Here you can find the address to send us letters. We'll write you back! The address is actually Kandyee's shop in Ste. Gen. ua-cam.com/users/EarlyAmericanabout
I'm 62 and dont have a great opinion of the younger generations, but you two are the exception. You not only love history , you live it. Just wonderful, my hats off to you both.....
The knit fingerless gloves Justine got for Christmas were made by me. I am happy to take orders. I enjoy making them and was THRILLED to get a pair for this lovely woman and her man. They inspire me to cook like this....mm
So do you all actually live in this house and live this lifestyle? Nevermind, you answered my question if you're building out the cabin. This is awesome if you are living like this!!!! Gosh I'm learning so much and I see a time coming where we will be going back to this, so thank you.
All of that looks so good. My Mother said when she was growing up, her family ate what was put in front of them. There were 7 siblings, so her mother cooked a lot. She didn't have an electric stove until the early 1960's. She was born in 1887, so she had to cook on a wood burning stove. My mother loved to cook different things & I always enjoyed trying them out with her. My dad just liked the kind of food he grew up with, mainly fried chicken, gravy, spring onions, black eyed peas, green beans & irish potatoes, biscuits, cornbread, buttermilk to drink, bacon & sausage. Oh yeah, red eye gravy too. My mother learned how to cook from her mother, who was a great cook. My mother cooked until she was about 90 & now she is 97. She has outlived all of her family & my dad's family too. She has dementia, so my sister & I do all the cooking. Not as good as our mother, her sisters or her mother, but still palatable, lol.
Mary Breckenridge brought women's & family health to the hills and hollers of Eastern Kentucky Appalachia starting in the 1920's. She petitioned for bib overalls for girls and boys due to the number of young girls affected by cook fires. As families were more impoverished and cheaper materials were being used for children's clothing, more girls helping momma would have burn injuries. Mary on Horseback, author Rosemary Wells. I am an alumni of Frontier Nursing University and continue serving women in our area.
Watching you both is very inspiring. I have always felt that this was the era i was supposed to be in.Thank you for reminding me how wonderful life was back then.Though it was a hard life,it was a serene life. An honest life. A family life. It was pure and simple and in alot of ways a perfect way to live. Again thank you both and gods speed.
Dear Youngests, hello. My Grand mum did a recipe similar to this. It was chopped Granny Smith Apples and she would put them in a cast iron pot with a tiny bit of salt pork for frying. Then Grandmum would add Germany sausage and it would cook slowly. Little bit salt and pepper. Grand mum would put it over egg noodles. It was delicious. Like you said the apples would take on the taste of the sausage. Thank you youngsters. God Bless your lovely home and teaching real American history. Old Ann
We do a boiled pudding similar to this called Pond Pudding in South East England. You layer butter and brown sugar in the pudding, then place a whole lemon in the centre. Like the apple pudding it looks like a monster when cooked, but a lemony butterscotch sauce oozes from it when cut open. There's nothing like the old fashioned puddings. I am addicted to this and the Early American channelsxx
@@mountainlace7618 you're better off looking up the recipe for Sussex Pond Pudding, you have to stab the lemon a few times before placing it in the pudding. There's a fair few recipes on line.
The more I watch your channels, the more I’m convinced that you guys were made for each other! I don’t say that very often either!! Sausage and apples sounds like the perfect FALL recipe. I’m pretty sure that there’s nothing that compliments pork dishes more than the simple apple..ya think? #mouth watering
Your videos are as heartwarming as a visit to Grandma's. It's like a perfect little snowglobe of the simple life. Thank you both for creating a safe and lovely space and having the courage to be yourselves and do what brings you joy.
"Since I like you...you can have 2" 💕 You guys are absolutely enchanting & I'm LOVING the content. The dream anectdote (🍊...'Don't Worry' had me laughing out loud) 😂
I remember my grandmothers cooking such time consuming meals when I was a kid. I always wondered how they did that plus chase after kids and do other chores. Watching how you and Ron do the things our ancestors did brings back fond memories of my grandmothers. ❤️
these two are the most honestly adorable couple on UA-cam . if there was an award for that they would for sure get it. I have such a stressful life and watching these videos just makes me feel so much better and takes me away from all of it.
You both are so genuine. I feel as though I could just hang out with you both and learn so much. May I ask how you both became involved in reenacting??? Thank you and God bless!
Remembering Mom and Grandma preserving foods. A lot of work in the heat of late summer. Starting at a young age (six), peeling fruits for canning was my job. Grandma said cooking with cast iron vessels added iron to your blood. Remember the sand crates in the cellar. The sand also kept the vermin out. Vermin won’t dig in sand because of suffocation. Go to bed at night with vaseline on your hands, cover with white church gloves will clear up dry, cracked, bleeding hands. Look forward to all your learning videos. Thank you for keeping our old ways alive. God bless.
my mom made a dish in the 1960's and 70's called spam and peaches....you slice your spam and brown it in fat....dump a whole can of sliced peaches in heavy syrup and simmer......sounds bizarre but it was actually tasty....your sausage and apples reminded me!
Wow that actually sounds amazing 🤩. We ate spam growing up in the 60’s and 70’s too! My mom would butter toast and lay the browned spam on top 😍🙏🏼 I still love spam even though it’s scary meat lol
Interesting. That does sound delicious. I think I'll try this real soon. I'm also going to try the sausage, cabbage and cornbread recipe. Thank you for sharing all your awesome recipes!
