The Colonial Williamsburg Museum has a pig shaped cookie cutter in their collection. It's impossible to pinpoint an exact date on it, with all that's known is that it's from the 1800s...but how could you ever say no to something so cute?! emuseum.history.org/objects/34530/pig-cookie-cutter?ctx=87de06905dab52d795d8c90f26032f0afb8c63d2&idx=23 Happy Holidays to everyone around the globe. Thank you for all of the kindness that you've shown us over this past year. I want to wish you good health and prosperity. I know that not everyone has family or friends that they can turn to during this time of the year. Just know that I've been there and that you aren't alone. There is always sunshine at the end of every storm and a rainbow after the rain. You are beautiful and destiny has great plans for you. Gingerbread, American Domestic Cookery (1823) 1 & 1/3 cups of flour 1/2 cup of treacle 0.5 cups of butter, melted 3 teaspoons of ginger powder 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds Mix the flour with ginger and caraway seeds. Add in your treacle and melted butter. Mix well until you've formed a thick batter. Store in a cool place/refrigerate for half an hour before rolling out and cutting. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Allow the cookies to rest for at least 10 minutes once you've removed them from the oven before touching so that they may firm up. Field Pea Cakes, The Virginia Housewife (1824) 1 cup of black eyed peas (soaked overnight if dry) 2 tablespoons of bacon 2 tablespoons of lard Salt & pepper to taste If uncooked, boil the peas until soft. Alternatively you may also use a can of black eyed peas, in which case you do not need to pre-cook them. Strain away as much of the liquid as is possible then mash till it is a paste with salt & pepper. In a skillet, fry up your bacon till done. Remove the bacon and set aside, retaining the drippings in the skillet. In the same skillet, melt the lard till hot. Place a dollop of black eyed peas into the hot lard and press flat with a metal spatula. Tip: cover your spatula in hot oil before pressing and it will not stick. These require at least 5 minutes per side on medium heat before flipping. If you find it impossible to flip them without them falling apart you may add a tablespoon of flour into the batter. Goose & Apple Pie, Justine's Own 1 pound of Goose meat, cut 1 onion, diced 1 cup of vegetable or chicken broth 2 tablespoons of butter 2 tablespoons of flour 2 apples, peeled, cored and diced 1 tablespoon of fresh thyme Salt & pepper to taste 2 pie crusts, for top and bottom In a skillet, melt your butter over medium high meat. Once melted add in the diced onion and goose. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Sprinkle in 1 tablespoon of flour and mix well. After cooking for an additional minute pour in the stock, diced apples, thyme, salt and pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. In a pie plate lay down a crust. Pour the above prepared goose and apple mixture into the pie paste and flatten. Sprinkle an additional tablespoon of flour over it before placing the top crust on. Vent the top crust with a knife by cutting at least one small slit in the center. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 40 minutes.
Piggy images are very popular in Germany for New Year's. They are supposed to bring prosperity. Merry Christmas and happy New Year from Berlin, Germany!
I told my 4 yr old that Justine had a new video and she said “ooo, let’s watch!” And she grabbed a blanket and we settled on the couch. Thank you so much for helping to spark a love of history and cooking in my little girl. She told daddy she wants him to build us a little cabin, too!
That seriously means so much! 😢 I still remember when I was a little one sketching images of my dream farm and cabin that I wanted to live in when I grew up. So many day dreams [well, I still day dream]. To think that there is another little girl that is excited about the same thing is making my heart burst!❤
@@baylorsailor me too and I just started reading them to her! She even likes the LHOTP tv show. She asks for “Laura braids” sometimes and it makes me so happy.
It’s not. I have recipes from when my family came as warrens on the mayflower till 1905 when my great grandfather came on a boar from wales. It’s the family that’s keeps it together. I’m from wisconsin but I have one limb who settled with the mayflower and one who came later form Belgium and then Scottish and then from Germany. Family favorites will be there forever if you chose to raise your family RIght!1
I think not. I'm not Christian but neoPagan and my community shares a lot of love and light and shared food at this time. I and many of my friends jumped off the commercial Christmas wagon years ago. That part just doesn't express the real meaning. Not physical presents. Emotional and spiritual ones. I have to believe we are far from the only ones. The media jsut gives the usual pap, not what real people experience. Blessed be.
When my boys were little, we made our gifts. And I always made a birthday cake to celebrate Jesus's birthday. Then we had a party. It was fun and relaxing, a lot of laughter. A simpler time.
I feel it's more like because it's easy to get everything throughout the year now and we can eat a christmas meal every sunday now we've outgrew traditions such a christmas. We've figured out how to keep it a land of plenty and it's how it always goes once previous generations have got it out their system and made it too easy things soon become old and outdated to do. I don't enjoy receiving or giving gifts any more it's a pain trying to figure out what someone wants so you end up getting the same shower sets every year lol, i think the difficulty is in having to still be forced to celebrate christmas and how forced it is now when we don't need to.
