I am deeply saddened by the low amount of views and likes. These farming series are an absolute joy to watch, I wish more people can appreciate them.

@uggggggghhhhh

3 жыл бұрын

why... 100k is pretty good for a documentary given its the least popular film genre.

@vh6356

3 жыл бұрын

I love these series too! I think the unlikes came from the "click bait" title. It led you to believe you would be learning about mince meat pies🤷.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer

2 жыл бұрын

Not nice and modern

@servraghgiorsal7382

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a history buff, and didn't know about these videos.

@marylawson5906

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome shows it takes me back to the ole days around my granny’s stove. Watching her make perfect biscuits simple yet the work was a labour of love which to this day I still enjoy passing on what I learned from my elders. Thank you this rekindles my memories. Be blessed

The fact that i get to sit on my bum, binge watching these on a weekend, while my washing machine washes my clothes, my dishwasher washes my dishes, my reverse cycle heating warms my home, and my gas stove cooks my food at a touch of a button, makes me eternally grateful. For as long as it lasts.. this victorian life looks like a dream, but in reality i would never have the energy and resilience for it. We are soft nowdays.

@MH-be6hr

Жыл бұрын

No wonder the average life expectancy of everyone but the wealthy was around age 50!

@helenbontje15

Жыл бұрын

Back then you didn't need a gym membership to stay in shape!

@phenohunter2504

Жыл бұрын

😂

@servraghgiorsal7382

Жыл бұрын

Me too. When I was young I. Lived on a farm, cooked and heated with wood stove, butchered chickens and 2 hogs a year and had help to can 1000 quarts a year, made our own beer, soda pop, raised bees and had a half acre garden. Left because of divorce, but it was the happiest time of my life. Most people today. Can't imagine such a life.

It's adorable how clearly Alex loves Clumper. Their bond is so sweet

When I was a kid my uncle and my brother were the 'hay loaders'...I stomped the hay down in a horse drawn cart. It was forked by hand up into the hay loft and I stomped it down again. It had been harvested by a horse drawn mower (horse was named Pansy, bless her!). This was in the early 70s...My mom always made mince meat with a lot of deer meat. There was more meat than fruit. I can still see her grinding meat with a hand cranked grinder that bolted to the counter top...we had wood heat, so no hot water in the summer, you had to fire up the kitchen stove if you wanted a bath. Mom did laundry using a wringer washer that I was always scared to death of getting caught in. I hung laundry outside, when we got a proper washer and dryer we were so tickled! Still hung out laundry unless it was raining. Even in winter...the frozen long johns were brought in and stood around the wood stove, lol. I carried wood in from the barn for the stove and helped put potatoes in the cellar for the winter. The odd thing is, it never seemed like a big deal to live this way. We just got on with it.

@marcelasantander7457

2 жыл бұрын

Lovely memories!

@dogslobbergardens6606

2 жыл бұрын

My Dad had one of those hand-cranked countertop grinders, too. He never made mincemeat pies that I remember, but he did make venison sausage and a sandwich spread of bologna and pickles. Venison tends to be pretty lean, so he'd buy some pork fat and mix it in to help that aspect of the sausage. One deer makes a lot of meals that way. I also had an aunt with an old-fashioned wringer-washer. She often made a little money sewing clothes for both neighbors' kids and the kids' dolls. This was all in the 1980s in midwest America. Gardening was big with us as well, even though we lived in town. We were poor and we damn well knew it LOL. But we managed, and we never really went hungry.

Just here to say I’m happy Clumper is back to full health. I love that horse

I loved the guy who taught how to make the rake. "here's something no one has ever seen before... The inside of this tree" love it

Clumper is a gorgeous horse! It's so nice to see the 'crew' together on the farm again! :)

I feel very sympathetic toward Ruth. I love gardening. I had a huge yard and I knew where every plant was and where it came from. Ruth planted it with love. I appreciate her and I am so sorry for her disappointment. I expect she planted flowers that would reseed every year. ❤️🌹❤️

@slaveNo-4028

Жыл бұрын

Same, she seemed soo disappointed and couldn't hide it. At first I thought well, it was a show, they were gone and probably didn't have plans to ever come back to film there again so ofc things would change. But it also seems like a total waste, to get rid of a beautiful garden someone has built in favor of a - maybe posh-er looking - grass lawn.

