I bet that butter was so creamy,that Welshman had the same sense of humor that Jennifer & Clarissa had! That River makes me think of Hyacinth Bucket’s riverside picnic with riparian entertainment! 😂
The applecake that Clarissa created is one of the most magnificent things I've ever seen her do. The patience required to push out the pasty in to that monstrous circle, then to fold the ruddy thing using a tablecloth and then to roll it around itself is brilliant!
I liked this episode as it is one of the more obscure yet incredibly colorful local ones . The men were really attractive and the scenery rolling green and hilly.
Learnt to take the backbone out of herrings exactly the same way, back in school cookery class back in the 1960s, still use the method on any fish today, so easy & less messy
Oh the butter guy! He and the Mother Superior from the episode where they cook for the nuns are my fav locals in the series. She runs out and gives them a huge bear hug. So cute.
We always have collard greens and corn bread with Hoppin John. Delicious! I first watched this series about 20 years ago. I learned a lot of good cooking tips and tricks and recipe ideas.
I loved watching this show when it came on in the USA and I find watching these videos most enjoyable! So sorry for the loss of Jennifer. I would love to be able to send my compliments to Clarissa for such a great program.
Before the word, "magic" rolled off their tounges, I was picking up on the rather crafty (as in witchcraft) ways of these two crones. It IS a shame we don't see more really genuine eccentrics on Tele. TFL were living archives of experiences few of us will ever have. Fewer still can articulate magic and history so effectively.
yes they are sadly missed i just bought their recipe book "full throttle" on ebay just the other day love them to bits i watch these series over and over again i never get sick of it bless them
"One has to be very ashamed of it." Thanks for speaking up about your fams involvement, Jennifer. I think I know what you meant when you said your family was a frightful bore.
I'm sure I've mentioned this before -- maybe even on this same clip -- but I've made almost every 2FL recipe from both the shows and the books. That apple cake? Expect issues... It needs a longer cook time and even needs to be turned over about halfway through baking. Not to mention, the dough is almost impossibly dry. Add a tad more liquid...
My great gran said that churning and working the butter was her least-liked chore. Perhaps she'd have liked it better if she'd had the blender/mixer contraption that this gentleman had. Her people always sang like that too. Mine do, but the younger lot, it seems to have faded, sadly. Such voices they had, always song. I mourn its passing.
Is American here, and we normally have hoppin john on New Year's Day, because the maine ingredient is black eyed peas and you're suppose to have black eyed peas for luck on New Year's Day
Wish they showed more of the canals...watched this episode years ago but didn't find out about narrow boats till watching youtubers over the last 5 years or so. And to late for me Togo check it them out for myself...oh, the things I have missed. But I did use this method of cooking small birds on quail right after watching this the first time...so I didn't miss the food...one point for me...
Wait, we like parsley in the US! (I can't vouch for southerners, but as a westerner/northeasterner, we like herbs). My old edition of The Joy of Cooking doesn't include parsley in hopping john, just a bay leaf.
Jennifer needs some sausage in her Hopin-John or it isn't true Hopin-John..I know because I make it quite often on New Year's Day, because where I come from..its good luck to eat black-eye-peas on New Year's Day..but rice and lots of garlic
I spit my coffee out through my nose at around 27:23 - Quercyan Applecake "Not an ordinary apple cake. It repays the GENITAL [???] touch." I'm sure she's saying 'gentle', but it definitely sounds like genital, and I wouldn't put it past her. LMAO
Rather refreshing to hear a person of obvious privilege make mention of regretful family history and grumping about it properly. Love these two to pieces.
I grew up with an English Irish father who immigrated to Canada than America. We ate everything that flew crawled swan and I always said when I grew up my meat would come from the grocers. I eat game occasionally at my brothers but only rarely. However I live the ladies when they cook.
I’m slightly fascinated by these word ladies. Their cooking though seems completely unwarranted, though fun to watch them “ do”. Who would even want to each that meal , even if VERY hungry? Hoppin John? No thanks! Pigeons, with their organs? No way no how! Watching with interest and amusement butwould never actually eat their food!!!! 10
They later talk about mixing game stock. She had pigeon stock but Clarissa at around 10:00 responds to Jennifer querying how she feels about mixing game stock. If you are one who cooks game a lot you keep the bones of the game (quite a few carcasses really I’d say 3-4 birds worth for a 1L-1.5L of stock) and then add your aromatics (carrots, onion (unpeeled is grand it improves the colour), a bouquet garni (your preference of herbs but really game works best with thyme, bay and parsley) maybe a celery stick and lots of water with salt and pepper. Some people also like to stick cloves into the onion, not essential though. Cook for 3-5 hours on a low heat skimming off any fat and scum, then strain, cool and once cooled remove any further fat before using
Clarissa, you were a Theologian and an Englishwoman, an exponent of quality, organic produce, an Anglican stalwart and hence surely an arbiter of ethics, morals and kindness for all God's creations. But still, probably to spite your animal rights foes,. You endorsed fois gras on several occasions. All I can say is, for your contributions, I hope wherever you are, you are very very warm, and very very well fed. Then I hope there's justice for animals who never had a voice but suffered excruciating torture throughout their lives, innocent as they were so you could enjoy a meal for your obese body. You enter the afterlife you expected as you were certainly no atheist. So we hope you're greeted appropriately by the judge.
