Brass Kettle www.townsends.us/products/one-gallon-brass-trade-kettle and Spider Skillet www.townsends.us/products/spider-skillet-fp266-p-1206

It's like watching Bob Ross as a chef instead of a painter. Sooo relaxing and makes you want to try doing it.

@peterwilliams3672

6 жыл бұрын

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@Drunk3n1rish2009

5 жыл бұрын

Accurate. I completely agree. Love this channel

@animequeen78

4 жыл бұрын

A good way to learn survival when our society implodes on itself.

@francisdrake6622

4 жыл бұрын

@@animequeen78 Well that'll never happen...er wait...

@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274

3 жыл бұрын

quite

"A little bit of butter" *dumps like an entire stick of butter in the pan* I like this guy

@hanwenhengliu3776

2 жыл бұрын

Just like Gordon Ramsay's "dash of olive oil". That's a chef for you

@swaters5127

2 жыл бұрын

A stick is a little bit.

@kalleandersson916

2 ай бұрын

If you have enough butter you can do anything

I love the taste. I put it in Ramen with peas, making Ramen a bit nutritious. I drink it just like tea and eat the leaves like cooked spinach. Don't be scared of the sting, drop it in hot water and the sting is gone in seconds. If you let the dry leaves sit for a few days the sting dries up and you can eat it raw, but it's a papery texture, so not as fun to eat. I just this morning got a wasp sting and my hand was throbbing. I could see the little red spot on my palm, and it really stung. I put nettle tea (in my fridge) on the spot - just a half teaspoon or so, and within seconds the sting was gone - and 20 minutes later I can't see the spot! How cool is that? A stinging nettle can relieve wasp stings! Nature is awesome...thank you God for being so creative as we discover all these things with wonder...

I get a lot of nettles growing around here and they've tagged me more than a few times... Come springtime, I think it's time I got some payback.

@dragunovbushcraft152

8 жыл бұрын

+Laughing Man You WON'T regret it! :)

@ericward8459

8 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!

@internetguy8075

7 жыл бұрын

It's the circle of life.

@Greentrees60

6 жыл бұрын

Just don't mix up nettles and thistles!!

@guerraflorida

5 жыл бұрын

Darth Karnis 😂

I start watching one video and next thing I know its an hour or so later and I've watched a handful. I find history so fascinating, especially culinary history, being a cook myself. I wish I grew up in Massachusetts instead of California. So much history in the streets of Boston, Concord and the like, I'm truly envious of the life you get to live! Keep up the amazing work, love the channel!

@townsends

8 жыл бұрын

+Spencer Jackson Thanks for the great comment. I know what you mean about local history, there is not much that happened right where we are at until the 1820's, a little late for my taste. Hey we make do... Thanks for watching!

@guccidan2026

8 жыл бұрын

+Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. Please don't ever stop making these videos. I have been on your channel all day!

@hunter5822

7 жыл бұрын

You should visit, I'm sure if you enjoy history you'd probably really enjoy joining a reenactment or visiting historical sites. I enjoy visiting historical sites every year and all parts of the year. My taste for history comes from my mother and her fascination with ancestry and history of the area. Maybe look into your history and visit sites of historical significance.

@thomasnichols180

7 жыл бұрын

Gucci Dan I would like to have one of your catalogs

@robertsroberts1688

6 жыл бұрын

hes in indiana

Nettle soup is an old-fashioned Swedish meal too, we usually put a halved boiled egg with the yolk side up in the soup once it's done and ready to serve.

@indiareiss434

2 ай бұрын

I'll try that with my next time that sounds good

is it me.. or is this video a bit shorter than it should have been.. it just abruptly ends

@tammyt3434

4 жыл бұрын

You can hear the closing theme start up and get cut off, so you're correct.

@ricktwisty5636

3 жыл бұрын

As soon as he said it was the perfect time to go out and pick them, the cameraman went off to pick them.