Love this! My grandmother, when she was just a girl said that her parents would preserve meat, like pork in a barrel with water to cover and add enough salt to float an egg.
I just jumped back to this video after watching more recent ones and it is so wonderful to see the two of you evolve in your relationship. You can see the happiness and love grow in each video and it's just beautiful!
Back about 60 years ago we would dig a big hole in the ground below the freeze line. Then we would put a layer of straw then our fruits and vegetables. Then straw and dirt. During the winter we would dig out what we needed
We used to heat rocks in the fire for a few hours while sitting at the campfire and then, put the rocks in a pot and bring them in the tent. Works like a charm!
My uncle had a smoke house, he cured with salt and smoked meat too. They also had z very cool, historic spring house. I'm sure they had a root cellar too.
My Davis grandparents who lived in southern Illinois and who married in 1897, both died in 1960 at 84 and 86. They lived in several houses during their lives but the same house my whole life, and I was born in July of 1947. Their house in Pulaski had no bathrooms, no built in kitchen cabinets, no running water in the house at all. They had a root cellar under the kitchen that had access through a lift up trap door in the kitchen floor, they had an outhouse down a long concrete path, they had chickens for part of my childhood, always had a huge garden, AND had a large smokehouse where my Granddad Davis would smoke all kinds of pork cuts especially hams, shoulders, loins and bacon….I can remember these hanging in the smokehouse. When my Daddy was growing up, and he was born in 1918, they kept a cow for milk and cream, but never had one when I was growing up. I do remember having to use the chamber pot at night which was kept under each bed BUT if you used it YOU had to carry it out to the outhouse in the morning so unless it was freezing outside, I preferred to get my daddy’s flashlight and walk down the path to the outhouse. I loved even as a child going to my Davis grandparent’s house. The house where we have lived for the last 32 years is 113 years old but until the house was added to and remodeled in 1934/35, did not have any bathrooms or running water but two bathrooms were added in the remodel. There also used to be a large barn out back when the Price family owned hundreds of acres. We only own 4 acres but we do have a brick Maid’s House, a brick storage building and a brick garage that unfortunately is about to lose the front of the garage…very sad. I love anything that is old…to look at as well as to use…one reason I love watching these videos is because I can fantasize about living there…except that whole cabin would probably fit in our kitchen as our old house is 4,025 sq. ft., two story with three fireplaces, 6 bedrooms, an upstairs sitting room, 15 rooms all together with heart pine floors…oh, I could talk about our neat old house where we raised our 6 daughters…unfortunately none of our 3 sons got to live with us when they were growing up but our youngest was conceived in this house and lived here until she left for college and now she and her husband have just had a baby girl and they are planning on buying this house and living here with us until we are gone and no longer need it. The Price family lived here for 76 years then we bought it and have lived here…I said 32 years before but that was wrong…we have lived here 33 years as of December 15th, 2022…I think…need a pencil and paper to figure it correctly. Ever since I lost my oldest son 2 and 1/2 years ago 3 days before his 54th birthday, I seem to struggle with things that used to be easier. He was. C.P.A. and owned his own accounting firm. His death is still an open homicide investigation…I hope someday to know the truth about my handsome, sweet, intelligent son’s death as do my younger son and 5 younger daughters and my son’s two sons. We all miss him terribly. Ron and Justine help me late at night…it is 2:23 AM right now and it is very hard for me to sleep anymore…so their wonderful videos help me get my mind on something else for a bit…Thank you, Ron…and Justine…I appreciate your very interesting distractions more than I can say. Keep them coming because…..I NEED them. By the way, my daddy always pronounced Missouri as Missoula. My Davis, southern Illinois relatives, had different speech patterns and colloquial expressions than what I grew up hearing in Irving, Texas, close to Dallas, just as there are different speech patterns and colloquial expressions in the piney woods of east Texas where I have lived since 1978…I love them all!
That is what you get for not proof reading…the auto-correct, which I hate, changed “Missoura” to Missoula…which, stupid autocorrect, is in Montana not Missouri anyway. I was talking about my daddy’s pronunciation of Missouri, ending it with an “a” and not an “i”…..boy, I don’t know who invented autocorrect but I wish I knew how to disable it!
My grandparents had a well house where grandma kept butter, & other things. They butchered every Fall, rendered lard in the yard over a fire, ground their horse radish out side, canned, a smoke house, garden, small orchard, grape vines, the whole 9 yards. They kept to the old ways most of their lives. Lived on a farm in western Michigan. Both gone now...passing in the 1980's.
New subscriber, I love these videos!! Something about them I find so soothing and I learn a lot, Ron, I am a fellow drummer and headbanger too, We all love you Justine and Ron, NYC!
You two are making early American history come alive like nobody else can. Thank you for explaining how a wool dress does not burn easily, but it still makes me worry to see that long fluffy dress so close to that open fire.
Hi Justine & Ron, I live in Sydney Australia. I stumbled upon your channels by accident 6 months ago and so look forward to your videos. I have learned so much from you both in how early Americans lived in the 1800’s. It’s an an unusually cold windy summers day today and will be following your recipe (receipt) and make the apple pudding it looked absolutely delicious. And just for good measure I’ll add a scoop of ice cream. Take care, love you both Jo ❤️❤️❤️
You guys seem like genuine people, I would have loved to hang out with you and be your neighbours. I won't but I would have liked it in a different world.
