A reminder that the over reliance on corn as a staple crop caused much malnutrition in the US, particularly the south, as well as in some parts of Europe and Africa throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and even the 20th century and into the modern day in some poorer parts of the world. Specifically, it was a lack of Vitamin B3 (Niacin), which caused a condition known as Pellagra. It effected millions, and resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands. This is because a process known as "nixtamalization" is needed to break down indigestible starches in the corn, making them possible for our body to process. This also frees protein and essential nutrients, like niacin, that are bound up in those starches, and would normally pass right through your body if the corn isn't processed properly. Yes, this even applies to corn meal and corn starch. To nixtamalize corn, you need to boil the corn in an alkaline water solution, such as limewater, ash water, or lye water. Then let it soak in the solution for several hours. This not only makes many of the corn's nutrients more bioavailable, it also improves the flavor and, depending on what alkaline substance you use, increases the calcium, potassium, or sodium content of the corn. This process was originally practiced thousands of years ago by the Native Americans that were living in the area of modern day Guatemala, and, by the time of European colonization, was in wide use by natives that used maize as a staple crop. Nixtamalized corn in combination with beans was a nearly complete diet, and provides most of what people needed to survive. When the Europeans arrived, they started to grow corn, but did not adopt the nixtamalization process, not knowing why it was necessary. It did thrive, however, in Central America, and that is where most corn nixtamalization happens to this day. The malnutrition caused by over reliance on un-nixtamalized corn was what eventually led to the prevalence of enriched bread, enriched flour, and enriched foods in general, within America. I doubt anybody is going to read my long-winded comment on this 9 year old video, but I still wanted to share this knowledge of food history, and the little known tragedy of Pellagra, which effected as many or more people than Scurvy.

@V.Hansen.

2 жыл бұрын

lye water? I've never heard of this. rabbit hole

@scooper405

2 жыл бұрын

Such as in hominy?

@mcRydes

2 жыл бұрын

"did not adopt the nixtamalization process." Not quite. Europeans in the 18th century English colonies WOULD have generally nixtamalized their corn. The main reason is because doing so makes it easier to grind the corn into flour, requiring less force in the mill and even making hand grinding feasible. As a result Pellagra did not become a real epidemic problem until the late 19th century, when the introduction of new powerful corn mills rendered it profitable to skip the alkali processing before milling. Families that had always lived on a corn diet suddenly found themselves getting sick without understanding their diet had become less nutritious.

@biologicalmoist1856

2 жыл бұрын

Dude who the funk is going to read such a book of a comment?

@originaLkomatoast

2 жыл бұрын

@@biologicalmoist1856 People that want to learn about the past, mainly everyone that watches these videos. Why are you here?

As someone with a lifelong interest in history , I've never understood why people focus on big battles and overlook this kind of awesome stuff. People of the past (thankfully) spent more time making bread than war!

@gcmcknight

4 жыл бұрын

We did a video series on the War of 1812 but we focused on the 'mundane' activities of the impact on the community, women and children and the Quakers who were pacifists. One episode was on food and a family eating the local fare with a voice over

@prussianeagle1941

4 жыл бұрын

Well unlike the ottomans. french, and Brits, well yes bread was made more.

@updownstate

4 жыл бұрын

@@gcmcknight Where can we see your series? I'm very interested.

@gcmcknight

4 жыл бұрын

@@updownstate Here is one on US Prisoners captured in Oshawa kzread.info/dash/bejne/pGeeo8Sjla_Zg6Q.html. Interesting the prisoner was imprisoned at a POW camp in Oshawa Harbour and was cold and he was lent by a British Soldier a Redcoat uniform. The US navy sailed into the harbour and was shot by a US sailor. We have located buckshot and canon balls in the harbour. Very little interest in this local history.

@gcmcknight

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why the other videos are not showing up but i will repost them.

This guy is warm and inviting. Perfect host!

@holdmybeer

8 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@Malconten

8 жыл бұрын

Hear hear.

