My grandmother was from Northern California.. She had a sourdough starter that had been alive for over 100 years...She had been feeding it for close to 50 years herself... She would make bread every year around the holidays and it was the most amazing thing ever!!!
Nettles are right around 28% protein dry weight, and once cooked or dried, they no longer sting. They also have a bunch of great medicinal properties, especially urinary tract ailments, thus the genus name; Urtica.
@@alanhyt79 Urea, and the system from old what's his name the Greek Physician, and the very old use, most likely older than the word urticaria. Pliny was the name I was trying to think of, and it finally rolled from the Swiss cheese.
I looked at the title and spent an inordinate amount of time wondering what a "food prospector" was. Also, I was wondering about the implication that they were the only people in the Gold Rush who had to eat.
I seriously adore this channel! I'm stuck at home getting over a horrible bout of the flu and pneumonia....nothing's is better than binge watching WH to entertain and take my mind off of this crap! Since I'm trying to sleep I will watch all the one I somehow missed!
I live in the "Gold Country" in a town called "Rough and Ready"! The story is that they seceded from the Union and formed "The Republic of Rough and Ready"! It lasted about three months until they ran out of booze and asked to be reinstated into the Union!
Howdy neighbor: I lived in Camptonville for 15 years. 'Rebel Ridge' has kind of the same history, but without the claims of secession; I doubt the neighbors even gave a crap.
@@deandupont5503 Hey! Yeah, this is interesting country for sure! Hopefully I don't get burned out this year! It's getting close and we have a LONG way to go before there's any rain.
Hi and kudos from Grass Valley; my family and I went to the Secession Days celebration when I was younger, and boy it was fun. (Upon seeing Grass Valley's picture and mention in the video) Yeah, baby!
My friend from northren Minnesota was excited when I made beef pasties from scratch on last year's Halloween to go along with watching Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She kept asking about gravy. I had to make some gravy to go along with it for her.
There are bees in Alaska, just no honey bees. Also, moose meat is really, really good; it is nice and tender and tastes a little sweet and not very gamey; cook it with onion and potatoes and it makes a great meal.
Welsh Rabbit sounds mighty tasty! Culinary suggestions: The Weird History Of Carnival Food. The Weird History Of School Lunches. The Weird History Of Restaurants. The Weird History Of Barbecuing. The Weird History Of The Evolution Of Cooking, from cavemen's first attempts to roast a mammoth to today's cooking techniques. The Weird History Of TV Cooking Shows.
I used to live near a small bakery attempting to bring high quality breads and pastries to our Mid-Western industrial city. Once I discovered the place, I was shown many ways to enjoy baked goods I had never experienced before. I suppose that can happen when a pastry chef trained in Paris comes to town and opens a bakery. One of my favorite experiences was buying a loaf that, if memory serves, was called milk bread, or something like that. It was this enormous loaf of white bread with a golden crust that looked like a huge store brand but that was all it shared with the store brands. I would slice it myself, and use homemade jam or wildflower honey to sweeten it. Once I got to the end and the texture stiffened up. It was the toaster and Stouffer's Welsh Rarebit sauce. Absolutely divine!
Fun fact: Placervilles logo is a miner mining with a noose hanging around a tree behind him. There’s a bunch of history in downtown Placerville, it’s pretty cool.
@@IrishMike22 😑 The only thing crazy about today's time is the incessant need to find racism in EVERYTHING (Fun fact: only REAL racists look for and find racism everywhere). Did you even bother to watch the video...even a little? Cause as early as 1:15, you'd get your answer. Public hangings were a form of execution for ALL people back then, not just what your "progressive" CRT teachers want to shove down your throats in school.
"Pasty" is pronounced with a short "a" sound, as in "past", that rhymes with "fast", followed by an "ee" sound. A pastie (long "a") is what strippers use!
There are many different English accents, since the English tried to colonize the world and now there are variations on word pronunciations and that’s fine, get over it, you knew what he meant. 🤷🏻♀️
Culinary school: the microbes which give sourdough from San Francisco its flavor are unique to the San Francisco region. if I stole a big batch of their starter and took it to Des Moines Iowa, for the first week everyone would say this bread is off the chain! What is your secret!? Within a week all of the microbes will change over to the local biology and that distinctive flavor will be gone. sourdough bread and its flavor is unique to the region it was made.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 As a true Californian, I will say whatever you choose to put in your mouth is your business, though it's not to my taste.
I'm so cheered to hear you mention Placerville and Grass valley. Good places for music festivals. Also this, there is a sourdough starter that was made before the great 1906 SF earthquake. The baker saved it!!! Its over 100 years old and used as the "mother" to this day. I loved the chapter in Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential the chapter was called, "feed the bitch" its about a starter and how laborious it is to work in new nutrients to keep her alive.
How can that be"a dough that's 100yrs old" still be good.... I know of a restaurant that has a oil that's never been changed only"cleaned out"and never replaced
@@garycarpenter2980 it’s a starter, a yeast/flour/water mixture that lives in a cool place and needs to be fed fresh flour every few days to keep the yeast alive. You kind of need to use it too or it would get out of hand.
You should have added heart and tongue soup. Animals such as reindeer or moose are common in Alaska and the whole animal is used, moose tongue is called alaskas pork loin its very tender and delicious, when paired with the heart and some veggies with spices makes a hearty stew.
They were also revolutionary in that they used rivets to reinforce the stitching in the seams particularly prone to coming apart under heavy wear & tear
Ned Ludd is correct. The word "denim" is derived from "de Nimes". Nimes is a city in France famous for making sail cloth for sailing ships. Mr. Strauss realised that the same cloth could be used for durable clothing, complete with rivets. Look up the story.....
