I’m addicted to pottage and have been for many years ,it’s my go to comfort food. Good stock and lots of beans and barley. Add a hearty bread and tuck in.

@lay8710

10 ай бұрын

Same

@mf3281

9 ай бұрын

I can't stop laughing at this comment. Addicted to pottage is just so interesting lol

I'm here after playing Kingdom Come Deliverance, where as i can eat from any pottage no matter royal or peasant in that game

@yearlong5179

2 жыл бұрын

i just looked up what did middle age farmers eat and learned how to make bread, i want to grow some rye when i get older and try to make some rye bread and some pottage

@SquidBeats

2 жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ is God and is the only way

I make the peasant version. Greens from the allotment plus onion and potato for thickening (because it's easier than medieval thickeners). I use edible weeds, thinnings, herb tops, herbs, veg tops, grape leaves, marshmallow leaves, blackberry leaves, raspberry leaves, blackcurrant leaves, all sorts of things. I bring it all up to a simmer with the lid on, turn the heat off and leave it for half an hour before blending.

@UPGardenr

Жыл бұрын

Will try this

@willsilvermusic

Жыл бұрын

fake peasant alert!!!! potatoes weren't available to english peasants in the medieval period. they're american!!!!

@RosieS214

Жыл бұрын

@@willsilvermusic Yes they are. Thank you for mansplaining.

We give veg scraps to our cows. The meat endings are cooked and given to our various farm yard cats. Why anyone though it was a good idea to give meat to herbivores us beyond me. Lovely recipe. Thank you

Wow I love how you used game instead of more commercial options.

Main dish for my skyrim party 😂

@Cata995

6 жыл бұрын

LMAOO

@fen4ri

6 жыл бұрын

that sounds soooo fun i wanna steal your idea XD good excuse to eat hearty medieval food

@redsword7382

4 жыл бұрын

Skyrim!

Peasants not having meat is a bit of a myth. Salami, jamon, and other such "delicacies" were originally peasant's food. It was their way to preserve the meat for long periods of time.

@Angie2343

Жыл бұрын

Ah! Cool!

Wow, this is impressive. Well done!!

So, they didn't have potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, capsicum peppers, chillies, pumpkin, marrows or (maize) corn niblets, Lima beans, like we do, today, in our stews and soups, because they hadn't yet been brought back from America. Did I leave any vegetables out of that New World list? So many new fruits came from there, too. 😋🍓

@axelbruv

7 жыл бұрын

Potatoes came from the New World? Well I never.

@Diniecita

4 жыл бұрын

There were beans and peas that grew in Europe at the time. Fava beans would be the closest to Lina beans. Pease porridge was really popular.

@stephenroney2366

3 ай бұрын

Nope. plus turkey and tobacco as well.

@zuditaka

3 ай бұрын

@stephenroney2366 I don't think they had scarlet runner beans in medieval times, as they came from Peru, in the mountains, as I recall. But they may have had some other types of climbing beans. Scarlet runners have a tuber that comes up for several years. I recall that the tuber is supposed to be edible. Oh, "Jerusalem" artichokes come from the States, too! lol

How to make pottage. 1:08 - make sure you got squirrels in the larder...

That looks so delicious

Satisfying! ❤️

I find watching your videos very enjoyable, thank you for sharing. I admit I was waiting for you to rinse the freezer ice off the beans to reduce any possible freezer burn taste but you tossed it right in the pot! Also, I tend to cringe when I see how much sugar you add to jellies and jams, and I laugh when you cook berries with bits of stems, twigs and leaves included. I suppose to leave them in doesn't really hurt anything, and anything with that much sugar is bound to taste good! It just seems unusual to me, which makes watching more interesting because I realize there's many ways to do things, it doesn't have to be my idea of perfect to still be good. I might even try some of your ideas and see what happens! Blessings to you and yours. :)

this looks sooo good

@astroboirap

7 жыл бұрын

no it fucking doesnt

@droidnewton5610

5 жыл бұрын

@@astroboirap you're right, it doesn't look appealing but watching this gentleman cook it, I can say it would taste delicious!

No squirrel in Morrisons... so I got chicken! 🤣🤣🤣

great idea - but I'm STUNNED by how much nutmeg! That can be rather overwhelming. BTW - did ou use any slat? I know the rich would have had some - or even poorer people who lived by the sea and could make it.

@bodeaalex1142

6 жыл бұрын

Evelyn Barney Nutmeg looses flavour very quick with heating. Should be added only at the end, after the pot is taken away from the heat source. So all that nutmeg he added at the beggining of cooking should be barely present in the final flavour.

@914050

6 жыл бұрын

In fact, added salt was essential for even poor people living in areas such as England, as they wouldn't have gotten enough to survive through their usual diet. I recommend the BBC series Tudor Monastery Farm to learn more about medieval life. The presenters live as medieval farmers for a year. They actually make salt the medieval way in episode 6.

@droidnewton5610

5 жыл бұрын

People worked for salt. That's where the origin of salary came from. Well before the medieval period though.

@johnny_pilot

5 жыл бұрын

@@droidnewton5610 Thank you... I didn't realise that, but "salary" makes sense. Does the word originate from the Romans by any chance? My hometown in England (Droitwich) was named Salinae to the Romans as it was and still is a natural brine town.

@wowo666

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnny_pilot Yes. A salary refers to a salt ration given to roman legionaires.