I remember reading Little House on the Prairie when i was younger. In the story, it was Christmas time and the children got an apple in their stocking. I remember thinking, that’s it?? An apple? But I guess during those times, they didn’t have access to apples all the time and it was a treat to look forward to. Really puts things in perspective
When my kids were young, a man in his 80s would sometimes stop by our place on his way to town. He'd always bring either bananas or oranges for the kids. Not apples though, I suppose because apple trees were common in the area. Anyway the kids loved it! When he passed away his adult children stopped by to let us know. RIP Alvin Christiansen
Tip from my great, great-grandmother, found on one of her receipt cards: "In cold weather, warm your crock of treacle, honey, or molasses near the fire just as you would your butter, then pour it into the same bowl on top of the butter to get all of your molasses with less mess."🥰 But I loved watching you drizzle it.
I love hearing the crackling fireplace, and watching you cook . I can imagine the warmth from the fire, and the smells of the food. Merry Christmas XOX ❤️
I'm really impressed with the heat control from the coals to get a simmer or a fry. The Dutch oven is amazing! No thermostat to set and the pie comes out perfectly. It's all truly an art.
Justine, I'm always impressed! Even with hearth cooking, you time everything right and don't forget a thing. You make it look so easy! Do you ever feel worn out after the food is dished up and the dishes, utensils and pots and pans are all cleaned? I do - and I have all the modern conveniences. I've had wild goose once. This was in early January 1968 when I was 13. I came home from hours of skating in frigid weather, and as soon as I opened the door, I smelt sage, Bell's seasoning, onions, like Christmas all over again. Dad told me a hunter friend of his surprised him with an already plucked and cleaned Canadian goose. He and mom stuffed and roasted it. The skin was crisp and the meat tender. It was very rich and fatty, but so good! BTW - I'm in the middle of reading a favorite childhood book, "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge. There's a fun description of a celebration of St. Nicholas Day at a wealthy family's house. St. Nick (someone dressed as him, obviously) would arrive in his bishop's robes and miter and know each kid's name and know exactly what he or she did during the past year. He'd encourage all the good kids to keep being good, and he would solemnly and gently lecture the naughty ones. And of course, he'd leave presents.
Whenever I’m overwhelmed with something in life I come to your channel and relax, zone out, and watch you make these dishes. Thank you! Have a wonderful holiday season and may good health and wealth find you in the New Year! ♥️
Same thing I do when I have a headache or I am feeling down or depressed or just need to feel better I watch her videos I like this one specifically because of the Chickens I love that sound
LOVE, Love, love this one!! We are making our gingerbread dough tomorrow. I made ginger bread cake last week. It was the recipe used to make cake for the late Queen Elizabeth. Treacle was one of the ingredients. I had never heard of it before. I was excited to see you using it. I had no idea it was used in the early Americas, but I guess it makes sense! I also loved that the sweets and apples were hung on the tree and eaten on Christmas Day. I remember when I was a child, I always wondered why people used artificial apples to decorate trees. Now I know! The history at the end was near and dear to my Christmas-Around-the-World heart! Merry Christmas to you both! I so appreciate all y'all do! 💜
Check out the Two Fat ladies episode on cakes, they make a to die for gingerbread...loved Jennifer and Clarissa so much I bought AL their books, cookbooks, biographies, history etc...
I always enjoyed hearing about "the good old days" when growing up. Never tired of hearing the stories. I read the Little House On The Prairie books to my daughter when she was young and then my grandchildren. Now I am 82 yrs. old and decided to read (yes even at my age) the series and enjoyed reading so much. I don't feel one can be too old to read the stories again.
Thank you for all you do. I really appreciate the recipes and the history. I never knew any of that…..how wonderful! You are both very respectful of our history! Thank you!
I always enjoy her smile when she's cooking and because when I see her smile it makes my heart feel good she enjoys what she does and I'm happy for her God bless and Merry Christmas to her and her family
Once again, amazingggggly beautiful. Every detail is priceless and thoughtfully thought out. Thanks for bringing us along and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Justine, you are wonderful, the way you whip up those pies! Absolutely impressive! Your feasts look so delicious. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas, to you and Ron.🎄⛄🎄
A very welcomed reminder of how Christmas started, and why we celebrate it. It has puzzled me for a very long time why we have holidays if no one understand the origins of them, now I know for sure!
Sending folks my best thoughts and wishes that you have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season! Bless you both and thank for sharing these historical munchies with us. Indeed it is living history and i tip my hat to you for keeping it alive!
Ah, the goose, yum. I did a whole goose one year that was stuffed with mashed potato... no butter or milk in it, let it cool and added diced onion and a diced tart apple to the mash and tied the legs. It was the best Christmas ever. My daughter was young and to this day remembers that as "the best stuffing ever":) Old Irish tradition.