@BrookNBones

8 жыл бұрын

He has that PBS appeal. Don't think that is an insult. I love watching this kind of stuff.

@Sparkfly88

8 жыл бұрын

+JudgmentDay78 I wish this was on PBS when I was a kid.

@mudbob1

7 жыл бұрын

He does remind me of those shows I really liked like The Woodwright's Shop.

Dude... you make content that's better than most network T.V. shows. Keep up the good work. I subbed immediately to your channel.

@townsends

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!~

@ferociousgumby

6 жыл бұрын

You have the worst name in KZread history.

@thes.a.s.s.1361

5 жыл бұрын

ferociousgumby why??

@llnoobgamingll

5 жыл бұрын

look smegma up

@freedomspromise8519

5 жыл бұрын

BESTPOTATOSALLAD Baaaa!!

These videos make me happy.

@townsends

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@TooLooze

7 жыл бұрын

They make me hungry.

@BlaBla-pf8mf

7 жыл бұрын

These videos make me happy that I live in the 21st century.

@donnadequire-rios3531

6 жыл бұрын

s o d o Me too, I can't get enough of them.

@In_His_presence4ever

5 жыл бұрын

Love watching your videos 👌

This channel is underrated.

@joannebailey8277

4 жыл бұрын

He's got a million subs. Hardly underrated. ;-)

@MrRikisuma

3 жыл бұрын

2 years had passed since that comment :) I'm glad he got the subscribers.

@bobbyhempel1513

3 жыл бұрын

Extremely.

@bobbyhempel1513

3 жыл бұрын

@@joannebailey8277 should be a billion.

I grew up eating cornbread baked with slices of aged white cheddar baked inside. When served I would cut the piece in half and melt a chunk of butter on it and then pour it in a health dose of maple syrup, the contrast of savoury and sweet is delicious. I am having it for breakfast tomorrow morning, I highly recommend!

@townsends

7 жыл бұрын

Now that sounds like something to try!

@ferociousgumby

6 жыл бұрын

How much do you weigh? Just kidding. . .

@bcaye

6 жыл бұрын

I was with you until the maple syrup. I don't care for sweet/savory. I would add an over easy fried egg!

@EvaSnyder

6 жыл бұрын

What is your cornbread recipe?

@kezkezooie8595

6 жыл бұрын

That sounds really tasty!

Yes, it seems as though we do have a time machine of sorts available to us today. If you want to see and sometimes to understand our past and possibly future all we have to do is travel the world to find people living as though it were 200 years ago, 100 years ago and maybe 10 years from today. All hiding in the crooks and crannies of today's world.

@tobiastho9639

6 жыл бұрын

"The future is already here, its just unevenly spread." Don't know where i got it anymore.

@bobsteb61

4 жыл бұрын

Here, here!

My grandfather grew up on a cotton farm in Arkansas during the early 20th century. He always talked about hoe cakes with molasses as a favorite meal. He made them for me as a kid, on his hoe, around the camp fire. Thanks for the nostalgia and an awesome channel. Subscribed!

Dude, that's how I was Taught to make cornbread. I was raised in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. And it's delicious.

@vtheawesome

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Gray I was gonna comment something similar. Growing up in Georgia and north Florida, this is how I saw everyone making it.

@MikeDelphi1

7 жыл бұрын

The equipment is better but a lot of these 18-19th century dishes are still alive and well in the American South East.

@MajorHavoc214

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Gray Same here, but in the Cookson Hills of Oklahoma.

@tiggergolah

7 жыл бұрын

Still a favorite in Texas.

@sathaithai1349

7 жыл бұрын

Mok214 yes I'm from OK too!

Great presenter. Unique content. You've earned yourself a subscriber. Keep it up mate!

@townsends

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@stephenshort9484

7 жыл бұрын

Oliver Christopher Gomez

Indian: We have this versatile crop, that can be used in-line British: GIVE THIS TO THE PIGS, JAMES

@Pyraus

6 жыл бұрын

Bahaha. How did they even come to that conclusion. It's delicous!