@deborahklinlger8565

Жыл бұрын

@user-cx2ji6tl6t I felt Ruth's pain. I don't think the owner's son appreciated the labor intensive job of putting in a new garden from scratch.

@msjrockqueen2011

9 ай бұрын

Agreed; my heart sank when she found her lovely garden was gone. How could that young man have done that??

@RareInTheHistory

7 ай бұрын

Same! When my husband and I were first married, we rented a place from my in-laws. I had put in so much work because we had planned on buying it eventually, but being young, we couldn't get a loan since the house was a trailer house unless we decided to build, but in the meantime I had put in apple trees, raspberry bushes, a perennial bed all along the house including peonies and a lilac bush and hydrangea that I had gotten from my grandparents who had since moved. I also have a current bush also from my grandparents. When we moved, it was to another rental, and my in-laws sold the house they had built to move into the trailer house to save on expenses and taxes. That was the whole reason we had to move, so they could save money of course. Anyway, I didn't know if I would be allowed to do any gardening at the new place, and it was supposed to be temporary until we could find place to buy. Temporary turned into 10 years later, lol. I'm rambling. My in-laws the spring after moving in to the place we had been renting from them decided to put an addition on the front, so they completely bulldozed all of that landscaping I had done. They never even offered for me to come get the plants. Fortunately once we were able to buy a home, the current bush was still there, and she let me come get it because they were sick of mowing around it. I was so angry, not only at the 3 years of work I had put into that property, but also at the loss of plants that I could not replace. Yes, it was a common lilac and yes it was a basic white hydrangea, but they were given to me by my grandparents who were no longer able to take care of their own home, and my grandpa is now gone. It's a connection I'll never have and wasn't even given the chance to save even though they knew where they came from and had seen the work I had put in, and I could have taken them and nurtured them for the rest of my life.

My mother is 93 and starting to visibly fade. This is probably her last Christmas where she will be able to make the mince. A family tradition that has been around a long time. The family recipe dates from before 1900. Allspice was called "mixed spice". There is a very similar recipe in the second edition Mrs. Beeton's. I wish there had been a list of ingredients from the 1850ish recipe here on the program. The family would use either brandy or dark rum. I like the brandy but the dark rum is very smooth. Great Aunt Laura taught me how to make pastry,but that was in the 1970s. Looks like it is my turn to get it all right. Apples are the key to good mince. Some green apples ,baking quality,and others that will remain firm after cutting and aging. Get it right and the stuff is food of the gods. Retrieving the paper in my grandmother's handwriting is part of the Christmas tradition.

@lorainewhite727

3 жыл бұрын

Love all the roots of saying " make hay while the sun shines" etc.😊

@tonguepetals

3 жыл бұрын

Mince is absolute shit.

@dougkelley2781

3 жыл бұрын

I loved your story. My grandmother always made mince as well, and it is still my favorite. It’s not everyone’s taste and I’m glad of it. More for myself!

@paulmanson253

3 жыл бұрын

@@dougkelley2781 Every once in a while,commercially made mince can be very good. A friend,since passed,had his own recipe and just for fun we would trade oh,a couple of 6" pies each. Flavour and texture can vary widely. He would add some honey. A little too sweet for me,we each preferred what we grew up with. Finding a source for suet is year by year more difficult. One observation. Home Economics is no longer taught in high schools. If you have children or interested kinfolk,pass the recipe around and teach how to make good pastry. If just one youngster grabs the interest and runs with it,that will make a difference. All the best.

