My ancestry is German and Austrian. Pea soup very much like the German army version was a regular thing in our household any time we had a ham bone. It uses dried split peas, carrots, onions, celery, a bay leaf, salt and pepper. If you don’t have a ham bone you could use smoked ham hocks, diced ham, bacon. It turns out thick so you want a spoon but could probably eat it with a fork. In the video it needed to cook longer.

@frugalmum7943

5 ай бұрын

I'm in Australia, what you just described sounds similar to what we call 'pea and ham soup'- thankyou for explaining as I was wondering about the recipe used in this video.

I love these videos. As someone who loves, lives, and dresses 1940 every day, it’s finally nice to see someone researching the Germans a little. As someone who is Polish and German, I can understand the meager amount of food in both countries.

After every Thanksgiving my mom would use the ham bone to make pea soup. Man it was so good .

Interesting report, but sorry, as a German and former soldier I have to say, this is not a well-cooked (German) pea soup. The soup is way too runny with pieces that are way too big. I think the wrong peas were also used. Dried peas are required. The soup needs a very long cooking time to develop all the flavors. It needs to be reduced by cooking for a long time so that it becomes creamy. 😉

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

I love when people tell me how I’m doing it wrong. Really makes me laugh. KZread is free for all you know.

@celtic2405

5 ай бұрын

@@MREScout If you call a soup Wehrmacht soup, it should be cooked accordingly. Correct? Otherwise it's just any vegetable soup like the soup shown. That's just how it is. It doesn't help that you're offended. Bad style.

@KevinSmith-yh6tl

5 ай бұрын

​@@MREScout First off, let me say that I sub to your channel and I enjoy it very much. But I do believe @celtic2405 does have a point. When I was a much younger man, in the early 80's, I became friends with an older German gentleman who lived in the neighborhood. To make a long story short, he was in the Wehrmacht fighting in the Italian campaign. He introduced me to Erbswurst ( in compressed large tablet form) and would make it for his sons and I to eat. All that it consisted of was the tablet itself plus water, left to boil and thicken on its own. He told us many times that's all there was for he and his comrades to eat, nothing else would be able to be added to it. He also said he made it and ate it frequently to remind himself of the good /bad times. I think about him sometimes and miss him a lot, but are still friends with his sons.

@KevinSmith-yh6tl

5 ай бұрын

@@heikoplotner2636 I can understand some, but not all of your reply. Sorry.

@heikoplotner2636

5 ай бұрын

@@KevinSmith-yh6tl My Father was in Genoa / Portofino Radio Recon on B 25 Bord to Bord Wave. One Day he relaxt with a Friend on the Habour Wall and look to a Feldwebel, he was Fishing. Two Para Pioneer come - What are you doing ? - My Father - We watch while Fishing - Para - Are you crazy ? Come with me ! - The Paras took 2 T Mines from a Depot in a old School. Went back an threw the T Mines into the Water near the fishing Feldwebel. Full Cover, only the Feldwebel was standing, he hadn't noticed anything. 💥💥 , the Feldwebel lay long. He cursed, then he asked for some Fish. Later my Father go 2 Weeks to Genoa, Arrest on a Speedboat, Army Cathering Class 1 :-) ( LW 2 , WH 3 ). They had no Army Prison arround Genoa. Portofino was the Vacation - Spot of Eva Braun Hitler in this Time.

Another awesome video.I am going to try this recipe too.The one a couple weeks ago has become my only way to make stew.I used deer in it and it was on another level.I can't wait to see whats next.Keep up the great job and the history lesson is a nice addition and adds to the recipe.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah that goulash was off the hook. I made it with steak a few days later and the kids destroyed it.

Nothing better than some toasted homemade bread to dip in that soup 🍲. This vid made me hungry.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

That's the idea...

Watching you actually cook has really elevated your usual videos.

I spent a day in 2004 at a German range with German soldiers when I was stationed in Germany, and was fortunate enough to have lunch with them in the field. I don’t recall the meal exactly, but I remember we had excellent pea soup!

Keep up the good work! I appreciate these videos so much!

looks really good, after the 1000th time maybe not so much

The night is growing on me

Instead of Hells Kitchen, this is give em hell kitchen maybe?

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

What was the name of the idiot sergeant in Hogan's Heroes? Maybe his kitchen.