Your videos are so soothing, calming and interesting! I subscribed to your channel back when you only had around 100k subs. I've so very much enjoyed your videos and congratulations on the success of your channel. Thank you for your format of just showing how the food is prepared and cooked without all the narration. I love that you put just enough pertinent information on the screen to let us know just the things we need to know. I also like your chit chat on the other channel of yours where you eat the food you've prepared but here on the Early American It is so nice just to watch in silence and hear the crackling of the fire and the crowing of the rooster from time to time.
I love these videos- the natural background sounds going on arouses the senses, and heightens the admiration of the skills and knowledge that existed back in the day.
Love all your videos!!!! And the narrative history on Santa today was awesome!! Quick question - 200 years ago - how was treacle made? (Was it something that could be purchased easily and within people's means? or did most folks make their own black strapped molasses (treacle)? Thanks so much for your great content!
Sugar cane doesn't grow in much of the country, so most people wouldn't be growing it to make their own. Molasses and sugar was shipped in from the Caribbean and sold in mercantile
What's funny is my coworker is a Ukrainian man shown me how Santa Clause is depicted in his hometown. It's actually like the older way he was depicted as a religious saint (like in this video) and nothing like the Amercian tradition in the red suit. It honestly has not changed too much but some American symbolism has come in as with commercialism but not as much as here. I made him Ukrainian mulled wine for Christmas, as he does miss home. I'm not Christian myself by I still enjoy seeing people happy during the holiday as the lights and songs bring joy when people need it the most.
You don’t have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas! I know plenty of atheists who celebrate it because it makes them happy, they see it as a holiday of gift giving, music, company, and good food.
All Christians want everyone to celebrate Christmas! Doesn’t matter what you believe! All we want is people to stop belittling and ridiculing us for what we believe! Especially people like here in America that benefit so much from Christianity. Almost everything we have is because of it.
I'm not a Christian either though I grew up as one. I've continued celebrating Christmas though as it means a lot to my family and is just a time of year that gives me a lot of happiness and joy
The fried bean cakes reminded me of the latkes (potato pancakes) we make for Chanukah. 🕎 Thank you for a year of wonderful programs. 💖 Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🎅 ❄⛄
Everything was awesome, Justine! The cabin is cozy and beautiful and the meal looks good. Thank you for the fun and going to the Chew and Chat. Be blessed and a very Merry Christmas! 🎄⭐🎄
Solo hizo falta un poco de manteca de cerdo, un pedazo de queso fresco, una salsita recién hecha y unas tortillas de harina para esos frijoles refritos 😍 hahaha. ¡Saludos desde México! 🇲🇽❤️
My mother comes from a small mountain top village in central Italy where she grew up in the 1930's and 40's. When she and my grandmother told me stories about what life, and Christmas and Easter, were like, it left me feeling as though I had missed out on something. Though separated by over 100 years to this depiction at hand, it is exactly as they reffered to their experience. I asked them what they prefferred, todays Christmas, or years ago. Without hesitation, both of them said "years ago".
Those tin cookie cutters remind me of the good ol days when I was a kid. My maternal grandmother had several different shaped tin cookie cutters in her household. She loved making sugar, peanut butter, and gingerbread cookies during Christmastime. Made from scratch, not store bought!
Tbat goose pie looked delicious! I enjoyed this Christmas video, especially the history on St. Nicholas. Also, as a traditional Catholic, I enjoyed the midnight Mass history. Many Catholic churches still have midnight Masses today. A very Merry Christmas to you both! ❤
Hey there! That video on cooking a Christmas feast from the 1820s was seriously next level! It's like stepping into a time machine and experiencing a whole new world of flavors and techniques. I mean, who knew cooking could be so fascinating
My grandmother was making 'pea sausage' up until her inability to stand and cook and ultimate passing in the past few years. Essentially her 'pea sausage' was the leftover black-eyed peas, or field peas from the meal before or even the day before. She would mash up the peas just as you did and fry them just the same. I'm not entirely sure if she seasoned them or just cooked them in lard, but if you didn't know, it tasted just like a mildly seasoned sausage. Cheers!
I LOVE your explanation of the history of Santa Claus at the end! Thank you for being accurate and interesting! (I did not know there was an English queen before Victoria that had a Christmas tree). Thank you for this! I have never heard of fried black eyed pea cakes. I would not have thought they would stick together without egg or something. Will have to try sometime. That goose pie looked delicious. Thank you as always for your interesting and relaxing videos. Happy Advent and a Merry Christmas to you both!
I love these shows. They are so relaxing and I learn something new every time . I also live that I feel like IL getting an intimate look at life long ago. Thank you for all the work you do to make these videos.
