I love learning about foods and their history. It goes to show, no matter what era it is, people still loved to eat things that were tasty. To be honest, some of those dishes look delicious!
I would love to see a episode where Weird History teams up with Tasting History. I could see Max Miller whipping up these recipe’s. Two of my favorite history UA-cam channels!
I love the entire season of Christmas....all of the way until 12th Night. Here in Louisiana, that is when we begin Carnival Season. I never toss out my Christmas until January 5th or 6th. Some put theirs up too soon even before Advent begins. Then want theirs down on Dec. 26th without realizing Christmas does not BEGIN until Dec. 25! ha Thank you for this on feasting. Loved it!
@@jimfrodsham7938 If I ever come across some I'm going to try it. I'm not much of a water animal as a food person but I yes I must try. But it has to be by fate not Amazon.lol.
@@jimfrodsham7938 South Dakota. No eel but we do have more immigrant stores, sorry I don't know how other else to put that. I may have luck finding it in one of their stores.
The lentil stew sounds really nice. I am learning about Medieval cuisine. It’s over the top a lot. Lots of fat, because of working hard in the cold all day. Spices to make palatable the needed protein of meat gone high. Spices for conspicuous consumption. Take it more easy on the fats and spices in these recipes. They used many herbs and spices, a Universe of flavors almost forgotten. What strikes me is that they used much less Salt than modern recipes. The palette of flavors was so much richer.
Have you found Tasting History with Max Mueller? Great stuff. Hubby has a dairy allergy, I have found the beef suet is a flavourful butter substitute. Works great in beans too.
Goose was common for Christmas because it was available all over Europe. But it could be gamey and not yield much meat. Once the Europeans discovered the American turkey and introduced it to Europe, it more or less replaced goose as the favored Christmas bird, especially once people started breeding fatter turkeys for the table. That’s why Scrooge had a big turkey sent to the poor Cratchit family, who were otherwise “stuck” with a skinny goose for Christmas dinner.
Yes. That is what I have heard as well goose was ambiguous with Christmas until the introduction of turkeys to Britain. After which point turkey was considered a luxury, and served by the upper classes, with the poor still clinging to the traditional goose. In other countries like Germany however goose is still quite traditional, and typical. I am from the States and found a goose at the grocer. It will be my first time with goose, but I will cook it this Christmas. I am excited, as turkeys are quite often overcooked and dry. I am also a fan of duck. I feel with a turkey I need to undercook it to have a decent turkey. I will pull it out when the thickest part of the breast reaches 155, or 158. Then once resting it will reach the threshold of 165, but the thighs do not come up to temperature. I would just rather have that risk, than an overcooked, dry, and melancholy turkey. With goose and duck your main goal is to render out the fat, to have a nice crispy skin. Duck, and goose meat can safely be eaten medium rare, and rare, and should be, unlike your typical turkey, and chicken.
in Germany i have never heard of someone making turkey for christmas dinner. thats probably only popular in the english speaking world for christmas. in Germany we make dear, duck, boar or just calf . sometimes goose.. but thats quite rare nowadays. also goose was usually fattened to make sure it has enough meat. i think turkey is not special enough to be a christmas dinner nowadays...
@Edward Lee Miller I have tried that and it worked wonderfully. Although it was either that, or that it was wet brined, or that it was pulled out when the breast registered 158. Not sure which variable contributed most to the moistness. That was the best turkey experience. Second was a deep-fried turkey with the injector. Good advice. Both my favourite turkeys have involved injecting and I think I am finally putting two and two together. Problem is I guess I will always have to br in charge of turkey.
@@blackforest_fairy I have heard in Britain after the introduction of the turkey from the Americas. Turkey was considered a luxury compared to the goose. For one, it had more meat than the goose. So after its introduction to Britain the turkey was favored above the goose at least among those who could afford the more expensive at the time (and place) turkey. I am no expert on German Christmas tradition, and am glad to hear more about it. I am truly glad we are not all the same. I think as someone from the states it would be very informative to spend a Christmas in both Britain, and Germany. I am a sucker for traditions. Those traditional Christmas meats sound very appealing. Thank you for your input. It was informative to someone who has never stepped a foot in Germany.