My kitchen wishlist includes so many of the tools you use to prepare food over an open fire but I do have every piece of cast iron and clay cookware though. It would be nice to see you bake some rustic (dutch oven) bread from scratch. Are there any bread recipes in your 1803 cookbook?
Best way to take care of cast iron is use a bit of salt and oil or lard to scrub it out after heating water to soak in it to loosen any stuck material , and have a skillet cloth you can scrub with or sponge , you really shouldn't use soap on cast iron pans. Just saying. Then after that rub it down with a bit of lard or oil and heat it let it cool and that keep your season intact.
Hi. I had never heard of the melted butter method of preserving. My family used to preserve sausages in crocks by pouring melted fat (lard) over the top to get an airtight seal. Since they had just butchered, they had fat available.
Flip me we take our central heating, flipping a switch or setting it to come on when you want/need it. I wond what the folks from the 1820s would make of the modern system. Another brilliant video from you two. All the best Ron and Justine for 2022 xxx
What I would give to go back in time, but alas ! I must live vicariously through your videos . I get the nibblies every time you cook too, I love hearing the history behind all that you folks do, it's so relaxing to watch and listen, take care.
So funny! I made sausages and apples with onions for dinner, right before this was posted. Great combination. I use fresh cooking apples but add a little brown sugar and butter for a little syrup.
My dears, it was lovely to share food and good conversation with you. Did cooks of this time use indoor spits to roast meat over the fire? That would be a tasty addition to your lovely kitchen.
This was a very nice Q&A vlog but watching Ron put away all that meal was funny. It also meant Justine is a great cook, which after watching her, she is. I found the answers very helpful in understanding many of my questions. If you both taught early history when I was in school with the way you explained things today, I think my grades would have been better. 🙂Thank you for another great video.
Great video!!! I love cooking with cast iron, and I also use antiques, though not as old as yours. Mine are from the early 20th century. I have a few pans like Ron described that are new but sanded down. A video about your cast iron would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!
I feel there is still so much to discover about dreams and sleep. My brother as a child used to walk over to our neighbor's house in his sleep and sometimes he would almost pee in our kitchen and my mom would have to stop him. This was also around when he was 10 years old.
I love this channel. It’s so relaxing and makes me kinda wish I could step back to this era for just a moment. Also you guys are freaking adorable! Love you guys, thanks for this channel. Seriously! Thank you!
Carrots can be left in the ground, they just get really sweet. I just covered the bed with hay and used a garden fork to chisle them out of the ground. They get planted close enough together that they are pretty easy to get to once you get it started.
An awesome chat indeed! It's like being in a time machine to the past, and the food was mouth-watering! Looking forward to more like this! More power to the channel and God bless from the 🇵🇭!
Only just subscribed I can't believe how long it took to find such a wonderful channel! Thankyou, you really help me with my anxiety such beauty. Love you both with love from the UK
Do you ever ferment veggies? I’m a new subscriber and can’t seem to get enough of your content. I love preserving my vegetables grown in my garden, usually in jars. Thank you so much for these videos, they’re really so vital to keeping today’s generation on how to live in case things change.
Very interesting, in early Ottoman cuisin too they were cooking meat with dried fruits to flavor, like dried fig, apricot, grape.. or sometimes with fresh fruits as well.. humans employed whatever at hand i think.. in todays Turkish cuisin its all forgotten and forgotten so much that people find it soo weird to use fruit in meat meals (what? fruit!??) and it doesnt fit for their palate..
I really enjoyed this video. I love the information you two share. My grandson and I love to watch...we want to live that way, but land is difficult to find. Either way we have done some of your receipts. So were great and some not so but, we had fun in the process and have great memories of the time together. I hope he remembers those times we spent together when I'm gone and continues to try new things and learns that the old ways are many times the best ways. Much love to you both ❤️.
Love this video!! I hope you are keeping warm since we are in this winter storm. I live near Poplar Bluff, Missouri and have been getting sleet and freezing rain. Would love to visit St. Genevieve some day. God bless!!
I love you two!!! I enjoy your stories and your humor. I so glad you found each other. A real life love story. Justine, your going to make Ron fat...lol But you can see he is happy and content. Stay warm, dry, and healthy.
I just discovered your videos. I saw the cooking video for the sausage and apples. I have to make this dish. It sounds so yummy. I am so excited to watch more videos. I am a history teacher and this is the time period I t be to focus the most on in American History. So I would love the chance to pick your brains on living as though you were in the 18th and 19th century.
Himmel und Erde, apples (Himmel-Heaven) and potatoes (Erde-Earth), typically mashed and usually with onions and sausage, is also a good winter meal. We used to get served this as deck crew on overnight sailing races because it really warms you up and is easy to eat on a bouncing deck.
I thought I’d already been following you. Was surprised that I hadn’t; but I am now. Love your channel. The food looked great! I need to try the sausage and apples. Yum!
I love watching your videos...would enjoy going back to those days in my life even though the work to live and eat was much harder...it is like Little House on the Prairie which I love watching...you both do such a great job portraying a couple living in those times!
I like your presentation! Me and my wife have about 4 of my grandmother's cast iron skillet s.She started house keeping with them.These skillets would be over a hundred years old.could you do a session on perceiving wild game.David Back from Menifee county Kentucky .My grand mother would be if she was living now 125years old,borned in 1896.She was in her late teens when she started using them.
I really enjoyed this chat, and I learned a lot from you both,I love how passionate and knowledgeable you both are about these old traditions and way of living.just superb. Super excited to see what you wear to the Ball xx
My grandmother used to make apple dumplings that looked exactly like that! And my mom always had baked apples whenever we had turkey or pork chops. They were delicious!