Have you guys ever made your own Christmas ornaments such as plain dough with crushed hard candies clear hard candies And then bake him and then they become like almost stained glass ornaments? They are fairly easy to make so long as you make just a plain unsweetened dough for the framework and you just need a parchment paper and a baking sheet To cook clothes on and while you're cooking them You want a chop chopped up or crushed up hard candies clear hard candies into the openings and you can color coordinate them as you wish you get some beautiful effects by even mixing colors and flavors and you can make extraordinary stained glass window ornaments i've actually seen reproductions done of various church windows and cathedral windows from Europe and the United States done like this. I'm not saying you have to get that elaborate but you could make some like Christmas trees and wreaths and other such stuff we used to do this when we were kids with my parents. I just thought it would definitely be. appropriate Because my grandmother used to tell us that she made them with her grandparents when she was a little kid and she was only about 656 years old back in 1895 so if her grandparents were making them when they were kids they're definitely. appropriate.
I just found your channel last night. With this out of control country and world, your video of 1830's cooking calmed me. People were close to their food and respected it far more because they made what they ate from scratch. This morning I even watched how flour is made today. I will search how it was done 200 years ago. Thank you so much. ☺💖
The Colonial Williamsburg Museum has a pig shaped cookie cutter in their collection. It's impossible to pinpoint an exact date on it, with all that's known is that it's from the 1800s...but how could you ever say no to something so cute?! emuseum.history.org/objects/34530/pig-cookie-cutter?ctx=87de06905dab52d795d8c90f26032f0afb8c63d2&idx=23
Happy Holidays to everyone around the globe. Thank you for all of the kindness that you've shown us over this past year. I want to wish you good health and prosperity. I know that not everyone has family or friends that they can turn to during this time of the year. Just know that I've been there and that you aren't alone. There is always sunshine at the end of every storm and a rainbow after the rain. You are beautiful and destiny has great plans for you.
Gingerbread, American Domestic Cookery (1823)
1 & 1/3 cups of flour
1/2 cup of treacle
0.5 cups of butter, melted
3 teaspoons of ginger powder
1 teaspoon of caraway seeds
Mix the flour with ginger and caraway seeds. Add in your treacle and melted butter. Mix well until you've formed a thick batter. Store in a cool place/refrigerate for half an hour before rolling out and cutting. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Allow the cookies to rest for at least 10 minutes once you've removed them from the oven before touching so that they may firm up.
Field Pea Cakes, The Virginia Housewife (1824)
1 cup of black eyed peas (soaked overnight if dry)
2 tablespoons of bacon
2 tablespoons of lard
Salt & pepper to taste
If uncooked, boil the peas until soft. Alternatively you may also use a can of black eyed peas, in which case you do not need to pre-cook them. Strain away as much of the liquid as is possible then mash till it is a paste with salt & pepper. In a skillet, fry up your bacon till done. Remove the bacon and set aside, retaining the drippings in the skillet. In the same skillet, melt the lard till hot. Place a dollop of black eyed peas into the hot lard and press flat with a metal spatula. Tip: cover your spatula in hot oil before pressing and it will not stick. These require at least 5 minutes per side on medium heat before flipping. If you find it impossible to flip them without them falling apart you may add a tablespoon of flour into the batter.
Goose & Apple Pie, Justine's Own
1 pound of Goose meat, cut
1 onion, diced
1 cup of vegetable or chicken broth
2 tablespoons of butter
2 tablespoons of flour
2 apples, peeled, cored and diced
1 tablespoon of fresh thyme
Salt & pepper to taste
2 pie crusts, for top and bottom
In a skillet, melt your butter over medium high meat. Once melted add in the diced onion and goose. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Sprinkle in 1 tablespoon of flour and mix well. After cooking for an additional minute pour in the stock, diced apples, thyme, salt and pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. In a pie plate lay down a crust. Pour the above prepared goose and apple mixture into the pie paste and flatten. Sprinkle an additional tablespoon of flour over it before placing the top crust on. Vent the top crust with a knife by cutting at least one small slit in the center. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 40 minutes.
You're so sweet Justine❤️And thoughtful, too😊🥰the holidays can be difficult for some and it’s kind of you to remember them.
Merry Xmas in 1820!
Piggy images are very popular in Germany for New Year's. They are supposed to bring prosperity. Merry Christmas and happy New Year from Berlin, Germany!
can you recreate the cookie cutter for sale?
@@904danielaFrohe Festtage!
(aus den US)
I told my 4 yr old that Justine had a new video and she said “ooo, let’s watch!” And she grabbed a blanket and we settled on the couch. Thank you so much for helping to spark a love of history and cooking in my little girl. She told daddy she wants him to build us a little cabin, too!
Aw, that's so sweet!