@@blackforest_fairy We eat turkey for Christmas in Belgium :) Although I don't know if that's an original local tradition, or something we eventually copied from all the American Christmas movies 😅
And common people would use those spices on Christmas because they couldn't afford to use them all the time. It was a special, once a year thing to have nutmeg in your food. Strange to think about.
Thank you! Loved the Christmas video. I would also love to hear about different traditions besides food and I would love love love if Eastern Europe would be included too :) 🎄🕊⛄️
In Medieval England, they justified the high prices by telling mythical stories about the origins of the spices. Cinnamon, for example, was said to have been harvested from the nest of the phoenix.
I live in Florida and I accidentally kept one of our poinsettia gifts from last year alive in our back yard, still in its pot. I didn’t add any plant food which may be why it’s just beginning to form the red leaves now. But, I was just impressed to see one last a year at our house! Normally real plants come here to die! 😥
Suggestion: How Christmas celebrations differ in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Anytime the subject of Christmas comes up, people always show typical American or European things. But we celebrate it too down here in the Southern Hemisphere, so it would be cool seeing a Weird History episode showcasing how things are done in South America, Southern Africa and Oceania. Bet you people up there have no idea!
@@matijaslat2100 well, it's summer here, so for Christmas we have fireworks, barbecues and going to the beach or lounging around the pool, among many other things
in australia, many of our christmas cards have a different santa. he’s usually topless and wears sunnies, sometimes he’s depicted on a beach or surfing too! i like our adaptation more lol
Lucia buns are amazing. Lots of strong saffron and cardamom flavors. Delicious! Non-alcoholic posset or syllabub is also delicious. It can be made with lemon juice and cream, with the citric acid curdling the cream into a very light and tasty pudding. A lot of these foods sound pretty tasty, what with all the fruits and spices.
I wonder if, in the far future people will think our Christmas traditional foods are strange. Every Christmas, my mom makes a roasted duck. It is aways a real treat. I can't wait for my mom's duck.
@ C. Larimore the price of our duck really shot up this year. Last year, it was $19, this year, I paid $25. But mom and I will get 4 meals out of it, which comes to $6.25 a meal, which is still cheaper than getting 4 hamburger adult meals at most fast food restaurants. Aldi's usually has it a little cheaper, but they go quickly and I didn't want to take the chance that we're already sold out, so I went ahead and grap it at HEB.
@@fairsuns it's like a mix of really strong chicken flavor and a good steak. more red meat than white. delicious. plus the skin can get really crispy without having to fry it.
my favorite! learning about new things like medieval Christmas meals! I am not sure I could eat a "boar's head". A turkey is what I could eat. I think I would like to learn how to make a mincemeat pie medieval style. I think my mother would have enjoyed this channel. She enjoyed cooking.
Mince meat pies for Christmas and other holidays is a family tradition that we have been doing for generations and I never knew how far back it went until now, so thank you for that
@@RhiFoxx His writing was first published c. late 1830s, and went through the 1860s. So his novels were indeed one of the best descriptions we have of life and food in that era.
Gosh darn! If I had discovered this video sooner I’d be vainly getting funky with these dishes and preparing a Christmas feast, breakfast, lunch, dinner
Diets before modern junk was very nutrient dense and organic. These types of comments don't make sense, because it should be more than obvious that their whole food diets cannot be compared to the garbage most people call 'food' today.
In Sweden the "Saint Lucia Buns" are a really important and yummy tradition during December/Christmas. For some reason the translation in Swedish is litterally "Lucia Cats" :)
My wife is from Sweden and whenever we visit we eat/drink a lot of the items discussed in this video, so it was very cool to learn the origins of them. Though I may pick the raisins off of my Lucia bun next year 😝.
Any other dancers notice they played The Nutcracker’s Sugar Plum Fairy variation music while they where taking about sugar plums? 😂 Bravo to whoever did that…brilliant! 👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Where did the Europeans get the peacocks from? Last time I checked, they came from India, Southeast Asia and Congo. No, really! There's a species of peacocks native to just Congo.
@@jimfrodsham7938 That's the point. There's no way they can have that in the Middle Ages because the East India Company did not even establish yet! Plus, I doubt some Muslim merchants will even allow them to be sold to the Europeans because there are high chances that they may eat them first.