I watched nettle soup making on Atomic Shrimp channel, and he always described nettle soups as having all sorts of expensive herbs taste, even though he only added nettle leaves, onions, salts and peppers. Is that true? I lived in a tropical country and there's no chance of nettles growing here.
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 I am not sure if this herb grow in America. If it did I would most certainly make this soup myself. But as to what ingredients I have to ask my mother. I know only that there is potatoes and eggs and some other.
I can't believe they missed Miners Lettuce! Also called Claytonia (which is its biological name) these tender and succulent salad greens grow at high altitudes and could provide important nutrition early in the dpring for a month or two. Would have been a literal life saver after a miner would be depleted of nutrients after a long winter and on the brink of scurvy Nowadays it is something I make a living with. It groes especially well after forest fires!!!
My family has lived in Northern California for nearly a century! Some of my favorite childhood memories are walking through the hills with my dad, munching on Miners Lettuce :)
The Cornish Pastie is a staple today in the UK. It hails from Cornwall in England. It was used by farmers and such to be able to take a full meal out into the fields in one neat pastry pack. They are delicious, I expect as it has been adopted it has been adapted to local markets but I do know a true Cornish Pastie is something to behold. LOL Oh and it's not pronounces "Paystee" it's pronounced "pa stie"
Come visit the UK. Pasties are best eaten in the West Country (the lower left sticky out bit of England), especially Cornwall. Get them from local bakers, not supermarkets. Supermarket pasties are okay but not so good.
Hi there! Love the history! And love the vids, so entertaining. Could you do a vid about what the Spartans eat to be such a strong soldier and fighter thanks 👍👍
Man, this is something else. I thought the Wild West, The Depression and other times in history had some bizarre food. But the Gold Rush? Man, I had no idea.
There were not a lot groceries around at the time and farms take time to establish, so they had to forage. Unfortunately that meant eating a lot of wild animals almost to extinction.
@@JohnnyAngel8 I’ll be darned. But I see only “Welsh,” not Welch. I’ve only ever seen it corrected to rarebit. Thank you, Mr Greenjeans, for enlightenment.
@@JohnnyAngel8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit apparently in the earliest recorded recipe, there were variations in preparation called "scotch rabbit" and "english rabbit" as well. the scotch version being toasted onyl after the cheese and butter is added, and the english one having the bread soaked in wine then baked after the cheese is added. makes me suspect the "welsh" title was a bit of social commentary for the time (1747) for which we no longer have the context.
My mexican mom still makes salmon soup! Carrots, celery potato, and othe veggies mixed with a tomato brew or something if filling and delicious, even on a hot ass day
I’ve been that kid lol. Tastes change and sometimes kids are just too young to remember what they’ve eaten. My sons like that now so I definitely understand the “ I don’t like”. :)
I actually grew up eating moose pies because I lived in a family that had hunters and I'd help my oma butcher the moose after my opa skinned, gutted, and quartered it....it was glorious, my great grandmother on my dads side was cree so we even have an old recipe for moose stew that we would use for deer meat too sometimes.....i miss wild moose and wild deer meat
I had Nettle Soup in the Himalayas... we gathered the stinging nettle with bamboo sticks like chopsticks and put them in our simple bag made from a sheet... all while tending the sheep 🐑... The brightness of a green bowl 🥗 of Stinging nettle soup is unparalleled. It's easy to make if the timing is right!
I really admire how the prospectors recreated familiar recipes (as best they could) using whatever they had at hand. I've heard about pioneers in the Great Plains coming up with substitutes for pumpkin pie and potato bread served as food in times of hardship.
"pasties" as a food is pronounced "pass-ties". "Pasties" pronounced "pays-ties" is a totally different thing--see strip shows. On another dish, there is debate on which came first, "Welsh Rabbit" or "Welsh Rarebit". In America, I learned to say it "Welsh Rarebit". Overall, it seems that the Gold Rushers ate pretty damn well, better than most people.
Moose. Moose sausage that my dad made when I was a kid was incredible. I don't know if anyone makes it now, but it was the *best* tasting sausage ever, imo!!
I don't know about California or the Yukon, but moose is definitely still on the menu in Canada. Where I'm from in Northern Ontario, moose sausage, pepperettes and so on can still be purchased from many "trading posts" (convenience stores with touristy branding). Of course, home-made is even better!
Oh my goodness some of yinz that asked "What's a food prospector?" had me laughing so hard! 😄 👏👍 I guess it should've been titled "The foods that prospectors ate". 😉
@@Mama4d8 😊 I never heard of or saw you'ns Dee. Yinz means "you guys" or "you all". We do sometimes say "yinz guys" as well. I have heard some "hoopies" say younz though. Yes I meant hoopies...not hippies. 😁😉😄
Karlene, are you from southwest PA?😜 It’s the only place I’ve lived where anyone says that. It’s how you know in what part of PA someone lives: yinz or you-unz in SW and youz is basically Philly
@@fashiondiva6972 Yes I do live in SW PA. I'm in Pittsburgh. I was born & raised here but I've never been to Philly. Heck I've never even gone to Gettysburg or Hershey. When I travel I like to get out of PA and go far away. 👌😉😁
...salmon stew...Finnish Kala-Mojakka. Spuds, salmon, onions, Jamaican All-Spice, milk, pepper...salt after it's cooked. Traditionally, you would use the fish heads.