That seriously means so much! 😢 I still remember when I was a little one sketching images of my dream farm and cabin that I wanted to live in when I grew up. So many day dreams [well, I still day dream]. To think that there is another little girl that is excited about the same thing is making my heart burst!❤
Reminds me of myself as a child when I would snuggle up to read Little House on the Prairie books. They definitely sparked my love for history. ❤️
@@baylorsailor me too and I just started reading them to her! She even likes the LHOTP tv show. She asks for “Laura braids” sometimes and it makes me so happy.
@@baylorsailor I love those books!
I feel like Christmas is getting more complicated every year. This is my type of Christmas.
It’s not. I have recipes from when my family came as warrens on the mayflower till 1905 when my great grandfather came on a boar from wales. It’s the family that’s keeps it together. I’m from wisconsin but I have one limb who settled with the mayflower and one who came later form Belgium and then Scottish and then from Germany. Family favorites will be there forever if you chose to raise your family RIght!1
I agree
I think not. I'm not Christian but neoPagan and my community shares a lot of love and light and shared food at this time. I and many of my friends jumped off the commercial Christmas wagon years ago. That part just doesn't express the real meaning. Not physical presents. Emotional and spiritual ones. I have to believe we are far from the only ones. The media jsut gives the usual pap, not what real people experience. Blessed be.
When my boys were little, we made our gifts. And I always made a birthday cake to celebrate Jesus's birthday. Then we had a party.
It was fun and relaxing, a lot of laughter. A simpler time.
I feel it's more like because it's easy to get everything throughout the year now and we can eat a christmas meal every sunday now we've outgrew traditions such a christmas. We've figured out how to keep it a land of plenty and it's how it always goes once previous generations have got it out their system and made it too easy things soon become old and outdated to do.
I don't enjoy receiving or giving gifts any more it's a pain trying to figure out what someone wants so you end up getting the same shower sets every year lol, i think the difficulty is in having to still be forced to celebrate christmas and how forced it is now when we don't need to.
I remember reading Little House on the Prairie when i was younger. In the story, it was Christmas time and the children got an apple in their stocking. I remember thinking, that’s it?? An apple? But I guess during those times, they didn’t have access to apples all the time and it was a treat to look forward to. Really puts things in perspective
When my kids were young, a man in his 80s would sometimes stop by our place on his way to town. He'd always bring either bananas or oranges for the kids. Not apples though, I suppose because apple trees were common in the area. Anyway the kids loved it! When he passed away his adult children stopped by to let us know. RIP Alvin Christiansen
I am 62 and my mom always put an apple or orange in our stocking.
Tip from my great, great-grandmother, found on one of her receipt cards: "In cold weather, warm your crock of treacle, honey, or molasses near the fire just as you would your butter, then pour it into the same bowl on top of the butter to get all of your molasses with less mess."🥰 But I loved watching you drizzle it.
Thank you!
I love hearing the crackling fireplace, and watching you cook . I can imagine the warmth from the fire, and the smells of the food. Merry Christmas XOX ❤️
Right!
It good to see people preserving past
This channel is more humanly valuable than anything I've ever seen on a screen 🙌 such a treasure!
Absolutely so.
I'm really impressed with the heat control from the coals to get a simmer or a fry. The Dutch oven is amazing! No thermostat to set and the pie comes out perfectly. It's all truly an art.
It looked like a great Christmas feast! Thank you for the history lesson!
Hello, I wish you a Merry Christmas
Not a great history lesson. Houses were not clean like this back then.
Everything is so unusual but looks so delicious 😋. I bet Ron likes it all🤩
I enjoy unusual ☺
Black eyed peas are a staple food in the south
I like how "a cold place" at this time of year simply means outside.
Ahhh outside, the extra winter fridge
Absolutely spectacular looking feast! 😊
Merry Christmas, everybody! 😃🎄🎆✨
What a feast!!! Justine, I have the same hat in navy blue. Love it!
Justine, I'm always impressed! Even with hearth cooking, you time everything right and don't forget a thing. You make it look so easy! Do you ever feel worn out after the food is dished up and the dishes, utensils and pots and pans are all cleaned? I do - and I have all the modern conveniences.
I've had wild goose once. This was in early January 1968 when I was 13. I came home from hours of skating in frigid weather, and as soon as I opened the door, I smelt sage, Bell's seasoning, onions, like Christmas all over again. Dad told me a hunter friend of his surprised him with an already plucked and cleaned Canadian goose. He and mom stuffed and roasted it. The skin was crisp and the meat tender. It was very rich and fatty, but so good!
BTW - I'm in the middle of reading a favorite childhood book, "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge. There's a fun description of a celebration of St. Nicholas Day at a wealthy family's house. St. Nick (someone dressed as him, obviously) would arrive in his bishop's robes and miter and know each kid's name and know exactly what he or she did during the past year. He'd encourage all the good kids to keep being good, and he would solemnly and gently lecture the naughty ones. And of course, he'd leave presents.