@JohnDoe-jz7bj

3 жыл бұрын

@@ricktwisty5636 Haha

@Borkomora

3 жыл бұрын

perhaps some copyright issues or something so he just cut it off in post

@RinnzuRosendale

3 жыл бұрын

Dude couldn't wait to go pick em.

Nettle soup is relatively popular in Sweden, even today.

@mixererunio1757

5 жыл бұрын

Nettle tea is very popular in Poland

@carramills8270

5 жыл бұрын

It used to be popular in the British isles until recently but people have lost their culture here in the last few decades.

@levibergstein4541

5 жыл бұрын

Same here in Finland. Nettle pancakes too!

@nairb2693

5 жыл бұрын

@@carramills8270 waaaaaaaaah

@paendabear21

5 жыл бұрын

@@nairb2693 why are you crying like a baby? Is this supposed to be a jeer/jest at someone who is disappointed in the lack of cultural commitment in the Western world. Or is it just a representation of what you are: someone who isn't smart enough to respond with something other than the represented sound of a baby crying. Or maybe you are just an actual baby child, in that case you aren't supposed to be here without parental supervision.

Do you have a video demonstrating fire management? It looks like you are balancing between cooking on the coals, the open fire and assuring a readily supply of hot coals. Looks to be worth its own video.

@townsends

9 жыл бұрын

Deep Ashtray Great suggestion, I'll put it on the list... Thanks for Watching!

I live in Ireland, and made this recipe the same night I viewed this video. Every bit as delicious as described. Wonderful healthy and deeply green green. Go raibh maith agat.

I love nettle soup. It's comfort soup for me, I grew up on it when I was a kid. The backyard of my current property includes a little part of a wooded area, but unfortunately when I moved here I realized that the wood didn't have any nettles. No problem, I bought nettle seeds, sowed them in part of my garden then next year I transplanted the rhizomes in the woods. Now I have nettles in abundance every spring. Plus they deter deer and other pests which is always very nice. In fact, soup is only one of the way you can cook nettles. Any dish where you'd use spinach or other greens, you can use nettles. Do you like creamed spinach? Try creamed nettle, it's surprisingly good. One word on prep. I recommend that you use only the leaves - don't try to chop and use the stalks (unlike the video). The stalks are very fibrous, and even boiled a long time they will still be stringy. Also a caution on which nettles not to use. After they've bloomed, don't try to cook them. True they would be easier to pick as they stop stinging so much but there's a health risk. Tradition says they "promote flow of urine" but when they have flowers, all they promote is kidney stones.

@justinhicks6816

6 жыл бұрын

good info!

@heyitsisela6482

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@knot4man

2 жыл бұрын

Native Americans made cordage of nettle fiber to make nets to catch rabbits, and bowstrings.

How do these video's not have more views and likes? Not only are these video's informative and interesting but the production quality is outstanding!

It looks delicious! :) We still make nettle soup occasionally.. but instead of bread usually potatoes and eggs are used, adding sorrel is also very popular. The younger people don't really like it as nettles are thought of as just weeds, but i'm sure every Latvian grandma knows how it's done. One can even find nettle soup in traditional cuisine restaurants.

Thank you for demonstrating this recipe. I was excited about your mention of Hannah Glasse, as my Mum discovered that we are related to her (my Mum's maiden name was Glasse). Thank you for all your wonderful videos - your channel was recommended to me in a homesteading discussion, but as I'm home schooling, we are working through all your videos gradually, from the oldest and learning so much. From a UK fan ☺️

Sooooooooo happy to see you promoting nettles as food. We collect them when they are larger, also....just strip the leaves off the stems. When they start getting ready to bloom you don't want to eat them...hard on the kidneys at that point. Nettles are a superfood and more nutritionally dense than seagreens, blue green algae and other "popular" superfoods. We also tincture them and collect a lot of extra and dry them to store for making herbal infusions (strong tea) during the wintertime. They are medicinally used for menopause, man-o-pause (haha), allergies, to strengthen bones and tonify the major organs. They are full of minerals and better than any vitamins you can go buy in a bottle (something we never do.) Thanks for bring nettles to a broader audience.