I would LOVE to hear about the history of African-American soul food...you can even make these videos based on the states like, "How Did African-American Soul Food in Mississippi Come to Be?" Or "How Did African-American Soul Food Come to be in Alabama."
I love this channel, but the narrator committed a mortal sin! The Cornish pasty doesn't rhyme with tasty, it rhymes with nasty! Oh, did I cringe when he said that!
That's a Louisiana swamp, farm boy hunter. The eldest boy of 8 kids, & he had a terrible father he wanted to get away from. So hunting, & fishing was his escape. He dedicated his life to conservation. Most hunters really care about the environment, & about the health of all animals. They don't want them to be made extinct.
For some reason I read this as " 'Food Prospectors' ate to survive the Gold Rush," Implying that 'Gold Prospectors' didn't eat, and therefore died in the Gold Rush.
Salmon was also eaten a lot during the California Gold Rush. there used to be big salmon runs in central and northern California. Pacific salmon swam into San Francisco Bay and continued up the big rivers that drain into the Bay. The salmon would spawn in the foothills on the Sierra Nevada Mountains and at even higher elevations in some areas. Also, the sourdough bread was definitely not unique to or invented for the Gold Rush. Back then, most bread was made from a starter slurry of water and flour. Most bread was at least slightly sour so it'd have been redundant to call a basic bread a sourdough bread back then.
I remember in the late 60s early 70s on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco there used to be a small kiosk that sold "painted turtles". They were baby red eared slider pond turtles, and some had had their carapace (top shell) painted with postcard like images or bright colors. Sadly, painting on a turtles shell can be toxic and compromise the turtles health. But, I always enjoyed to go see them. And I did take two (not painted ones) home. They did not survive to adulthood though. God bless and keep you "George" and "Martha". 🙏🐢🐢
I am from SF but moved to Cincinnati a year ago and let me tell ya, I miss the food the most. It’s so interesting to learn where all that good food came from.
@GuitarGeek72 hey, I don’t know about you but I didn’t get to choose my hometown. There’s no reason to get nasty with me about it. I don’t even live there anymore but I’ll tell you what let me know if you ever plan on visiting and I’ll give you a nice list of good, not uppity, not 60$ a plate real places that will rock your world. Talking about in SF and the surrounding areas.
Pasties look like Mexican empanadas. In fact in the state of Hidalgo there was at one point a significant number of Cornish settlers coming over to work the local mines and they brought the pasties, which nowadays the locals refer to as "pastes". Wonder if they had influence on the modern empanadas.
The quote "There's gold in them thar hills" was not in reference to the west coast discoveries, but the gold already being mined in the Eastern Gold Belt, primarily in Georgia and the Carolinas. Those hills are what was reference as containing gold, in a plea for the local miners to not pick up and move west in '49.
I used to work with a Vietnam vet, Navy SEAL, who used to eat exactly what the locals ate, so that when they pooped in the jungles, the locals wouldn’t recognize it as American poo. They wanted to make it look & smell the same, so the locals wouldn’t know there were Americans lurking nearby in the jungle watching them.
I'm trying to do the math on how long and $$$ it would take to get an oyster from the ocean to Placerville (Hangtown, I live in sacramento) in the 1800's. it would have to be gathered in Oakland 1-2 days, then transported up the Delta and the river going against the current. (Paddleboat) Or port of Stockton and then on wagon (3-4 days) THEN 45 miles to Hangtown, 12 hrs non stop, 24, 48 with stops more than likely. So you're looking at a 7-Day old oyster with no refrigeration. I'm not saying it can't be done safely I'm saying if it's not you're going to be in for some outhouse time and a trip to Doc's, probably going to need to pick up an extra bucket of corn cobs last you a few days.
Me at 0:39 in video: "wait, is that why that team is called the 49ers?" Google: "comes from the prospectors who arrived in Northern California in the 1849 Gold Rush. " Me: "S.O.B. 🤯🤣"
"Take that Great Britain!", in response to the Welsh naming a dish to insult the English So, who wants to tell him that Wales is part of Great Britain?
How on earth did they get oysters in placerville in the 1850s?? There was no refrigeration and oysters don’t come from the west coast that I know of. Those were brave men eating placerville oysters… I bet they were actually clams…
These “what did they eat” videos remind me of Eddie Murphy’s bit about the Ritz cracker. On a desert island a saltine will taste like a Ritz. I will not be seeking out any of these people’s opinions on what tastes good or not.
It's Welsh _rarebit,_ not "rabbit" (that's a misuse, at least these days. There are arguments about it, but I'm Welsh, so I'm sticking to my guns). Rarebit is essentially grated cheese mixed with Worcestershire sauce on toast. (Other spicy mixes could be used in place of Worcestershire sauce; occasionally stirred together with a small splash of milk - the recipe, when it was a more common food, would change from household to household, so there are any number of authentic recipes). Grill one side of the bread, then butter (use proper salted butter. No margarine or butter that can be mistaken for a Pritt stick, or a Scandiwegian saltless excuse) the other side and add the cheese/sauce mix over all the top of it. Then back under the grill until the cheese has melted and has browned. I personally use Caerphilly cheese, a mildly salted, crumbly white cheese, whenever I can get the real stuff, which isn't that often. Where I live I have to hope the supermarket variety is close enough. For those who know Lancashire cheese, particularly the crumbly rather than the oh, so delicious creamy variety (my personal weekend treat when I lived in Lancashire; a baton of French bread, some pâté & Lancashire creamy. Better than a night out, especially if I could get a ⅓rd bottle of red wine!), or Cheshire cheese, Caerphilly is in that "family" of the world's greatest culinary invention. Or maybe just its best invention. I exclude certain cheeses from that title, including anything blue and that Sardinian (? Apologies to Sardinians if I'm mistaking you for another Med island) one with maggots in it. That is just an abomination. As is American squirty cheese and the processed plastic one. You can do better, people!
