserve in their languages.
In a world full of script-readers saying "I hope I'm pronouncing that right" and "Apologies for my pronunciation", I want to commend Max Miller and his team for their continuous effort in pronouncing foreign names and words.
Fun fact: Cows don't like to eat wild strawberry plants(they taste bad) so they grow in abundance in traditional grazing areas, as the cows eat all the other competing plants.
Litteral translation of strawberries is earth berries here as well, the wild ones are considered a weed - but weeds that bring bribes sometimes get to stay..
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Dandelions are great sautéed with onion and garlic and then baked with eggs and cheese. Each spring I make at least one dandelion fritatta with what I collect from my yard. (That said, if you don't care for bitter greens, probably better pass.)
As a kid in school, i loved when the lunch ladies made strawberry Bavarian pie. Light and fluffy but not the same as Max's tart. Yum!!! As an organic gardener in Texas, a tip for growing strawberries is to plant them in hanging baskets to keep the snails away. Also, you can make the plants last for years by throwing them in a greenhouse during the winter, then feeding them a good organic food when you bring them out in the spring. There's nothing like a really fresh strawberry so plant as many as you have room for! 😊 🍓
Those Versailles kitchen gardens of the king are still a thing of wonder, seriously. De La Quintinie had created a system of walled gardens, where the walls would shelter the plants from the cold, thus providing different growing climates for different plants and making an early harvest of ripe fruits possible. He had also invented the method of fastening the branches of fruit trees on these walls, which might look torture for the trees, but actually makes them live longer and bear ripe fruit earlier. All this was spurred on by the vogue in court for fresh fruit and vegetable such as green peas.
Wild strawberries are actually amazingly easy to grow if your home climate isn't too extreme. Years ago, we picked up a wild strawberry plant on a walk in the woods and planted it on a sunny hillside in our garden. Within just a year or two it had basically completely taken over that hillside and we ended up needing to contain the spread of strawberries. Because the thing is, they don't just propagate through blossoms, fruits and seeds like most plants, but they also form stolons/runners, which is a lot quicker.
My mother used to grow strawberries to sell to the grocery store when I was young. The runners grew strawberries much like the wild ones. We would pick the big ones to sell, but the little, sweet, dark red ones were all ours!
I love your channel! It's so unique, fun, and educational. This makes me think about paintings of fruit and vegetables from medieval times and the Renaissance that show us what they looked like hundreds of years ago. They were SO different than what we have now. Plants have been crossbred and cultivated for generations to be consumed by people rather than the animals that the plants originally developed a symbiosis with. It's fantastic to look at how we've evolved plants for our use. And this was your most wonderful video - not just the historic information, but your sheer joy in tasting a delicious long lost dish. And your pie was beautiful as well! I bet it will make a comeback due to you. Bravo!!!
The bakery, where I did my work experience in the 90s, used to make these in summer. They called them Wimbledon Tarts, because strawberries , Wimbledon and summer is a thing here in the UK. I can swear this is exactly how they made them. I remember the job of pulping and straining a whole lot of strawberries. Then you'd take any stale bread from the previous day and turn it into crumb. Always got given one, during the two weeks I was there, with my lunch. That's brought on a whole bunch of sensory memories. Might have to throw together a few of these again. We made them small, about the size of a saucer.
theres tons of wild strawberries near my grandparents house and i used to eat so many every summer when i was a kid. theyre better than farmed strawberries imo but theyre way harder to find enough of!
Will definitely make! No need to blind bake. Just preheat oven with an upside down sheet pan and bake the pie/tart on it. No soggy bottoms. Tip is from Cathy Barrow.
I have made strawberry syrup from just strawberry juice and sugar, and it is really amazing how flavorful that concentrated strawberry is. People treat the flavor of strawberry candy like its completely artificial, but it can be made like this
I've noticed that a lot of the time, it's the really big strawberries that don't have that great of a flavor. I saw a strawberry one time that was about the size of an egg or a little bigger. I thought it would be really good, but it was just kind of tart, and flavorless.
Chile mentioned, always knew that modern strawberries were a crossbreed from the mapuche Freson kelleñ but i didn't knew they initially couldn't grow them in europe due only bringing females by accident.
Wild strawberries taste so much better than cultivated ones. I picked wild blueberries as a child as did my children. We all pick and eat wild berries when we find them on our dog walks and runs.