I love watching you two. Do you actually live in the cabin together and do without utilities and such? You both are gems. I've recommended your channels to several people.
My mother is from Newfoundland, Canada. Her father was a cod fisherman. So, she grew up eating salted cod. They pretty much lived as you are showing there, but in a saltbox type house my grandfather built. A wood stove to heat the house and cooking. A water pump for water and washing. Outhouse and chamber pots, too. They didn't have electricity until the 50s or early 60s. I lived up there from 1966 to 1968, born in 1960, and we would visit my grandparents. Everything was as I've said, but there was electric lights only. My grandparents had a root cellar in the side of a hill. They grew cabbage, rutabaga, potatoes, onions, and probably other things. But I especially remember the salted cods hanging up in the root cellar. Moose was also hunted and kept for meat in the winter. Rabbit was hunted, too. They had chickens and eggs. We had a fresh chicken dinner every Sunday. They had sheep, too, and used the wool for yarn. My grandmother sat in a rocking chair by a big window, looking out at the ocean (Bay) and knitted socks and the most beautiful patterned gloves. She also made scrap quilts using a foot peddled sewing machine. Those years are such good memories for me. It was a simple life, but full of family and neighbors who helped one another. My grandparents were hard workers - up before dawn daily - and never, ever complained. I miss them every day, as well as that simple life. Watching these videos brings back some of the feeling I had from that time period. When we came back to the States, my mother often bought the boxed salted cod. She would let it set in water overnight. Then, the next day, she`d boil it up. It really stank pretty bad when she was boiling it. For supper, she'd take the boiled cod and flake it up, put it in about 5 or 6 mashed potatoes, a chopped onion (sautéed in pork fatback), an egg, a few tablespoons of Summer Savory (or to taste), salt and pepper. Make patties out of them and fry them up. Those cod fish cakes were the best! You really must try them sometime. They don't taste at all salty. In fact, you have to add some salt to the recipe. My mom and I have high heat tolerances. I believe it's due to working in really hot water and around heat from fire. My husband is always amazed at how hot I make my dishwasher water. I really do appreciate these videos so much and thank you for all your efforts. I hope you enjoyed my story.
I really appreciate you great work. Learning homesteading from you guys, I may never do the 1800s clothing,perhaps the home cabin decor. I have four acres which I'm going to build a cabin off grid. Living this 1800s homestead way seems to be the most practical, efficient compared to electric power.
Here you can find the address to send us letters. We'll write you back! The address is actually Kandyee's shop in Ste. Gen. ua-cam.com/users/EarlyAmericanabout
How do you bath or wash up?
@@karenwalker1970 Sponge bath. 😊
Are you two married ?
I noticed the sausages are little are they like pork sausages??? Like breakfast sausage?? It looks delicious!!
I'm 62 and dont have a great opinion of the younger generations, but you two are the exception. You not only love history , you live it. Just wonderful, my hats off to you both.....
She's so sweet towards Ron, that sincerity isn't anything I've ever seen before in my life.
Justine your just adorable 🙂
She's a sweetheart. A rare one.
Wish there were more women like her!!
You two are such a treasure! I hope you know how unique and special y’all are to share your knowledge and expertise with us. I’m loving this!!
Exactly the relationships I dream of. I mean , not cooking itself, but the way you comunicate, the respect between you two. Thank you for a hope
The knit fingerless gloves Justine got for Christmas were made by me. I am happy to take orders. I enjoy making them and was THRILLED to get a pair for this lovely woman and her man. They inspire me to cook like this....mm
Are you on Etsy?
@@betsyb2256 no. I am not currently on any site. But I will make to order
How much do you charge
@@magnoliahomesteadwithannie6300 I charge $30 per pair. Plus shipping which is under $15. I was charged that much for international shipping
@@magnoliahomesteadwithannie6300 it takes me 2 to 3 days to make one pair. (Knit, knit Knit then felt and dry) thank you for the enquiry.
So do you all actually live in this house and live this lifestyle? Nevermind, you answered my question if you're building out the cabin. This is awesome if you are living like this!!!! Gosh I'm learning so much and I see a time coming where we will be going back to this, so thank you.
Do you guys live like this 24/7 or just sometimes for fun? Love your channels. They're so informative and fun!
Yes I was wondering that too.
I was wondering that to
Yes I asked the same thing
Would love to know ❤❤
Yes, they really live like this with no running water
I was wondering that too!
All of that looks so good. My Mother said when she was growing up, her family ate what was put in front of them. There were 7 siblings, so her mother cooked a lot. She didn't have an electric stove until the early 1960's. She was born in 1887, so she had to cook on a wood burning stove. My mother loved to cook different things & I always enjoyed trying them out with her. My dad just liked the kind of food he grew up with, mainly fried chicken, gravy, spring onions, black eyed peas, green beans & irish potatoes, biscuits, cornbread, buttermilk to drink, bacon & sausage. Oh yeah, red eye gravy too. My mother learned how to cook from her mother, who was a great cook. My mother cooked until she was about 90 & now she is 97. She has outlived all of her family & my dad's family too. She has dementia, so my sister & I do all the cooking. Not as good as our mother, her sisters or her mother, but still palatable, lol.