@JohnRodriguesPhotographer

2 жыл бұрын

God bless. My mum passed 21 years ago. She would have been 97 this year

Wonderful video. One reason that dairy maids were considered so sexy was cowpox. This is a fairly mild illness, passed from cows to humans, that "vaccinates" the person catching it against Small Pox, a much worse disease that left it's survivors with pock marked skin. Since dairy maids seldom caught Small Pox they were known for their flawless complexions.

@ITI-xi5zx

2 жыл бұрын

how fascinating!

@esmeraldablack2365

Жыл бұрын

That is very interesting, thank you.

@pauliewogmastercertifiedli535

Жыл бұрын

That's fascinating thanks for sharing I can't wait to pass that on to people.

@irideaunicorn1620

11 ай бұрын

Peter is so damn handsome

@hizurumegumi5727

8 ай бұрын

So cowpox is similar enough to small pox that when the body fights off cow pox and formed a immunity to it, it would be able to fight off other poxes

I love ruths enthusiasm, she gets into the work like she loves it.

Absolutely love Ruth! She's such a library of knowledge and enthusiastic about learning.

@dinglebarry528

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t you just want to spend time with her?? A day just wouldn’t be enough. Do you know if Ruth has written any books? I’d buy anything that she wrote.

@nonamerooster5413

3 жыл бұрын

How to be a Victorian written by Ruth Goodman

@camilledvorak7151

3 жыл бұрын

Fun drinking game, do a shot every time she giggles or laughs.

@Lobotomobillionaire

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a little sad we don't get to see her interact with others as much as the other reenactors. (At least from what I've seen of this cast from the tudor series.) The men "seem" like they know less but I've been wondering if it's partially because they are also interacting with other people at the same time. I personally have difficulty being social and factual simultaneously in my workplace so maybe I'm projecting.

@___LC___

3 жыл бұрын

@@camilledvorak7151 We’d die of alcohol poisoning! She is giddy with learning! ❤️

Aaahh! The joy of Ruth! She is just so enjoyable.

On the farm, there was such a feeling of relief when the barn was full of hay in the fall. We used to say "A barn full of hay is like money in the bank."

@dogslobbergardens6606

2 жыл бұрын

You're not kidding. I live in farm country in TN (lots of small farms with horses and/or beef cattle) and this has been a bad spring for hay so far... wrong amounts of rain at the wrong times. Plus fertilizer prices are going crazy. Local farmers are really concerned. I've spoken to a few that say they're already running out of last year's stock and they don't know if they'll be able to grow what they need. The folks at the local farm co-op store say they can't even order it in for gardeners like me who only need a small amount for mulch etc; they're just isn't any close enough to make it worthwhile trucking it in. It's a very scary feeling when you can't even buy something so basic but important, even if you had plenty of cash for it.

these shows are utterly fascinating, the best way to learn about history is to live it.

Some of the best series in history, ON HISTORY. For fans of this, make sure to check out Wartime Farm, Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monestery Farm, Tales From The Green Valley, Secrets Of The Castle, and Victorian Pharmacy. All are as excellent as this series, "Victorian Farm".

@thebovineavenger

3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget "Full steam ahead" I believe there are a couple others we are both forgetting about.

@amandak3198

3 жыл бұрын

I wish they would make more from the Victorian era in particular, I love the shows, I've watched them over and over. These 3 people together are my favorites!

@DetroitMicroSound

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebovineavenger For sure! How could I forget? Also an excellent series! Thank you. If you know of any others, please post them here! I have seen all I know of, including Full Steam Ahead. I and surely plenty others, would love to learn of them. Thanks again for adding to the list, a very important series. 😁👍

@DetroitMicroSound

3 жыл бұрын

@@amandak3198 Likewise! They all work great together. But for me, it would be further into the Edwardian era -With a good amount of focus on the transportation revolution. Cars, motorcycles, airplanes, ships, fast trains, and all that entailed....

@amandak3198

3 жыл бұрын

I think there is also a Victorian bakery one, but I haven't watched it. I'm in the US, so some shows are blocked for me unless I pay for a subscription to britbox or whatever.