You can also utilize stinging nettles in summer. Just hold the whole stem over a fire so the leaves wilt. That destroys the irritating chemicals in the leaves and tender stem parts. The mature stems also have tough fibers that can be used for cordage.

@animequeen78

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. That way, the nettles won't bite back when you eat them.

@tuttuti123

3 жыл бұрын

@@animequeen78 cooking them in boiling water destroys the acid in them. Putting it over the fire is probably used for handling it safely

Stinging nettles were also a remedy for asthma and breathing problems ❤️❤️ thank you for posting this

Great video. Love to see nettle gaining more attention. Its so ridiculously abundant in parts of the world and really delish. Wilted greens and soups are the best. I had some experience with nettle living in the Douglas Fir country of Oregon. One good way to make a nettle soup modern is Bacon Grease Mirepoix Flour Chicken Stock Nettle Heavy Cream Saute/soften mirepoix in grease. Add nettle and wilt well. Add flour to make a blonde roux. Add chicken Stock and cook for a bit. Add cream and blend smooth. Pretty delish.

This is amazing. This is what I think living in my hometown must have been like in 1800. Thank you for bringing this part of American history to life.

Nettle tea is popular in a lot of countries, especially for UTI health (sort of like cranberry juice), and nettle soup was a meal that many poor people across Europe relied on, especially in times of famine and war. So interesting to see this recipe!

Great video. I always learn something new and useful from you. Keep them coming.

This video ended... so abruptly

@Azlorn

4 жыл бұрын

Why would that show up on your bill?

These historical foods and methods are timeless. Useful to all of us and should be cherished as water in the desert.

It's a bit different than what I grew up eating - nettles sautéed in butter, boiled, and then with cream added. Paired well with tea! We also soaked in salt water, and then boiled twice bracken fern fiddleheads, and usually picked them around the same time we picked stinging nettle - the sap from the fern alleviated stings. Mountain huckleberry (V. membranaceum) leaves from here in the Northwest make a great tea for an insulin substitute in an emergency, something my grandmother found out from a Tillamook elder who once shared a hospital room with her boyfriend. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Northwest settlers drank it, too. What did they use on the east coast - did they use a similar plant, like bilberry?

My grandmother used to make nettle soup, but she added cream to it. Eating nettles is becoming popular here in Finland, because it has so much iron.

I love the contents, presentation and the location of this video. Wonderful.

"Cooked until it's done making noise," brilliant! And come spring, this is the first foraging ingredient I hope to sift out of the flora to prepare this soup. My grandmother used to make it, and I look forward to the chance to try it once more. Cheers!

Try making a Potato, nettle soup using chicken stock, puree and then strain it if using older nettles(gets rid of stringy bits). Nettle Spanikopita are excellent as well. Steamed with lemon juice and feta is a easy everyday go to.

@johnlambert8929

9 жыл бұрын

wow that sounds really good thank you for your comment!

@user-cr5nh4mv5j

7 жыл бұрын

in Greece we would call that kind of spanikopita, hortapita which basically translates to "wild greens pie"

Thank ya'll for keeping history alive :)

The camera man was so excited to "go out and pick em" that he couldn't wait.

@truthseeker5796

3 жыл бұрын

😂 I was like "why did the video suddenly come to an abrupt end"

Probably the most charming cooking apparatus I've ever seen. Well presented video too.

I have nettles around our house and I made this soup tonight. I used unami powder instead of making the mushroom ketchup. It turned out delicious and very filling. A great recipe that uses simple, inexpensive ingredients. I enjoy watching your channel and will have to try more of your recipes!

Kinda perfect vid! ;) Cheers! And Happy Easter!

I love it. Simple and beautifully done. 🔥Thank you. ✌🏽💚

Amazing channel, thank you !