You're so blessed....we all need grandmas....mine are already in Heaven.God bless you both
Mary Breckenridge brought women's & family health to the hills and hollers of Eastern Kentucky Appalachia starting in the 1920's. She petitioned for bib overalls for girls and boys due to the number of young girls affected by cook fires. As families were more impoverished and cheaper materials were being used for children's clothing, more girls helping momma would have burn injuries. Mary on Horseback, author Rosemary Wells. I am an alumni of Frontier Nursing University and continue serving women in our area.
Watching you both is very inspiring. I have always felt that this was the era i was supposed to be in.Thank you for reminding me how wonderful life was back then.Though it was a hard life,it was a serene life. An honest life. A family life. It was pure and simple and in alot of ways a perfect way to live. Again thank you both and gods speed.
Dear Youngests, hello. My Grand mum did a recipe similar to this. It was chopped Granny Smith Apples and she would put them in a cast iron pot with a tiny bit of salt pork for frying. Then Grandmum would add Germany sausage and it would cook slowly. Little bit salt and pepper. Grand mum would put it over egg noodles. It was delicious. Like you said the apples would take on the taste of the sausage. Thank you youngsters. God Bless your lovely home and teaching real American history. Old Ann
That sounds so delicious 😋 I want to try cooking that!!
We do a boiled pudding similar to this called Pond Pudding in South East England. You layer butter and brown sugar in the pudding, then place a whole lemon in the centre. Like the apple pudding it looks like a monster when cooked, but a lemony butterscotch sauce oozes from it when cut open. There's nothing like the old fashioned puddings. I am addicted to this and the Early American channelsxx
I love watching the victorian way on UA-cam, I believe they did pond pudding, it looked very nice. 😊
@@freckles1525 it tastes good too😍
🤗❤ this sounds SOooo good ! I've got to try this your way 🤗
@@mountainlace7618 you're better off looking up the recipe for Sussex Pond Pudding, you have to stab the lemon a few times before placing it in the pudding. There's a fair few recipes on line.
@@susangarvey9415 thank you, will do 🤗
The more I watch your channels, the more I’m convinced that you guys were made for each other! I don’t say that very often either!!
Sausage and apples sounds like the perfect FALL recipe. I’m pretty sure that there’s nothing that compliments pork dishes more than the simple apple..ya think?
#mouth watering
Your videos are as heartwarming as a visit to Grandma's. It's like a perfect little snowglobe of the simple life. Thank you both for creating a safe and lovely space and having the courage to be yourselves and do what brings you joy.
You guys are awesome! I’m a historian, and these types of videos make me so happy.
"Since I like you...you can have 2" 💕 You guys are absolutely enchanting & I'm LOVING the content. The dream anectdote (🍊...'Don't Worry' had me laughing out loud) 😂
If Ron ever disappears, we know that she said something else creepy in her sleep, and he ran off like Scooby and Shaggy lol
I remember my grandmothers cooking such time consuming meals when I was a kid. I always wondered how they did that plus chase after kids and do other chores. Watching how you and Ron do the things our ancestors did brings back fond memories of my grandmothers. ❤️
My mouth was watering all over my phone for those sausages and apples. And then the pudding! There went my New Years resolution.
I agree the meal looked amazing
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I have some apples.....
these two are the most honestly adorable couple on UA-cam . if there was an award for that they would for sure get it. I have such a stressful life and watching these videos just makes me feel so much better and takes me away from all of it.
You're a wonderful wife and life partner ma'am. Respect ❤
You both are so genuine. I feel as though I could just hang out with you both and learn so much. May I ask how you both became involved in reenacting???
Thank you and God bless!
Do you 2 live in the cabin Monday - Friday 9-5 and then go home to the 21st century? I love your videos 💕
Remembering Mom and Grandma preserving foods. A lot of work in the heat of late summer. Starting at a young age (six), peeling fruits for canning was my job. Grandma said cooking with cast iron vessels added iron to your blood. Remember the sand crates in the cellar. The sand also kept the vermin out. Vermin won’t dig in sand because of suffocation. Go to bed at night with vaseline on your hands, cover with white church gloves will clear up dry, cracked, bleeding hands. Look forward to all your learning videos. Thank you for keeping our old ways alive. God bless.
my mom made a dish in the 1960's and 70's called spam and peaches....you slice your spam and brown it in fat....dump a whole can of sliced peaches in heavy syrup and simmer......sounds bizarre but it was actually tasty....your sausage and apples reminded me!
Wow that actually sounds amazing 🤩. We ate spam growing up in the 60’s and 70’s too! My mom would butter toast and lay the browned spam on top 😍🙏🏼 I still love spam even though it’s scary meat lol
Interesting. That does sound delicious. I think I'll try this real soon. I'm also going to try the sausage, cabbage and cornbread recipe. Thank you for sharing all your awesome recipes!
@@3rescuecats spam gets a bad rap but I was surprised to learn that it is not a mystery meat blend like many other tinned meats, it's pork shoulder
Love this! My grandmother, when she was just a girl said that her parents would preserve meat, like pork in a barrel with water to cover and add enough salt to float an egg.
I love listening to your stories!
I just jumped back to this video after watching more recent ones and it is so wonderful to see the two of you evolve in your relationship. You can see the happiness and love grow in each video and it's just beautiful!
Back about 60 years ago we would dig a big hole in the ground below the freeze line. Then we would put a layer of straw then our fruits and vegetables. Then straw and dirt. During the winter we would dig out what we needed
We used to heat rocks in the fire for a few hours while sitting at the campfire and then, put the rocks in a pot and bring them in the tent. Works like a charm!