My grandmother was from Northern California.. She had a sourdough starter that had been alive for over 100 years...She had been feeding it for close to 50 years herself... She would make bread every year around the holidays and it was the most amazing thing ever!!!
to keep it alive you just added flour, sugar and more water? Or there is something else to do?
@@DDantohi nah, that's it.
Amazing
That's cool 😎
@@bobnerosatanmarkedoneantic4015 how did you ever think of that screen name.....a bit long but absolutely perfect
“Cuddled with them to keep them warm” now that’s cooking with love.
Nettles are right around 28% protein dry weight, and once cooked or dried, they no longer sting. They also have a bunch of great medicinal properties, especially urinary tract ailments, thus the genus name; Urtica.
Tons of vitamin c also I like them as an alternative stuffing for ravioli
@@andrewstraub131 oooh nettle stuffed ravioli sounds good.
Thus? Urtica is named after "urticaria," which means a rash, or hives.
@@alanhyt79 Urea, and the system from old what's his name the Greek Physician, and the very old use, most likely older than the word urticaria. Pliny was the name I was trying to think of, and it finally rolled from the Swiss cheese.
@@c.rogers4394 I'm right there with you. 🧀
Interesting info. Thank you.
I looked at the title and spent an inordinate amount of time wondering what a "food prospector" was. Also, I was wondering about the implication that they were the only people in the Gold Rush who had to eat.
Did the same! Lol
My brain played the same trick on me.
They actually were food prospectors too🤔
Lol the title is a little weird
In Butte, MT, USA, the correct pronunciation is short "a" sound, as in "past" PAST - EE.
Don't fuck with Butte, MT.
I seriously adore this channel! I'm stuck at home getting over a horrible bout of the flu and pneumonia....nothing's is better than binge watching WH to entertain and take my mind off of this crap! Since I'm trying to sleep I will watch all the one I somehow missed!
I've had that garbage bug twice now. Awful isn't it?❤
Wishing you a speedy recovery 🙏🏿🇺🇸
I live in the "Gold Country" in a town called "Rough and Ready"! The story is that they seceded from the Union and formed "The Republic of Rough and Ready"! It lasted about three months until they ran out of booze and asked to be reinstated into the Union!
Howdy neighbor: I lived in Camptonville for 15 years. 'Rebel Ridge' has kind of the same history, but without the claims of secession; I doubt the neighbors even gave a crap.
@@deandupont5503 Hey! Yeah, this is interesting country for sure! Hopefully I don't get burned out this year! It's getting close and we have a LONG way to go before there's any rain.
Hi and kudos from Grass Valley; my family and I went to the Secession Days celebration when I was younger, and boy it was fun.
(Upon seeing Grass Valley's picture and mention in the video) Yeah, baby!
@@rambunctiousmedia3350 Yeah, that was cool!
Honestly.. same
Pasties are a traditional food here in Michigan too.
fresh cilantro allows your body to chelate heavy metals and expel them.
noticed the Flint, MI and had to mention it.
My friend from northren Minnesota was excited when I made beef pasties from scratch on last year's Halloween to go along with watching Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She kept asking about gravy. I had to make some gravy to go along with it for her.
Flint expat here, grandmother used to make em all the time, it's in the DNA.
@@donHooligan ..yeah that seems to be all anyone ever bothers to know about the city.
@@Tailwinds17
some people care about others.
it's true....not everyone is selfish and pretentious.
There are bees in Alaska, just no honey bees.
Also, moose meat is really, really good; it is nice and tender and tastes a little sweet and not very gamey; cook it with onion and potatoes and it makes a great meal.
It also makes insanely good jerky.
And sausage! 🤤
I know people that have honey bees in Alaska.
@@jaxsun72 I should’ve said wild ones.
I like moose better alive than dead.
Welsh Rabbit sounds mighty tasty!
Culinary suggestions:
The Weird History Of Carnival Food.
The Weird History Of School Lunches.
The Weird History Of Restaurants.
The Weird History Of Barbecuing.
The Weird History Of The Evolution Of Cooking, from cavemen's first attempts to roast a mammoth to today's cooking techniques.
The Weird History Of TV Cooking Shows.
It's also spelled Welsh Rarebit.
If I am not mistaken,first cooking with fire happened quite simultaniouse in France and China several thousend years ago.
Actually, Welsh Rarebit, has nothing to do with rabbit. It's basically a "grilled cheese sandwich". With some additions.
I used to live near a small bakery attempting to bring high quality breads and pastries to our Mid-Western industrial city. Once I discovered the place, I was shown many ways to enjoy baked goods I had never experienced before. I suppose that can happen when a pastry chef trained in Paris comes to town and opens a bakery.
One of my favorite experiences was buying a loaf that, if memory serves, was called milk bread, or something like that. It was this enormous loaf of white bread with a golden crust that looked like a huge store brand but that was all it shared with the store brands.
I would slice it myself, and use homemade jam or wildflower honey to sweeten it. Once I got to the end and the texture stiffened up.
It was the toaster and Stouffer's Welsh Rarebit sauce. Absolutely divine!
Fun fact: Placervilles logo is a miner mining with a noose hanging around a tree behind him. There’s a bunch of history in downtown Placerville, it’s pretty cool.
