How to Make Rabbit Pudding - The Victorian Way
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
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January is often one of the coldest months of the year so Mrs Crocombe is making a hearty Rabbit Pudding to keep the servants warm whilst they are hard at work in the Service Yard.
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RECIPE FOR RABBIT PUDDING
INGREDIENTS
For the pastry:
455g flour
170g suet
½ tsp salt
170ml water
Butter, for the basin
For the filling:
1 rabbit, boned
285g streaky bacon
1 tbsp flour
1 tbsp minced parsley
2 sprigs of time, chopped
6-7 chopped mushrooms
2 tbsp white wine
170ml chicken stock
Salt and pepper to taste
METHOD
Combine all of the pastry ingredients with enough water to form a soft dough.
Butter the pudding bowl, and line with ⅔ of the pastry.
Chop the rabbit and bacon into bite-sized pieces. Mix, season and sprinkle with flour and herbs.
Mix in the mushrooms, then add your filling into the pudding basin.
Use the remaining pastry to form a lid on your pudding.
Wet and flour a pudding cloth and tie this onto your pudding. Alternatively, you could use foil.
Steam for 1 ½ hours, and serve directly from the basin.
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"For this recipe you will need..."
...rabbit eyes stare up at you lifelessly
😂🤣 The one with an open eye hit me right in the “maybe I’ll eat just tomato soup tonight” place.
Anyone else having watership downs flashbacks?
I mean, eliminating animal product consumption as much as possible is the most humane thing. But if you're gonna eat meat, wild animals have led much more humane lives than the animals you buy at the grocery store. So hunting/fishing (for food, not trophies) is actually be the most humane meat.
@@winterkeptuswarm Agree and in fact, i'm fine with meat. The image just struck me as a bit surreal.
That Vegan Teacher :REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh god, I'm getting flashbacks to the pigeon pie
No rabbit paw to decorate this pudding!? You can tell this will not be served to the Lord and Lady, but to the servants!
At least there's no feet sticking out, lol!
Oh lord, the feet.
What do you mean!? That pigeon pie was delicious I even tried the recipe myself! I went out and shot my own pigeons too.
My favourite Mrs Crocombe video ✨
I deadass expected rabbit's feet tp be stuck in at the end for "decoration". But I guess since this is for servants, they are not worthy of such extravagance.
😭😭😭
thats just for the lord and lady XD
Never been so thankful for being "under the stairs"
“For this recipe you will need” I did not expect those words to lead up to me seeing the lifeless carcasses of 2 rabbits on the table looking into my soul with their empty eyes
i mean.... you do realise where rabbit meat would come from, right...?
@@marycanary86 yeah but normally I’m not the one butchering my own meat
good thing Watership Down prepared me for this
kind of like looking at your avatar pic 😂
P
Me seeing two whole rabbits in the ingredients: oh my... *pigeon pie flasback"
At least she didn’t set the rabbit’s paws sticking out the top!😂
The pigeon feet! 😨
The feet 🥲
Or stargazey pie which supposedly has fish heads sticking up from the crust
Same..I be like oh no..
Annie running in like an excited puppy, and Mrs Crocombe doesn't even acknowledge her... Savage.
I know, poor Annie! I guess she is of lower standing!
Maniac, legendary
She was so cute!
Almost choked reading this comment. The best!
I do think that is Mary-Anne, not Annie. Or rather Dr (Mary)Annie
I feel like Annie watches Mrs Crocombe sleep
🤣
And she has a framed photo of her on her nightstand.
I'd say she sleeps with one eye open at all times!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
How can you sleep when there's plenty to do in the kitchen!!
"January can often be the coldest month of the year"
**Cries in Southern Hemisphere**
*laughs in Australian bush fires*
*watches stilling on a QLD beach in January* Gonna skin me a rabbit!
Cries in sweden as we still have snow and it's still snowing (per usual..)
Southern Hemisphere? Try the Equator!