We do this recipe with "pigweed" or Amaranthus, along with with stewed chicken or pork. Although I love the bread I instead serve it over cooked wild rice or Masarati long grain rice. Thanks for the wonderful videos, love them all!

This is so interesting... I have a whole crop of these in my back garden. Been cutting them down but I will happily try this.

I absolutely love your video channel, and subscribed. I'm an outdoor survival instructor, and love primitive cooking. I thought this nettle soup recipe was really nice. I have nettles every year, and I even pick individual leaves off during the summer, as they have a delicious, robust flavor. I save the tough stems to make my own cordage. I have two recipes for nettle soup, and paste. Just enough beef, vegetable, or chicken stock, to cover nettles, very finely chopped onions, green onions, or leeks, salt, pepper and if you like, a pinch of garlic powder. Everything is to your taste, you can add more stock if you like. The beauty of nettles, more than any other green, is that it stands perfectly well on its own without much spicing. Simmer until nettles are tender, then serve..... That's it! very simple. :) To make the paste, reduce soup, or drain nettles, puree, then spread on home made flour/cattail tortillas, or a flatbread. I served this at a church function, and everyone loved it. It was one of the first things that disappeared.

@townsends

8 жыл бұрын

+Dragunov Bushcraft Thanks for sharing your take on this idea!

I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting, subscribed

I came here from the pemmican soup video, I'm going to the mushroom ketchup video from here and, no doubt, I'll end up on another video from there. Sleep is less important.

@carramills8270

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

Townsends has been making such quality content for so long. Absolutely awesome

I have spent my most of my quarantine reading colonial american travelers diaries; but after finding your videos, I've been binge watching and loving it! Oh my goodness! After watching this video, I realized this stuff is in our woods. I went out and collected some and made this soup. Great tasting soup! Only mine didn't look like soup because I probably added too much flour. Thank you for your videos💖

Nettles are very important plants, not only to eat but also to see certain chemical values of the land, nettles are great to find fertille land. Maybe a good subject for a video? A lot of things we nowadays research in a lab can be discovered by studying the flora and fauna of a region. Maybe a video about five ways farmers from the 18th century knew when to act.

@utej.k.bemsel3199

6 жыл бұрын

I use them as a fertilizer, you can brew some nettle tea to use it for your plants, or you can dry the whole plant, shred it and put it on the roots of your plants. And the fresh tea repells aphids and other pests.

Love your teaching show.

Excellent information!😍

Marvelous, thank you!

wonderful video as always... we are excited now, a new recipe to try and we have lots of nettles on our property.... finally something to use nettles for.... thank you again...

A wonderful recipe. I love your show.

foraging and eating nettles...one of my favorites plants !

Awesome. You're the man.

Excellent presenttion, amazing kitchen, awesome recipe. Thank you my friend. Regards from uptown Canada.

Because these are so fantastic plants, i've planted them in my garden!

I love this channel, just found it tonight and have been browsing it all evening. I've been a wild foods forager for several decades, just wanted to add a couple of things. Nettles make a fine linen, the stems make excellent cordage, they are high in protein for a plant, and last of all when I gather them I use thin leather gloves, kitchen shears, and a pair of long handled hot -dog tongs. Thanks so much, your posts are excellent...........

Made some nettle soup yesterday(live in Norway for now). But, I added a veg. oxo cube, a garlic and a small potatoe( for thickening). Then, I pureed it and tossed some home made croutons made from stale bread on top. Even my 13 year old finicky son ate it!. Just subbed to you, by the by as I just found your channel. Can,t waite to hunker down and enjoy more of your exciting vids. Thanks!

So glad I found your channel...love this!

Looks delicious!

Thank you for this recipe.

I really like these videos! And they history and explanations of WHY this and that makes them, well, a lit of things! Lol Im glad I came across this channel! 😊

Awesome video bro, thank you!

Always plugging that mushroom ketchup, I love it!!!

“You might want to wear gloves when you pick these” *goes in with his bare hand with absolutely no hesitation*

@gemmag.2988

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr. Ninja!!!