Placerville is such a great historic location!!
That 'fun' fact needs more explanation. That is crazy, especially today. Yikes.
@@IrishMike22 😑 The only thing crazy about today's time is the incessant need to find racism in EVERYTHING (Fun fact: only REAL racists look for and find racism everywhere). Did you even bother to watch the video...even a little? Cause as early as 1:15, you'd get your answer. Public hangings were a form of execution for ALL people back then, not just what your "progressive" CRT teachers want to shove down your throats in school.
Yep! I lived in Placerville for 3 years. Loved it!
@@DragonsOfSnow He didn’t even mention racism, you brought that word into this convo. And you sound gross as fuck saying shit like that.
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
- Clare Boothe Luce
As a placerville native this video makes me happy.
Horses love wild clover because it’s sweet. I used to pick it and feed it to our horses all the time.
"Pasty" is pronounced with a short "a" sound, as in "past", that rhymes with "fast", followed by an "ee" sound. A pastie (long "a") is what strippers use!
Oh god I had to pause it I can not listen to it any more the fact he keeps saying it noooo.
beat me to it. Its like the old herbs erbs debate. Each to their own, but I had to come to the comments to check.
Thats American English for you 🤣🤣🤣
There are many different English accents, since the English tried to colonize the world and now there are variations on word pronunciations and that’s fine, get over it, you knew what he meant. 🤷🏻♀️
In the U.P., we use em for both. They’re warm and it’s cold up here.
Culinary school: the microbes which give sourdough from San Francisco its flavor are unique to the San Francisco region. if I stole a big batch of their starter and took it to Des Moines Iowa, for the first week everyone would say this bread is off the chain! What is your secret!? Within a week all of the microbes will change over to the local biology and that distinctive flavor will be gone. sourdough bread and its flavor is unique to the region it was made.
Unique to San Francisco...
So hobo smegma?
Interesting.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 As a true Californian, I will say whatever you choose to put in your mouth is your business, though it's not to my taste.
sourdough bread is pretty popular all over europe, guess SF isn't they only city with certain microbes
it's all about vagina yeast folks.
I'm so cheered to hear you mention Placerville and Grass valley. Good places for music festivals. Also this, there is a sourdough starter that was made before the great 1906 SF earthquake. The baker saved it!!! Its over 100 years old and used as the "mother" to this day. I loved the chapter in Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential the chapter was called, "feed the bitch" its about a starter and how laborious it is to work in new nutrients to keep her alive.
You're "cheered"? What TF does that mean? Who talks like this??
@@BroDude0 😂😂😂
How can that be"a dough that's 100yrs old" still be good.... I know of a restaurant that has a oil that's never been changed only"cleaned out"and never replaced
What does being “cheered” mean?
@@garycarpenter2980 it’s a starter, a yeast/flour/water mixture that lives in a cool place and needs to be fed fresh flour every few days to keep the yeast alive. You kind of need to use it too or it would get out of hand.
Living in Grass Valley in the past, I can say, pasties are an amazing treat and if you have the chance you should try one.
Many of them sounded absolutely delicious.
You should have added heart and tongue soup. Animals such as reindeer or moose are common in Alaska and the whole animal is used, moose tongue is called alaskas pork loin its very tender and delicious, when paired with the heart and some veggies with spices makes a hearty stew.
A literal hearty stew
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten moose tongue. Grew up on moose burgers, though. Fantastic!
*hits blunt laced with DMT
"Ever tried elk?"
@@369Sigma love elk
Sometimes you taste the moose, sometimes the moose tastes you.
Levi Strauss started Levi jeans during the California gold rush. They were made out of tent canvas because the prospectors needed durable pants.
Thank you levis for creating my favorite type of pants
They were also revolutionary in that they used rivets to reinforce the stitching in the seams particularly prone to coming apart under heavy wear & tear
There is much more to jeans than that. One should look up the whole story.
Ned Ludd is correct. The word "denim" is derived from "de Nimes".
Nimes is a city in France famous for making sail cloth for sailing ships. Mr. Strauss realised that the same cloth could be used for durable clothing, complete with rivets. Look up the story.....
Don't have to. You just told us.
8:30 nettle is my favorite kind of soup. My mom still makes it every spring and we called green borch in Ukraine. Love it! Yam!
I watched nettle soup making on Atomic Shrimp channel, and he always described nettle soups as having all sorts of expensive herbs taste, even though he only added nettle leaves, onions, salts and peppers.
Is that true? I lived in a tropical country and there's no chance of nettles growing here.
@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 I am not sure if this herb grow in America. If it did I would most certainly make this soup myself. But as to what ingredients I have to ask my mother. I know only that there is potatoes and eggs and some other.
@@lyudmilaaksan2232 i'm not living in US. Try a lot more southern (near equator) countries and a lot more Eastern.
@@lyudmilaaksan2232 Nettles grow just fine in the lower States. I have to dig them out of my lawn every once in awhile here in NY.
@@starababa1985 Cool! If only they also grow here in Illinois.
I can't believe they missed Miners Lettuce! Also called Claytonia (which is its biological name) these tender and succulent salad greens grow at high altitudes and could provide important nutrition early in the dpring for a month or two. Would have been a literal life saver after a miner would be depleted of nutrients after a long winter and on the brink of scurvy
Nowadays it is something I make a living with. It groes especially well after forest fires!!!