@TheSteelEcho666

6 жыл бұрын

Eric Johnson Not as delicious as bacon.

@zemorph42

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheSteelEcho666 But it's even more delicious _with_ bacon.

@XDonlyone

4 жыл бұрын

@@zemorph42 Ooh cornbread with bacon bits in it. 🤤 Maybe even grease the pan with bacon grease.

@Rasbiff

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pyraus IT LOOKS FUNNY

I've been watching these at silly times in the morning when I'm struck with insomnia for some reason. They're strangely addictive. As a British person, I find the colonies and their differences very interesting.

@sathaithai1349

7 жыл бұрын

imtheotherdave same

@ShireWitch

6 жыл бұрын

Same here 😊

@minniemouska4320

6 жыл бұрын

The colonies were influenced by Indians and Africans in their food ways. When I went to England, it amazed me how different ..biscuits to you are cookies to us,when we say biscuits we mean bread.

@PC4USE1

5 жыл бұрын

Our culture in America,although based upon the British, developed into something unique to us.We learned to "make do" because of scarcity or cost(more coffee drinking because of the Tea Tax) or as the video said wheat being shipped back to Europe. I return the compliment by watching videos about life in the U.K.Cheers.

@acow2955

4 жыл бұрын

Lots of American food (like chili con carne, cornbread, etc.) is a fusion of European and Native American (or Mexican) cuisines.

can't believe this was 9 years ago. still one of the best contents in this platform

I love that we get a history lesson along with a recipe and you don’t talk down to us. You are a gem here on KZread. Thank you for taking time out of your day to share something with us ❤️

It's not just the quality of these videos that keeps me here, though that in itself is amazing and I'd love to watch you on TV. What really gets my attention is that you're warm and welcoming and you make me feel like I'm at home.

I had a cousin visit from Poland on a work visa back in 1989. He was appalled when he was served corn, asking why we were serving "animal feed"! It took some explaining to get him to understand that, in the U.S., we also use corn for human consumption. :-)

@tiggergolah

7 жыл бұрын

Too funny. The English once considered oats only fit for animal consumption, and ridiculed the Scots for eating oat cakes and oat porridge (oatmeal?).

@mrdanforth3744

6 жыл бұрын

Englishman: In England we use oats to feed horses, in Scotland you use oats to feed men. Scotsman: Yes sir, that is why they are the best horses and the best men in the world.

@cocvhecv

5 жыл бұрын

That is hilarious. Its especially ironic considering that maize saved Europe from widespread starvation and lead to population increase. Corn is the best.

@qworky902

5 жыл бұрын

That's so funny - my 92 year-old landlady is from Poland, has lived in the US for almost 70 years, and would never dream of eating corn, 'animal feed' as she's called it.

@lindsaygraham5687

4 жыл бұрын

The introduction of corn jnto Africa created a great increase in the population. Corn is still Africa's biggest crop. The introduction of potatoes into northern Europe created a great increase in the population. Potatoes are still a major European crop. Russia and China grow huge amounts of corn, potatoes, sunflowers.

You have a gift for presenting the history of your subject in a way that is as engaging as it is informative; that is truly rare, and I am thankful for the time you take to do it as well as you do. Cheers!

I’m from the UK. I have learned a lot about American history of diet and food that I would never have heard of, if not for these videos.

This show screams PBS! Entertainment and education. I love it.

this guy is so wholesome, i just wanna give him a hug honestly. i always learn so much from these videos.

When my late husband, Dana and I were going through a tough time, we ate half cornmeal half flour pancakes. They were good and filling.

Townsends is probably one of my top favorite Channels on KZread. Straight passion for the historical value and preservation goes into every video. 🔥

Most any "history" I've read in school always has a wealthy spin... it's like we learned a little about these time periods from the "well to do" point of view. Thank you so much for sharing the commoners life. It's so much more real. 💚

The love you have for this is palpable... great work!