@@lerneanlion Pass, I have no idea of whether there was any trade from as far as India back then, but they could have trickled through the middle east to Europe maybe?
♫ ♩ Crush the malt with boughs of holly ♩ Tra-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la ♫ Don't assume that the pig's head is from a wild boar. December is the perfect time to slaughter the pig you have fattened up. The pigs head is still part of the christmas traditions in Denmark, but in a new form: *sylte* - it's basicly the scraps of meat from the head pressed in a form, and with a little aspice to bind it together. The pre-industrial version of spam. I believe the english name forthis dish is *head cheese* (ugh)
@@tamtam4692 nova scotia here and we , like Maine, retained many English traditions especially at the holidays. Mince pie at Christmas is a traditional must have!
Enjoying your presentations to the fullest. How refractive errors in human eye was affecting day today life, war etc. before powerful glasses were come to existence for vision correction. Please make a video on this
The part that I keep throwing around in my brain is, as the lady with the highest title was the one to bring out the peacock, was this discussed in like a rehearsal? Did she go in and say "hey I'll take the peacock out"? I keep noticing that since we mainly see films with actors reading scripts of what to say, it's hard to imagine the actual real-life conversation. Very seriously and elegantly coming in and going "cook, as I have the highest title I will bring out the peacock." Or in the invitation being like "lady ____ will bring out the peacock." ...you know?
I don't like the presentation of the peacock, but I would certainly try all of those other foods. It would be like a piece of history just eating them! That goose, spiced wine, and sugar plums look especially good.
The original mince pies are far superior to the meatless, sickly sweet ones that we have nowadays. I had one in West Sussex years ago. Delicious. Mulled wine? Mulled cider please! It's Wassail season after all. Gotta make sure of a good apple crop for the next year.
Most medieval plums and other fruit would have been thought not to be very nutritious, because of the insect pests that damaged them, as they grew. Dried fruits are still common in European Christmas recipes and on Christmas menus as a snack. Many different European cakes for both Christmas and Easter feature them. The traditional also exists in the US version of a Christmas cake which is glazed and topped with nuts, instead of marzipan and white royal icing like the UK version, but is still a heavy dried fruit cake, like the latter.
Here in Sweden the Lucia buns with saffran is still a strong tradition.
With that, wish you all merry yule tidings!
You too darling!
Indeed!
@@darbegdirnekcarb5144 delicious eyeballs
God jul
Lusekatter are the best :D. Though I must still try a Påskbulle…
Food and history. Two of my favorite things
This is not even accurate tho. He gets a lot of things wrong.
I love learning about foods and their history. It goes to show, no matter what era it is, people still loved to eat things that were tasty. To be honest, some of those dishes look delicious!
1:46 thats a recipe I woul try.
I would love to see a episode where Weird History teams up with Tasting History. I could see Max Miller whipping up these recipe’s. Two of my favorite history UA-cam channels!
I love the entire season of Christmas....all of the way until 12th Night. Here in Louisiana, that is when we begin Carnival Season. I never toss out my Christmas until January 5th or 6th. Some put theirs up too soon even before Advent begins. Then want theirs down on Dec. 26th without realizing Christmas does not BEGIN until Dec. 25! ha Thank you for this on feasting. Loved it!
I'm writing this food stuff down.. my family is in for a treat this year.
😁
If you can get hold of smoked eel it's absolutely delicious Patty.
@@jimfrodsham7938 If I ever come across some I'm going to try it. I'm not much of a water animal as a food person but I yes I must try. But it has to be by fate not Amazon.lol.
@@pattycake8272 I don't know where you live Patty but here in England I get it from a local Polish Delicatessen.
@@jimfrodsham7938 South Dakota. No eel but we do have more immigrant stores, sorry I don't know how other else to put that. I may have luck finding it in one of their stores.
The lentil stew sounds really nice. I am learning about Medieval cuisine. It’s over the top a lot. Lots of fat, because of working hard in the cold all day. Spices to make palatable the needed protein of meat gone high. Spices for conspicuous consumption. Take it more easy on the fats and spices in these recipes. They used many herbs and spices, a Universe of flavors almost forgotten. What strikes me is that they used much less Salt than modern recipes. The palette of flavors was so much richer.