I'm not sure we will start dressing like the 1800's but we are certainly going be trying these recipes. A lot of them look and sound delicious!
I always loved cedar for regular fires because I like the smell.
My uncle had a smoke house, he cured with salt and smoked meat too. They also had z very cool, historic spring house. I'm sure they had a root cellar too.
My grandpa also salted fish and made pickled eggs in beet juice.
My Davis grandparents who lived in southern Illinois and who married in 1897, both died in 1960 at 84 and 86. They lived in several houses during their lives but the same house my whole life, and I was born in July of 1947. Their house in Pulaski had no bathrooms, no built in kitchen cabinets, no running water in the house at all. They had a root cellar under the kitchen that had access through a lift up trap door in the kitchen floor, they had an outhouse down a long concrete path, they had chickens for part of my childhood, always had a huge garden, AND had a large smokehouse where my Granddad Davis would smoke all kinds of pork cuts especially hams, shoulders, loins and bacon….I can remember these hanging in the smokehouse. When my Daddy was growing up, and he was born in 1918, they kept a cow for milk and cream, but never had one when I was growing up. I do remember having to use the chamber pot at night which was kept under each bed BUT if you used it YOU had to carry it out to the outhouse in the morning so unless it was freezing outside, I preferred to get my daddy’s flashlight and walk down the path to the outhouse. I loved even as a child going to my Davis grandparent’s house. The house where we have lived for the last 32 years is 113 years old but until the house was added to and remodeled in 1934/35, did not have any bathrooms or running water but two bathrooms were added in the remodel. There also used to be a large barn out back when the Price family owned hundreds of acres. We only own 4 acres but we do have a brick Maid’s House, a brick storage building and a brick garage that unfortunately is about to lose the front of the garage…very sad. I love anything that is old…to look at as well as to use…one reason I love watching these videos is because I can fantasize about living there…except that whole cabin would probably fit in our kitchen as our old house is 4,025 sq. ft., two story with three fireplaces, 6 bedrooms, an upstairs sitting room, 15 rooms all together with heart pine floors…oh, I could talk about our neat old house where we raised our 6 daughters…unfortunately none of our 3 sons got to live with us when they were growing up but our youngest was conceived in this house and lived here until she left for college and now she and her husband have just had a baby girl and they are planning on buying this house and living here with us until we are gone and no longer need it. The Price family lived here for 76 years then we bought it and have lived here…I said 32 years before but that was wrong…we have lived here 33 years as of December 15th, 2022…I think…need a pencil and paper to figure it correctly. Ever since I lost my oldest son 2 and 1/2 years ago 3 days before his 54th birthday, I seem to struggle with things that used to be easier. He was. C.P.A. and owned his own accounting firm. His death is still an open homicide investigation…I hope someday to know the truth about my handsome, sweet, intelligent son’s death as do my younger son and 5 younger daughters and my son’s two sons. We all miss him terribly. Ron and Justine help me late at night…it is 2:23 AM right now and it is very hard for me to sleep anymore…so their wonderful videos help me get my mind on something else for a bit…Thank you, Ron…and Justine…I appreciate your very interesting distractions more than I can say. Keep them coming because…..I NEED them. By the way, my daddy always pronounced Missouri as Missoula. My Davis, southern Illinois relatives, had different speech patterns and colloquial expressions than what I grew up hearing in Irving, Texas, close to Dallas, just as there are different speech patterns and colloquial expressions in the piney woods of east Texas where I have lived since 1978…I love them all!
That is what you get for not proof reading…the auto-correct, which I hate, changed “Missoura” to Missoula…which, stupid autocorrect, is in Montana not Missouri anyway. I was talking about my daddy’s pronunciation of Missouri, ending it with an “a” and not an “i”…..boy, I don’t know who invented autocorrect but I wish I knew how to disable it!
My grandparents had a well house where grandma kept butter, & other things. They butchered every Fall, rendered lard in the yard over a fire, ground their horse radish out side, canned, a smoke house, garden, small orchard, grape vines, the whole 9 yards. They kept to the old ways most of their lives. Lived on a farm in western Michigan. Both gone now...passing in the 1980's.
New subscriber, I love these videos!! Something about them I find so soothing and I learn a lot, Ron, I am a fellow drummer and headbanger too, We all love you Justine and Ron, NYC!
🇺🇲🤘 thankyou!
I like how you make his plate for him. So sweet.
You two are making early American history come alive like nobody else can. Thank you for explaining how a wool dress does not burn easily, but it still makes me worry to see that long fluffy dress so close to that open fire.
big eater, Ron. you can tell by Justines face, she really enjoys you enjoying her cooking.very nice.
Thank you for all the history demonstrations. I really enjoy them and learn!
Hi Justine & Ron, I live in Sydney Australia. I stumbled upon your channels by accident 6 months ago and so look forward to your videos. I have learned so much from you both in how early Americans lived in the 1800’s.
It’s an an unusually cold windy summers day today and will be following your recipe (receipt) and make the apple pudding it looked absolutely delicious. And just for good measure I’ll add a scoop of ice cream. Take care, love you both Jo ❤️❤️❤️
Just watched the preserved apples video. Definitely going to make that sausage recipe! Yum!
You guys seem like genuine people, I would have loved to hang out with you and be your neighbours. I won't but I would have liked it in a different world.
I always enjoy your chats. The food looks good.😊 We are getting freezing rain right now. You all stay safe.