Seriously this is one of the most informative shows on youtube. Right up my alley.

I know that it may not be your intent but your videos can be a great source of knowledge for someone preparing for a societal collapse. We are so dependent on technology and it is good to know the ways of our ancestors for both historical and possible practical reasons.

Him: pulls out jiffy boxed cornbread Me:* *gasp* * he doesn't live in the 19th century!

@dansv1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was kind of a shock.

I am thinking of making your fried chicken, baked beans and this corn bread have a proper 18th century meal.

@brissygirl4997

6 жыл бұрын

TheStarTrekApologist Channel how did your 18th century meal work out? Was it as good as you imagined?

@kezkezooie8595

6 жыл бұрын

I'm definitely going to give the fried chicken a try - it looks and sounds delicious.

@SleepMeditationandAffirmations

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@kahldrialeighsun1208

5 жыл бұрын

Oh man.. can I come over and we can watch Star Trek (any of them love it all) and have dinner? I'm lonely. 😔

Actually I make my cornbread from scratch. I dont use those modern mixes. I even have a cast iron skillet I bake it in.

@anthonyvandyke1021

7 жыл бұрын

Nate River You can't make half decent cornbread without a cast iron skillet!

@robertandrew5328

5 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyvandyke1021 cast iron is a necessity. I keep a set of cast irons in my truck when I go camping... and another set in the kitchen.

@grandcatsmama3421

5 жыл бұрын

That's the best way to cook cornbread! In a cast iron skillet!

@amber.4660

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. I didn’t like cornbread much when I was growing up, but I love it now, and make it often, the same way my Gma made it.

@Jack-pm1ve

5 жыл бұрын

How else would you make cornbread if not in a cast iron skillet? I just found this website and I'm totally amazed by it

For real, i love this series (18th century cooking). Right now its my favorite thing in youtube. Keep up the amazing work, i can’t wait to see more

Really enjoying this channel, keep it up. Love the mix of cooking and history, subscribed :)

@townsends

8 жыл бұрын

+Richard Ewins Thanks for the comment - and - thanks for watching!

dude, your videos are amazing. Really, really, really interesting. It's clear you have a passion for this subject and that's really cool :)

@Sanctifiers

7 жыл бұрын

your* = possession you're = you are

@CarlSagan6

7 жыл бұрын

You caught me fair and square

Wow, I ate like that growing up here in the south. wonderful to know how it was handed down through the generations. I still make beans and corn bread even now. thank you for the video.

@5roundsrapid263

8 жыл бұрын

+frugalnanny This recipe is very similar to the cornbread I grew up eating in the South. My family recipe has an egg and no molasses, however. My preference is a 2:1 ratio of corn to wheat, but some use less wheat, or even all corn.

@anthonyvandyke1021

7 жыл бұрын

frugalnanny Me too my grandmas corn bread is very similar.

@gringofett3944

5 жыл бұрын

@@5roundsrapid263, Yep then you put it in a cast iron skillet. While I do love the "Jiffy" yellow corn mix. I miss with all my being the unsweet dry white cornbread my grandmother made for us. Served hot with butter it was the perfect accompaniment to fried potatoes. That's how we do it in Georgia.

@UrsahSolar

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, my grandma used to fry unsweetened corn dough on the stove. They were like a dense biscuit and they tasted great with butter.

This guy gives me hope for the human race! always learning something new& a really postive person

your dedication to historical cooking and life of the 18th century is commendable and interesting....

I learned from my mom how to make 'Hot water cornbread' by pouring hot water over the cornmeal mixing and then frying it in an iron skillit. Not much difference but the molasses,milk and butter add a fabulous touch. I think I will try it.

I happened upon your channel during a cornbread search. While I might prefer a moister cornbread recipe, I see me watching MANY of your videos on 18th C. cooking. If I find a Christmas video, I may just faint. Thank you!

@PinayBeautyandStyle

8 жыл бұрын

+Maiasatara have you seen the holiday special? He made so many pies, it's a real feast!

