absolutely lost it when John basically did historical fiction about an officer just to justify putting nutmeg in there. Never change, buddy.

@MissingRaptor

4 жыл бұрын

Yup! 😂😂😂

@jjsupah

4 жыл бұрын

time? ah got it 6:08

@virginiaeatchel

4 жыл бұрын

Robert Thompson SPICE MELANGE

@marlon8597

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@broncotrolly

3 жыл бұрын

Big Pitzmans vibes

"What is the next ingredient?" "Nutmeg." "What? No its not." "Yes, it is." "What' your name, soldier." "Townsends, sir." "Oh, right, carry on. Nutmeg it is."

@TheSamster1072

3 жыл бұрын

you are funny love

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

Unknown to me, I had Burgoo this morning.

@zyanidwarfare5634

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure nutmeg to John is like crack to a crackhead

@tanyagarcia3721

2 жыл бұрын

lol you got a point there with that

I can proudly say, yes i have watched a man boil water with oatmeal and then add molasses and eat it for 8 minutes when i could've been asleep at 2 am on a week day.

@chanku18

2 жыл бұрын

Same tbh

@dingdong2103

2 жыл бұрын

1am for me :)

@falloutfart9917

2 жыл бұрын

I’m here at 11pm

@xGODSNINJAx

Жыл бұрын

3:29am on a Tuesday

@zenab92

Жыл бұрын

Haha how relatable

"Doctor Johnson proposed to define the word ‘oats’ thus: ‘A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.’ And I replied: ‘Aye, and that’s why England has such fine horses, and Scotland such fine people.’" -James Boswell.

@scottydu81

2 жыл бұрын

“Well that just puffens my mustache!”

@charlessalmond7076

2 жыл бұрын

I approve of this message.

@RobMacKendrick

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlessalmond7076 Wonders, lad.

@gabrielpaludo6913

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen this line in a early 20th century manual for housewives

Alright, let's get this out onto a tray... NICE!

@chickendrawsdogs3343

5 жыл бұрын

Sure could use some Coffee Instant Type 2, eh?

@borris978

5 жыл бұрын

Nice hiss!

@ChineseSweatShoppe

5 жыл бұрын

Steve references are the best 👌

@howardflies

5 жыл бұрын

They NEED to collab. Steve tries 18th century rations. Probably still better than the vomlet

@emanuelwatson1330

5 жыл бұрын

Yesssssssssss

My mans singlehandedly keeping the nutmeg industry viable. edit: A year later and some people haven't figured out it was a joke

@rickc2102

5 жыл бұрын

Illuminutmeg confirmed!

@user-tr2dh4xx6u

5 жыл бұрын

Wtf... tons of restaurants and bakers use nutmeg

@bubbleheadft

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-tr2dh4xx6u oh u

@brians7181

5 жыл бұрын

nutmeg is essential in Jamaican Jerk marinade.

@user-tr2dh4xx6u

5 жыл бұрын

@@brians7181 nahh they don't personally use nutmeg so no one does

In the Australian Navy, not sure of others, the term burgoo is still used when the cooks serve up porridge.

@scottyg4605

4 жыл бұрын

You are spot on sir 👏👏👏👏 I said that if you say Burgoo really slowly it sounds like Porridge 👍👍👍👍 I myself, abserlutly Love Burgoo/Porridge and have eaten it all my life, I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe the Bur is short for Butter and goo is the gooey Porridge that's mixed with a pinch of salt and molasses or as we do it, mix in some Honey ???

@Someloke8895

4 жыл бұрын

How do they keep it from falling out of the bowl, being upside down and all that?

@stevegiven6539

4 жыл бұрын

@@Someloke8895 The cooks would nail it to our wooden bowls. Just like our mothers used to do. : )

@theyearwas1473

3 жыл бұрын

This comment section made me smile

@jlshel42

3 жыл бұрын

@@Someloke8895 maybe a dingo ate your burgoo

John: "Burgoo is basically oat--" John's subconscious: "ADD NUTMEG"

@saveimageas...9352

3 жыл бұрын

If he stops grinding the nutmeg the voices get loud.

Day 1: oh yummy! Day 31: oh no, not again.

@vin3084

4 жыл бұрын

They didn't have it every day they got meat and veggies throughout the week too

@jarteaga1793

4 жыл бұрын

Vin how do you know fam? Where you there in person???

@vin3084

4 жыл бұрын

@@jarteaga1793 In the memoir it stated that they had different meals for different days. But your right I wasn't there fam.