I am sad to report that Mr.Acton has passed away in 2020 at the ripe old age of 95. Rest in peace.

This is my very favorite part of Absolute History. I wish they'd keep it up forever.

The AUDACITY of this man to destroy Ruth's garden. I'm throwing hands with him

@Delaney-and-the-Starlight

3 жыл бұрын

Same! And didn’t even have the decency to replant something in the new location 😭😭😭 That poor beautiful garden!

@lisasmith516

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Horrible. It wouldn't likely have been done in my thought. Not with a skilled Estate Manager's "easy" agreement, anyways...my thinking, of course

@sheilaboston7051

3 жыл бұрын

Ruth certainly sounded and looked disappointed, after all her hard work to establish it.

@servraghgiorsal7382

2 жыл бұрын

This is kind of like Melanoma destroying Ms Jackie K' s Rose and Ms Obama's vegetable gardens. Thoughtless!!

@mirjamansikkamaki

2 жыл бұрын

I would NOT have been that brave, just casually walking beside Ruth when she noticed the garden was destroyed. And then to show the "new garden", looking totally awful!

So happy to find this episode. My grandmother and mother made mince pies at Christmas and this is the first time I have found a recipe that resembles my grandmother’s. In her cookbook she has a list of ingredients, no amounts. She came to California from England in 1910 with her husband and children and brought many traditions with them. One was mince pies. I still have her tins to bake the pies, a few were hand made. I will try this fall to make it.

My English mother made the best mince meat pie. She’s gone now, but her recipe lives on.

@Delaney-and-the-Starlight

3 жыл бұрын

Willing to share any good secrets on them?

I absolutely love this show. After a long day at work and coming home, taking a nice shower then chilling all cozy in my room while watching these series. It is an Absolute joy! Such a well made show

46:28 - famous last words. I felt a cloud coming even as she spoke those words. Also, that butter looks so good.

I love that they're all so good humored; I'm especially fond of Ruth's laugh!

I love learning the etiology of our idioms - make hay when the sun shines, grinding to a halt, etc.

@kumaahito3927

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, liked the tenderhooks too, and the rule of thumb (I think both was mentioned in the Tudor series, the latter here too)

I'm always happy for more Ruth, Alex, and Peter :)

@winfieldjohnson125

3 жыл бұрын

So what ever happened to Tom?

As a soap maker myself I can see how far we have come after watching the Victorian methods. Rather eye opening

@1tylerose

3 жыл бұрын

That was how my grandmother made soap

@lizard3755

3 жыл бұрын

I'm definitely happy I get to use things like olive oil and shea butter to make my soaps instead of tallow

@lauracarrier6158

3 жыл бұрын

@@lizard3755 I still use tallow in my soap. My family hunts, and I render the fat into tallow in an effort to use as much of the animal as I can. Some people are disgusted by it, but I love tallow in my soap.

@lizard3755

3 жыл бұрын

@@lauracarrier6158 I think that's awesome! I think it's really cool that you're respecting the animal it's from and that you're carrying on your family tradition.

@Burning_Dwarf

2 жыл бұрын

@@lauracarrier6158 ethical hunting is amazing, may i ask what you/your family does with the hide, and with the bones

Yay, Clumper fully recovered! :D

I love the banter between Alex and Peter when they were dealing with the hay coming at them on the wagon. I never laughed so hard during these shows. Thank you for making more episodes 💕

Yay! I just found the Victorian Farm series over the summer, and so glad to find this in my recommendations. Thank you, just love these shows!

I enjoyed the video, but when I first saw the title it led me to believe it would be more about victorian mince pies.

@Guitcad1

3 жыл бұрын

Just because it had "Victorian Mince Pie" you thought there would be Victorian mince pie?

@kathleen1685

3 жыл бұрын

@@Guitcad1 That was my impression. I was hoping for a recipe.

