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Spotty Duck homestead
United Kingdom
Приєднався 3 чер 2019
Join us as we grow our own food, rear own own meat, hunt, forage and enjoy the country life all while home educating our two boys.
Based in northern England, between the northern edge of the Pennine hills and Hadrians wall, is a little house with a little garden. Home to our family, our dogs, ferrets, ducks and chickens. Our property measures about 1/10th of an acre with about a quarter used as vegetable garden, which has raised beds and a greenhouse.
Our aim is to produce as much of our own food as possible in the small space we have.
Based in northern England, between the northern edge of the Pennine hills and Hadrians wall, is a little house with a little garden. Home to our family, our dogs, ferrets, ducks and chickens. Our property measures about 1/10th of an acre with about a quarter used as vegetable garden, which has raised beds and a greenhouse.
Our aim is to produce as much of our own food as possible in the small space we have.
2025 Allotment plans
Thank you for joining in with us on our adventures on our little farm, we are so glad you chose to drop by. If you enjoyed what you have been watching please support us by liking our videos, subscribing to our channel, hitting the notification bell, and of course, sticking round to watch some more videos! We aim to post at least one video a week, but often more.
Contact us: spottyduckhomestead@gmail.com
We’re also on Instagram, follow us there too! spotty_duck_homestead
Please be aware that, whilst our videos are created to be family friendly, our content is not aimed at children under the age of thirteen.
Contact us: spottyduckhomestead@gmail.com
We’re also on Instagram, follow us there too! spotty_duck_homestead
Please be aware that, whilst our videos are created to be family friendly, our content is not aimed at children under the age of thirteen.
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Never Buy Granola Again! The easiest recipe ever.
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This year we're trying to avoid buying breakfast cereals, instead we are making our own. Our favourite is homemade granola, it's so easy, chea and quick to make and unbelivable tasty. Thank you for joining in with us on our adventures on our little farm, we are so glad you chose to drop by. If you enjoyed what you have been watching please support us by liking our videos, subscribing to our cha...
Feeding the bees. Have any survived the cold?
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Come with me as we check the bees after the coldest week we have since we started keeping bees! Are they still healthy? Do they need more food? Have any actually survived? Thank you for joining in with us on our adventures on our little farm, we are so glad you chose to drop by. If you enjoyed what you have been watching please support us by liking our videos, subscribing to our channel, hittin...
New chicken run, snow and a happy labrador
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Thank you for joining in with us on our adventures on our little farm, we are so glad you chose to drop by. If you enjoyed what you have been watching please support us by liking our videos, subscribing to our channel, hitting the notification bell, and of course, sticking round to watch some more videos! We aim to post at least one video a week, but often more. Contact us: spottyduckhomestead@...
New years, sourdough and the aloe
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The Beekeeping Show 2024
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We took a drive down to Telford to go to The Beekeeping Show. What did we get, what did we think of it, will we go again? Thank you for joining in with us on our adventures on our little farm, we are so glad you chose to drop by. If you enjoyed what you have been watching please support us by liking our videos, subscribing to our channel, hitting the notification bell, and of course, sticking r...
Febuary catchup - allotment, bees and starting seeds
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Setting up my Brinsea Ovation Ex 28
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'What sort of person would do that?' / Looks like I've acquired some more cockerels
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First honey harvest of 2023!
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Allotment experiment! How's it working so far?
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Well, theres good news and theres bad news with the allotment experiment. Thank you for joining in with us on our adventures on our little farm, we are so glad you chose to drop by. If you enjoyed what you have been watching please support us by liking our videos, subscribing to our channel, hitting the notification bell, and of course, sticking round to watch some more videos! We aim to post a...
Allotment experiment! 'If you never try, you never know'
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Update! Saving the tomatoes! Grazon contamination. Have I saved the tomatoes?
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Update! Saving the tomatoes! Grazon contamination. Have I saved the tomatoes?
Making MEAD! The perk of keeping bees. Rhubarb mead
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Making MEAD! The perk of keeping bees. Rhubarb mead
Garden Transformation: Successful Bean Cages and A Surprise Rainfall!