@@Raskolnikov70 AHAHAHA bruh 2020 and 2019 was a nightmare💀
When she covered the pudding with crust I was SURE she was going to say 'and here we have rabbit's ears, to decorate'...
Haha I laughed so hard about this!
😮 poor little bunny. 🐇
"And as it's a rabbit pudding, I shall just add some ears."
@@ginasellers3207 I know, I love bunnies. 😮
I was expecting rabbit paws 🤣
Aaah, Mrs. Crocombe is back, and with her a bottomless pit of shade.
“Brown the top? Meh. Since this is going to the servants I’m not gonna bother. 🤷♂️”
Yaaaaas
If an oven was on and there was room, why not brown the top crust? Everyone is working diligently...except maybe for the 'Upper Servants' who possibly can nip off for a sherry mid afternoon.
@@jamesellsworth9673 She has to remind the lower servants of their place, lest the entire household break out into anarchy.
AS SHE SHOULD
“The lower servants don’t mind if their dinner looks like boiled dishcloth, their standards are very low”. 😆
The rest of the world: "This is a boiled cake."
Britain: "No, that's a pudding."
World: "This is a pie."
Britain: "A pudding."
World: "This is a sausage."
Britain: [slams fists on table] "P U D D I N G"
Genuinely. Boiled? Pudding. Sweet? Pudding. Pudding? Custard.
@@kyrab7914 INB4 the Brits show up to say "Well, it's the rest of you tossers who got it wrong!" about the pudding-or-custard question.
@@kyrab7914 you've got me wanting custard now 😭
@@moony5097 sorry? 😂 I'm sure Mrs Crocombe's got a wonderful recipe
@@kyrab7914 nah it's fine. You just reminded me custard exists lmao
"For this recipe... You will need..."
*Frantically searches for my pen and inkwell*
When the world needed her....she returned
@isuri wijesinghe init
I was looking for this comment!
So happy 😊
Lmao
Today's lot wouldn't eat rabbit.
Maid Annie: *has PhD*
Mrs. Crocombe: We're considering you for an ENTRY LEVEL position. Maybe.
I squealed when I saw Annie run in, absolutely bouncing with excitement.
Clearly Annie has found a way to travel back in time and is posing as a scullery maid while gathering valuable historical information
@@georgewang2947 library and museums closed cuz of covid so she time travelled to finish her thesis .
IIRC, Annie herself has acted as Mrs. Crocombe for the House prior to these shorts being made.
😂😂😂
The extra "sleevelets" for protecting her one and only dress are fancy.
She is head cook so she likely would have had 2 or 3, though one of those would have, admittedly, been her Sunday best.
i love them. there was a really popular cook called kirsten hyttemeier here in denmark way back in a day. she did telly cooking shows when that became a thing and such. she was famed for her protective sleeves
I was thinking it was bc cold. Mutton sleeves
Unless you were stacked with money, back then the average person would have 2 or 3 outfits, maybe a 4th if they were really lucky. Clothes were all hand sewn so it would take days even for a more experienced sewer. And with most of the family needing to work to survive that gave little time for it.
The fact this was "servants food" (albeit for special occasions) - and I would be happy to eat it even more than all the fancy food that she has made
Netflix and English heritage need to hurry up and get Mrs Crocombe her own cooking based drama. Downtown Abbey with pastry
Try Duchess of Duke Street, it's kind of what you're describing. I think it's on Amazon prime.
Titled “Downton Pasties!”
@@Mel-cw5bn oh I'm totally gonna watch that now
I would binge for sure!
And shade. Pastry and shade because lets be honest, as much as we love Queen C, that shade sustains our souls.
Seems like there’s a pudding for everything lol
There is.
Pudding pudding?
Welcome to Britain
Brits.
. . . b/c almost anything made with flour can be called "pudding." I'd call that a deep dish pie, but I don't think there is a difference - actually.
"Leave a pleat to expand."