@fishinwidow35

3 жыл бұрын

@@kathleen1685 I have a very old one and I use venison in mine

@make7966

3 жыл бұрын

@@kathleen1685 I was also. Would have loved to get the recipe.

@emjayay

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. So I Googled Victorian mince pie recipe.

Eve wearing Ruth's dress from Victorian Farm makes me happy

Good lord, those rams have some enormous pendulums

I love these guys. I really hope they keep doing these shows. Very educational. Hello from Los Angeles

This series legit makes me so happy. What a wonderful production, again!

Love this series. It teaches you so much while being completely entertaining. It also inspired me to do more DIY projects during the pandemic.

I never knew that rams only had on set of teeth on the bottom!!!! And I consider myself educated, I guess not!! LOL 😂

44:56 For all those who think farmers abuse their animals, this is the reality. Clumper is part of the team and knows his humans will take care of him.

@iwd1856

3 жыл бұрын

Old horses that can not continue working were sold to make soap.

@Bowie_E

3 жыл бұрын

@@iwd1856 that's what we did with my grandma, too

@lorainewhite727

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bowie_E Awww, pull the uther one!

@lorainewhite727

3 жыл бұрын

@@iwd1856 That is soooo sad! But it is what they'd do in those times as every penny counted.

@ITI-xi5zx

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bowie_E you WHAT

That look of disappointment when she saw her garden turned into a lawn...

@wolfshadow3789

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad that I am not her I would have been pissed off all that hard work for nothing

@___LC___

3 жыл бұрын

When I had to remove part of my own garden, due to being disabled, I was heartbroken...even though I was doing it myself! I can’t imagine anyone doing it to me.

@___LC___

3 жыл бұрын

And then to be told to plant things for the landlord’s Christmas.

@xXCREEKSTARXx

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, "well i've destroyed your work, but do it again 1 1/2 meters away from the original position. have fun" kinda mean.

@cidb.212

3 жыл бұрын

Then he presents her with a nasty old weed patch instead:(

Truly learnt a lot of Victorian Culture!!! Love these series!! Keep it up!!

I just started watching this show a few weeks ago and I really love it it's really interesting and I'm learning a lot about how people used to live I would like to try doing that myself once maybe only for a weekend not a whole year LOL

“This machine is brilliant, absolutely brilliant and I’ve only stabbed Alex once with the pitchfork!” Too funny Peter!

Yes, my good neighbors have lost many a crop of hay due to unexpected rain. Because of this they are often out at 3 in the morning to get in their hay before it rains. Always trying to beat the weather, it's still a lot of hard work. Cut the hay, turn the hay, bale the hay, pick up the hay with a fork lift and store the hay. They do this 3 or 4 times a year.

I was missing these three SO much !!! THANK YOU ✨🧡

I found myself positively grinning during the dance! A fun and educational experience- and a treat to watch!

Biggest shock of all, Mr.Actin is still alive and completely in control of his faculties.

@spooningkat6933

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly he passed away earlier this year www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/attractions/2020/06/18/he-was-held-in-respect-but-also-great-affection-founder-of-acton-scott-working-farm-dies-aged-95/

@resnonverba137

3 жыл бұрын

@@spooningkat6933 Thanks for info.

@mim0381

3 жыл бұрын

"Tom died peacefully in the house he was born in over 95 years ago.." May we all be so fortunate in the end. A good innings and a life well lived, not so very sad.

@achanwahn

3 жыл бұрын

@@spooningkat6933 wow! He was 95?!

@Delaney-and-the-Starlight

3 жыл бұрын

@@spooningkat6933 Oh no! I’m so sad to hear of his passing! He allowed such a wonderful thing to happen in this!

How did anyone ever bring in a hay crop in the UK? Doesn’t it almost always rain?

@carbidegrd1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it never stops.

I really love her bonnet and the red capelet!

When Lord Acton used a monocular to assess the rainfall he made the day!

