When I was a kid (70s), I was always fascinated by that picture on a bottle of Camp Coffee my Gran had. As I remember, the bottle was square in cross-section, and the picture covered most of the label. My Gran used it to flavour a coffee cake she made every Easter, and it probably dated from "the war" as she said (meaning WWII). I had no idea it was still made. I feel the need to get a bottle and make a coffee cake in a little remembrance for Betty, my Gran.

@AdeJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you do but let me warn you, it doesn't taste like you will remember!

@CitizenOfEverywhere

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdeJohnson I dont think I liked the Coffee Cake 45 years ago, so my expectations aren't high ;-)

@AdeJohnson

3 жыл бұрын

@@CitizenOfEverywhere Do it for Betty :)

@kjparker28

3 жыл бұрын

My mum used to make me a coffee cake on my birthday. I couldn’t believe it but she lost the recipe

@CitizenOfEverywhere

3 жыл бұрын

@@kjparker28 I'm confident the recipe I need can be found somewhere in Fanny Cradock's back catalog.

“This probably won’t be very popular.” R U kidding me? This was *fascinating* to me! The fact that you actually cooked with it at the end after explaining what everything was made the difference. Can’t believe how much soup was there!

@JohnWalshLegend

3 жыл бұрын

He made it look gourmet......

ships biscuits?........i would eat half the biscuit, then use the other half to fashion some teeth to replace the ones i had lost on the first half! xx

@MubashirAli-ii1mm

3 жыл бұрын

I do the same

@IsaacNewton1966

3 жыл бұрын

i eat it dry all the time!

@nseight

3 жыл бұрын

greg h ....brilliant :-)

@kaspol841

3 жыл бұрын

Greg U make my day 😂

I usually never comment on videos but man I've been watching you since you started and I just feel proud watching your community grow...keep posting more videos!!!

@KentSurvival

3 жыл бұрын

Hi :) Thank you very much for the support

@ul1.

3 жыл бұрын

@@KentSurvival you are good👍

Townsend and son is a fascinating resource and I love the cooking. The cabin build was great to watch over the year as was the outside oven.

Bovril is by far one of the best hot drinks you'll ever had. When I went to England it was always a pie and a bovril at football matches. Stuffs incredible.

@MrPh30

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up on various hotdrinks as a kid in Norway, chokolate, tea, blackberry sirup toddy ,and barious soups ,mostly the version of bovril it is here,but in dried version.

Andy, not a popular one? I think it will be mate. Yes I’ve enjoy watching Thownsends channel for a long time, especially the food and cookery sections. I’ve tried a lot of the old recipes too! Many thanks for this video😊👍🏻

Helping me tackle my bi polar ,thank you

@KentSurvival

3 жыл бұрын

glad the vids help :) ATB buddy

@glenndouglas8822

3 жыл бұрын

I'm also bi polar and I find watching camping videos and ration video's so relaxing. Turns my brain off for a little time.✌️ And be good ✌️

@paulm3224

3 жыл бұрын

@@glenndouglas8822 brilliant this guy , you take care dude and God bless

My dad used to have a cup of bovril EVERY morning without fail.......was fit as a fiddle all his life never took any meds......the odd lemsip if he got a little cold from working outdoors all his life til he passed away in may from pneumonia suddenly a month before his 80th ......I love a bovril, reminds me of dad lol xxx

This was so interesting! I enjoyed it immensely, especially you actually cooking with your "rations" and showing how they likely were used, thank you so much!!

Really interesting. I didn’t realise Bovril was so old. I love marmite which I think was a by-product of brewing, and i thought Bovril was just a meat alternative. It is served as a drink at football matches here in the Midlands. I also remember spam fritters in the 1960’s at school.

@nicksmith9217

3 жыл бұрын

Nottingham Forest games with the old man. Bovril and meat pie at half time, cant beat it!