@jarteaga1793

4 жыл бұрын

Vin lmao I know I was just joking I was in the marines and sometimes we eat the same bond things everyday and it gave me flashback to the “again” kind of thing haha

@vin3084

4 жыл бұрын

@Matt Laclair thanks.

This channel is a hidden gem.

@TheXXLGamer

5 жыл бұрын

Dont think a channel with 800k subs is "hidden", but it is a gem for sure!

@imsuited1658

5 жыл бұрын

Do you know how many channels they’re that do the same thing, that are somewhat related to this. It’s a hidden gem.

@artaway6647

5 жыл бұрын

I just found it today even tho I wacth cooking video everyday!

@0707565

5 жыл бұрын

Gem??

@nolan3915

4 жыл бұрын

Uhhh they had almost 1m when you commented that you’re dumb

You have to keep in mind that the beer was what's known as "small beer", which had just enough alcohol to keep it from turning bad as water does, but not enough to get you intoxicated. It's along the same lines as grog.

@MarlboroughBlenheim1

2 жыл бұрын

Depends how much you drank

@DTheCritical

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 Yeah but you had to drink a colossal ton of it like even non alcoholic beer if you drink 30 of them you will get drunk

@deejayimm

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Drachinifel talked about the beer served in Navy rations as being somewhere around 1% alcohol. I don't know what their beer is like over there, but most of the mainstream beers here in the states are around 5%. So a gallon seems like a lot but in reality it's like drinking 2 modern beers. I'm just curious what it tasted like, I'd love to be able to go back and try it.

@angelus_solus

2 жыл бұрын

@@deejayimm I believe it indeed had an ABV between 1 and 2. My guess is it had the same taste as a wheat ale, without the bite.

@stevekaczynski3793

Жыл бұрын

The miser Ebenezer Balfour in "Kidnapped", set in the mid-18th century, seems to live on porridge, with small beer as his main beverage.

I can just imagine the sailors trying to sleep on the creaky wooden boats during rough seas in those times. The saying is "That's when the ships were made of wood and the men were made of iron". Really enjoying these wonderful videos.

He just talked about oatmeal for 7 minutes and somehow we're all entertained by that

@rc5924

4 жыл бұрын

No we're not

@nathancovington1792

4 жыл бұрын

@@rc5924 Then get off the videos...

@dizzybabyy211

4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Castleberry you gotta be you clicked on the video😂😂🤦🏽‍♀️

@TheAce736

4 жыл бұрын

@@dizzybabyy211 ah yes, clicking on a video to answer a question that could be answered in two seconds, yet isn't for multiple minutes is totally the very definition of being entertained.

@dizzybabyy211

4 жыл бұрын

HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SKETCH [ace736] if it could be answered in 2 sec why even click the video ? Oh yeah thats right cause ur interested in the video ... dumbass

As soon as Primitive Technology gets to the medieval age, you guys should do a collab.

@user-xl9bb7gc4l

4 жыл бұрын

He still has 4000 years to go

@namanor

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think this channel has ever done medieval recipes.

@NSluiter

4 жыл бұрын

@@namanor No, but PT will probably only get to resonance era tech at around 2100

@kwando472

4 жыл бұрын

Medieval era 5th to the 15th century this is the 18th century. Remember this guy is inspired by a time that America was being discovered the medieval era is centered around Europe and the middle east. If you want to know what food was back then it's real simple everything is cooked to death in water they used bread plates and after they ate the bread. This was in castles most peasants probably were happy if they had food at all.

@nonegone7170

4 жыл бұрын

Kwa ndo There’s a few medieval cookbooks man, don’t knock medieval cooking until you’ve tried it, they knew what they were doing. Sour flavours were the most popular back then.

This channel truly feels like it’s meant to be on actual cable TV or Hulu. The music, the script, the topic, all of it feels like the educational videos I actually enjoyed as a child.

As soon as I heard “burgoo” I thought about burghul, an Arabic term for a food made from parboiled groats. Wikipedia suggests a Welsh etymology for burgoo so I put the Arabic hypothesis aside, but today I casually searched the Oxford Dictionary, and guess what? Burgoo actually comes from burghul! Makes 100% sense after all.

@TherealDanielleNelson

4 жыл бұрын

I think you mixed something up. Burghul is a grain, much like quinoa, maybe your thinking of bhuna?