@sheilaboston7051

3 жыл бұрын

Monocle :)

The "damsel in distress" the damsel is a spindle that strikes the shoe to make grain drop into the eye of the millstones. There's a strap that runs across the hopper and is held down by the weight of the grain. When the grain runs out, the strap springs up and causes a bell to ring each time the damsel strikes the shoe. The ringing bell is called a 'damsel in distress' and the miller would have a bell with a different ring on each hopper so that he knew which grain had run out. The gap between millstones can be adjusted to give control over the fineness of the grain. When the stones meet they literally "grind to a halt".And that's the run of the mill

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

My guess would have been the damsel was called such because of the way it seems to "dance" or whirl, rather than because of any noise it makes, which really didn't sound like much...?

I love Ruth. She is so entertaining and educational.

Where would humans be without horses?! 🐴💙 Throughout history, we've used them for transportation, in wars (cavalry), to power machinery, for equestrian sports, and so on. They have really served humankind a lot.

@veramae4098

2 жыл бұрын

Multiply human power x 5!

@dogslobbergardens6606

2 жыл бұрын

@Celto Loco indeed, for much of history the horse was a rich man's status symbol or reserved mainly for military exploits. Even today they're really sort of a luxury item. You were quite right to describe them as the Ferrari of farm animals, as the comparison is suiting and of course Ferrari uses a stallion as their logo. Oxen and beef and/or dairy cattle were and still are far more important to the average farmer, as you said. And if you don't have a tractor, oxen are much, much stronger than horses anyhow. Then of course there's the humble pig, which can turn almost ANY kind of forage or scraps into meat for you, pretty quickly. Goats and sheep, somewhat similar, with the added bonus of milk or wool. Rabbits and chickens are likewise very efficient at turning almost anything that grows into valuable food for people. And let's not forget humankind's best friend, the dog. Our partnership with them pre-dates agriculture itself.

AHH THEY'RE BACK!! I am so happy

I love Ruth!!!! This woman isn’t afraid, nor is she intimidated, to attack any project regardless of the hard, hard work involved. She is such an incredible historian and every single project is absolutely authentic. I enjoy watching Alex and Peter as well. I didn’t realize that both of them are archeologists. Their approach to their projects are authentic as well. Until I watched this series, I had no true idea just how hard people worked during the Victorian era, and the historical periods/eras before it. Many blessings to you all!! 🇺🇸❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸

When Clummper didn't like the grass hitting him, 😫

@lauracarrier6158

3 жыл бұрын

I think Clumper is my favourite member of this team.

I love these so much. Please never stop making them!

The whole UK country side is so magic and so beautiful

16:20 if you just want to get right to the mince pie

@charitycaldwell4997

3 жыл бұрын

Omg thank you lol

@achanwahn

3 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuu!!!

I love these videos! Well done & i love seeing how things were done in these times!

I'm not a historian or an archeologist. ... but I do appreciate the time you all have spent sharing your adventures!

I was just about to re-watch this series! Excellent timing, I'm glad it's back for a holiday special!

omg, more of these please. love love it

Really enjoyed this👍One can truly appreciate the history & the meaning of hard work. TFS! 🙏✌💖

Love this ...Ruth and the gang are awesome

I love these trio.. They are such a team!! ❤️❤️❤️

I've watched every series these three made twice over now...so grateful to them and the producers and crew for their hard work, excellent production values and attention to historical detail....really great chemistry and a fantastic camaraderie between the three as well; so informative and entertaining to watch (and one guilty indulgence of mine was always the hope, in keeping with the Victoria era, that Peter and Alex would be caught in the hayloft, having a nice schnog, in a scandalous state of undress....they are both such hotties) 😉

I really love this trio! Peter and Ruth are such a treat!

Dirty fingers while making butter? Good thing I’m not eating it lol. I love these videos

Clumper is a magnificent horse. What a beautiful beast

Love this series, suddenly found myself binging a lot of the playlists!

What goes inside a Victorian mince pie? Obviously Sweeney Todd's unlucky patrons...