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Garden Transformation: Successful Bean Cages and A Surprise Rainfall!
Making the Most of Rhubarb: The Secret Recipe for Delicious Gin & Vodka!
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Making the Most of Rhubarb: The Secret Recipe for Delicious Gin & Vodka!
Using the glut! Rhubarb jam. Is there any difference between jam sugar and powdered pectin?
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Using the glut! Rhubarb jam. Is there any difference between jam sugar and powdered pectin?
So much RHUBARB! What am I going to do with it all?
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So much RHUBARB! What am I going to do with it all?
Contaminated! The tomatoes might all die!
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Contaminated! The tomatoes might all die!
Checking the bees - queen cells - making a split - re-queening
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Checking the bees - queen cells - making a split - re-queening
This potato is EMORMOUS! | I cant believe how many I've got from the volunteer potatoes
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This potato is EMORMOUS! | I cant believe how many I've got from the volunteer potatoes
Canning apples and Tomato pasta sauce | Come hang out in the kitchen with us.
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Canning apples and Tomato pasta sauce | Come hang out in the kitchen with us.
How do you like them apples? Apples for free! But what are we going to do with them all?
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How do you like them apples? Apples for free! But what are we going to do with them all?
Todays the day! Did Celery the rabbit have her babies?
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Todays the day! Did Celery the rabbit have her babies?
What you call a Biscuit we call a cookie (from the Dutch word not English word) the original Dutch word meant little cake or small, flat, sweet cake. What we call Biscuits (originally meaning twice baked) derives from hard tack, but over time because softer and fluffier.
Okay, I am writing this as I go in the video. I running critique! lol Okay, first taster told one story to me; you did something wrong. The second taster almost got some gravy on that biscuit. Almost. You have cover it. Also, the sausage you make it with makes a difference. Remember, your bacon and sausage are _different._ Sort of very different. lol
My grandmother is the Jedi Master of Biscuits and Gravy. I did notice not a lot of the sausage bits in your gravy. Basically, think of deglazing the skillet in which you just baked the sausage. Use an ancient British recipe for sausage. It is best approximated by Jimmy Dean's extra sage breakfast sausage. If you have this ancient recipe and can make your own sausage, USE that sausage. Use white pepper for presentation. Use whole milk or straight from the heifer. And lastly, the flour in the South is from a softer variety of wheat. So, use about half bread flour and half cake flour for the gravy. I'm a bit shy of the flour trick as I am not familiar with what flour the British use. We would eat it with a couple of fried/scrambled eggs, and or a salmon cake. My dad, grandfather and I were the only ones who liked salmon cake. In the summer there'd be fresh sliced tomatoes from the garden. Happy childhood memories, there. And then off to church where I'd struggle to stay awake. BTW, split the biscuits in half so that you've got two round disks, interior sides up. More gravy over those disks. You may want to add some of the sausage back to the gravy broken up into small bits, as you're making the gravy. My grandfather was very very particular about the gravy. Had to be white. So think of the Piedmont into the mountains of Virginia near West Virginia, Tennessee, just north of the Carolina State line. This is where we're from. It's part of Appallachia.
Make it right then EVERYONE will love it
As a US southerner, this is literally offensive!😂 Hope you will do a little more research and try again, bless your heart...😅
Need more gravy and some crumbled sausage in it
There is almost no gravy... you oinda missed the point of this dish.
You already drew a picture in the kids minds that it was not going to be good so they did not like it.
You absolutely did it wrong!! 😟
-What the heck recipe did you use? Your biscuits had better not be British scones, because they would be all wrong, and there isn't any loose ground pork sausage in your gravy! Takes about a pound of pork sausage for a batch of gravy. You have no black pepper in the gravy either. And you must split the fluffy, buttery layered flakes of the biscuit in two pieces and pour the beautifully spiced pork sausage gravy over the inside. Find an authentic American recipe for both baking powder biscuits and pork sausage gravy, (IF you can even find the ingredients) then get back to us. I have no clue what you were eating, but it sure wasn't American biscuits and gravy.