I would probably add cinnamon and nutmeg to that pudding...but, that's me. ;>)...and I like the ice cream idea too! :)
Or just cream poured on top. 😋
My kitchen wishlist includes so many of the tools you use to prepare food over an open fire but I do have every piece of cast iron and clay cookware though. It would be nice to see you bake some rustic (dutch oven) bread from scratch. Are there any bread recipes in your 1803 cookbook?
Watching your videos are so relaxing and so educational. Thank you so much.
Best way to take care of cast iron is use a bit of salt and oil or lard to scrub it out after heating water to soak in it to loosen any stuck material , and have a skillet cloth you can scrub with or sponge , you really shouldn't use soap on cast iron pans. Just saying. Then after that rub it down with a bit of lard or oil and heat it let it cool and that keep your season intact.
Watching J cook, gets me into home cooking too!
Hi. I had never heard of the melted butter method of preserving. My family used to preserve sausages in crocks by pouring melted fat (lard) over the top to get an airtight seal. Since they had just butchered, they had fat available.
Same thing both fats, that’s what I would think. I have never heard of either!
Lard works the same way, i guess use what you have available 😉
Flip me we take our central heating, flipping a switch or setting it to come on when you want/need it. I wond what the folks from the 1820s would make of the modern system. Another brilliant video from you two. All the best Ron and Justine for 2022 xxx
What I would give to go back in time, but alas ! I must live vicariously through your videos . I get the nibblies every time you cook too, I love hearing the history behind all that you folks do, it's so relaxing to watch and listen, take care.
So funny! I made sausages and apples with onions for dinner, right before this was posted. Great combination. I use fresh cooking apples but add a little brown sugar and butter for a little syrup.
It must be hard to cook like that in the summer. I'd melt.
My dears, it was lovely to share food and good conversation with you. Did cooks of this time use indoor spits to roast meat over the fire? That would be a tasty addition to your lovely kitchen.
Hello Linda. They sure did! We used the spit in our Thanksgiving video on Early American to cook rabits
Yes! I was so confused why everyone raves about cast iron bc it stuck SO bad when I got one! Thank You for explaining!
This was a very nice Q&A vlog but watching Ron put away all that meal was funny. It also meant Justine is a great cook, which after watching her, she is. I found the answers very helpful in understanding many of my questions. If you both taught early history when I was in school with the way you explained things today, I think my grades would have been better. 🙂Thank you for another great video.
Great video!!! I love cooking with cast iron, and I also use antiques, though not as old as yours. Mine are from the early 20th century. I have a few pans like Ron described that are new but sanded down. A video about your cast iron would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!
I feel there is still so much to discover about dreams and sleep. My brother as a child used to walk over to our neighbor's house in his sleep and sometimes he would almost pee in our kitchen and my mom would have to stop him. This was also around when he was 10 years old.
I love this channel. It’s so relaxing and makes me kinda wish I could step back to this era for just a moment. Also you guys are freaking adorable! Love you guys, thanks for this channel. Seriously! Thank you!
I was watching a program on the Townsend UA-cam channel. They covered the food with melted butter or maybe lard.
Carrots can be left in the ground, they just get really sweet. I just covered the bed with hay and used a garden fork to chisle them out of the ground. They get planted close enough together that they are pretty easy to get to once you get it started.
When l was young we went on vacation n stayed at this house with all of those old things they used to cook n l loved it.
An awesome chat indeed! It's like being in a time machine to the past, and the food was mouth-watering! Looking forward to more like this! More power to the channel and God bless from the 🇵🇭!
I love cedar in a fireplace..!! Our new house has a gas fireplace and I miss our old wood burning one so much. Loved this video, thank you..!!
I love watching you two together. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into making your videos on both channels.
I love apples and I love sausage, I am going to try this!
I love how things were made so many years ago. I love watching.
Only just subscribed I can't believe how long it took to find such a wonderful channel! Thankyou, you really help me with my anxiety such beauty. Love you both with love from the UK
È da poco che vi segui ma è bellissimo quello che fate... Un tuffo nel passato e nel far ririvere la storia.... Continuate così grazie
Do you ever ferment veggies? I’m a new subscriber and can’t seem to get enough of your content. I love preserving my vegetables grown in my garden, usually in jars. Thank you so much for these videos, they’re really so vital to keeping today’s generation on how to live in case things change.
Very interesting, in early Ottoman cuisin too they were cooking meat with dried fruits to flavor, like dried fig, apricot, grape.. or sometimes with fresh fruits as well.. humans employed whatever at hand i think.. in todays Turkish cuisin its all forgotten and forgotten so much that people find it soo weird to use fruit in meat meals (what? fruit!??) and it doesnt fit for their palate..
I would love to live like this way all the time
Another awesome video. You guys are such an inspiration. Thank you. You 2 are amazing.
I really enjoyed this video. I love the information you two share. My grandson and I love to watch...we want to live that way, but land is difficult to find. Either way we have done some of your receipts. So were great and some not so but, we had fun in the process and have great memories of the time together. I hope he remembers those times we spent together when I'm gone and continues to try new things and learns that the old ways are many times the best ways. Much love to you both ❤️.
Love this video!! I hope you are keeping warm since we are in this winter storm. I live near Poplar Bluff, Missouri and have been getting sleet and freezing rain. Would love to visit St. Genevieve some day. God bless!!
Thankyou so much for watching! Oh cool, come on up!