My family has lived in Northern California for nearly a century! Some of my favorite childhood memories are walking through the hills with my dad, munching on Miners Lettuce :)
dpring
The Cornish Pastie is a staple today in the UK. It hails from Cornwall in England. It was used by farmers and such to be able to take a full meal out into the fields in one neat pastry pack. They are delicious, I expect as it has been adopted it has been adapted to local markets but I do know a true Cornish Pastie is something to behold. LOL Oh and it's not pronounces "Paystee" it's pronounced "pa stie"
You also can’t get rarebitt in pubs here lol
I heard once the scalloped edge was for miners to be able to hold it with dirty hands and discard it afterwards
As a Grass Valley native, I thought pasties were a common dish. We have lots of restaurants here that serve them. (Also it’s pronounced past- ees 😉)
Come visit the UK. Pasties are best eaten in the West Country (the lower left sticky out bit of England), especially Cornwall. Get them from local bakers, not supermarkets. Supermarket pasties are okay but not so good.
I would love a video about more Vikings facts!
Hi there! Love the history! And love the vids, so entertaining. Could you do a vid about what the Spartans eat to be such a strong soldier and fighter thanks 👍👍
Ah yes Hangtown, just a few miles outside Electrocutionvill and a short bus ride from Injectioncity
Whompwhomp whooooomp
Do not forget Shot Village.
Don't forget about mob justice Street in guillotinesburg
High School football rivals with Immolation Station
To the left of “AteTheWrongMushroomsville” over the bridge from “AccidentlyShotMyselfInTheNutsberg”
I’m from Placerville! What’s sad is that there’s a petition to remove the name, hangtown and also the hanging mannequin in downtown Placerville
I grew up in the UP of Michigan, then moved to Alaska..so these are all pretty darn familiar to me 🤣
I was born in the UP, grew up in Alaska and then moved back to the UP!
Man, this is something else. I thought the Wild West, The Depression and other times in history had some bizarre food. But the Gold Rush? Man, I had no idea.
Ikr.....I mean who develops a taste for turtle organs
There were not a lot groceries around at the time and farms take time to establish, so they had to forage.
Unfortunately that meant eating a lot of wild animals almost to extinction.
These are preparing us for the upcoming food shortages. I'll be staking a nettle claim asap lol
The reason there’s no rabbit in it: it’s rarebit.
The original name was Welch rabbit.
@@JohnnyAngel8 I’ll be darned. But I see only “Welsh,” not Welch. I’ve only ever seen it corrected to rarebit. Thank you, Mr Greenjeans, for enlightenment.
@@valerieschoen7494 My bad. Welsh it is. (Welch is an antiquated form for Welsh.)
@@JohnnyAngel8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit
apparently in the earliest recorded recipe, there were variations in preparation called "scotch rabbit" and "english rabbit" as well. the scotch version being toasted onyl after the cheese and butter is added, and the english one having the bread soaked in wine then baked after the cheese is added.
makes me suspect the "welsh" title was a bit of social commentary for the time (1747) for which we no longer have the context.
My mexican mom still makes salmon soup! Carrots, celery potato, and othe veggies mixed with a tomato brew or something if filling and delicious, even on a hot ass day
I always show these videos to my kids when they “I don’t like *insert dinner they’ve enjoyed before*”
I’ve been that kid lol. Tastes change and sometimes kids are just too young to remember what they’ve eaten. My sons like that now so I definitely understand the “ I don’t like”. :)
I actually grew up eating moose pies because I lived in a family that had hunters and I'd help my oma butcher the moose after my opa skinned, gutted, and quartered it....it was glorious, my great grandmother on my dads side was cree so we even have an old recipe for moose stew that we would use for deer meat too sometimes.....i miss wild moose and wild deer meat
I had Nettle Soup in the Himalayas... we gathered the stinging nettle with bamboo sticks like chopsticks and put them in our simple bag made from a sheet... all while tending the sheep 🐑...
The brightness of a green bowl 🥗 of Stinging nettle soup is unparalleled. It's easy to make if the timing is right!
I really admire how the prospectors recreated familiar recipes (as best they could) using whatever they had at hand. I've heard about pioneers in the Great Plains coming up with substitutes for pumpkin pie and potato bread served as food in times of hardship.
I am almost sure the "Hangtown Fry" will be on here. As I grew up in the area I have unfortunately had it. Not great...
"pasties" as a food is pronounced "pass-ties". "Pasties" pronounced "pays-ties" is a totally different thing--see strip shows. On another dish, there is debate on which came first, "Welsh Rabbit" or "Welsh Rarebit". In America, I learned to say it "Welsh Rarebit".
Overall, it seems that the Gold Rushers ate pretty damn well, better than most people.
Oh thank goodness those were bugging someone else I was going mad
Grew up in the midwest, my mother makes a delicious pastie
"A small town known as hangtown"
Me: is it cus everyone's hanging out?
"Due to the hangings in the area"
Oh...
First time?
Well going to that town u know two things could happen.
1. Get food and get drunk
2. A great possiblity to be hung
Shit went from zero to 100 really freaking fast!
Great videos. And a lot of food seems actually good. The moose pies. The neddle soupe. Sourdough bread. Etc etc
Moose.
Moose sausage that my dad made when I was a kid was incredible. I don't know if anyone makes it now, but it was the *best* tasting sausage ever, imo!!
I don't know about California or the Yukon, but moose is definitely still on the menu in Canada. Where I'm from in Northern Ontario, moose sausage, pepperettes and so on can still be purchased from many "trading posts" (convenience stores with touristy branding). Of course, home-made is even better!
@@adreabrooks11 really? ...definitely gonna have to look into that!