Next shot the pleat disappears
WHERE'S THE PLEAT
Facing the other side of the bowl in the shot.
and the pudding never expanded lmao
@@beth12svist check again, she even turns the bowl again, no pleat
"In Victorian period servant hall staff were given soggy pastries often to be reminded of their position." - My history term paper
losing my whole mind over annie unable to contain herself as she fangirls mrs. crocombe
I thought that was Annie lol
She was way too happy to bring her some rabbit meat
I was so happy to see.her all excited tho 🤣🤣🤣💚💚💚
My great grandmother entered service at the age of 14 around 1904 at a big house in Nottingham as a scullery maid. She worked her way up, I think to housekeeper and then emigrated to the US in the 20's. She didn't think the lower orders needed their food browned either.
I’d love to know more!!
Wow that’s dope
Mary Ann's great granddaughter,, is that you??
My great grandmother was Clara Brazier, her maiden name was Wright. We don't know a whole lot about her early years in service other than a higher level servant saw potential and took her under her wing. She gave birth to her first child during a WWI air raid. She trained her daughters and granddaughters in home economics like a general. I still do my household chores according to her schedule.
@@frankieamsden7918 would you be willing to post the chores schedule? :D
That’s exactly the method my grandmother used for making steak and kidney pudding back in the 1950s!
Love this series. The background tune is appealing too. In the early 80s, when importers in the USA were getting many of their antiques from England, there was a place in my town called Morecambe Bay Antiques. My place was filled with pieces from there. This series reminds me of my life and youth from those years. Nowadays there's hardly a market for antiques.
Whole Rabbits straight up display on the table like : 👁️👄👁️
I wasn't ready
Me too 👀👄👀
I WAS SO SCARED 😭😭😭
I was also shocked.
It's. Only. Resting. 😭😭😭😭😭
Who else is giddy when Mrs. Crocombe says "for this recipe, you will need....."?
I practically live for that line. 🥰🥰🥰
I looooove that part lol
Not me. We Americans have to pause the video and bring up a metric conversion tool to figure out what's going on in this.
ME!!
meeeeee
If only this had come out last weekend when we had a rabbit to cook. The casserole was delicious but this would have been epic. And the delight of seeing Annie scurrying in...brilliant!
I will cook this next weekend! We love game here, and rabbit is one of the nicest meats you can get at the moment in Austria! Also! I made myself a pair of Mrs. Crocombe's sleeve protectors, after being inspired by her! They are super quick to sew and a real blessing, when you are in a rush or want to stay warm but also need to make a cake because grandma will come over for coffee!
I love when she includes little details like waking up to ice on the water jug. Really feels like being in the kitchen with someone.
"When I woke up this morning, there was ice on my wash jug..." - Mrs Crowcombe (not a euphemism) 😂
"I've had the gardener wring the neck of this rabbit. Only the freshest and finest for THIS family"
"as they are a pest"
@@ax6356 "Much like the Irish"
Perfect for the next Mrs Crocombe out of context compilation
@@polyesterdreamboat Don't give her any ideas, or the next video will be something like "This recipe comes from a Mr. Jonathan Swift....."
@@Raskolnikov70 "it's a very modest recipe."
I made my first ever suet crust 2 days ago. Had the suet shipped from the UK because I couldnt find any where I live. It was guinness pie, tasted great.
During horrendous times like these, this is the type of content we truly need- there’s just something so comforting about these videos.
The victorian queen of kitchens has returned to us
Indeed!
Victorian Gordon Ramsay
I could say Annie running in doesn't fit. But then again, she is basically representing all of us if we were in the kitchen with Mrs. Crocombe 😅😂
Specifically when she was overly excited. Seems off putting. 🤔
she's excited to eat the pudding
@@elliestar888 Most likely. In other episodes she seemed more reserved.
Mrs Crocombe said she is progressing to the kitchen, of course she’s be excited! It’s a far nicer job.
Indeed, scullery maid is a miserable job. Getting a chance to move up to the kitchens would be exciting.