Something else you may find interesting, Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common medlar, is a large shrub or small tree, and the name of the fruit of this tree. The fruit has been cultivated since Roman times, and is unusual in being available in winter, and in being eaten when bletted. It is eaten raw and in a range of dishes. As your not far from me a great place to see this would be in the grounds of Walmer Castle. Great vid, just in time for stew season.

That actually looked really good! I did find the history of it interesting too! Thanks for sharing!

Hey Kent, love these videos. I am an enthusiast chèf. When energy is scarce I use metal spoon to stir the stew because the wooden one takes too much of the heat energy. I also add ingredients one by one according to time needed for its cooking- beans first, then soup base, then softer veggies and leafies only need couple if minutes. Love to see you experiment with this method!

They should build the whole ship using those biscuits - it will never sink !! 😁 Great video 👍

Really cool! I had a professor who was a member of the Yurok tribe in California USA and his tribe used a lot of acorns, he told us about soaking them in the creeks prior to use as well, this kind of information always interests me, thanks for another great video.

My son (5) and myself love watching your videos!!!! Keep them coming and I hope life is well.

I found it interesting. Thanks for going outside the norm with recipes...appreciated Being I am from southern Arizona we make Machaca with jerky...one of my favorite Mexican dishes. jerky, onions, hot peppers, garlic and spices made into a thick stew and bundled in a tortilla. YUMM. Keep up the good work.

I'm 58 and when little considered it a big treat when my nan gave me Camp coffee!

😜Sick puppy!!! CAMP coffee 😖, yeah, it used to be in a bottle like the old HP sauce bottle....and you're right about the label😬. Bovril turns Pot noodle in a Thermos flask a gourmet meal when you're out & about. Rose hip 'itching powder' when you break them open 😬, but the skins are huuuge in vitamin C. Very good video Andy 🤠👏👏👏.

It’s very good you have all ingredients preserves in your stove

School spam fritters. Everyone hated them, but I loved them 😘

@DDRR00

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! [I used to hide one underneath a pizza, so I didn't have to pay for it!]

@bobthornton1109

3 жыл бұрын

I bloody loved them! Far better than the lumpy mash, overcooked ox liver and boiled cabbage!

Andy, Great video!! Greeting from Indiana! Townsends is here in my home state and is just a 3 hour drive from home, I make two or three trips there a year. I love that I have found yet another thing you and I both enjoy. I was totally oblivious to the Bovril and Camp products. As both a civil and Revolutionary war re-enactor here in the USA, I have made and eaten tons of Hard tack. Its really a pretty good product if you learn to use it as you have done here. Buy the way SPAM is a regular meal here lol. I had spam and pork and bean for supper tonight with bread and butter. I look forward to your videos every week, please keep them coming!!!! Cheers!

I always put these videos on before bed to put my mind at ease. Thank you!

Another great video. Love a hot bovril on a cold rainy day.

BOVRIL ROCKS!!!!! LOve the stuff and being of British heritage (on my mom's side) grew up with the stuff. Sadly its hard / virtually impossible to get in Canada now. Usually put in a request when friends go to the UK. Bovril on good grainy toast with extra old sharp cheddar cheese and sliced cucumber (sometimes with sliced tomatoes too!), on toasted crumpets with butter as a hot drink... YUm!!! So happy when I saw it in this video!

From the moment I follow you into those relaxing forests, your videos are educational, informative and entertaining to watch. Well done! Of course I’m always hungry after watching your culinary skills!

Andy, ship's biscuit (called pilot biscuit) is still popular in Alaska. Alaskan buy bags of it from amazon. Have you tried pinole? Parched and powdered starchy maize, mix it with brown sugar and cold water for a delicious meal on the go. Pinole can also be cooked like a hot cereal. A once a year treat for me is spam loco moko - in a bowl layer steamed white rice, grilled spam slices, fried egg, and brown gravy. Food of the gods.

@jamesellsworth9673

3 жыл бұрын

Pinole is a GREAT survival food that has served North Americans well. Sustaining, light food for the trail.