Have you found Tasting History with Max Mueller? Great stuff. Hubby has a dairy allergy, I have found the beef suet is a flavourful butter substitute. Works great in beans too.
You have the best narrating voice.
I have had mincemeat pie at Christmas for 73 years I love it
You must be British I'm American minced meat pie sounds really good I for one would like to try it just once and to see if I like it
Goose was common for Christmas because it was available all over Europe. But it could be gamey and not yield much meat. Once the Europeans discovered the American turkey and introduced it to Europe, it more or less replaced goose as the favored Christmas bird, especially once people started breeding fatter turkeys for the table. That’s why Scrooge had a big turkey sent to the poor Cratchit family, who were otherwise “stuck” with a skinny goose for Christmas dinner.
Yes. That is what I have heard as well goose was ambiguous with Christmas until the introduction of turkeys to Britain. After which point turkey was considered a luxury, and served by the upper classes, with the poor still clinging to the traditional goose. In other countries like Germany however goose is still quite traditional, and typical. I am from the States and found a goose at the grocer. It will be my first time with goose, but I will cook it this Christmas. I am excited, as turkeys are quite often overcooked and dry. I am also a fan of duck.
I feel with a turkey I need to undercook it to have a decent turkey. I will pull it out when the thickest part of the breast reaches 155, or 158. Then once resting it will reach the threshold of 165, but the thighs do not come up to temperature. I would just rather have that risk, than an overcooked, dry, and melancholy turkey.
With goose and duck your main goal is to render out the fat, to have a nice crispy skin. Duck, and goose meat can safely be eaten medium rare, and rare, and should be, unlike your typical turkey, and chicken.
in Germany i have never heard of someone making turkey for christmas dinner. thats probably only popular in the english speaking world for christmas. in Germany we make dear, duck, boar or just calf . sometimes goose.. but thats quite rare nowadays. also goose was usually fattened to make sure it has enough meat. i think turkey is not special enough to be a christmas dinner nowadays...
@Edward Lee Miller I have tried that and it worked wonderfully. Although it was either that, or that it was wet brined, or that it was pulled out when the breast registered 158. Not sure which variable contributed most to the moistness. That was the best turkey experience. Second was a deep-fried turkey with the injector.
Good advice. Both my favourite turkeys have involved injecting and I think I am finally putting two and two together.
Problem is I guess I will always have to br in charge of turkey.
@@blackforest_fairy I have heard in Britain after the introduction of the turkey from the Americas. Turkey was considered a luxury compared to the goose. For one, it had more meat than the goose. So after its introduction to Britain the turkey was favored above the goose at least among those who could afford the more expensive at the time (and place) turkey.
I am no expert on German Christmas tradition, and am glad to hear more about it. I am truly glad we are not all the same.
I think as someone from the states it would be very informative to spend a Christmas in both Britain, and Germany.
I am a sucker for traditions. Those traditional Christmas meats sound very appealing.
Thank you for your input. It was informative to someone who has never stepped a foot in Germany.
@@blackforest_fairy We eat turkey for Christmas in Belgium :) Although I don't know if that's an original local tradition, or something we eventually copied from all the American Christmas movies 😅
This channel is getting better and better! Thank you.
I never imagined ginger and spices would be so common in this type of cuisine
They were also used to preserve meat
The middle east has left a permanent stamp on Christmas cuisine with nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon. Thanks for the medieval tour of celibratory meals.
great insight
I would hope the Middle East left a permanent stamp on Christmas cuisine given that Jesus was Jewish.
@@rogerdargartz1864 and largely fictional
Thank God that's all they left
And common people would use those spices on Christmas because they couldn't afford to use them all the time. It was a special, once a year thing to have nutmeg in your food. Strange to think about.
St Lucia’s buns are eaten a lot in Sweden in December. Had no idea of the raisin eyes connection 😫
my mom makes the best lucia buns, we also call them lussekatter ( lucia cats) :P
To be fair the story goes she stole her families wealth.
Thank you! Loved the Christmas video. I would also love to hear about different traditions besides food and I would love love love if Eastern Europe would be included too :) 🎄🕊⛄️
Those spices in Medieval Europe cost a fortune because they had to come from countries far away. You could get rich quick with a few cinnamon sticks.