"And now we add the Rabbit Feet which have been soaking in Absinthe and Laudenum for three week"
Could we see more from the other kitchen help, talking about what they do, from the time they are awake until they are dismissed for the day. I would like to properly appreciate how long the days were for those below stairs and the type of work they all had to do. How were jobs divided? How much were they paid, and how frequently? How many days off a week? how were they treated by those above stairs and by Mrs Crocombe and Mrs Warwick, the butler or other staff?
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management covers some of this information.
They've also done a mini documentary called "The real Mrs. Crocombe"
mrs c: no
if there's anything I've learned from this series is that you can make pudding out of absolutely anything.
thank you, Mrs Crocombe
4:25 Annie is so excited to help Mrs. Crocombe, it's adorable!
I agree. Annie running in like that was so cute!
And Mrs. Crocombe smiled just a tiny bit
"I'm Mrs. Crocombe and I'm a level 3 chef"
"And I've been the executive chef at Audley End House for 20 years."
I am legit addicted to watching these videos. It's like someone rode a time machine, went back in time, and stayed in the Audley End House. I *LOVE* Mrs. Crocombe - from her cooking to her humor.
Is there any chance that we'll see Lord and Lady Braybrooke soon? We wanna see Edgar and Mr. Vert too!
"This is a simple pudding"??? Ma'am, I set pasta on fire last week...
Omg... 🤣💀
I'd ask how but I'm not sure I want to know
Erm...I think you'll find you're duty bound to elaborate on the hows
@@kwells179 Considering I have to use spaghetti like a match to light burners on my stove, I don't need to know rofl
Wow so quirky
Who else spent the whole video terrified that she was gonna decorate the pudding with rabbit feet?
Well they’re supposed to be good luck right?
what about the little tine TAIL ?
LOL 😂
😂
Or eats or tail!
Annie grinning so hard... All of us fan-girling with her!
Mrs. Crocombe... Practically perfect in everyway!
My beloved dog of 9 years passed away two days ago. I’ve spent the last two days feeling so lost and sad. This was the first smile I’ve had in days-like a surprise visit from an old, comforting friend. Thanks, English Heritage. 🥰
My condolences!
I'm so sorry. I'm glad this made you smile.
Sorry for the loss of your dog - a sad time. Glad Mrs Cromcombe brought a smile to your face!
So sorry about your dog, but glad this helped.
So sorry....
Ms crocombe is here to shield us from 2021 with her cooking
Not with this recipe 😂 lmao
"For this recipe you will need..." will forever be a quote that I will remember in the future. Thank you, Ms. Avis Crocombe.
“Soggy pudding’s good enough for the _lower servants_ .”
Ah yes, I didn't realize I was due for my next dose of serotonin.
Audley End House is looking lovely as ever in the fog and with those fallen leaves on the grass.
I keep wondering if this is a real place that is actually owned and maintained by royalty and whatnot.
@@demareewheeler639 it is real. And it’s owned by English Heritage: a government organisation that you can join that owns several (well lots actually properties (castles, old forts, mansions, places of historic interest) and ruins across the country and maintains them as historic places for the nation and future generations. Being funded partly by government, membership (which gives you free access to these places) and donations. Similar to the National Trust.
These also manage Stonehenge and parts of Hadrians Wall amongst other places.
Yass, our salty Victorian queen is back!
So we’re just gonna ignore little Hops and his friend on the counter... lol
We decided to stop using children around 12 for labor and get the older ones instead.
Victorian 12-year-olds: "I just got out of school and cannot get a job because I lack experience, but how can I get experience if no one will give me my first job?"
Less affluent family hired them
They may have been gaining some skills by helping their mother around the house to cook and clean.
@@paulasimson4939 Ha, yes! The famous "Victorian unpaid internship"!
@@princevesperal Wait, how long do you have to wait until they pay you?
and since this is a *rabbit* pie, i'll add some feet for decoration
Rabbit feet are lucky charms, why would you add them to the pudding? Also the fur would be used for gloves etc. I think the bones could be used to make glue from.
@@solatiumz In her pigeon pie recipe she adds pigeon feet for decoration!