Thanks for sharing those memories
I absolutely love this I've been watching for a while now I'm so stuck in the 1800's style so simple
Whenever I’m overwhelmed with something in life I come to your channel and relax, zone out, and watch you make these dishes. Thank you! Have a wonderful holiday season and may good health and wealth find you in the New Year! ♥️
Same thing I do when I have a headache or I am feeling down or depressed or just need to feel better I watch her videos I like this one specifically because of the Chickens I love that sound
I do too. The sound of the fire and the outside noises are calming.
❤
I do too
My Christmas wish is that I hope that people will remember our history as both of you do 💖💖
I love that house. All the great food thats made there, just makes it all the more enjoyable. Really draws me in.
LOVE, Love, love this one!! We are making our gingerbread dough tomorrow. I made ginger bread cake last week. It was the recipe used to make cake for the late Queen Elizabeth. Treacle was one of the ingredients. I had never heard of it before. I was excited to see you using it. I had no idea it was used in the early Americas, but I guess it makes sense! I also loved that the sweets and apples were hung on the tree and eaten on Christmas Day. I remember when I was a child, I always wondered why people used artificial apples to decorate trees. Now I know! The history at the end was near and dear to my Christmas-Around-the-World heart! Merry Christmas to you both! I so appreciate all y'all do! 💜
Check out the Two Fat ladies episode on cakes, they make a to die for gingerbread...loved Jennifer and Clarissa so much I bought AL their books, cookbooks, biographies, history etc...
Hello
I always enjoyed hearing about "the good old days" when
growing up. Never tired of hearing the stories.
I read the Little House On The Prairie books to my daughter
when she was young and then my grandchildren.
Now I am 82 yrs. old and decided to read (yes even at my age) the series and enjoyed reading so much. I don't feel one can be too old to read the stories again.
71 here and agree with you completely
Happy Christmas everyone! God bless!!! 🙏🏻🎄🎅🏻
Thank you for all you do. I really appreciate the recipes and the history. I never knew any of that…..how wonderful! You are both very respectful of our history! Thank you!
Thank you for the Christmas cheer. Merry Christmas to you and Ron...may all your moments be merry! God bless you both! ❤
Justine you always make everything look so easy!!! Even the hard stuff…You are a pro. What a dreamy meal, thanks for sharing.
I love the surrounding noises..clicking of the pots, fire crackling, water pouring slowly.
And the chickens
Merry Christmas to you and your families and fans! 🎄🥰💕❤️👍👍 Those recipes look yummy.
I always enjoy her smile when she's cooking and because when I see her smile it makes my heart feel good she enjoys what she does and I'm happy for her God bless and Merry Christmas to her and her family
With all that’s going on in the world,this makes me feel better!! Food looks delicious!! May God bless you all,and Merry Christmas 🎄✝️
That was wonderful, Beautiful Justine! Merry Christmas! 🎄❤️💚💯🏆🌟✨
Once again, amazingggggly beautiful. Every detail is priceless and thoughtfully thought out. Thanks for bringing us along and Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Hello
A Very Merry Christmas to you and Ron. I have so enjoyed watching both of your channels over this past year. So glad I found you both.
Hello, I wish you a Merry Christmas
I absolutely love the decorations in ir home for Christmas 🎄 love love love ya'll....I learn so much from ur research 💕
Oh Justine! A gourmet feast! My mouth is watering! Thank you so much for the receipt tutorial! Merry Christmas!
We just had black-eyed peas today for dinner, so it was fun to see them apart of your Christmas feast 😊
That goose pie looks very delicious, Justine! Merry Christmas to you all!
Thank you for the history on this beautiful holiday and season. As always you two do an excellent job of presenting it.
Can we all agree that that hat will be the next fashion trend this winter? I’m gonna try to help get it going, that’s for sure.
Someone has to break the ice and be the first person to go out with it! That person can be me.
@@EarlyAmerican Lol. Thank you.
Yessss I love the hat❤
Those pig and heart cookies were absolutely precious. Another great video as always.
Merry Christmas to you both! Thank you for so many wonderful videos this past year! Well wishes for a happy healthy new year! 🎄
A lovely Christmas feast! Have a joyful Christmas!🎄
Beautiful! Tysm for the history because its good to stay humble to our roots especially now💕🎄❄️ Merry Christmas to you all!
The meal looks delicious. Very hearty. Thank you Justine for the recipe.
The story of Santa Claus.
Justine, you are wonderful, the way you whip up those pies! Absolutely impressive! Your feasts look so delicious. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas, to you and Ron.🎄⛄🎄
So enjoy these lovely cooking films. I love the different pots and pans and how they are used on the open fire. Hi from West Wales.
The history lesson at the end was a delightful bonus! Great video all around. Happy Christmas!
What a feast! I must try the bean cakes! Merry Christmas Ron and Justine, I hope you have a good year's end and all the best to you in 2024 ❤
i love the sound of old fashion cooking .merry xmas to all
I love watching these videos. It’s very relaxing to watch plus I love to cook . But learning the older ways is always interesting.