In Medieval England, they justified the high prices by telling mythical stories about the origins of the spices. Cinnamon, for example, was said to have been harvested from the nest of the phoenix.
@@execbum1 “‘Nest of the Phoenix’ my eye! Next you’ll be telling me that cloves came from the asshole of a dragon!”
An old german word for a filthy rich person is "Pfeffersack", literally pepper sack, due to rich spice traders from Hamburg and other harbor cities
@@ilovemuslimfood666 They did you know it's true
Happy Christmas Weird History and thank you for all the great videos all yr long!!🎄🎄🎄❤❤❤🕊🕊🕊
I actually wouldn’t mind seeing an episode on the history of Poinsettia plants (my grandma is obsessed with them during Xmas)
Good old Nicholas Lodge and Marcus Poinsett
So was mine,I haven’t thought about that in years
Oh yea I would too! My grandma puts poinsettia everywhere
Poinsettia or in my language it's called christmasstar ( kerstster ) ,is still a tradition in the Netherlands...I think they are kinda cute...
I live in Florida and I accidentally kept one of our poinsettia gifts from last year alive in our back yard, still in its pot. I didn’t add any plant food which may be why it’s just beginning to form the red leaves now. But, I was just impressed to see one last a year at our house! Normally real plants come here to die! 😥
Thanks!
Merry Christmas to you and yours! All the best in 2022! From Canada 🇨🇦 ❤
The narrator's comments are priceless - the reason why I love these videos - I watch them sll!!
This was a fascinating video! Thank you so much for making it!
This video definitely goes hand in hand with Max Miller’s, Tasting History. 😄
Suggestion: How Christmas celebrations differ in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
Anytime the subject of Christmas comes up, people always show typical American or European things. But we celebrate it too down here in the Southern Hemisphere, so it would be cool seeing a Weird History episode showcasing how things are done in South America, Southern Africa and Oceania. Bet you people up there have no idea!
so true, dont have a clue 😂
@@matijaslat2100 well, it's summer here, so for Christmas we have fireworks, barbecues and going to the beach or lounging around the pool, among many other things
OK, Merry Christmas turducken Day!
Yeah it would be great
in australia, many of our christmas cards have a different santa. he’s usually topless and wears sunnies, sometimes he’s depicted on a beach or surfing too! i like our adaptation more lol
I could watch this channel all day. Thanks for the great content!
One very important christmas dish was carp. In middle Europe we eat carp before and after christmas and it is very delicious
Your brand of humor make these very fun to watch as well as informative. Thank you.
I like your humor you keep me giggling throughout your videos 😊
I got a possum in a cage. We’re having Christmas possum dressed with chicken feathers. Just kidding we’re having rabbit
Yum! Have two rabbits in my freezer right now!!
These were great! Happy Holidays!👍🏻🦋
Lucia buns are amazing. Lots of strong saffron and cardamom flavors. Delicious! Non-alcoholic posset or syllabub is also delicious. It can be made with lemon juice and cream, with the citric acid curdling the cream into a very light and tasty pudding. A lot of these foods sound pretty tasty, what with all the fruits and spices.
I wonder if, in the far future people will think our Christmas traditional foods are strange.
Every Christmas, my mom makes a roasted duck. It is aways a real treat. I can't wait for my mom's duck.
been trying to find a half duck here, but they are more expensive than steak now!
@@c.ladimore1237 shoot one
I don't think i've ever had duck before... what does it actually taste like?
@ C. Larimore the price of our duck really shot up this year. Last year, it was $19, this year, I paid $25. But mom and I will get 4 meals out of it, which comes to $6.25 a meal, which is still cheaper than getting 4 hamburger adult meals at most fast food restaurants. Aldi's usually has it a little cheaper, but they go quickly and I didn't want to take the chance that we're already sold out, so I went ahead and grap it at HEB.
@@fairsuns it's like a mix of really strong chicken flavor and a good steak. more red meat than white. delicious. plus the skin can get really crispy without having to fry it.
Good Christmas food video here and Merry Christmas to Weird History
Awesome vid you guys!
My suggestion is pretty much the same as yours: The History of Saint Nicholas
Weird history understands that every meal is a banquet and every paycheck a fortune.