@corbeau-_-

2 жыл бұрын

emphasis on _you_ ;)

Love the style of this video

Videos like this make me so glad I subscribed to your channel.

This brings back memories. I haven't had nettle soup in more than 50 years, but I still remember it from childhood. A poor man's replacement for spinach.

My family (in Sweden) have been cooking this every year. We usually pick the nettles while *wearing gloves* though; makes it a lot more pleasant

my grandmother used to make this when i was a young lad, along with dandylion salad

This is so awesome, we have nettles growing wild in the forest out back I'm definitely making this for us

So addicted to these videos.

Delicious ,and easy recipe.!

love your kitchen

looks amazing, gonna try it thanks :3

Gosh this looks delicious!

This recipe is amazing. It reminds me of my childhood, because grandma often used nettles instead of a spinach in recipes during early spring. Thank you.

Having worked in production kitchens where there is so much waste, it’s really enjoyable look back at these methods and traditions that aren’t really very old. Traditions that came to be because waste could result in starvation.

Very cool!

That recipe sounds good. I will try it soon :)

stinging nettle makes a great, soothing tea for a sore throat

I'm addicted to your videos

When I finally go crazy and run off to the wilderness to build a house, I'm totally making a stove like that.

@Sakitsunebi

7 жыл бұрын

Cool, I'm not the only one who plans to run off and build a house in the wilderness

@wemakeasiansurveys4U

7 жыл бұрын

Primitive Technology can help with that.

@Blutteufel

7 жыл бұрын

Johnny Nguyen Yeah, but I think most people would prefer to build a home that _can't_ be smashed apart by a light breeze.

@kylekafka6636

7 жыл бұрын

His clay houses are pretty sturdy. I too get the occasional urge to run off into the wilderness.

@Blutteufel

7 жыл бұрын

Kyle Kafka Even if they are, I am going to need something significantly sturdier. Around here, we have more bears, cougars and other nasty critters per capita than people.

I found this video on the exact date, eight years later! That's amazing

Whoa watching this exactly 10 years after it was posted... I might have to go find some nettles today... Thank you!

Brilliant buddy.

My grandma makes this every spring/summer and bakes stinging nettle pies. So tasty!

it is almost midnight and i made it immediately after watching this.

I make nettle pesto and tea but I've never made soup with them. This must change. Thank you for sharing the recipe.

I can't wait till next Spring.

Definitely will try this spring! Already knew stinging nettle as survival food but this looks tastier! :)

Awesome!!

I planted some nettle seeds in May, and they just started growing in August. Looking forward to try some nettle soon.

Wow. A Leftie. No wonder you are so good at what you do.

wow i didnt know you could eat them i would love and will try this!!!! something easy when camping!! once again and as always a very interesting show!!! thanks for keeping and our history alive #1 fan!

@CologneCarter

9 жыл бұрын

When I was a boy back in the 60', we collected stinging nettles to make into nettle spinach. That's what we called it anyway.

I don't know that I'll ever try it, but it was enjoyable watching you make it

That's a cool rustic kitchen.

i like your kitchen and recipes

Bon appetit very smart video thank you

So glad I found your channel! I love all the recipes and your knowledge. It may seem silly, but I like learning about this kind of stuff, what if we all need to go off the grid and live off the land? Its good to know what to do in case you ever need to.

@townsends

8 жыл бұрын

I am so glad you found us, thank you for the kind comment and sharing your concerns.

These are the type of videos I want to see more of. Wild edibles were always used in practically every dish back in the days.

I really enjoy your videos. I come back to them again and again for entertainment and inspiration. I'm interested in the time period and I was wondering if you could suggest some documentaries that could shed more light on life as it was in America in the 18th century.

what a good video again! very tasty food at the price we all can take any time.We love the kitchen the tools in it the cheerful cook and no one never smile too much.Please keep making those encouraging videos.We are looking to buy good knives from you.Thank you.