I'm interested in the tulip bulbs in The Netherlands, from the bulb mania in the 17th century to when they would eat them in the world wars
Oh my goodness some of yinz that asked "What's a food prospector?" had me laughing so hard! 😄 👏👍 I guess it should've been titled "The foods that prospectors ate". 😉
Lol, I read it that way the first couple of times too. Question for you. Is yinz short for you'ns
@@Mama4d8 😊 I never heard of or saw you'ns Dee. Yinz means "you guys" or "you all". We do sometimes say "yinz guys" as well. I have heard some "hoopies" say younz though. Yes I meant hoopies...not hippies. 😁😉😄
Karlene, are you from southwest PA?😜 It’s the only place I’ve lived where anyone says that. It’s how you know in what part of PA someone lives: yinz or you-unz in SW and youz is basically Philly
@@fashiondiva6972 Yes I do live in SW PA. I'm in Pittsburgh. I was born & raised here but I've never been to Philly. Heck I've never even gone to Gettysburg or Hershey. When I travel I like to get out of PA and go far away. 👌😉😁
nice comment karen
I always assumed that they are at the Golden Corral buffet. Because it's golden. And they are prospecting for gold.
...salmon stew...Finnish Kala-Mojakka. Spuds, salmon, onions, Jamaican All-Spice, milk, pepper...salt after it's cooked. Traditionally, you would use the fish heads.
'Welsh rabbit' is also called 'Welsh rarebit' which is what it's usually labeled as on menus. 🙂
I would LOVE to hear about the history of African-American soul food...you can even make these videos based on the states like, "How Did African-American Soul Food in Mississippi Come to Be?" Or "How Did African-American Soul Food Come to be in Alabama."
louisiana soul food 🤤
Interesting. Thank you for this! 🏆
They ate to survive???? Oh God, NOooooo00oOooo!!
This is, without a doubt, my most favorite RUclips channel. You are terrific and funny. Thank you. 🤩🥰🦋💜🦋
The real money from the gold rush was made by the vendors who sold shovels to the miners at an inflated markup.
True
And lumber.
Y'all have the best narrator!
Food prospectors ? I've never heard of those....Oh it's missing an S
Make a video on local soft drinks, like Cheerwine.
Hey can you do a video on the weird history of the Colorado gold rush
Hahah thats a Finnish packet of yeast in the sourbread segment :D
Please tell me that we gotta wait for September for the last episode of the 90s timeline series 😭
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Such unforgettable foods!
Did anybody else read this as if "Food prospectors" at first? No? Just me? Crap.
I took it at that first,like wow they are those guys.
I love this channel, but the narrator committed a mortal sin!
The Cornish pasty doesn't rhyme with tasty, it rhymes with nasty!
Oh, did I cringe when he said that!
Next Video :
How Botswana from the poorest country in the world into one of the richest country in Africa
Looting, stealing and killing... such a proud history huh???
I love your interjected humor! Thanks!
Fun fact: I know people surnamed Crapo, they pronounced it "CRAY-po"
Just FYI ❤
So you know everyone in the world with the surname CraPo huh? What about Krapo or CraPho?
Correct.
I've been to the Galapagos back in my service days.. around 02, 03. Beautiful place!
Having been raised by a hunter who brought all meat home to eat, I've either already eaten it, or would at least try it.
That's a Louisiana swamp, farm boy hunter. The eldest boy of 8 kids, & he had a terrible father he wanted to get away from. So hunting, & fishing was his escape. He dedicated his life to conservation. Most hunters really care about the environment, & about the health of all animals. They don't want them to be made extinct.
For some reason I read this as " 'Food Prospectors' ate to survive the Gold Rush,"
Implying that 'Gold Prospectors' didn't eat, and therefore died in the Gold Rush.
I can totally relate. I also eat varied foodstuffs to survive. It’s so meta.
Greetings friend, I too require the regular consumption of nutrients to maintain my existence!
Salmon was also eaten a lot during the California Gold Rush. there used to be big salmon runs in central and northern California. Pacific salmon swam into San Francisco Bay and continued up the big rivers that drain into the Bay. The salmon would spawn in the foothills on the Sierra Nevada Mountains and at even higher elevations in some areas.
Also, the sourdough bread was definitely not unique to or invented for the Gold Rush. Back then, most bread was made from a starter slurry of water and flour. Most bread was at least slightly sour so it'd have been redundant to call a basic bread a sourdough bread back then.
Weird History can you make a video on "how brutal was medieval warfare"? Thanks
I remember in the late 60s early 70s on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco
there used to be a small kiosk that sold "painted turtles".
They were baby red eared slider pond turtles, and some had had their carapace (top shell) painted with postcard like images or bright colors.
Sadly, painting on a turtles shell can be toxic and compromise the turtles health.
But, I always enjoyed to go see them.
And I did take two (not painted ones) home.
They did not survive to adulthood though.
God bless and keep you "George" and "Martha".
🙏🐢🐢
I heard that cafes and restaurants really got going in France after the revolution led to a lot of unemployed Palace cooks. Maybe do a video on that?
After the nobility was slaughtered, fine food was democratized.
Me: "Well let's find out what a food prospector is."
I actually used to live in placerville it’s a pretty nice place no gold anymore though
Thanks for sharing 😊
Placerville is a cool town. One of my favorite disc golf courses is near Placerville
I am from SF but moved to Cincinnati a year ago and let me tell ya, I miss the food the most. It’s so interesting to learn where all that good food came from.