@StrangerHappened

3 жыл бұрын

Wiktionary says: "Of unclear origin. Apparently from the dialectal term burgood (“yeast”). Perhaps ultimately from Welsh burym (“yeast”) + cawl (“cabbage, gruel”),[1] or perhaps from Arabic بُرْغُل‎ (burḡul).[2]"

@averagejoey2000

3 жыл бұрын

What's for breakfast, boatswain, is that oatmeal? No, is burghul, it's arabic Ooh, something foreign, how fancy

@henryviape1201

3 жыл бұрын

It migth sound fancy and exotic when one doesnt know the language, but good ol' "boiled grain" is a nigh on universal classic. In norway this would probably go by the name "grøt".

@kentvesser9484

3 жыл бұрын

@@henryviape1201 Every culture in the world has some boiled grain once agriculture develops whether it is rice porridge in China, wheat in Mesopotamia, millet in Africa, corn in the Americas, Oats in Northern Europe, etc. Grøt is obviously similar to the English groat and Old English grytt and in the US a corn porridge is called grits.

I never knew Burgoo was an actual dish, I thought it was just what my grandma called oatmeal.

@zakofrx

5 жыл бұрын

Porridge.

@twigglykevin

5 жыл бұрын

@@zakofrx thats what ive always heard it called

@acts9531

5 жыл бұрын

It IS just oatmeal ... Once you have cooked the oats, you can put anything on them you like. What you put on them doesn't make it "burgoo", it's still oatmeal and dude here is just guessing what they might put on their oatmeal.

@DinnerForkTongue

5 жыл бұрын

Oatmeal porridge is awesome.

@pendragon9684

4 жыл бұрын

@@acts9531 You weren't listening closely enough. Remember the book at the beginning? The memoir of a British sailor, that's where he finally turned up the recipe for 'burgoo' So he wasn't guessing, he made it according to how it was done in the Royal Navy during the 18th century.

Me: How to play guitar like Peter Frampton KZread: Allow me to show you what food sailors ate in the 18th Century

@itgetter9

4 жыл бұрын

LOL, ikr?

@lillyanneserrelio2187

4 жыл бұрын

I came here from watching a review on the new Disney Star Wars Mandalorian show. Such random suggested videos on my sidebar.

@dacypher22

4 жыл бұрын

Google doesn't care what you WANT to watch. It shows you what you NEED to watch.

@ItsNotMeItsYou007

4 жыл бұрын

@@dacypher22 Then they are evil. Anyone who thinks that is good, is indoctrinated.

@dacypher22

4 жыл бұрын

@@ItsNotMeItsYou007 It was just a joke lol

I love his enthusiasm and passion and how he imagines everything from the past. Beautiful. Love this guy

How do you make officer pizza? John: Just add nutmeg

No one: John Townsend: You're gonna add a little nutmeg to it.

@DerVasto

4 жыл бұрын

But it's my birthday-present 300$ computer! *Nutmeg, NOW.*

@alphaman7535

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao 😂 😂 😂

@dickJohnsonpeter

4 жыл бұрын

@@DerVasto that made no sense.

@nileppezdel1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@dickJohnsonpeter its an AI :D

@captainsternn7684

4 жыл бұрын

Naval Officers can have a little nutmeg with their burgoo as treat

For those wondering...the 1-gallon beer daily ration was in place of what we now drink everyday and take for granted...CLEAN filtered water. Back in the 18th century, fresh clean water was even difficult to find while on land and any fresh water on a ship is reserved for cooking (and possibly bathing). Beer could be stored for long periods of time at relatively warm temperatures and would provide the sailors with enough water to keep them hydrated plus the alcohol helped with moral etc. Cheers!

@Lisa608

3 жыл бұрын

I've also read that beer back then contained about 2-3% alcohol, not the 5-6% like today. So a gallon of beer back then would be very hydrating.

@SeverusFelix

2 жыл бұрын

So why did they drink water from scuttlebutts?

@Xalerdane

Жыл бұрын

That’s how it was in the North Atlantic; beer doesn’t keep very well in the tropics without refrigeration. Fortunately, there _was_ an alcohol that would keep for a long time in hot weather before spoiling that could be produced in great quantities for a reasonable price in the very place this was a problem. *_Rum._*

@AntonReut

Жыл бұрын

On land, you can scoop water from the nearest river or even stream and boil it freely to drink, but at sea it is more difficult because it was very problematic to remove the salt from the water back then.

Growing up in Kentucky we always had something called burgoo that was pretty much a throw whatever you have in the pantry to make a stew. Similar to a gumbo.