You’re supposed to put the meat in the gravy .
Come to the U.S. and try real southern biscuits. Even Bojangles are far better than what you just ate.
Maybe look at American biscuits and gravy it would help. Your biscuits don't look fluffy and the gravy needs sausage bits and lots more of it on the biscuit. Open the biscuit too. Sadly you're not eating what is so loved here.
Brits never open the biscuits. Open the biscuit,butter,gravy. You don't put butter and jam on the outside of a scone do you?
I’m sure you have different styles of gravy. Beef gravy, pork gravy, chicken gravy etc. . We have them too. But we also have sausage gravy. NOOOO BACON!!! My father was from Ireland and I know what a scone tastes like, I make them. An American biscuit does not taste like a scone if you make it right. You need MEAT in that gravy. Plus it’s gravy not a spread. POUR THAT GRAVY ALL OVER. So much you have to eat it with a fork and knife. I don’t know what you made but it wasn’t American biscuits and gravy.
Just from what I've seen in restaurant prepared biscuits and gravy, not nearly enough gravy, and I never even tried it.
American sausage is not the same as British sausage. Totally different flavor. There must be little bits of sausage in the gray. Biscuits should be handmade, not from the store. The biscuit must be smothered in the gravy. Other than that, you did well.
Gravy comes in more than one style. Please research before you make such a statement. Just as French food has many sauces and gravies, so does America. It's not just plain brown gravy. There is mushroom gravy, bechamel sauce, turkey gravy, au jus, red-eye gravy,bourguinion sauce, onion gravy, etc. Real sausage gravy has more sausage meat. You're likely not preparing it properly. You need to season the gravy as well.
I’m 4 years late but I live in the southern part of the us and we use pepper gravy some add sausage to the gravy but we use pepper gravy and we usually don’t make it homemade although you can but my family uses a package from the grocery store.
You gave biscuits and gravy a bad name. Not prepared correctly at all. Come to a america , and eat southern style
We call what you call biscuits Cookie's and the fig rolls are fig Newtons our biscuits are of a bread dough❤
Sorry those are not biscuits, those are cookies,biscuits are savory we eat them with jelly,gravy,bacon cheese,etc.....
Did you serve these cold? They're supposed to be hot both the biscuit and the gravy. The gravy should be more liquid than solid. Your gravy looks very thick and solid. Just looking at those terrible biscuits and that solid gravy I wouldn't eat it. BTW biscuits and gravy is not an American food, it's a southern food. You can find it outside of the south but it's not common. I live in the Northern part of the U.S. and the only restaurant that I know of that serves this is IHOP which is a southern based restaurant.
LOL Does your older boy really eat like that? I guess boys in England are much more dainty. Anyway your biscuits look horrible. LOL They're very flat aren't they. I guess if you don't have anyone to teach you it's a good effort. They not like completely flat but good grief at 14 I could make a loaf of Irish soda bread that looked as good as any you'd find in Ireland. I didn't see any sausage in the gravy just lots of pepper. I'm wondering where you dug up that recipe. Have you heard of any famous American chefs like Paula Dean or Martha Stewart. Either of those ladies will give you step by step directions on how to cook just about any American dish.
I've never been to England but I know a lot about your culture from watching BBC programing. I always assumed Brits learned about us by watching American TV shows but apparently you don't pay any attention to what's actually going on in the show. How do you not know that we call them cookies not biscuits? I've known since the late 1960s that you call them biscuits and we call them cookies. What we call biscuits you call scones. In this day of the computer how do you not know these things? Because of youtube I have come to understand the people in the UK Do Not like variety. They scoff at it and ridicule it. That's fine if that's you way but why do you sit in disdainful judgment of us because we do like variety. We have many different kinds of gravy, brown gravy made from beef stock, a white gravy made from chicken stock which is really more of a yellow gravy. A light brown gravy made from turkey stock and I know you don't eat turkeys because your ovens aren't big enough to cook a turkey so you've probably never seen turkey gravy. The gravy poured over biscuits (scones) is made from milk the French would call it a bechamel sauce and technically not a gravy because it doesn't have any stock in it but it does have fried ground sausage. Southerners are more like the English they don't believe in using precise words for example they call all flavors of soda pop, coke. So they call some sauces gravy. The Italian Americans on the east coast call marinara sauce gravy. C'mon use your head to figure this shit out. It's not rocket science.
