I love this series so much, it seems like two BFF’s who are massive history geeks that were just given a budget, transportation, and an all access pass into all the places their childhood geeky selves dreamt of. Basically, it’s everything I’ve ever wished would happen to me.
I just found this series today and I absolutely ADORE it! and I have to say I shared her reaction on the kitchen and all the BEAUTIFUL, well kept, copper cooking ware (It's certainly a task to maintain it in that beautiful of a condition while still using them; like silver there was a lot of care involved to prevent oxidization and blackening from the heat) I am so jealous, I hope to find copper cook ware someday. Copper is AMAZING for heat distribution and from what I remember it can be seasoned like you can with Cast Iron though- don't quote me on that one, I may be wrong as this was a long time ago I heard this and it could have been from someone who is not experienced with them
I don't know so much about copper but I certainly know about the cast iron I'm from the deep south and we were raised and learn how to cook on cast iron skillets and pots
I'm dyeing now that I moved out of my Granny's and don't have cast iron yet.. can't make biscuits, cornbread, pancakes, gravy or even fry cube stakes right!!! They are so expensive but the are a family heirloom if taken care of properly. Im next in line for my great great great great Granny's flat cast iron skillet (along with the other ones my Granny has) if anything happens to my her. My mom will try to get them but I've already been told they are mine! I will be getting my own set soon that I will donate so someone who can't afford them can have them for their family hopefully.
Aesthetic was everything with the Victorians, and I absolutely adore it. I have always been incredibly enamored with this era as well as Renaissance and Medieval. Especially I've always been fond of the art. As an artist, myself, I have always had a particular love for artists such as Richard Dadd, Frederic Leighton and others. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this series a few days ago, I'm also a Queen Victoria fangirl!
You have to admit the Victorian Style Dishes look really good and it's very interesting on how they were made because you can imagine how long it took for the chefs and cooks to prepare these dishes to Queen Victoria from her childhood to the end of her reign.
I'm a 29 year old Englishman and I've never heard of anything even remotely like it. Are you sure? My grandparents are Belgian and they tell me that mayonnaise was rare here, and seen as foreign and quite alien when they first arrived in the 60s
Yes, but unusually prepared and plated asparagus in an uncommonly elaborate pastry shell. Still, they were lucky to get a good glass of wine to go with their fairly bland final treat.
I'm absolutely in love with the kitchen and the copper pots. I remember my grandma would decorate the kitchen by hanging these pots all over she had cake molds and all. I wanted to cook with the pots to see how the food would come out. She would not not allow it. These make me remember that. I really miss her so much. I want to say thank You for sharing these posts to You Tube. It helps me so much. Everything you do and show gives me dejà vu. It's awesome.. spectacular. 💜
Hehehe! I can understand her concern with the copper pots (as they have a very specific care technique like silver) but they are WONDERFUL for cooking. Glad this could unlock some memories for you though! ^^
in the mid-century modern kitchens it was all the fashion to have fruit and fish shaped gelatin molds on the kitchen wall for decoration, copper of course!
They way they say Harewood lol. You can tell they aren’t from Yorkshire lol. Iv been to this place, iv actually got art there and can say the place is beautiful, the kitchen to the summer houses and gardens.
While these homes and castles are undoubtedly beautiful, if you have to choose between two go to the museums. When I was in London the paintings made me want to cry...silly I know, but they were so exquisite it looked like a living person...really its just so hard to describe. I truly hope you are able to go someday.
@@ss-mm7zo You are easily able to do both. In fact I highly recommend people venture out away from London and explore something else in England: see a historic village/ town, a grand medieval cathedral, a castle, an ancient monument/ ruin, the English countryside or of course a stately home. If you are not able to leave London then of course there’s plenty of historic monuments within the city itself (much are UNESCO). Plus of course you must remember that many of these homes/ castles are themselves filled with some of the finest paintings/ furniture/ porcelain/ tapestries etc in Europe. For example Harewood House (featured in the above video) contains an incredible furniture collection worth hundreds of millions, including the largest (and finest) collection of Chippendale furniture anywhere; specially commissioned alongside Robert Adam’s (another master of his trade) interiors back in the 18th century. Not to mention many other treasures including one of the finest private collections of oriental porcelain, Renaissance paintings and English landscape and portraiture of the 18th century.