@georgerobartes2008

Жыл бұрын

I'm English and it's link to the Royal Navy is a stew with leftovers of any meat and any vegetables cooked with porridge of any grain , oats , wheat , barley left over from breakfast like an Irish stew .

"Hey...you making oatmeal?" "Nah, mate. I'm gonna whip me up some of this burGOO real quick..." "Did...did you......wtf did you just say?" "You 'eard me. Come get some of this burGOO. Fix ye right up." "Why are you putting so much emphasis on the 'goo'? And why are you talking like a character from Oliver Twist??" "I said what I said."

@robbieduval4344

4 жыл бұрын

LMFAO!!!

@nononono12345

4 жыл бұрын

PyroProspectParagon this is underrated as hell lmaoooo brilliant

@BungieStudios

3 жыл бұрын

I'm dead. 😂💀

@dante666jt

3 жыл бұрын

Split personality takes over

@daviddionne8296

3 жыл бұрын

May I have more... please?

“They say he carved the wooden spoon himself... out of a bigger spoon!”

@whysosyria1

4 жыл бұрын

love that simpson reference.

@dustincarpenter1605

2 жыл бұрын

That was the chili cook off wasn’t it?

@donnythompson408

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 great Simpson’s reference!

The entire time I was waiting for nutmeg. I was not disappointed.

@jamesaltonfilms

5 жыл бұрын

you live life my friend. you live it well.

@dickJohnsonpeter

4 жыл бұрын

Why? No one puts nutmeg in oatmeal. What a random thing to be waiting for.

Ghost on a pirate ship: Burgooooo! I’ll show myself out.

@NationalismDjazair

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, you better go

@Jen-ph3zr

3 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😁😁😁😁

@stephenaker5911

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@pattyconley4096

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@triggytiggy740

3 жыл бұрын

@@NationalismDjazair he's "burgone" now

I have been eating oatmeal sweetened with molasses and fruit for a couple weeks once a day. I mill the oatmeal before cooking. Had no idea I was eating burgoo. If you mill the oats before cooking it makes the oatmeal smoother but you have to stir vigorously otherwise it clumps.

I am happy nutmeg found its way into the meal!

@warrenokuma7264

5 жыл бұрын

Nutmeg!

@joeredtree

5 жыл бұрын

john retconned history to add the nutmeg. the absolute madlad!

@mikewoodson6930

5 жыл бұрын

Sebastian Bloy but only for the Senior Officers. 😂

@unavailable8813

5 жыл бұрын

an admiral's dish

@doctordetroit84

5 жыл бұрын

@@unavailable8813 a Starfleet admiral's dish

This channel is so pure. Got hooked on it about a year ago now. I always watch and rewatch these videos.

@rosemcguinn5301

5 жыл бұрын

The joys of a Townsends binge watch fest..... aaahhhh

John, I've so thoroughly enjoyed your videos and the old world craftsmanship of the things you build and foods you prepare. As an experienced sailor (I've sailed sailboats on the open ocean, in Alaska's Inside Passage, etc), I can tell you that this burgoo would be like the perfect breakfast meal. These ships didn't have much in the way of heat and in England during the late fall and winter, this meal would have been a warm, hearty, stick-to-your-ribs dish that would have been appreciated. One thing I've learned from a few thousand miles of sailing is that you work hard, so a hearty meal shared with friends goes a long way to making a passage that much more comfortable. It becomes something to look forward to! And adding the molasses and nutmeg? Over the top!

When I’m high and I don’t know what to watch. This is always my go 2.

This is one of the best channels on youtube.

@Wavemaninawe

5 жыл бұрын

The videos arguably need an 'add nutmeg' button rather than a 'like' button. Joke aside. Its addictively charming. ☺

It's never Townsends without a smatter of Nutmeg Keep doing what you do John, you're awesome

@Ultracity6060

5 жыл бұрын

Absolute unabashed nutmeg fiend.

@theparijat1000

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah and for food wishes chef john its cayenne

@bdl2871

5 жыл бұрын

yeah i smile how he said it was fancy and only for high officer. but here , in my country it costed only 1/6 $ each.

@aliciaoakstream619

5 жыл бұрын

Because they had nutmeg in everything back then

@matthewshinn5839

5 жыл бұрын

@@bdl2871 your country is poor ?