Wait ubtil you try grits and gravy.
You have enough gravy on that for one bite. Slather that biscut until you can't see it or the plate!
That looked like the driest, most tasteless gravy I have ever seen. Don't pass judgement on biscuits and gravy by what you had. because you didn't have biscuits and gravy.
sorry but not even close to biscuits and gravy, you can't substitute a (blah) a scone for a biscuit and the gravy looked more like white sauce than sausage gravy (with plenty of black pepper!) better luck next time. try checking out an american cooking them first and maybe you'll get it right!!!
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Don't know what you made but it definitely WASN'T American biscuits and gravy.
Pretty sure we have something similar to fig rolls, though they commonly are called by the brand name Fig Newtons. I personally like Apple Newtons.
You don't have any predators that can get under that kennel?
We've never had much problem with predators (touch wood). The allotment is on the edge of a large shooting estate so we don't have many foxes or stoats/weasels, which would be the main predators in our area of the UK. We do get birds of prey, which won't be able to get in now, but the cockerels have always done a great job of alerting the girls to anything flying around. Feral cats and loose dogs would be the biggest risk but we've not had many problems with either. The main thing we have lost birds to is the weather and rats taking chicks of the mother isn't attentive enough.
You should have first tried it made by someone who knows how it should be made . I have not seen a Brit yet who doesn't love the traditional Southern made biscuits and gravy .
Some people use Garlic in their gravy, but personally in my opinion the best gravy is real simple to make, with just sausage, salt, pepper and milk thickened with flour. I do like to keep bacon grease on hand to mix with the flour. The thing is I'm not sure if you can find American Sausage (ground sausage, not links) or Hickory smoked Bacon where you live.
You didn't like it, the only conclusion is that you didn't make it right. No offense.
You didn’t try biscuits and gravy. Lol
Biscuits are NOT scones.
You put a thin layer of gravy on the biscuit. You need about 3 4 times the amount of gravy. 😂
I never thought to add vanilla extract, will definitely do that next time. Thanks for the video.💥
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I just got to the part where you say that biscuits are scones, but Biscuits are not scones. I’ve heard this so often and while it’s true, this is probably the closest analogy. They are not scones. Biscuits have a completely different weight, consistency, ingredients, and function. Scones usually have sugar in them and biscuits have none. They have a completely different purpose. I think that’s one of the problems that a lot of people have when trying to make American southern biscuits is they equate them to scones and they’re not the same. I know this sounds like a rant and then I’m angry, but it’s not I’m angry, it’s the fact that if you make them thinking they’re scones, you’re not gonna get the right type of biscuits. So just get the idea of scones out of your head. Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I want you to know that I really love the idea of people trying biscuits and gravy or anything else that comes from America. I just want to set the proper expectations so that you can truly enjoy your expert first experience. I just watched somebody in America Who’s first experience of biscuits and gravy was where they got it from McDonald’s and my soul broke a little.
Why on the world you look info the hive in winter? You disturb them, that's why they died. If they don't have enough food, you didn't feed them properly in autumn.
In an ideal world the autumn feed will be enough however nothing in beekeeping is ever that simple and if colonies are light in January, feed fondant. Otherwise you will not have any bees in the spring, which is rather counter productive.
Not even close to enough gravey or meat
Such gorgeous chickens 🐓 ❤
I hope your sourdough turns out. I haven’t had any luck with them myself.
I am also not starting my seeds too early this year. I will use restraint and wait a few more weeks. Thanks for the video.
What a travesty to a scrumptious comfort food. Have a southern American make it for you!
next time you want to try something ,,look it up on youtube and see how you should do it !!! and next time try putting gravy on the biscuits