I love you two!!! I enjoy your stories and your humor. I so glad you found each other. A real life love story. Justine, your going to make Ron fat...lol But you can see he is happy and content. Stay warm, dry, and healthy.
I just discovered your videos. I saw the cooking video for the sausage and apples. I have to make this dish. It sounds so yummy. I am so excited to watch more videos. I am a history teacher and this is the time period I t be to focus the most on in American History. So I would love the chance to pick your brains on living as though you were in the 18th and 19th century.
Himmel und Erde, apples (Himmel-Heaven) and potatoes (Erde-Earth), typically mashed and usually with onions and sausage, is also a good winter meal. We used to get served this as deck crew on overnight sailing races because it really warms you up and is easy to eat on a bouncing deck.
So good to visit with you both! Great food and conversation! Thanks for these videos!
I just found this channel and I can’t tell you how much I love this!!! Omg!
Yum, but we need biscuits or corn bread with this meal. I'd be saving this syrup, if any is left over, for some other use.
cornbread of this time period looks a lot different than the cornbread that we have now.
We just love watching both of your channels, my mom has been watching and she doesn’t want to go to bed at night, afraid she will miss something 😆
I thought I’d already been following you. Was surprised that I hadn’t; but I am now. Love your channel. The food looked great! I need to try the sausage and apples. Yum!
I love baked apples, so I know I would love these dishes. Many thanks, and God bless you both.
I’ve been watching you for a long time. I can’t imagine how I missed these two shows.
I love watching your videos...would enjoy going back to those days in my life even though the work to live and eat was much harder...it is like Little House on the Prairie which I love watching...you both do such a great job portraying a couple living in those times!
Glad you like them!
That looks sooo delicious!! Love how you guys compliment each other, and Ron loves to eat whatever Justine makes- so sweet!! Love from Connecticut
I like your presentation! Me and my wife have about 4 of my grandmother's cast iron skillet s.She started house keeping with them.These skillets would be over a hundred years old.could you do a session on perceiving wild game.David Back from Menifee county Kentucky .My grand mother would be if she was living now 125years old,borned in 1896.She was in her late teens when she started using them.
Oh my gosh , I have missed you both! Sounds absolutely 😋 yummy
Yummo Looks delish Glad you two are feeling better 💜
Thankyou, us too!
I really enjoyed this chat, and I learned a lot from you both,I love how passionate and knowledgeable you both are about these old traditions and way of living.just superb.
Super excited to see what you wear to the Ball xx
You two are so incredibly adorable and lovely - adoration from Canada and some kindred spirits
My grandmother used to make apple dumplings that looked exactly like that! And my mom always had baked apples whenever we had turkey or pork chops. They were delicious!
I'm loving these meal ideas! I made apples and sausage this morning and hubby and I loved it.
I love that you say receipt. I figured it had some form of historic meaning because you have also said recipe.
Love your sweet way….you’re both very authentic and I love learning from you both. God bless!
Thank you for the fun, informative, interesting videos! Blessings to you both! Love to Mish Mish!!
I love watching you two. Do you actually live in the cabin together and do without utilities and such? You both are gems. I've recommended your channels to several people.
Pretty sure they have electric
I used to sleep walk when I was a kid and I still talk in my sleep too 😊
My mother is from Newfoundland, Canada. Her father was a cod fisherman. So, she grew up eating salted cod. They pretty much lived as you are showing there, but in a saltbox type house my grandfather built. A wood stove to heat the house and cooking. A water pump for water and washing. Outhouse and chamber pots, too. They didn't have electricity until the 50s or early 60s. I lived up there from 1966 to 1968, born in 1960, and we would visit my grandparents. Everything was as I've said, but there was electric lights only. My grandparents had a root cellar in the side of a hill. They grew cabbage, rutabaga, potatoes, onions, and probably other things. But I especially remember the salted cods hanging up in the root cellar. Moose was also hunted and kept for meat in the winter. Rabbit was hunted, too. They had chickens and eggs. We had a fresh chicken dinner every Sunday. They had sheep, too, and used the wool for yarn. My grandmother sat in a rocking chair by a big window, looking out at the ocean (Bay) and knitted socks and the most beautiful patterned gloves. She also made scrap quilts using a foot peddled sewing machine. Those years are such good memories for me. It was a simple life, but full of family and neighbors who helped one another. My grandparents were hard workers - up before dawn daily - and never, ever complained. I miss them every day, as well as that simple life. Watching these videos brings back some of the feeling I had from that time period.
When we came back to the States, my mother often bought the boxed salted cod. She would let it set in water overnight. Then, the next day, she`d boil it up. It really stank pretty bad when she was boiling it. For supper, she'd take the boiled cod and flake it up, put it in about 5 or 6 mashed potatoes, a chopped onion (sautéed in pork fatback), an egg, a few tablespoons of Summer Savory (or to taste), salt and pepper. Make patties out of them and fry them up. Those cod fish cakes were the best! You really must try them sometime. They don't taste at all salty. In fact, you have to add some salt to the recipe.
My mom and I have high heat tolerances. I believe it's due to working in really hot water and around heat from fire. My husband is always amazed at how hot I make my dishwasher water.
I really do appreciate these videos so much and thank you for all your efforts. I hope you enjoyed my story.
I really appreciate you great work. Learning homesteading from you guys, I may never do the 1800s clothing,perhaps the home cabin decor. I have four acres which I'm going to build a cabin off grid. Living this 1800s homestead way seems to be the most practical, efficient compared to electric power.
Going to the BALL! So exciting!💃