Every formation a parade I love the Corp!
You hit the nail on the head brother.
Video was good because it combined Christmas, history, and food into one.
Also, could you please do a general overview video on medieval society?
St Lucia Buns are my favorite!! Had no idea about the raisins representing her eyes tho... (im norwegian)
my favorite! learning about new things like medieval Christmas meals! I am not sure I could eat a "boar's head". A turkey is what I could eat. I think I would like to learn how to make a mincemeat pie medieval style. I think my mother would have enjoyed this channel. She enjoyed cooking.
Mince meat pies for Christmas and other holidays is a family tradition that we have been doing for generations and I never knew how far back it went until now, so thank you for that
Quite interesting , I used to help make mince meat, but we used real meat, , this is always a good channel to watch, thanks,
I want to know what Victorian people ate during Christmas!
That would be a job for Mrs Crocombe 🤭
Jello molds ham turkey Christmas pudding fruitcake pumpkin pie
@@bryanstein9240 and mince pie
Isn't the Charles Dickens novel a pretty good representation of what the victorians ate? Or was that a different era
@@RhiFoxx His writing was first published c. late 1830s, and went through the 1860s. So his novels were indeed one of the best descriptions we have of life and food in that era.
Wonderful! Thank you.😋😋😋😋
Gosh darn! If I had discovered this video sooner I’d be vainly getting funky with these dishes and preparing a Christmas feast, breakfast, lunch, dinner
I would happily try all of this and relish every taste!
I love this channel. Always entertaining and interesting. Also, I wonder if that roasted peacock tasted like chicken. Lol
A really informative video, thank you for sharing such beautiful stories about past times
These videos always make me happy to be born in the 90s 😂🍕🍔🌮🥪🌯
Diets before modern junk was very nutrient dense and organic. These types of comments don't make sense, because it should be more than obvious that their whole food diets cannot be compared to the garbage most people call 'food' today.
Name checks out ❤️
In Sweden the "Saint Lucia Buns" are a really important and yummy tradition during December/Christmas. For some reason the translation in Swedish is litterally "Lucia Cats" :)
My mouth watered watching this. Just about everything sounded good.
My wife is from Sweden and whenever we visit we eat/drink a lot of the items discussed in this video, so it was very cool to learn the origins of them. Though I may pick the raisins off of my Lucia bun next year 😝.
This is a lovely treat of a video!
I like "minced pies"your Truman Capote reference to his Aunt and making Christmas pies and delivering them. Happy Holiday.
Pottage sounds pretty good.
Suggestion: regional American Christmas delicacies.
What a great idea! I'm curious to see the difference between Alaska and Louisiana, as Australia and Germany.
Weird History is my internet jam!🥰
Thinking Tasting History with Max Miller would enjoy this video, some of the recipes look interesting enough to try!
I can get on board with eel at Christmas. Tasty smoked.
Excellent video, thank you.
Christmas themed video nice :D
Any other dancers notice they played The Nutcracker’s Sugar Plum Fairy variation music while they where taking about sugar plums? 😂
Bravo to whoever did that…brilliant! 👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Where did the Europeans get the peacocks from? Last time I checked, they came from India, Southeast Asia and Congo. No, really! There's a species of peacocks native to just Congo.
In the UK they were introduced by the aristocracy to grace their country estates. Not sure when though.
@@jimfrodsham7938 That's the point. There's no way they can have that in the Middle Ages because the East India Company did not even establish yet! Plus, I doubt some Muslim merchants will even allow them to be sold to the Europeans because there are high chances that they may eat them first.
@@lerneanlion Pass, I have no idea of whether there was any trade from as far as India back then, but they could have trickled through the middle east to Europe maybe?
sugarplums sounds like a dentist dream
Mmm mmm moist.
Awesome. Happy Christmas!
I’m glad he brought up the deli meat company cuz that was the first thing that popped into my mind lol.
♫ ♩ Crush the malt with boughs of holly ♩
Tra-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la ♫
Don't assume that the pig's head is from a wild boar. December is the perfect time to slaughter the pig you have fattened up.
The pigs head is still part of the christmas traditions in Denmark, but in a new form: *sylte* - it's basicly the scraps of meat from the head pressed in a form, and with a little aspice to bind it together. The pre-industrial version of spam.