Love this series, don't mean to knit-pick, but should have used a different serving platter for the asparagus pastry in order to showcase the intricate detail of pastry design. Also, they need to carefully dust the tops of curtains and carved gold wood. Just my 2 cents.
@@AnHeC no there were more advanced and clean civilizations but they wont get the romanticized coverage as the tutor or Victorian eras of the European culture
Although I love this show, sometimes Rosemary is plain rude towards Tim. You can spot that 25:18 his remarks about the asparagus being a little too al dente. I felt that Tim. He has always been nice to her.
26:32 It is KILLING me that they're just touching the watch without gloves on. I really hope they polish the metal after, it would be awful if it tarnished from the oils on their hands, let alone from the food they were just eating.
Miranda S. I have a gold watch passed down through my family from the 1800’s. Considering how many times it was touched with ungloved hands over 200 years, one more time won’t hurt. It’s gold, not paper.
While I do agree about the food, it’s a bit of a myth that you need to wear gloves when handling antiques. I’ve spoken with several archivists who would agree and have myself held 700 yr old books with bare hands. 🤔Many experts will tell you they actually think not wearing gloves is safer, and that relatively clean hands do not impart significant oils/bacteria, etc
They never tell us how you'd go about eating these elaborate dishes they make. An asparagus tower is nice to look at, but how did they eat it without looking like idiots? Or maybe they were just too rich to look stupid stabbing asparagus out of that creation.
A butler often passed a dish to an under butler who would hold the dish as the butler portioned out the food onto individual plates in order of priority. This was fairly standard and can be seen in another episode
I love this !! But how does this history change now that there is a new King ? I’ve read that the Coat of Arms were covered in front of the Royal Palace and that the Queen has moved out of the Palace . Where ,when and why was this unknown King hidden for so long ? It is has been since the late 1800 I believe , is everything we have learned of history untrue ?
It's not unknown. It is the Jacobite line of succession that some consider the true line, from the exiled Stuart King, James II. The Hanover line was the line that took over of which Queen Victoria was the last, when the throne passed to her son it became the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until 1917 after which King George V (Queen Elizabeth II's father) changed it to Windsor due to the association with the Germans. The coat of arms being covered Ive not heard anything about but I have heard she is in Scotland at Balmoral during Covid-19.
King George V was Queen Elizabeth's II grandfather. the name change happened in 1917, WWI. HMTQ father, King George VI ascended to the throne in 1937 before WWII
I love asparagus that I've never tried it with mayo I have with garlic and olive oil and sesame seeds that's real good and I stir fry them in a skillet cuz I don't like them real done cuz I love them to be half done Angel and actually people Angel and actually people don't know it but asparagus is really a finger food yeah are you surprised
Or the arrests for trespassing. Freedom to walk the countryside was only passed in the 1950’s. Soon to be reinstated. People’s rights? No such thing. Delusional population
The castles were beautiful zella's Manas Chateau the States of whatever you want to call it they were immaculately clean but the people that lived in occupied these palaces they were nasty people and they stunk as history history says and I believe it their hygiene was not that good at all that's why they all die too damn venereal diseases
Yes the majority are still lived in by the descendants of those that built them, just like those at Harewood House (featured in the above video) which is the home to the Earl of Harewood and his family.
@@c.s.7266 Harewood House is not controlled by English Heritage or the National Trust, but is privately owned by the family that live there (the Earl of Harewood). Many thousands of others across the country as either privately owned/ part owned by the family and part by a charitable trust/ completely in the hands of a charitable trust; most will be open to the public as well as doing anything extra (that isn’t the normal day-to-day running of the acres of estate), to raise the millions required to run houses of this size (for example Chatsworth House costs around £16-17 million to run per year).
Nothing went to waste. Leftovers and scraps were used to make other dishes, eaten by servants, given to the poor, if unsuitable for people the scraps would be fed to the pigs and chickens, and what very little was left went in to the compost. Today's enormous food waste which is more than any time in history, would horrify the Victorians.