Burgoo was one of my favorite memories of the Horatio Hornblower novels. In it, as captain he was provided burgoo for breakfast and a biscuit that he had to tap to drive the weevils out of it. In addition, he had "Coffee" , which was actually an extract of fresh water with the dregs of burnt biscuit that it was strained though. In the novel, they reach the South American coast and revicualate with South American Delights. But...dang...burgoo...read the novels...it's great....

@LtGenAile

2 жыл бұрын

I loved the part when Hornblower was fighting to keep his steely composure when hearing the South American rebels could supply his ship with coffee, cigars and rum! By God!

*WHO ELSE loves this chap?* Such an adorable person.

@cityboy9301

3 жыл бұрын

He looks like George w bush or Ricky pontin if you prefer

This chap is so enthusiastic he could give me gruel and molasses and I'd enjoy it.Great vids

@spydude38

5 жыл бұрын

Once you've had black strap molasses with corn pone, you're' enthusiasm will be curtailed.

My Grandfather made porridge in the 1970s and called it burgoo. I thought he was joking.

@peternicholson2504

5 жыл бұрын

Oatmeal. Always called it porridge.

@peternicholson2504

5 жыл бұрын

@@lonewolftrucker3955 I am from Australia.

@sergeantbigmac

4 жыл бұрын

@@lonewolftrucker3955 In the USA Oatmeal is made from Oats, Grits is made from corn. Its always been like this as far as im aware. Whoever made your oatmeal mightve just messed it up, although I dont know how thats possible because oatmeal is dirt simple to make.

@mikeskidmore6275

4 жыл бұрын

@@lonewolftrucker3955 I have a friend from Canada who refers to oatmeal as porridge.

@noahabarca3883

4 жыл бұрын

@@lonewolftrucker3955 grits is made from corn. Porridge is to describe a soupy dish made from grains. So oatmeal is a type of porridge, grits is also a porridge and congee is a porridge.

a little further info on 'loblolly', the word remained in use for the very thin gruel that was served to invalids and wounded in the sick-bay of Royal Navy ships, and the common name for the sick-bay attendant who served them their food (among many other duties) was the 'loblolly boy'. *edit* Just heard your comment about 'officer's burgoo' and actually there WAS a special version of burgoo called 'skillygalee' which is burgoo kicked up in flavor with butter and sugar, possibly goat's milk if it is available.

Loblolly is the also the original term for us Corpsman who brought food and cared for the sick and injured. We were eventualy called pharmacists mates then after along while Corpsman.

Bird goo... It's the result of too many seagulls.

@ingiewingie

5 жыл бұрын

Haha! Probably

@stevenpham1961

4 жыл бұрын

Townsend didn't remember that sailors couldn't spell worth a flip.lol

@jonathantan2469

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe that's where the name 'burgoo' came from. Especially if you had to eat it every single day...

@nonyodambiz

4 жыл бұрын

Thems contains the souls of dead sailors, what met their maker

@thecheese4255

4 жыл бұрын

Gross You get a thumbs up

Jon, You will need to come down to Kentucky in September. All over Kentucky are "Burgoo Festivals." You will not be bored with the versions. Traditionally here, burgoo was made after the fall hunting and animal slaughtering was done, and the last of the harvest was taken in. The holler folk would get together and have a big potlatch contributing whatever vegetables, greens, and assorted wild and domestic meats to the cookpots.

@ronschramm9163

5 жыл бұрын

My kin goin' back to the 1840s was from Harlan County.

It is interesting to see the same word use for two different dishes. I grew up eating burgoo in Kentucky as a stew made with lots of vegetables and different types of meat.

Saturday morning-Burgoo for breakfast. I believe I even have old-fashioned stone-ground oats on hand... Thank you Sir, as always!

First time I read the word was in the novel Sharpe's Trafalgar. They eat Burgoo more often than they wanted. Thank you for showing me what it might have looked like.

@KageMinowara

5 жыл бұрын

I learned it by reading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels.

As someone writing in a setting similar to this era this channel is a great resource!

Townsend's version: Engaging thoughtful storytelling for 7 minutes. Me: They ate oatmeal twice a week. :)

In another usage, in Kentucky "burgoo" is a stew akin to what is elsewhere called Brunswick Stew. I think that, technically, Kentuckian burgoo must contain rabbit as one of the meats used.

@paullord196

Жыл бұрын

Kentucky Burgoo can also contain squirrel meat also.

I was in the Army and I can tell you, when you're hungry, you'll eat anything.