I'm sure it tastes better than it looks 😂

@johnny_pilot

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be so sure! 🤣

Did you take the herb bundle out after some time? How would the "police" find out if pigs were fed kitchen scraps? It's a straightforward way to prepare dried seeds. Today people always need a recipe to eat, better if it has a foreign untranslated name.

What an interesting and informative video. Is "game" meats something that can be purchased in a UK grocer? I also did not not that it was illegal to feed scraps to animals. I had never heard of hissup herb, neat. The stew looked good and you have given me some ideas for further examining.

@jonathanwallace

5 жыл бұрын

Some shops sell game if they have a local supply but most grocers don't sell it. The ban on feeding kitchen waste to animals goes back to 2001 when there was a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK.

Thank you for showing me this KZread.

Over here, it's almost cruel to not give your pigs dinner scraps.

Yum

There are *many* recipes for pottage! I’m confused as to why you would say they aren’t. I haven’t seen one that uses gelatin as a base though. Where did you get your information from? I’m sure there would have been some gelatin in the broth that is the base of most of the pottage recipes I have seen, but for thickening, almond milk, eggs or grated bread seem to be what was commonly used

@turkishcoffeeguy

5 жыл бұрын

Merindah Thornton any stock from trotters is automatically gelatin.

While live animals were more valuable to the peasants and serfs of the medieval period than dead ones as meat, the idea that they only rarely ate meat, or were nearly vegetarian is a ridiculous one. Fishing was far more popular then than now, and there would also be hunting of squirrels, rabbits, and birds.

Not allowed to feed kitchen scraps lmao

so i don’t need to use these ingredients specifically? like say i thee in bits of some leftover steak and just didn’t add the spices, yes it would probably taste awful but would it still work?

@jonathanwallace

2 жыл бұрын

There is no specific list of ingredients. Back in the medieval period, people would have used whatever was available to them. The poorer you were, the less meat would have been used in pottage. Indeed, most of the time there would be no meat in it. The wealthier you were, the more likely you would be eating meat.

I wanna make pottage now.

no salt???

will you be doing peasant food pottage??

Can I use weak beer/ale instead of normal water?

@jonathanwallace

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, we sometimes use our old homemade beers that have gone a bit flat in making soup, stews and postage.

So no salt? Was salt difficult to aquire?

How can you eat it?😮

I do believe that even the poorest peasants would have a pig in the yard or some fish from the rivers for their potage.

@user-ek2zx8tt2k

5 жыл бұрын

Well that really depends. In winter when animals were slaughtered for food there probably would be some meat. Fish is a little iffy however, due to the fact that nobles couldn't eat meat on: Fridays, Wednesdays, Lent, Advent or Saturdays. They resorted to fish. So most lords would not let you harvest fish from a water source. Unless you were a free man.

I love your voice

I ❤ pttsgr

Why the ban on kitchen scraps for stock chow?

@jonathanwallace

7 жыл бұрын

It goes back to the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 which is believed to have started when contaminated food was fed to livestock.

@stevebordian9873

7 жыл бұрын

jonathanwallace I see. Thanks.

@quietone748

5 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanwallace Yes...meat scraps and such. Not vegetable scraps, which don't carry the prions. Livestock in the UK were being fed dry food that included ground-up sheep, pig and cow brains and spinal cords, which is where the prions reside.

You are so good looking!

From the French, 'potage' meaning soup, I guess...?

@caringancoystopitum4224

5 жыл бұрын

Gaggy Mott It is from the english language and basically means 'cooked in a pot'

Don't know if I'd fancy eating squirrel. It wouldn't surprise me if rat went in there too as many destitute people of the world have had to survive on rodents. Think I'll stick to a tin of Irish stew !!

Hobo stew, Gypsy stew

@UPGardenr

Жыл бұрын

What every you had on hand

See I thought pottage was indeed anything cooked inside of the pot or the jar and there you go it is pottage the recipes that you have you cook in a pot to make pottage but I'm very impressed at your cooking abilities but you are a little confused

Hey can you get rid of your clock in future??? :) tick tock tick tock

Very accurate. You should eat from a wooden bowl.

Where the heck do you live that you cant feed kitchen waste to livestock? That is Insane....

@vincitveritas3872

4 жыл бұрын

House holders with a few chickens still do

Lord have mercy. Squirrel? Rabbit? I’m glad I’m living now and not then. I make pottage with vegetables, barley, and oats.

Without grains or pulses this is just soup

Be careful with nutmeg. Although nutmeg is a wonderful spice, if you consume 1 whole nutmeg you will die. It will kill you. So depending on how much you eat of it at a time; remember spices can kill. Watch your use of rosemary as well. Just don't use too much of these wonderful things.

@terriatca1

6 жыл бұрын

You will not probably die, but will have a serious hallucinogenic trip.

@MothCreature13

5 жыл бұрын

He didnt eat the whole pot, or rather two in one go. The amount that you get in an individual portion is rather small

@quietone748

5 жыл бұрын

What is the issue with rosemary?

Good video but that looks absolutely rancid.

@johnny_pilot

5 жыл бұрын

LOL! It's just not a cheeseburger and large fries, is it? 🤣 But, I guess pottage was their 'fast food' in the medieval period. I'd love to go into Macdonalds and ask for a Mcpottage! 🤣

nutmeg. nonsense. keep it real at least.