@achanwahn

3 жыл бұрын

@Brenda Harper that sounded like you tried to speak in periods prose. Only it came out a bit garbled and strange. But, keep it up. I’d focus on reading more pieces to really get the language right.

@Delaney-and-the-Starlight

3 жыл бұрын

‘Mince meat pile’ rhymes with ‘something vile’ 😌 I don’t have anything of actual value to add 🤣

@crimesforkibble6912

3 жыл бұрын

"I'll come again when you have judge on the menu"

@LostintheTwilightZone

3 жыл бұрын

Not ALL meat pies were minced meat........in Sweeney Todd they were just ordinary meat pies that people bought for a quick lunch...sort of the fast food of the day!!

@alalalala57

3 жыл бұрын

@@achanwahn Um, I think they were just speaking...

Thats interesting, in the US we use the side delivery rake to rake up the grass after mowing it, and use it to turn the rows over to dry, if done with a sickle bar mower you need 4 clear days, 1 to mow, 2 to dry and 4th day is baling it.

"The moment the butter comes... ... that's the technical term"

@--enyo--

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@GRIZZDOGG01

3 жыл бұрын

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@josefinbjork1086

3 жыл бұрын

Annyone who laught at that is a child 😊

@glrasshopper

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the origin of the term. After all, it happens with a splash...

@sharronneedles6721

2 жыл бұрын

@@josefinbjork1086 anyone who laughed* at that has a sense of humor. Sometimes it's okay to laugh.

There is more to the sexy milk maid thing. People who worked with cows were exposed to cow pox, so they were immune to smallpox, so they had much clearer skin than pretty much everyone else.

Q: Why I watch Absolute History? A: Ruth, Ruth, Ruth and if course Ruth!!

I absolutely love this series and I adore Ruth!

Can't wait for parts 2 and 3, interested to see if they'll have a Christmas tree and how it will be adorned

@mim0381

3 жыл бұрын

They're all available already kzread.info/dash/bejne/fn6DuNCPZMywd7g.html

We make our own soaps at home and I can tell y’all we it sets up quick enough but takes 2-3 month to harden properly.

@dancingnature

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not that it hardens it’s that it will burn you as the lye his time fully in the soap. That’s one reason you add salt . The sodium in the salt will push the reaction so that the -OH base will join to the fats . Chemistry 101

@elizabethjansen2684

3 жыл бұрын

@@dancingnature never knew that, thanks for the info

Ruth saying feeeyafully needs to be my new ringtone. Peter with the ram is too cute.

I really love the dynamic between the people in this vid

Couldn't click fast enough. I love these videos!!

@brandonmulford5524

3 жыл бұрын

I was in love with them when they originally aired on BBC circa 2010 and I couldn't find them when I moved back to the States.

@craigcollings5568

3 жыл бұрын

Same for me too!

@Delaney-and-the-Starlight

3 жыл бұрын

Yes yes!!! It’s so interesting to learn and also it’s getting me in the Christmas spirit!

I wonder if the Actions are in any way related to Eliza Acton? I know Eliza didn't grow up in Shropshire but Sussex then settled in Suffolk but would be interesting to find out since her cookbook is pretty influential.

That is awesome. Can't wait for the next part. I am so glad that I discovered this channel.

Only ONE horse to pull the machine/dray/all the hay,etc????? Poor horse.

Me encanta ver como se preservan las antiguas formas de vivir antaño, gracias por el esfuerzo.

I enjoy these shows immensely!