I believe the english name forthis dish is *head cheese* (ugh)
Aspic. Love that stuff! Sounds delish!!
A cunning plan to be sure.
ROAST PEACOCK IS SOMETHING NEW SOUNDS LIKE LOTS OF SPICES USED
A question I’ve never asked but the answer is incredibly interesting
Great stuff guys. Im curious, when is TIMELINE coming back? Such a good series. Cheers.
And we think that contemporary cuisine is elegant….
Very interesting video.
HEY!!!! Watch it mincemeat pie is the only pie I look forward to at Christmas
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Very interesting!.. Love the vid!..
I wonder if Boar’s Head lunch meat got it’s name from old traditions…
Idk. But it is the best lunch meat I’ve ever had.
Thanks for this! 🍽
Please make a video on the origins of Christmas!
You have a very nice voice! I love your videos!
I’d like to hear about medieval birthdays
Any British food history greatly appreciated.
Interesting video. Thanks!
I can’t wait to *dish out* these facts to my unsuspecting family during Christmas dinner 😏
Better still, dish out a roasted peacock covered in its own feathers. Tell them there's no presents until the whole bird is eaten. Watch their faces.
Mince pie today is a mixture of raisins, currents , apples and sultanas mixed together and baked into a pie. It's delicious!
so actually there's no meat in it? :o
My great aunt in Maine made this often for everyone in town
I think some people in Maine add deer meat should be on it might've just been teasing me when I was younger
@@vacaalbahaca5485 nope! It can also have citrus peel and is usually made with rum and spices like Cinnamon, nutmeg, mace and ginger!
@@tamtam4692 nova scotia here and we , like Maine, retained many English traditions especially at the holidays. Mince pie at Christmas is a traditional must have!
Give me the basting sauce; keep the boar’s head!
I really enjoyed this video.
Remind me to order grilled eel from a nearby Japanese restaurant next Christmas. :)
Hey there weird history can you please do a video on how Vikings and other people kept warm during the winter months
Enjoying your presentations to the fullest. How refractive errors in human eye was affecting day today life, war etc. before powerful glasses were come to existence for vision correction.
Please make a video on this
Youre my new history channel
Just another reason to dislike raisins.
Now I know where my dad cooks leeks........ Still sinks the whole house when he does
Just in time for the holidays 🤣
Go be honest all this makes me hungry and I would not mind briefly, very briefly visiting the Medieval period just for Christmas dinner.
Suggestion: How life was like for the taíno naitives of Puerto Rico/Carribean
The part that I keep throwing around in my brain is, as the lady with the highest title was the one to bring out the peacock, was this discussed in like a rehearsal? Did she go in and say "hey I'll take the peacock out"? I keep noticing that since we mainly see films with actors reading scripts of what to say, it's hard to imagine the actual real-life conversation. Very seriously and elegantly coming in and going "cook, as I have the highest title I will bring out the peacock." Or in the invitation being like "lady ____ will bring out the peacock." ...you know?
The spiced wine now is Glühwein or Glögg. Yum, because you drink it warm and it’s supernice on a cold winterday!
I don't like the presentation of the peacock, but I would certainly try all of those other foods. It would be like a piece of history just eating them! That goose, spiced wine, and sugar plums look especially good.
Excellent video
The original mince pies are far superior to the meatless, sickly sweet ones that we have nowadays. I had one in West Sussex years ago. Delicious. Mulled wine? Mulled cider please! It's Wassail season after all. Gotta make sure of a good apple crop for the next year.
Plenty of pubs in UK called Boar's Head(or Lion's Head, King's Head, Queen's Head)
New year’s celebrations throughout the world and different times would be a cool video
Most medieval plums and other fruit would have been thought not to be very nutritious, because of the insect pests that damaged them, as they grew.
Dried fruits are still common in European Christmas recipes and on Christmas menus as a snack. Many different European cakes for both Christmas and Easter feature them. The traditional also exists in the US version of a Christmas cake which is glazed and topped with nuts, instead of marzipan and white royal icing like the UK version, but is still a heavy dried fruit cake, like the latter.
Really interesting, thanks WH.
This channel is long overdue for episodes about the 70's!!!