My mother planted strawberries in our garden because we all love them. Turns out our dogs also love strawberries as they'd always check the plant on the way by to snaffle any ripe berry. We rarely got strawberries from that plant.
Had to laugh at this one.... the neighbor whose garden backed up to ours had 8-10 feet tall fences and when I asked why he said his husky would eat his garden. He tongued off all the raspberries, dug up all the carrots 🥕 and stole the tomatoes! Out of pity I'd throw him the bird pecked tomatoes from my garden and he always looked for me to visit my garden.
Yup, picking wild mushrooms, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, ... was /is still a part of childhood of lucky ones here in Slovakia. (Lucky ones means, the ones who have grandparents/relatives in the countryside where they can go picking those things. And are motivated to do so, because being glued to screen is just more appealling 😂).
I lived on a 186 acre property for 15 years that used to be a farm in the 1890s, until Amazon bought it, evicted me during the start of covid, tore my house down and built a warehouse on my dogs grave (the anger is real) 😤 The entire woods which used to be fields were completely full of strawberries, blackberries and about a dozen cherry trees to one side. Not the wild variety either but full big juicy ones. In the summer I'd collect roughly a 50 gallon drum of each and make jams and pies which id hand out to friends. Even collecting that many the woods were still full. I usually left the rest for the deer and other critters. I sure miss all that free fruit, I didn't even try to tend them and they still put out loads. Wish I knew this recipe back then. I cant express how much I hate Amazon for taking that place from me. Just saying.
I have picked wild strawberries, and the jam I made was sublime... but that was a special-occasion jam. Extended rain at the critical time has spoiled my harvest these past 2 years, I hope that I will have better luck next year.
My garden has a lot of wild strawberries in it. They grow up between the paving slabs around the pond. And yeah they're extra sweet and also very fragrant. A strawberry smelling patio is quite nice.
I like how you talk about wild strawberries like it's something old and forgotten, but it's super common in Sweden to go out and pick berries, wild strawberries included.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="945">15:45</a> that face of surprise and excitement when Max takes that first bite, and he waits and contemplates... He's always so professional and poised, and for whatever reason i was expecting him to just drop a bleeped F-Bomb like "Yo, that's f****** good."
I make this tart regularly every spring, and it is really good. It's just labor intensive, with pressing the berries through the strainer. But my grandson really likes strawberries, so I make it for him. I also found that if you cook the filling a bit in a saucepan, you can pipe it into small tarts or into eclairs. It's really versatile.
Sir, I have been a contributor of yours for a bit. I find you show awesome, and I love the history. Thank you, and I appreciate your openness. Thank you Sir, Glenn
I was today years old when I learned that what I had always considered to be two distinct berries (because in my native language they have different names) are the same berry but one is wild and one is cultivated. Thank you, English language, and thank you, Max.
I have large areas covered in wild strawberries. I let them cover my flower gardens. They feed the bees in spring with their flowers the birds in the summer, they keep weeds down, turn a lovey red in the fall. And they are delicious for morning breakfast in cereal, oatmeal pancakes.
Your expression at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="960">16:00</a> was such a perfect "Holy Sh*t, that's fantastic" face that I wasn't surprised when you said it may be the best thing you've ever made. Excellent endorsement! I'm certainly going to try it now.
Even now, strawberries are still viewed as royal, at least in Belgium: the king is gifted with the first strawberries of the year. And summers are the best time for strawberry lemonade! The tart looks amazing!
Max, just discovered your channel, and I just want to say, I love your enthusiasm and how you immerse yourself in the languages you're speaking and really delve so deeply into this, not just making a strawberry tarte but really a whole extremely interesting history lesson! I was riveted to watching your video! Nicely done!
The Viennese word for strawberry is “Ananas,” which is also the German word for pineapple. I always found that very strange until I read Jane Grigson’s description of Chilean strawberries in Good Things. (In her Fruit Book she recounts the Frézier story that you discuss.)
I used to pick wild strawberries in the woods by the park as a little kid. There were never all that many around but that made the ones I found that much more delicious. As Max said, they are smaller and much sweeter/more fragrant then the store-bought ones. That smell is to die for, I can smell it right now just remembering. Great video triggering a trip down memory lane!