A very welcomed reminder of how Christmas started, and why we celebrate it. It has puzzled me for a very long time why we have holidays if no one understand the origins of them, now I know for sure!
Justine, your deliberate and careful movements with the utensils and the dishes is so soothing. Thank you for doing this for us.
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Sending folks my best thoughts and wishes that you have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season! Bless you both and thank for sharing these historical munchies with us. Indeed it is living history and i tip my hat to you for keeping it alive!
I think those pea cakes look delicious. I need to give it a go
Ah, the goose, yum. I did a whole goose one year that was stuffed with mashed potato... no butter or milk in it, let it cool and added diced onion and a diced tart apple to the mash and tied the legs. It was the best Christmas ever. My daughter was young and to this day remembers that as "the best stuffing ever":) Old Irish tradition.
The winter forest there is beautiful! And I envy you those fresh eggs! It all looks delicious! Thank you!
Happy Holidays everyone!🤶🏻🧑🏻🎄🇺🇸🎄
Your videos are so soothing, calming and interesting! I subscribed to your channel back when you only had around 100k subs. I've so very much enjoyed your videos and congratulations on the success of your channel. Thank you for your format of just showing how the food is prepared and cooked without all the narration. I love that you put just enough pertinent information on the screen to let us know just the things we need to know. I also like your chit chat on the other channel of yours where you eat the food you've prepared but here on the Early American It is so nice just to watch in silence and hear the crackling of the fire and the crowing of the rooster from time to time.
Great episode as always, everything looked delicious! Thanks to Alfred for the history lesson!
I love these videos- the natural background sounds going on arouses the senses, and heightens the admiration of the skills and knowledge that existed back in the day.
I'm loving the sounds of it all, just the whole scene it's lovely and homely. And I can smell that delicious cooking from across the pond 🇬🇧
Love all your videos!!!! And the narrative history on Santa today was awesome!! Quick question - 200 years ago - how was treacle made? (Was it something that could be purchased easily and within people's means? or did most folks make their own black strapped molasses (treacle)? Thanks so much for your great content!
It was much cheaper than white sugar.
Sugar cane doesn't grow in much of the country, so most people wouldn't be growing it to make their own. Molasses and sugar was shipped in from the Caribbean and sold in mercantile
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Looks delicious as usual!
Hello, I wish you a Merry Christmas
What's funny is my coworker is a Ukrainian man shown me how Santa Clause is depicted in his hometown. It's actually like the older way he was depicted as a religious saint (like in this video) and nothing like the Amercian tradition in the red suit. It honestly has not changed too much but some American symbolism has come in as with commercialism but not as much as here. I made him Ukrainian mulled wine for Christmas, as he does miss home. I'm not Christian myself by I still enjoy seeing people happy during the holiday as the lights and songs bring joy when people need it the most.
You don’t have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas! I know plenty of atheists who celebrate it because it makes them happy, they see it as a holiday of gift giving, music, company, and good food.
All Christians want everyone to celebrate Christmas! Doesn’t matter what you believe! All we want is people to stop belittling and ridiculing us for what we believe! Especially people like here in America that benefit so much from Christianity. Almost everything we have is because of it.
I'm not a Christian either though I grew up as one. I've continued celebrating Christmas though as it means a lot to my family and is just a time of year that gives me a lot of happiness and joy
Coca Cola invented the American Santa as an advertising campaign in 1931. So, Christmas really is a retail, oriented shopping extravaganza here.
That mulled wine must've really reminded him of home.
The fried bean cakes reminded me of the latkes (potato pancakes) we make for Chanukah. 🕎 Thank you for a year of wonderful programs. 💖 Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🎅 ❄⛄
Hello, I wish you a Merry Christmas
I love the sounds from these videos.
I have never thought of mashing black eyed peas and frying them!! Best UA-cam channel!!!! Just awesome!!❤❤❤
Just when I thought you couldn't be any more fabulous!! Merry Christmas Justine and Ron! ❤❤❤
Merry Christmas Kerri❤
Hello, I wish you a Merry Christmas
Thanks very much for showing these videos. I LOVE them.
Can you imagine cooking like this with a bunch of children/toddlers??!!
Everything looks amazing, thank you for taking us through another interesting, historical meal. God bless and have a very merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Justine and Ron !!!
Everything was awesome, Justine! The cabin is cozy and beautiful and the meal looks good. Thank you for the fun and going to the Chew and Chat. Be blessed and a very Merry Christmas! 🎄⭐🎄
Solo hizo falta un poco de manteca de cerdo, un pedazo de queso fresco, una salsita recién hecha y unas tortillas de harina para esos frijoles refritos 😍 hahaha. ¡Saludos desde México! 🇲🇽❤️
Justine and Ron you look so cute in your matching hats! I'm so happy you like them. Merry Christmas to you both!