@dennissneed2214

3 жыл бұрын

So was I and they served burgoo in the mess too...😄😄😄😄

Wow! That's not at all what I expected. Appalachian style burgoo is more like a stew/porridge/chilli hybrid. You stew up whatever game meat you have, then add grains and vegetables at simmer it low and slow until everything comes together. P.S. I see that E. Rivertree also knows the style I recall. Nice!

In Star Trek Enterprise any time the characters go to jail or prison, they're fed oatmeal.

@dennissneed2214

3 жыл бұрын

And poor T'Pol had to eat it with her hands...

I sat down to watch KZread while having some oatmeal and this video was recommended 😂 What a great episode! I LOVE watching your channel. I even recommended it to my Mother and grandfather. We are all watching now! Thank you for such wonderful content 💕

as a modern day sailor, i used to complain about the ship's food. i am now thankful for it after seeing this lol

@The.Artistic.Squirrel

4 жыл бұрын

ghostofonyx Both my husband I served and did our time Cranking and he backs me up on the boxes of meat marked “unfit for prison consumption” When all the Filipino MSs (CSs now) made pancit, lumpia, and other Philippine delicacies we all were thrilled! But white rice? Always on the menu.

@danmc7815

4 жыл бұрын

Thankfully, I either avoided or was unaware of the unfit for prison consumption, but recall the "all purpose patties" served as whatever meat the galley chose that day. I also remember it being one of the better meals, when served as chicken parmigiana that we called scabs. They looked like huge scabs from skinned knees. A good cook made life aboard so much better.

@Perktube1

4 жыл бұрын

Two worst things I had in the valley as a sailor: Braised beef cubes, which had so much hard fat, I could bounce it on the table. And the worst, an underdone omelet, halfway-done whites looking like a something from a porn film, totally disgusting. I switched to scrambled eggs only, after that.

@meligoth

4 жыл бұрын

U.S. Sailors: Ugh! Our ship food.. Army and Marine ground troops: Hold my MRE.

And lines to the head forming early the next morning... "Who's throwing the ballast rocks o'er board?" "Tis not rocks, Captain. Tis last nights burgoo."

@peggychu3002

5 жыл бұрын

Mark Williams 😂😂😂

@rubenskiii

5 жыл бұрын

If u would have said this was from a book i would have believed u!

I’m so happy that some one is out there keeping history alive today. Thank you so much Townsends!!!

Officer's version is adding nutmeg. Truly elevated that oatmeal!

In Southern Bavaria, we have a traditional dish called "Brennsupp'n" which best translates as "burned soup". It was, starting from celtic times, the food of the pour masses and served daily in both houses and taverns. You take any available flour - here int the Allgäu mostly rye or spelt - whith any available oil or fat - mostly linseed oil or pork - and heat the mixture up until the flour begins to bubble and smell slightly crisp. Then, water is added and the mash ist thinned with water to the desired thickness. According to the time of the year, any available herbs, dried fruits and salt were added. So I wonder if the ship's cook did fry up his flour prior to the additve water. It does add a lot of taste to the dish. I grew up with this meal and I still love it now in my older days!

My Mother used to make Tapioca pudding from scratch (took forever) and I would mildly dust it with fresh whole Nutmeg, no other desert like it. I Love you Mom R.I.P.🙏🤟

Mr. Townsend. Keep the content coming, I am partial to your sailor cooking and the like, being I am a cook in the Navy. It's Incredible to see the way my fellow cooks took care or their crew. Thanks for the video good Sir.

I had burgoo as a kid. It was soup made with mutton and it used oats to make it thick.

@Tinkering4Time

4 жыл бұрын

Nik Burton mixed with the other comments on this video your experience might explain the linguistic drift. Former naval personnel bring the name along, and eventually it is applied to mutton soup with oats/oatmeal as thickener, and then later it becomes more like a hearty meat/veg stew as preferences or resource access changes. My Mormon heritage has a frybread tradition that for whatever reason is called “scones”, often known as Utah scones outside of the culture. We might have (and this is just an educated guess here) picked it up from Native American groups in New Mexico, like the Navajo, when the Mormon Battalion was raised and volunteered to serve in the war with Mexico. This is also where we picked up dryland farming technology that was brought back for use in the Utah valley after a segue in California just before the Gold Rush. But yeah. “Scones”. Talk about linguistic drift.

Well.. in western Kentucky burgoo is a slow cooked mutton stew with tomato base and lima beans. Anyone else heard of this ?

@SusanEizenga

4 жыл бұрын

This was the first time I had ever heard of a burgoo with oats. Yes, here it is normally a meaty stew with veggies.