@lancerevell5979

5 ай бұрын

Sgt. Schultz certainly knew his way around the mess hall. The kitchen, maybe not so much. 😊

I am a veteran that just happened to be a exchange student in Germany for two years and I can tell you that is not traditional pea soup but As a field ration not bad

2400 cal a day, when in combat, doesn't sound like much

@simonh6371

5 ай бұрын

There's a video by Tik explaining the specific rations for the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad, and how it decreased as the campaign drew on. In the end they were down below 1000 cal a day, and that in freezing temperatures.

@statinskill

5 ай бұрын

​@@simonh6371 700 kcal, about seven slices of dry bread.

Hey man, I guess i have missed a lot - you look great! keep up the good work

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Thanks. Down 80lbs from when I started the channel.

Being from Upper Bavaria on dad's side, this is sounding great to me. I make so many soups and stews, but never this one? I need to find a recipe for this one? I have Luko's German Restaurant cookbook dated 1951. Their 70th anniversary. I'll have to look in it and see if the recipe is in there?

I'll definitely have to get a my own copy of that book

Now eat that for 6 months with each day being less flavored, watered down, The bread made from sawdust and a lot smaller. And forget the coffee,TiK history has a great video on Stalingrad rations. /////i reakky dig your videos and this one ESP! Thanks!

Loved this video well done.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great vid, THX! Perhaps U find informations about " Erbswurst ". The brand Knorr stopped producing it just some years ago. In WW2 it was part of the German iron ration.

Stalins Secretary of State was named Molotov. According to Molotov's diary, Moscow was relatively undefended in the fall of 1941 and had the Germans reached Moscow in time Stalin was prepared to sue for peace and cede everything west of the Volga river over to Germany. Had Germany launched the invasion in May as planned and not diverted Army Group Center towards Kiev for mopping up operations thy could have easily captured Moscow. But thats not what happened. Great show and that soup looks delicious.

@lancerevell5979

5 ай бұрын

We and the Russians were so fortunate that the crazy little Austrian paper-hanger was nowhere near the strategist he thought he was. His many blatant mistakes in judgement really ruined his grandiose plans. 😎👍

@joelex7966

5 ай бұрын

@@lancerevell5979 All of Germans major successes came when Hitler let the Generals do the planning and execution of the war. Had he left his Generals alone they would have captured Moscow in '41.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Maybe… but would it have mattered? I don’t know. If Hitler had concentrated on the south in 41 and stayed away from Stalingrad, they might have had the oil and then its a TOTALLY different war.

@joelex7966

5 ай бұрын

@@MREScout that too. Had Stalin ceded everything West of the Volga that would have included the oil.

@donjuanmckenzie4897

5 ай бұрын

Facts

Army Group Centre wasn't stopped outside of Moscow it was redirected south because Hitler feared Army Group South would be encircled. A decision which lost the war.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Ummm sort of but not exactly. Yes panzer armies were sent south and yes army group center was stopped just outside Moscow. There’s a monument to the high water mark in a Moscow suburb to this day. 7th panzer division was 22 miles from red square but was pushed back on 28 November. On 2 December a German recon element got as close as Khimki but again no further. 14 miles from red square.

I made the soup , but used ham. I think it turned out great! I'm sure it will be better in a day or two.

I believe this was originally supplied to the Wehrmacht as erbswurst, which was originally supplied to the army by Knorr. This translates to "pea sausage" and was an army staple for a very long time. It is now discontinued. The Wehrmacht was very unlikely to supply rations of fresh peas and vegetables daily as noted below.

I think ol boy was hungry and couldn't wait for it to be done

Im english i love pea soup add mint its awesome, this looks lovely the german soldiers had taste

Suche die Erbswurst ! Mein Vater liebte US K Rationen :-)

@maxlutz3674

5 ай бұрын

Die Erbswurst wird schon einige Zeit nicht mehr hergestellt. Für unterwegs war sie mit Landjägern schon eine feine Sache.

@heikoplotner2636

5 ай бұрын

@@maxlutz3674 Ist leider so, Ed hat in seinem Kanal schon darüber berichtet. Hatte selber nur wenige davon gekauft.

Well, as a German I really doubt if this is authentic. Have never seen a pea soup like this. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding because of the word Erbsensuppe(pea soup). A german Erbsensuppe is a Eintopf(stew) and it should be pretty heavy and creamy. Beside this complaint I do believe that this can taste well enough to keep an hungry soldier alive. Serving bread as side dish is authentic.