We’re all lying to ourselves if we act like this woman didn’t carry us through this entire pandemic.
Lol her kitchen aid this episode was cute. Just a little too excited to be bringing her rabbit and taking away the dishes 😂
Almost dropped my cup of tea from excitement over the notification 😂
Water bottle tho 😁
I wish we could “favorite” comments!
Sucks to be a servant "here's your soggy pastry, enjoy!"
Steamed pudding pastry is actually moist, kind of like a sponge-pastry.
I know, looked god-awful to me, but I suppose I shouldn't judge without trying :)
It's like a giant dumpling with the meat and gravy on the inside. it's not gross.
Could the same ingredients and similar prep be used to make a rabbit pie?
Hot water pastry's lovely, being a servant in a big house was a better life than most, you got fed, had a bed to sleep in and clean clothes.
The way the ingredients are presented is absolutely lovely. It’s what caught my eye with this channel.
Never thought I’d crave rabbit pudding in my life. I want to try this so badly. Looks so good🤤
Can't even brown that crust for the lower servants? Mrs Crocombe is a savage.
They don't call the rich the "upper crust" for nothing! Lol
4:28 "And rabbit that I have skinned and filleted"
*Her maid comes with skinned and filleted rabbit
Savagery at its best
You’re sick.
(Dr) Annie literally representing all of us with the fangirling over helping Mrs Crocombe
I didn't expect to see the actual rabbit, so I am a little bit shocked right now a.kfjakl-fja
Poor lower servants don't even get a browning!!!!!!!!
why would you waste the oven space, or even fuel on the lower servants?
LMFAO
But a roasting is always provided.
Give them a browning or you'll get the Browning 🔫
The 34 dislikes were all from rabbits. One of them was Bugs Bunny.
Bold of you to assume Bugs Bunny wouldnt enjoy this.
And Peter Cottontail
I forgot to mention that Mr. Herriman (from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) also disliked this video.
Some are from Snow White and Aurora. The princesses who love rabbits
Jessica Rabbit's fanbois showing up in those dislikes
Mrs. Crocombe is back and so is the shade!!!
Me: hoping "rabbit pudding" is a cute name for something sweet.
oh.
Lol!
I particularly like the episodes where we get some commentary from Mrs. Crocombe that gives us insight into what life was like at Audley End-and in England more generally-during this period. It's interesting to see how customs and mores have evolved.
I was looking at the rabbits at the beginning 😲, and then I read "children stock" 😱😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
wouldn't be the strangest ingredient to appear in a Victorian cookbook
Those rabbit eyes were menacaing.
My sister has a pet rabbit and I couldn't help but just stare at him, like "they got your great-uncle and auntee". Lol
I love how the thumbnail is Mrs. Crocombe pouring a “generous” amount of alcohol into the rabbit pudding
One hopes Mrs. Crocombe is as appreciated at Audley End as she is by her viewers/fans here on youtube.
Mrs Crocombe is here to save 2021.
When you think about it this is incredibly efficient and makes our current system seem so horribly dumb in comparison. The rabbits were pests and 90% of the stuff in that very full dish were from the property where it was served. In fact, other then the twine and the cooking utensils I think the remainder of it all was taken from the property. It then feeds and actually makes healthy and happy the employees who then make more of all of it.
We really could learn a thing or two.
These videos are always lovely, but the ingredient spread at the beginning of this one was especially aesthetically pleasing. My compliments to the videographers.
No one:
English:BOILED THE PUDDING
We need to stop boiling from being a method of cooking
Don’t the Chinese and polish boil their dumplings into soggy parcels?
That's what 'pudding' meant at the time, a boiled or steamed dish.
@@Uakkosu then we will not have stews LOL
@@__Hanasei__Levinus__ I am perfectly fine with sacrificing stews for the sake of injustice
Even the servants have classes.
British people will call literally anything a pudding lmao
😂😂😂
So glad to see she is back this year making these classic dishes! I love these videos and enjoy watching them. I sometimes catch myself rewatching the older videos because I enjoy them so much. Her cheeky, yet kind personality is a joy to see!