@donnadequire-rios3531

6 жыл бұрын

Maiasatara oh he has plenty of Christmas time videos, ur gonna luv them.

I just love this channel, it keeps our heritage and spirit alive!

It sure doesn't hurt to have this knowledge in the event of something disastrous. Those looked quite palatable. It actually looks very good and if hungry it looks great. Thanks!

This is one of your best videos. I love it when you get into the economic and historical rational for certain recipes.

I love this series,its interesting,fun and informative.So happy creative and enjoyable people want to share their knowledge.

You really need your own History Channel show to bring quality back to that entire channel.

This channel is so interesting, I respect the effort in aesthetics and kitchenware.

once again another informative and educational show!!!!! thanks again for help keeping this part of our history alive...#1 fan

You should open a restaurant called Colonial Cooking

@ranakeen9884

3 жыл бұрын

A whole chain of restaurants worldwide!!

I just love the old days OMG. Thank you. The olden days Nothing like them.

Jon's enthusiasm is infectious. These videos both teach me and make me feel more cheerful.

Curiously enough, this are incredibly similar to a very popular dish in the northern countries of south america called "Arepas"

@Trund27

3 жыл бұрын

sacwchiri loooooove arepas!

im so happy to have found these wonderful videos. i have decided that this year all of my holiday meals will be colonial recipes. i will be making my corn bread just as you have done and i cant wait for my family to try it.

@xsbenya

6 жыл бұрын

EmPi was it good?

I cannot Express my love for this channel and all the hard work that goes into what they provide

I love that you are so happy about it. Makes me enjoy these even more. Came for old timey stuff, stayed for you, mister!

I found a store that sells cornmeal here and tried something similar but I used an egg as a binder instead of wheat flour. Ingredients - Cornmeal, butter, water, an egg, onion flakes, garlic flakes, salt, pepper and mustard powder.

Beans and cornbread had a fight, beans knocked cornbread outta sight!

@ritalawson7020

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you are a martyre to flatulence😂

Educational and fascinating as always. And I didn’t even have to pay or go to a museum. Thank you for sharing your love and passion for the 18th century. You are making an impact and reaching people all over the world. The channel is so warm and welcoming.

Comforting sanity is what you bring to a lot of us. Thank you so very, very much❤️

My old grandmother still makes ho cake! lmao I cracked up when you called them that. I make them as well, very tasty with jam and butter, piece of country ham, and a sunny side egg! Glass of coconut milk... Oh man, thanks for this recipe! You took me back to grandmas.

@michaelbregman5594

5 жыл бұрын

Isn't it cool how food can do that to you?

@joesmoe8983

4 жыл бұрын

corn bread patties.

I love the research that your show puts into the subjects. Your almost an opioid to Outlander Fans.

I truly hope I find something in life that I enjoy as much as this man enjoys sharing his love for the 18th century. You have my subscription Townsends!

I love all your cooking videos! These are great not just for the period reenactor but for emergency preparation. Recipes and techniques that can be made and done without benefit of modern appliances are of great value!

Englishmen were comically fearful of and slow to try out every New World food because they thought it was dangerous, and yet they took to tobacco like fish to water. Kind of ironic

@tiggergolah

7 жыл бұрын

Too true. Smoked like chimneys, but thought that tomatoes were poisonous. The Scots-Irish, on the other hand, were no such snobs about food -- too poor to be picky! Not only did we adopt and adapt native ways of cooking and farming, we intermarried. I'm part Cherokee myself, and the cooking habits passed down in my family show it. Ever pushing the frontier farther westward, through the forests and over the Appalachian Mountains, we were the one group suspected and feared most by the British soldiers.

@billvolk4236

7 жыл бұрын

Be careful. When you're boasting that your people's food is better than English food, that's not exactly high praise. The English somehow conquered a quarter of the planet without ever learning to feed themselves. The only British cuisine today that's actually edible was stolen from India and Pakistan.