@CaliforniaFly

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from northern Kentucky. Yes, it just depended on what you had on hand for meat but the tomatoes and lima beans and sometimes corn were the main ingredients. I have no idea where this idiot got the idea that oatmeal was burgoo. I think he's just stupid.

In Asia, we have something just like this, but it's made with rice, which has been boiled in extra quantities of water for a long time. And for flavor, we use dried fish flakes, powdered shrimp, sesame oil, and soy sauce.

Just found this channel, and subbed of course. Love the neat little niche of History you're serving up!

5:55 Ha, I knew it! You nutmeg addict :D

@DarienDragonFox

5 жыл бұрын

Its not an easy addiction to cure sadly, thousands each year fall victum to nutmeg dealers across the colonies. My condolences to him.

@carnage3343

5 жыл бұрын

Hey don't judge!

@ElderRaven

5 жыл бұрын

I laughed so much in pleasure as he said maybe you could add nutmeg!!! :'D

@AndrewAce.

5 жыл бұрын

*_Snorts line of nutmeg*_*

@harrychung433

5 жыл бұрын

Nutmeg Anonymous is just a phone call away to help this young man beat his addiction.

I think ‘burgoo’ is sailor for ‘when tf do we arrive into a port so I can eat proper food and stop this diarrhea?’

@EroticOnion23

3 жыл бұрын

Oatmeal is actually good for digestive health

Stumbled across one of these videos a few days ago. Now subscribed and watching a bunch more

I'm from Kentucky and to say this confused the heck out of me would be an understatement

This is what keeps me alive during University.

@veraxis9961

4 жыл бұрын

Experimental archaeologist in the 24th Century: "Today, we're going to be trying a 21st century dish known as 'instant ramen noodles!'"

@saveimageas...9352

3 жыл бұрын

@@veraxis9961 ancient candy named tide pods

Hah hah... Townsend's Law: Nutmeg makes everything so so good!

We're going to look at this wonderful, mysterious, old-timey food! >>proceeds to make porridge

I love your historical recipes and cookings. Thank you for doing what you do.

Is it possible the etymology of burgoo is something like: “beurre gout”? Which would seem like bastardized French for “butter taste” or maybe “buttery”?

@PlusTheSkim

4 жыл бұрын

you're one smart dude

@___Hermitage

4 жыл бұрын

Smart!

@davidhenriksson285

4 жыл бұрын

Or just burp goo

@jollyrogerud

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe from arabic “bulgur” (برغل‎ bourghoul, "groats"). Cracked parboiled groats of different cereals cooked in water.

@toxict2277

4 жыл бұрын

@@jollyrogerud thats fiar but how tf would an englishman know about that at the tim

The tiny town my mom grew up in has an annual Burgoo Festival. Their version of burgoo is a thick stew. I don't know what it's made of, but based off the texture I can see it being this oatmeal as a base with plenty of meat, vegetables, and grease added. They cook it in an outdoor pavilion with huge vats heated by wood fires beneath, then at the festival they sell it by the gallon. People freeze it and eat it over the winter.

James tastes the crew’s daily ration, and obtains an immediate brevet commission just to get the nutmeg.

I'm glad these videos are on here so I can see what I have to look forward to in the near future while I'm building back better.

Why do I watch these videos all the time? I have no intention of ever doing any 1700s cooking, yet I can't stop watching.

My Strange Addiction: In tonights episode we get to hear the story of John Townsend, an American man with a life-long addiction to nutmeg. "I can't go a day without it, sometimes I even wake up three, four times a night just to get some".

I just watched your scrambled eggs video. I think this is my favorite KZread cooking channel all of a sudden haha.

Your videos are thoroughly enjoyable for me I’m learning and having fun it’s been a pleasure

Oddly the tern burgoo is used in modern Kentucky to denote a mixed meat stew, traditionally with possom as one of the meats.

@gatocles99

5 жыл бұрын

Kentucky Burgoo had any critter that you could scrounge up... Possum just happened to be one of the easiest of all the varmints to catch. But beef and pork, and chicken were fine too... if you were rich... But in general Kentucky Burgoo was poor folk food... And so, varmints...

@cearfarseer9725

5 жыл бұрын

Yep had some yesterday.

@BobGymlan

4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this. Roadkill deer in Wisconsin.