I worked on a farm in the 1960's that had almost the same way of haying: Except a tractor was used instead of horses. The cutting machine was almost identical to the one in this video. The machine to make rows was completely different. It was a long row of curled steel rods that were springy and scraped up all the hay with a lever that raised it up and let it fall down again, You timed the hay rake to lift up just where the row of hay was and then it fell down again. Meaning the rows were 90 degrees to the direction of pulling the hay rake. I sat on the hay rake while the farmer drove the tractor. The hay loader was different also. It was a moving horizontal number of slats with small hooks that picked up the hay and revolved back down again, the design was much better because it overhung the hay wagon so you didn't need to fork the hay from the back to the front of the wagon. There was only one person on the hay wagon spreading out the hay. 3-pronged steel pitch forks were used to fork any hay that the machine had missed up onto the wagon. That was where I first developed my torso muscles at the age of 13. Forking hay up into the wagon. The hay rake was used to collect the few wisps of hay leftover from the entire process. After, not one stalk of hay was left on the field... Then I drove the hay wagon to the barn with everyone on the hay wagon. A long steel spike 5 ft. long was driven into the hay. Then a handle controlling a steel rod clamped the hay to the 5 ft. spike. The pulley system it was attached to raised up the hay to the top of the open loft and switched 90 degrees and was pulled into the loft. The steel rod was released from the steel spike by someone, dumping the hay wherever the pulley ropes stopped, and the steel spike with the clamping rod was reversed back along the loft beam and back down to the hay wagon. I forget if the pulley ropes were powered by a winch at the rear of the tractor or if he just used the tractor to pull the rope. The farmer took along neighbors to help rake up the wisps of hay while me and him and a day laborer did all the heavy pitching of the hay up onto the hay wagon and driving the tractor. Using a hay rake is an art. You have to be delicate in how you used it. I did that too. Not like that ugly evil hag.

@sarahoshea9603

2 жыл бұрын

VT haying is done likewise on family farms.

“A fantastic piece of kit”

i didn't know i needed this.

When I was young, we used a horse drawn sickle mower, towed behind an old 1936 dodge four wheel drive fire truck (stripped to it's frame with two six speed transmissions in it) to mow our fields.... That thing, in double reverse, would go slow as hell and could pull a house off it's foundation...

The squad is back!

I have 2 pounds of raisins in a huge jar swimming in rum, with a little hit of molasses, and just the tiniest pinch of salt. They'd be a fine addition to a mincemeat pie.

@ITI-xi5zx

2 жыл бұрын

what do you do with them?

I'm an American from South Carolina of Scottish-Irish and English Ancestry. I thoroughly enjoy these videos as we live in a farming community. And Victorian Era England was so Interesting

Love these videos! I had the biggest smile on my face when I saw it! ❤️😊 Love you guys!

The absolute history programs are very good and very educational. I wonder if they produced a series on how life was during the stuart and georgian/hanoverian periods of British history. L.M. Knight

I appreciate these videos because it gives us such a glimpse into how our ancestors lived and worked.

i LOVE THESE DOCUMENTARIES. I'VE WATCHED THEM TIME AND TIME AGAIN! I must have seen all of Ruth, Alex and Peter's movies, they are brilliant. Why couldn't they have these done when I was in school and simply positively HATED history. I would have loved it had these been around then!

It's so heart warming to see how genuinely happy they are to return to Glebe Farm, just like coming home! ♥♥

I have my great gramma’s mincemeat pie recipe, and my grandma’s variation. She told me exactly how to do it. You need a chunk roast, and a wooden bowl and a rounded cutter to chop it fully cooked and cooled into very small bits. You also need sour apples, and my family used Granny Smith. They also need chopped well into small chunks. Various spices like cinnamon are added along with raisins and citron. My gramma hated the bitterness so removed citron and added golden raisins and currants (tiny raisins). My great gramma was indoctrinated into the Saturday Adventists, a new cult in 1800s, and it required you sign a paper to not only never drink alcohol but not even coffee. So I have no idea if her recipe was very very old, and if back in England (possibly Cornwall) it had booze, but I have never tasted any with it. I will say if done properly this is the best chewy textured sweet cinnamon pie! The stores today sell “mince” filling and it is not at all the same. If you tried that, you tried junk. (PS: yes, you must use suet, not butter!)

@emjayay

3 жыл бұрын

It had booze.

I most certainly appreciate these films and the work they have put in. Quite eye-opening and educational.