Bread at home is great, but typically get stale faster than store bought bread.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

It's ok as long as it's in plastic, but it does mold faster. No gross chemical preservatives in it. Worth it to make as long as you eat it within 48 hours.

I don't know if this is an authentic German recipe. But it looks very much like a classic Dutch pea soup (erwtensoep).

My mother is German and she makes split pea and ham soup. But I'm going to have to make it your way. Sounds really delicious. Or shoukd I say the Wehrmacht way?

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

My mother was Irish and she made it the same way, with a hunk of bone-in ham in it... it was different than this, but ultimately it tasted like hammy peas. This was a much more savory flavor.

I'm surprised by all the seasonings, especially garlic and bacon. Bacon isn't a German cut of meat and up to a few years ago it was hard to find. My father, who married a German girl recalled that German food was pretty bland and that Germans didn't really discover garlic until after the war. There is however the possibility that a farming household would keep it simple and Gulaschkannoneers had a more advanced palate.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Bacon doesn’t necessarily always mean cured bacon like we’re used to. Could be pork belly or jowls.

@MrArcher7

5 ай бұрын

@@MREScout So like some sort of Speck? I figured. My Oma loved her porkbelly.

@dennisyoung4631

5 ай бұрын

Yes, *Speckwurst,* perhaps?

@tobiasfreitag2182

5 ай бұрын

100% speck is what they used. Normaly smoked and airdryed. It is more like smoked procuto or cerano then beacon. You also have to remember that, while there are some standards that are eaten all over germany, there is not one german cuisine but every region has its very own culinary tradition. Some might me considerd more basic/bland while otheres are more diverse and tasty. But Onions and garlic are, and have always been, very very comon all over the place and form the basis of most dishes

Wonderfull meal

That was probably more soup than for an entire squad. These guy rode horses to war.

yep add a cigarette and schnapps 🙂

Dutch split pea soup is the best.

Remember most of these troops are withdrawing from the amphetamines they were getting earlier during the blitzkrieg because they were dug in,bad time all the way around is my guess,god bless the poor souls that had to suffer through on all sides

Soup is the best. Life is ultimately just a complicated soup.

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Interesting way of looking at things, but I guess you're right.

As a current German soldier, this is not a correct “Wehrmacht” soup. You’ve used the wrong peas, it needs to be dry. The soup is also too runny and not cooked throughly. Good try though with the soup though.

@JeffHenry-cq3is

5 ай бұрын

Try war time eastern front food

There is a difference between capturing a Capitol as territory (Napolean) and capturing the Capitol with the leadership in place(I think what the German had in mind).

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

Stalin decided to stay in Moscow, which was quite a gamble on his part, but even if he had fallen into German hands, The rest of the high ranking party members had been evacuated east. No guarantees that capturing Moscow would have ended it.

@ssechres

5 ай бұрын

@@MREScout Leafership could certainly have passed to someone else, Bubi think that the capture of Stalin would have been quite a blow. Unless there was consensus about who was to replace him. Something Stalin tended to try to avoid.

All that smoke is going to give away your position. LOL

That smell and flame would attract the Ruskies too. No wonder the Germans were retreating all the time

You made something more like a Russian soup that has peas in it. Deutsche Erbensuppe this is not. Erbsensuppe is thick and mostly peas cooked until they dissolve and then optionally strained to get that creaminess. You made a vegetable soup. Not undelicious by any means, but also not truly German. Also, garlic is a relatively new development in German cuisine. I remember myself making sure not to eat too garlicy foods if the next day was an office day. Because only foreigners reek of garlic.

I made a triple batch of the Waffen SS goulashsuppe you did a bit back. You're right, it was GOOD. Actually gave a tub to my ex girlfriend, even she liked it. " It's so different, I never had anything like this before" she said..

@MREScout

5 ай бұрын

That was good stuff. I made another batch a few days later and the wife and kids devoured it. Really good with egg noodles.

Obligatory statement about how the Nazis were bad and evil, obviously, but holy SHIT German food is tasty.

J Bolsheviks

Left out the rotten horse meat

Why would anyone want to eat the food of evil losers?

@Pygar2

5 ай бұрын

To appreciate the food of non-evil non-losers. Nothing helps you appreciate Capitalism more than seeing the privations of Socialist/Marxists/Communists...

@patricktownsend6002

5 ай бұрын

Would need a little Maggi in mine

@thatsme9875

4 ай бұрын

good answer !!!@@Pygar2