@ausintune9014

6 жыл бұрын

you cant claim peas peas are a plant not a dish

@kezkezooie8595

6 жыл бұрын

In Australia, we cook pumpkin all the time as a savoury vegetable and my mother-in-law, who migrated here from the UK in the 60's, always used to call it sheep's fodder lol. My favourite is baked pumpkin as part of a roast dinner although I love it boiled, steamed or made into a soup.

@Cactuskid118

5 жыл бұрын

Apart from the great English contribution to world cuisine - bacon and eggs! Even poor labourers would have a small garden, in which they kept a pig and a couple of chickens. Using both, with the addition of a couple of other ingredients such as mushrooms (and later those 'poisonous' tomatoes) we gave rise to 'The Full English Breakfast', known and loved worldwide.

I tried making this today using ground up and sifted popcorn kernels. It actually turned out quite good. There's a bit of work to grind the kernels, but worth it since finding non-gmo corn meal is hard to find where I'm at.

I binge watch your Channel. And I posted on a couple of things and I must say that I just get a pure joy out of watching you. I like the music you chose to play in your videos as well. It makes me very happy

Great channel. In Northern Croatia a similar type of corn bread is very common. Also goes well with fresh cheese, S&P and paprika powder.

Can't get enough of that opening song

God bless you, Jon. I think this KZread is so valuable for preserving history. Thank you so much and God bless!

I never get tired of this show. Because the simple things in life are often the Best 👍👍👍 And I love the music 😀💕👍👍👍

How eerie that I was looking for a cornbread recipe, and there we are... Townsends did it first.

When I was in culinary school, I did a study on corn bread. I noticed that alot of people complained that old cornbread recipes didn't work. It turns out that someone, sorry I can't give them credit because I can't remember their names, figured out that the reason was that in the old times, corn meal contained the entire kernel. germ and everything. Unfortunately, that opens cornmeal up to spoiling. In modern times, our cornmeal is different. It's bereft of anything that could allow it to spoil. Consequently, the recipes don't work. If you have a recipe from your great grandmother and you want to try it, go to a mill and get fresh ground corn meal. It will work fine. Just don't try to store this corn meal for a long time, as it will likely go rancid.

@its1110

4 жыл бұрын

Same for many wheat breads.

If you get a chance to readdress your corn meal breads, try mixing in some regular cooked corn or sliced hot peppers, like jalapenos or other favorite. Mixing in cooked vegetables like this can moisten and soften the bread for immediate eating. My little daughter says thank you for the hot chocolate recipes as well!

@samanthavanscoder9536

6 жыл бұрын

Arariel3 broccoli cheddar poblano!

Mom was born and raised on the family farm in Mississsippi. She subsequently moved off to college met my father had me and never went back to the farm. To my luck I was raised and taught farm cooking and one of the dishes was corn bread from scratch, It was delicious. Even today now that my mother is gone, she would be happy that I continue to cook it today for my family and they love it. She would love your show by the way.

We love cornbread!! Awesome recipe! Thank you again for sharing

We from Thamil nadu of India , use this for making porridge , dosa , ans idly and tastes great

This sounds a lot like corn pone, something mentioned quite a lot in Huckleberry Finn.

I love you, this is fantastic, thank you for keeping the old ways alive, one never knows when they might come in handy.

I am so hooked on your video's, thank you so much for all the time and work you put into everyone of these. Cooking and history lesson all in one.

The term 'corn' also referred to large granules of salt- hence corned beef, which has nothing to do with maize, but is salted beef. It is interesting to note how what is considered good to eat, or not, is dictated by what is essentially 'food snobbery' Goat meat and milk are other examples. Beef and dairy cows require more land to keep than a small flock of goats, so most any peasant or poor rural person could keep and eat goats, and their milk. Still the most widely consumed meat in the world, the rising demand in America is largely due to immigrant populations. Yet this food is part of the heritage of most everyone with ancestors from Europe, much of Africa, the near and middle east, and much of Asia.