The mention of spam is a nostalgic one for many of us of a certain age as a kid in 70,s we was on the tale end of said treat . By then it had been elavated to spam fritters. I guess the idea was to hide the spam with a layer of fried batter cause that always makes things better . Of course the smothering of tomatoes sauce would also make this "treat" more palatable 🤣🤣

@RichardRolfe1

3 жыл бұрын

MMMM this was something my gran made and as you said with the tomato sauce made this some good eating.

@jamesellsworth9673

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1944 in the USA. In the 1950's and 1960's this 'mystery meat' was found on many a table from the middle class to the working class to families whose wage earners were out of work and 'on the dole.' We took it on multi-day backpacking trail hikes. These days, SPAM is much improved in formulation and in texture. Great with scrambled eggs or in Spam mac and cheese casserole. I rediscovered this as a valuable part of my Pandemic Pantry.

Kent Me & My wife see your videos every night at dinner time Thank U for all your hard work the best videos on U-tube great stuff..!!!

Great alternative to normal cooking in the woods. Loved that you fused history, rationing etc in with the stu! Great stuff 👍

Fun fact, Norway made for some of the polar expeditions a version of pemmican amd chokolate bars. I belive it was described by Nansen. It was made as a more versatile/ get some different variations to go with. Up in the Americas was the native tribe Mete ,offspring of natives and French Voyageurs. They hunted bison twice a year and made huge amount of pemmican they sold to many people and sale companies. Well renown for their quality of the pemmican .

Very interesting Andy. I was brought up on bully beef when I was at boarding school. I think its called Corned Beef in the UK. Lovely with Colman's mustard and a decent cut loaf. Also, instead of Bovril we use an Oxo cube mixed in water for a winters day drink. Lovely.

@gordonmiller4439

3 жыл бұрын

Just letting you know that I miss your content, Major J! I do hope you will come up on the net, again. All the best, Gordon

Camp Coffee was produced by a cordial company. The coffee essence was developed by Campbell Paterson for domestic use, to avoid the complex and then expensive equipment required for coffee drinking.

Very interesting post Andy. Thank you

I don't think I'll be copying this type of meal any time soon.. but it was definitely interesting to watch! Thanks Andy!

Loved this one Andy! Thanks.

Absolutely fab, really interesting Andy, as far as bushcraft goes you cant' get 'craftier' than that feast! Well presented, narrated, and televised. Keep 'em comin'. Proper Winter fodder! Nice one, Fella .... BW from South Somerset

dunno why you expect this to be unpopular, i really enjoyed it.

My Gran was the only person I knew who used " Camp Coffee" as a drink. As children we were sometimes given a rosehip syrup as a supplement in the winter. Hard tack no fat to go rancid. Bovril according to Jasper Carrot drunk at half-time during football matches. Spam best sliced thin and fried crispy.

@jjudy5869

3 жыл бұрын

The best way I've found to consume Spam is a dish from Hawaii called Musubi (Spam sushi).

@jamesellsworth9673

3 жыл бұрын

Roger, thin and crispy sounds FINE. I powder mine with Wondra Instant Flour on both sides and fry in pork leaf lard on a commercial grill. For my taste, Spam can be overcooked to the point where the mixture of meat and spices does become too pungent.

Brilliant !!! Loved it all

Great, informative video! Thanks for sharing the history behind some of these foods

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks!

Very interesting. You should do a series on historical survival foods.

It's good to watch a video like this in the middle of winter makes you look forward to spring even more 😀 😄

I remember Camp coffee from being a kid in the early 60s, as the Instant type coffee powder was just coming into use.

Another amazing video :) Thanks, Andy!

Absolutely love your videos!!

I can remember my old grandad makeing me a cup of camp coffee but silly old bugger used a table spoon of it n nearly killed me lol

I did enjoy that. Nice bit of cold night viewing. Excellent.

Hi Andy very interesting information. I love one pot meals or stews throw anything and everything you want into a pot and let it go. Thanks Andy stay well

Brilliant, the best episode I have seen. I can`t wait to try out drying stuff!