@maaingan

4 жыл бұрын

Northern variants often include weasel, fisher, mink, and pine martin as the stew base. Then you add normal meats such as chicken, duck, venison, pig, cow, whatever cheap cuts could be bought. Then in go root vegetables. Most of the French that came through the Great Lakes areas utilized weasel-based meats since they trapped them for their fur and would stew the meat remains instead of wasting it. Supposed to taste kind of oily

@lubesiron-cslfarmsllc2751

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a Brunswick stew.

I asked for more Naval stuff like this and you've delivered...Great stuff and Thank you for your dedication, your care and attention to detail your careful caveating of sources etc and your balanced approach. Gem of a channel.

I love this channel! I just started watching a week ago. What a great way to explore history!!!

I love this channel. A little oasis in these troubled times.

College Burgoo (Wyoming, 1970). 1 can Campbells vegetable soup. I can water. I can minute rice. Bring to boil, cover, remove from heat. Eat.

@fenriz218

5 жыл бұрын

We preferred the finer Asian cuisine: two packs of dried rice noodles, left to sit for 4 min in hot water from a tea-cooker, remove the hot water, add the powdered ingredients (hoping that it doesn't give you Parkinson's in later years), et voila... repeat once the daily rations of hemp have been consumed from an empty tin of coke with two holes...

I absolutely LOVE your channel. Those who feel that history is boring have never gotten into the day to day living during a specific time. So informative.

It's interesting, in Appalachia, burgoo and Loblolly are both still well used terms, though they mean different things than suggested in this video. When I saw the videos name, about "burgoo" I thought this would be about a type of thick stew. And loblolly is a road or path with lots of ups and downs, not paved, and generally references a really difficult, messy way to go.

@stevekaczynski3793

Жыл бұрын

The Wikipedia article on burgoo treats it as a kind of stew, referring to the 18th century Royal Navy dish called burgoo as "porridge".

Can't think of any other food I have so consistently loved my entire life, more than oatmeal.

4lb of meat per week, 1/4lb cheese per day That’s actually really good for the era

@aliciabell6688

5 жыл бұрын

But how often were rations lost or damaged. I wonder how close to reality those numbers were...

@chevychase3103

5 жыл бұрын

@Amy Sternheim if everyone had a cabbage per day why would they still need s a i l s? LOL

@stanlygirl5951

5 жыл бұрын

Um, quantity sounds good enough, but I'm betting against quality of the meat.

@ericwilliams7205

5 жыл бұрын

Alicia Bell good question. Given the orderliness of the era I bet it wasn’t too far off... maybe %80 of the time

@nathanrogers8713

5 жыл бұрын

@@stanlygirl5951 The quality could be quite good in the case of ships of the line. They frequently had colliers loaded with live cattle that would be used to supply the ships. They also had salt preserved meats for long voyages where they didn't have immediate access to the colliers. Salt pork was a smoking step away from being bacon.

"I want nutmeg, must have nutmeg... let's make up some pseudohistorical reason for me to have my 'meg." X-D

These videos are SO interesting. Great that you do them.

5:38 He says "It's good" like Aragorn tells Eowyn her stew is good in The Two Towers

@Gwildor2020

3 жыл бұрын

I still want to know what the mystery chunk is in her stew that Aragorn moves with his spoon.

Thank you for doing such a great job keeping living history alive, your channel helps preserve and pass on knowledge onto future generations, so thank you for all you and your teams hard work.

Someday Chef John and John Townsend need to get together and disagree over whether nutmeg or cayenne.

@bellamamma767

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!!!!!

@Mordecai9052

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao, even chef John totes the freshly ground nutmeg 🤣

@QueenBee-gx4rp

5 жыл бұрын

fluffy That’s one I wouldn’t miss!

I really like watching this channel! So cool to learn about the food from those times.

Enjoy all your videos. Thanks for sharing.

Thank You, John. I have read stories of sailing ships, and they had mentioned both Lob Lolly, and Burgoo. I assumed they were separate meals. Not the same with different names. I would agree with the molasses choice. Black strap is extremely heavy in sulfur compounds. Not something most would enjoy with oatmeal, but in the 1700's it was a cheap product, being left over from the manufacture of rum and sugar.

If this melts your cheese there is a book out there called Feeding Nelsons Navy. It is amazing in the detail and things you learn about the RN victualing system at the time.

@tracycarmack9714

5 жыл бұрын

"If this melts your cheese" is just about the catchiest phrase I've ever heard :D

I'd like to cook a meal with this guy and just let him talk the whole time

This channel brings me joy and happiness.

That grin when he picks up the nutmeg. He just lights right up!