Watching the rabbit meat mixture thinking, to myself, pretend it’s chicken, pretend it’s chicken...
I've swapped out chicken thighs in rabbit recipes. Had a bit of an experience back in the day, & bunny just isn't appetizing.
I have used rabbit in chicken casseroles many time. No one can tell the difference.
"Subterranean" chicken :)
Am I the only American who absolutely adores this series?
Love her in Michigan.
Nope, loving from Ohio.
I suspect there are quite a lot of American followers. There seem to be comments from all over the world.
Love it in Ohio, too.
There is an old saying in German: always buy rabbit with the head still attached or else they may sell you a roofhare (cat). Nowadays rabbit meat is out of fashion, too many rabbit pets in our homes.
Rabbit meat can be delicious if prepared right. It's also a sustainable alternative meat because they breed like, well, rabbits.
@@PaulTengco i love rabbit. Its crazily expensive though.
@@martynnotman3467 yes, same with us. It's still considered exotic, hence the high price.
@@PaulTengco its three times the price of Venison here! I can get 2 ducks for the price of a rabbit!
Love love love these videos. So glad they decided to bring Mrs Crocombe back. She was being sorely missed.
Your assistant is so eager and good natured, I'm sure she'll get on well in the kitchen!
I really appreciate you folx showing us the entire rabbit in this video. While most of us would probably get a processed rabbit from the market, it’s good to see how much closer cooks 100+ years ago were to the source of their meat
This gave me sudden flashbacks of "Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run!"
I guess the rabbit gave the farmer his fun.
These videos are simply delightful! I tend to watch them several times! Bringing England and all its glory to New Mexico, USA.
I was starting to shake and get sweaty, this crocombe fix was way overdue, but I'm glad it's finally here!
YAY!
I will admit to freaking out over the rabbits, but when Annie dashed in all bouncy and eager, my son actually stopped his video game to ask what I was laughing about. Believe me, that takes some doing to distract him.
Why is the maid looks so hyped LoL so cute
I find a little mustard in the mix makes the sauce more flavorful.
Oh such an unexpected surprise!!! I came here so quickly!! And wow your rabbits look like the bunnies we would keep as pets... Poor BunBun dies to feed the servants and still gets insulted by Mrs Crocombe post mortem... But that's the shade we adore our queen for!!
MRS C IS THE ONLY THING GETTING ME THROUGH LOCKDOWN #3 ⚜️💖⚜️
I understand why Annie looked so happy when she brought you the rabbit. This dish looks yummy!
Mrs. Crocombe has improved my staminer
Mrs. Crocombe my queen I bow down to you! 🙌
Me: Reads the title
Also Me: I’m sorry a *w h a t* pudding
if this ain't me
Rabbit was a very common dish in Europe back then! They say it's a very lean kind of meat. People still eat rabbit today, just not as often since we don't hunt very much.
Still regularly hunted in the UK, usually by lamping (going out a night with a bright light which the rabbits freeze giving a shooter enough time to plug thumper). Myxomatosis introduced into the rabbit population back in the sixties here to control rabbit numbers did much to diminish the popularity of rabbit meat though.
I know an older lady who still keeps rabbits at home for meat. She has done this all her life and she's in her 90s now. Myxomatosis and Calecivirus have made wild caught rabbit a rarity these days and farmed rabbit is illegal.
I live in Louisiana where French Creole and Cajun restaurants sometimes have rabbit tenderloin on the menu.
I started watching this video on my tv, and when I saw the bunnies, I knew I had to come read the comments on my phone hahaha.
Modern tip for meat puddings - use self-raising flour, or add baking powder to the flour. You get a lighter fluffy pastry. My grandfather used to make rabbit pie from rabbits he caught in the countryside, delicious in a pie or pudding.
Pastry for savoury meats is always plain flour, Cornish pasties as well as for Yorkshire puddings too, otherwise it's short, or flaky pastry for sausage rolls, and tarts..