Nice & interesting video Andy 👍. I remember Camp coffee, back in the 7-tiz .just add hot water and condensed milk 😋

Thanks for such an interesting video Andy👍

Thanks Andy very interesting video and the stew looked great.

There are two types of mushroom pickers: There are old mushroom pickers, and there are bold mushroom pickers.There are no old bold mushroom pickers. Do not eat any mushrooms that you dont know for certain to be safe. Many mushrooms are deadly poisonous. Be super careful everybody!

@jamesellsworth9673

3 жыл бұрын

GREAT POST, Wade. THANKS!

@patrickj8984

3 жыл бұрын

don't munch on a hunch!

As always I absolutely love Andy's videos!!

Great history lesson. Thanks.

Brilliant! Love the history and how you arranged everything. Cheers!

LOL When you mentioned the pemmican and portable soup the first thing I thought about was Townsends. I've been watching their early American videos for years.

Really enjoyed that video, thanks very much!

Very interesting, i love these over night trips.

Always interesting. Love the history. Nothing like a good stew. 😋 Looks delicious!-thanks Andy🙏

Thanks for showing that camp coffee I forgot about it the last time I had was over 36 years ago with my late dad.

Proper high quality video Andy, love the history and the way you showed it all. Good stuff!

Fascinating, and supremely useful.

I think this is my favorite upload to date very informative thanks Andy and cheers

@KentSurvival

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sean, glad you enjoyed it :D

A good topic for a video, Andy. Thank you. It shows how much work would need to go into picking, drying and processing ingredients if you had to survive in the wilderness for a long time, especially if there was not much hunting or fishing to be had......

Love the videos man, keep em comming!

good job Andy. informative and entertaining. very enjoyable - it absolutely *deserves* to be popular.

Great vid. History lesson,and cooking all in one.

The best outdoor channel on KZread bar none....The quality of the video, plus You explain everything so well. You should have a TV show Andy. Thanks for doing this. Simon is great too.

Please do more videos like this mate... simply smashing.. see u on the next one ...

Well done Andy job well done in deed and very educational 👍🏾👏🏾

Really interesting saving it to refer later am going to make some of these things. VERY INTERESTING THANK YOU

Thanks Andy for the very interesting and informative video. I find your cooking videos really inspiring!

Great video Andy....... I really appreciate the effort you put into your content and as I'm trying to get into foraging, a timely upload. Cheers

Wonderful video! Thanks, Andy! 😉🇨🇦

Great video as always keep up the good work

I greatly enjoyed this. Thanks for doing this video.

@KentSurvival

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeffrey

Awesome video, Andy!

Very interesting thanks Andy keep it up

I really enjoyed this video! Thank you. 😊

Andy - that was a facinating video!! More like it please!!

This was awesome! Thank you for making this, so interesting 😁

I have really enjoyed this video. Great job!

That was really interesting Andy. More on these kind of foods please, and how you prepare them. Cheers.

Very interesting, thanks! The Camp coffee brought back memories as my parents always used it as did my great grandmother....I quite like as a hot drink! Lovely stew too!

Very interesting. Thanks!

Very cool video Andy. Great info. Looked pretty tasty.

i love this video its very informative and interesting

Great content and presentation, Andy, thank you. ❤️

That was good, Andy. Thanks. 👍🙂

v Very informative and fun to watch, thanks Andy.

@KentSurvival

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Bert

Very good talk sir, really interesting, some good back stories with a few of the products, nice thanks. Love to make some jerky having watched this come to think of it.

This is a pretty good video.and I learned a lot of useful information

Hi Kent love your series! Just a suggestion you could cut back on showing us chopping wood for each meal. Lol... Chop chop chop. Your meals are fabulous brother!

Really fascinating stuff Andy

Townsends is fantastic watching.

Great examples. Thanks leads to good ideas. Great meal

@KentSurvival

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)