@Jefferdaughter

9 жыл бұрын

Jefferdaughter Along the same lines, remember that books were only for the relatively well-to-do people, until recent times. Cooking was one of the last things to be recorded in books, because the 'help' who did the cooking, or women in the family, had never been taught to read (or were actively discouraged from learning). Also, cooking was something learned as a matter of course. A book on how to cook would be like a book on how to get dressed or tie your shoelaces.

@kasumikojiro7221

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you could raise deer the same way you would a cow or a goat ?

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166

4 жыл бұрын

fancy seeing you here.

The cornbread was delicious. Bit odd without cracking an egg in the mix, though. Were eggs generally not used for this sort of thing?

@showtale8325

5 жыл бұрын

The molasses would be the emulsifier and also gave it a flavor contrast..eggs may not have been available to the people cooking this

Cooking and history, what a great combo! Can't stop watching your channel!

You're so warm and easy to watch. The kind of child-like giddiness is happy thing only compounded by the jangly music you got in the back ground. I might actually try this recipe soon. You have a new subscriber.

love cornbread anyway i can get it (or make it) but i hat that jiffy box stuff! !!.

Omg, Johnny Cake! My mother had a handed down recipe that we don't know how old it was, for Johnny Cake. So good. To bad the recipe was lost, due to a problem with the storage of some of my moms stuff. Got wet.

Ordinarily when you go back and watch a seven year old youtube video the production and video quality is noticeably diminished. But it seems that Townsends has been more or less flawless since its inception; even the oldest episodes hold up marvelously.

I am LOVING the history + food direction of the new videos!

Thanks for the recipe! I would be interested in hearing more about the varieties of corn available at the time. I've read that in Mexico they have dozens of traditional varieties of corn in many colors. Here in the US we don't see many varieties. I wonder what was available in the 18th century, how it looked and tasted.

@albertohinojosa9216

6 жыл бұрын

R.D. Dragon We have even more recipes using corn or maíz

5:21 lmao wait... what have I done here...

Enjoying your presentations immensely. Informative and entertaining. Thanks!

Enjoy everything you do! Please, keep cooking.

Most of your videos make me HUNGRY!!!!

You should do an episode on acorn bannock.

It is videos like this very one that I think will have lasting and historical power. Today is March 27th, 2021. I see you published this video back in May of 2012. Excellent

I love your commitment to keeping history alive

Um that's my moms recipe minus the molasses and she uses butter milk my wife also makes it that way but we use cast iron skillet been eating it my whole life.

Dear Mr. Townsend, I noticed that you often wear gauntlet type gloves around the cooking hearth. Did housewives and other cooks wear such gloves when cooking too, or were they more likely to use a fabric potholder, or rag to handle hot items with? Personally, I'd rather use the gloves as I use oven mitts today. I'm just wondering how common leather gloves were for cooking back in the time you represent.

they make me happy too, im so addicted to the content and enthusiasm put into this. thank you

I truly appreciate your old worldview of what was good. The meat pie is to die for!

Great cooking ideas! Just want to mention that scalding milk is only necessary for using raw milk. The heat provides and enzyme change. So if a person is using store bought cooked milk, no need to scald.

Is there any recipes for 18th century candy?

@brissygirl4997

6 жыл бұрын

Sidney Pendergrass i was thinking the same thing!

@Melissa.Garrett

5 жыл бұрын

Sidney Pendergrass I suspect the most common candy was candy apples, or toffee apples. It’s very few ingredients, and relatively cheap (plus apples, molasses, etc. could be stored for a long while.

You still amaze me. It seems to be a habit with you, to amaze your viewers. I guess I could tell you how much I love you, but you've been hearing that for a long time now. Some day, your daughter will have grandchildren who look at these videos and comments and wonder at our lack of tech. We can smile now, and look at that unseen day as a future blessing that we are only hoping for now. Pretend hugs, because I'll never really hug you! Bright Blessings always! ~Cat

I am obsessed with this channel....informative and so relaxing.