Outstanding. Appreciate your efforts for us.
Justine does everything with such ease . She floats around the kitchen . Love her videos .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My mother comes from a small mountain top village in central Italy where she grew up in the 1930's and 40's. When she and my grandmother told me stories about what life, and Christmas and Easter, were like, it left me feeling as though I had missed out on something. Though separated by over 100 years to this depiction at hand, it is exactly as they reffered to their experience. I asked them what they prefferred, todays Christmas, or years ago. Without hesitation, both of them said "years ago".
Those tin cookie cutters remind me of the good ol days when I was a kid. My maternal grandmother had several different shaped tin cookie cutters in her household. She loved making sugar, peanut butter, and gingerbread cookies during Christmastime. Made from scratch, not store bought!
Tbat goose pie looked delicious! I enjoyed this Christmas video, especially the history on St. Nicholas. Also, as a traditional Catholic, I enjoyed the midnight Mass history. Many Catholic churches still have midnight Masses today. A very Merry Christmas to you both! ❤
Hey there! That video on cooking a Christmas feast from the 1820s was seriously next level! It's like stepping into a time machine and experiencing a whole new world of flavors and techniques. I mean, who knew cooking could be so fascinating
My grandmother was making 'pea sausage' up until her inability to stand and cook and ultimate passing in the past few years. Essentially her 'pea sausage' was the leftover black-eyed peas, or field peas from the meal before or even the day before. She would mash up the peas just as you did and fry them just the same. I'm not entirely sure if she seasoned them or just cooked them in lard, but if you didn't know, it tasted just like a mildly seasoned sausage. Cheers!
Thank you sooooooo much. It is so good for my soul to look at. It is cooking for the soul. Thanks a lot. So beautiful.
Wouldn’t be an Early American post without Justine spilling! 😂 Wishing the merriest of Christmases and a happy, healthy new year to you both.
Merry Christmas to you and your family! So interesting to see the things people used to eat and how they had to cook them.
I love these. I wish you would do a tutorial on how to cook on open fire. I would love to learn how to do that!
Your sense of humor and creativity made this video amazing. Great job!
Merry Christmas hope too see more in the new year
I am watching this tonight as I write my Christmas cards. The sounds are so soothing and relaxing. Thank you.
I LOVE your explanation of the history of Santa Claus at the end! Thank you for being accurate and interesting! (I did not know there was an English queen before Victoria that had a Christmas tree). Thank you for this!
I have never heard of fried black eyed pea cakes. I would not have thought they would stick together without egg or something. Will have to try sometime. That goose pie looked delicious. Thank you as always for your interesting and relaxing videos. Happy Advent and a Merry Christmas to you both!
Merrie Christmas! Lovely food and neat history lesson! :)
I love watching you cook. Merry Christmas to you guys! ❤️
I am 76 years old and I enjoy want you guys do so much. It is so educational but also a joy to see what you do. God Bless!
Loved your feast and story of Saint Nick. Merry Christmas to you both.
I love these shows. They are so relaxing and I learn something new every time . I also live that I feel like IL getting an intimate look at life long ago. Thank you for all the work you do to make these videos.
Love your videos this looks amazing see u at the live thing lol
These are such a treat to watch! Very relaxing and comforting! Anxiety seems to disappear!
My father who recently passed away would have loved this ❤I wish he could have seen it….
These videos makes me feel all warm and cozy. I love history and this is amazing!
Have you guys ever made your own Christmas ornaments such as plain dough with crushed hard candies clear hard candies And then bake him and then they become like almost stained glass ornaments? They are fairly easy to make so long as you make just a plain unsweetened dough for the framework and you just need a parchment paper and a baking sheet To cook clothes on and while you're cooking them You want a chop chopped up or crushed up hard candies clear hard candies into the openings and you can color coordinate them as you wish you get some beautiful effects by even mixing colors and flavors and you can make extraordinary stained glass window ornaments i've actually seen reproductions done of various church windows and cathedral windows from Europe and the United States done like this. I'm not saying you have to get that elaborate but you could make some like Christmas trees and wreaths and other such stuff we used to do this when we were kids with my parents. I just thought it would definitely be. appropriate Because my grandmother used to tell us that she made them with her grandparents when she was a little kid and she was only about 656 years old back in 1895 so if her grandparents were making them when they were kids they're definitely. appropriate.
I made those ornaments with my great-grandmother and she still had them from her kids!! They really hold up forever✨🎄
I just found your channel last night. With this out of control country and world, your video of 1830's cooking calmed me. People were close to their food and respected it far more because they made what they ate from scratch. This morning I even watched how flour is made today. I will search how it was done 200 years ago. Thank you so much. ☺💖
Um Grande abraço pra vcs do Brasil🇧🇷
🌷🌿🌷🌿🌷🌿 .