You don’t miss the feces in the streets and the homeless camps? Odd. [/sarcasm]
I lived in Nor Cal for a year and a half. Miss the tri-tip sandwich. Hard to find in Fl
@GuitarGeek72 hey, I don’t know about you but I didn’t get to choose my hometown. There’s no reason to get nasty with me about it. I don’t even live there anymore but I’ll tell you what let me know if you ever plan on visiting and I’ll give you a nice list of good, not uppity, not 60$ a plate real places that will rock your world. Talking about in SF and the surrounding areas.
@GuitarGeek72 you don’t even know how I vote.
Do the weird history of prison food
I wouldn't mind trying everything shown. It all looked pretty good.
Pasties look like Mexican empanadas. In fact in the state of Hidalgo there was at one point a significant number of Cornish settlers coming over to work the local mines and they brought the pasties, which nowadays the locals refer to as "pastes". Wonder if they had influence on the modern empanadas.
I enjoyed this thoroughly!!🤩👍👍
how about the amish community I want to know more about them
The quote "There's gold in them thar hills" was not in reference to the west coast discoveries, but the gold already being mined in the Eastern Gold Belt, primarily in Georgia and the Carolinas. Those hills are what was reference as containing gold, in a plea for the local miners to not pick up and move west in '49.
Weird history, instructed Rambo on how to eat things that would make a billy goat puke.
And Chuck Norris thought I'll eat the goat as well 🤣🤣🤣
I used to work with a Vietnam vet, Navy SEAL, who used to eat exactly what the locals ate, so that when they pooped in the jungles, the locals wouldn’t recognize it as American poo. They wanted to make it look & smell the same, so the locals wouldn’t know there were Americans lurking nearby in the jungle watching them.
Daft tool showed the Predator how to skin people alive.
@@dafttool Jesse Ventura is a God who calls Mount Olympus home.
Cooking stolen eggs = Double poached eggs! Get it?
I'm pretty sure all kinds of pasties are still incredibly popular, especially in the good ol' world England...not so sure about California lol
Great video, per usual!
They ate to survive? Savages. So glad we photosynthesize these days.
Love this! I’m from Placerville and this was fun watching.
~6:00 Maybe there were no European honey bees, but I'm sure there were plenty of native bees in Alaska.
I'm trying to do the math on how long and $$$ it would take to get an oyster from the ocean to Placerville (Hangtown, I live in sacramento) in the 1800's. it would have to be gathered in Oakland 1-2 days, then transported up the Delta and the river going against the current. (Paddleboat) Or port of Stockton and then on wagon (3-4 days) THEN 45 miles to Hangtown, 12 hrs non stop, 24, 48 with stops more than likely. So you're looking at a 7-Day old oyster with no refrigeration. I'm not saying it can't be done safely I'm saying if it's not you're going to be in for some outhouse time and a trip to Doc's, probably going to need to pick up an extra bucket of corn cobs last you a few days.
I'd like to hear what historic foods used to be eat , but today are considered toxic
Me at 0:39 in video: "wait, is that why that team is called the 49ers?" Google: "comes from the prospectors who arrived in Northern California in the 1849 Gold Rush. "
Me: "S.O.B. 🤯🤣"
Another reason I'm so glad to live in these times!!
This was really cool. Thanks
"Take that Great Britain!", in response to the Welsh naming a dish to insult the English
So, who wants to tell him that Wales is part of Great Britain?
To most people outside the UK Britain only consists of England and not Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland also. 😆
@@Miss-Anne-Thrope and East Anglia
This was before. Wales was deemed part of the UK.
How on earth did they get oysters in placerville in the 1850s?? There was no refrigeration and oysters don’t come from the west coast that I know of. Those were brave men eating placerville oysters… I bet they were actually clams…
Pastie is pronounced like this, PASS TEA.
Thank you at least your know how to say it.
You'd think the fact theirs no rabbit in the dish would've been a hint.
These “what did they eat” videos remind me of Eddie Murphy’s bit about the Ritz cracker. On a desert island a saltine will taste like a Ritz. I will not be seeking out any of these people’s opinions on what tastes good or not.
It's Welsh _rarebit,_ not "rabbit" (that's a misuse, at least these days. There are arguments about it, but I'm Welsh, so I'm sticking to my guns).
Rarebit is essentially grated cheese mixed with Worcestershire sauce on toast. (Other spicy mixes could be used in place of Worcestershire sauce; occasionally stirred together with a small splash of milk - the recipe, when it was a more common food, would change from household to household, so there are any number of authentic recipes).
Grill one side of the bread, then butter (use proper salted butter. No margarine or butter that can be mistaken for a Pritt stick, or a Scandiwegian saltless excuse) the other side and add the cheese/sauce mix over all the top of it. Then back under the grill until the cheese has melted and has browned.
I personally use Caerphilly cheese, a mildly salted, crumbly white cheese, whenever I can get the real stuff, which isn't that often. Where I live I have to hope the supermarket variety is close enough. For those who know Lancashire cheese, particularly the crumbly rather than the oh, so delicious creamy variety (my personal weekend treat when I lived in Lancashire; a baton of French bread, some pâté & Lancashire creamy. Better than a night out, especially if I could get a ⅓rd bottle of red wine!), or Cheshire cheese, Caerphilly is in that "family" of the world's greatest culinary invention. Or maybe just its best invention.
I exclude certain cheeses from that title, including anything blue and that Sardinian (? Apologies to Sardinians if I'm mistaking you for another Med island) one with maggots in it. That is just an abomination. As is American squirty cheese and the processed plastic one. You can do better, people!