Discovering Treasure and Tasting Food we found on our Abandoned Farm
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- It's the final run up to beginning the house restoration. We uncover some old foodstuffs and taste it. We find old coins and share some of the discoveries we made before we started RUclips.
A fashion show too!
Plus, Maggie and James are back and we prepare for the most fun we've had with vegetables in our lives.
Thanks for watching.
Meraid, Dan, Maggie and James
You two are very, very brave to taste the stuff. If we do not get new videos from you, we know... I did enjoy the reviewing of the clothes! I laughed a lot. I enjoy you and your humor a lot! Thanks for sharing.
We’re alive and well 😊
@@NearbyVeggies I am very glad! Greetings from South Africa.
I was just thinking the same!!!
We learn something new every day, how not to store beetroots is now on my ljst
And ours 🤣
You two are the best😂😂😂
Thank you ☺️
You two crack me up… have you not heard of BOTULISM????
AAAAgh.
I’m glad you are alive to post the video.
Never never eat things like that again 🙀🙀🙀🙀😱😱😱😱😱
Yes we have
The lighter one must be beeswax with lemon for waxing furniture. The second jar quince jelly.
That sounds possible because the old owners remember highly polished wooden floors. 👍
I think it is "aguamel" what you heve in the Nescafe jar. Something produced out of bees wax boiling in water. It's a sweetner with a very specific taste. I've been following you since you started your adventure in Portugal. Cary on and a happy new year.
Thanks for the info!
I'm so glad you put an explanation because I would have guessed an un-emptied chamber pot. We've found interesting things on our farm, too. We found a peg leg, a tree stump used as a slaughtering block with dried blood, numerous gardening tools and at least five broken umbrellas (it rains a lot in Asturias). No silver, though. Dan was funny about the mystery liquid. We rely on you, Meraid, to keep him safe. Clearly, his survival instincts need refining. ;-) Fun video! Saludos desde Asturias.
I think we found umbrella number 19 today 🤣
@@NearbyVeggies :D
The brass rail is such a find. And I like how you refer to yourrselves in the plural - don't rectify it. My husband has a shop but once we got together he referred to all he does as we does. I find it endearing.
Thank you. We both say we. You’re right. It’s kind of sweet 🥰
The very dark, slightly bitter ‘honey’ might be lime honey. Not citrus lime but from the beautiful fragrant blossom of the Lime tree (Linden tree)
Apparently french bee keepers sometimes place hives in glades or avenues of lime trees in early summer for the bees to make this prized honey, known as miel de tilleul.
I knew nothing about this until a few days ago, until I read the beautiful new book by Gabriel Hemery “The tree Almanac 2024”
The lime tree is his tree of the month in June. The book includes so much more about natures seasons, wildlife at different times of the year etc it is fantastic for anyone intending to get back in touch with natures seasons and cycles.
Love watching your joyful and down to earth videos!
I’ve never knowingly tried that, but could be.
It was so enjoyable to see you back. I'm glad you took a break; I think that is important. I loved this video.
Thank you so much!
No way in this world would I taste anything in a jar, bottle or any other container without knowing what it was. Glad you survived the ghastly experience. The bitter after taste is the poison that was mixed in........
We’re well 👍
@@NearbyVeggies Glad to hear that!!!
Ya'll were just full of silliness in this one.
🤣
I hope the old coins are worth thousands!
We wished that too 🤣 Sadly they aren’t.
I bet it’s quince jelly ,and that’s why you see the little bits in their,my mother used to make it and I still love it
Thank you 😊
Honey propolis
Thank you 😊
Adventures in eating. Maybe "stick" to using them for the compost bin. The bathtub is very old, most people stood in them for a good scrubbing. Ah yes, all sorts of "things to figure out ". Those sausages? Yuck. Gross 🤢.
The brass rod should make an interesting focal point.
At least you didn't find old shoes to try on. 🤣
We did find parts of shoes 🤣
I love seeing all these treasures! Those chairs are beautiful! You could take the seats off and make planters out of them! I love projects!
Thanks for the tips!
Your idea of a lamp is fab and those clothes obviously your size in such good condition hope all is proceeding to plan
Thank you 😊
loved the fashion show 😂. that you dare to taste your treasures 😂😂😂 Dan? Meraid? can we expect more videos?
Of course 😂
😂🤣😂 fun video, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You have courage to taste things with no labels!
We’re also a bit cautious 👍
Thanks for showing your treasure hunt. Hope you can revive the towel rail and hot water tank to former glory. Lovely little blue dresser too.
That's the plan. 👍
Wow, what wonderful finds. That cylindrical cannister could be a hot water bottle.
Happy New Year. 🌻🙏🐈
Quite possible 👍
Ask old locals to identify the paste/syrups
Good idea. Thank you 😊
I love your old finds don't eat the sausage 😂 great vlog guys x
So true!
Oh my gosh! I would never taste what you have found 😂😂 I was screaming "don't taste it !!!" Thank you for sharing such entertaining video!❤ It was fun to watch all the treasures - those coins are part of Portugal's history 👍🥰👍🌟
I was trying to keep Dan from being greedy. 🤣
Lovely treasures, love your videos 🤗 but please get rid of those jars.
We will 😋
Make a lamp out out the headlight .
Get a tripod for it.
As for the syrup I'd add borax to it and make any bait if you have a problem with ants.
The wax would be good to preserve wooden tools or old furniture mix with odourless turpentine and buff it into cleaned wood.
Really enjoyed watching your videos gave me a chuckle on occasions.
I have moved into a new build 2 years ago and been growing vegetables and learning everyday.
Keep up the good work as it is interesting and a joy to watch.
We like ants. 😊
Honey never goes bad. If it's molasses you can make a plant pick me up solution.
Thank you 😊
Regarding the tasting session. I would take them into town or to a neighbour who is elderly and might remember what they are. Would be interesting to know. As for the coin that is from the 1880's it might be worth something to a collector. All good fun.
Great 😊
You two are brave tasting what's in the jars! Could it be some kind of Date Molasses or possibly Pomegranate jam that has discoloured over the years? I'm surprised you haven't come across a vat of salted black olives. Have a good week. 🥰🌿🌷
We haven’t found salted olives. Pity. 🤣
I love your work 😂
Thank you 😊
I was on vacation and I just watched the video. First of all, Happy new year!!
Thank goodness they didn't try the sausages! ☣
That orange tree couldn't be prettier. 🍊🥰
You two are so funny 😂
Olá vocês são muito giros! Verifiquem com cuidado essas paredes de pedra porque os antigos escondiam lá o seu dinheiro e ouro! Um ano muito abençoado cheio de alegria e saúde
We are checking 🤩
Happy new year guys. Thank you for such a fun video, you're braver than I for tasting unknown substance. Exciting year ahead, we are all looking forward to the new build. Very best of luck. ❤
It’s coming. 😉
Emeğine Sağlık bu güzel vlog ve video için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler 👍👍👍👍
Çok sag OL !
Thank you 😊
Hi there, my first thought when you opened up the 2nd jar that it looked like Moskonfyt (Moss Jam)
Moskonfyt basically is a reduction of clean, fermenting grape must, it is a traditional syrup from the Western Cape region of South Africa. It was historically made from Muscat grapes (and the aromas and the tastes of the muscat in the syrup is certainly part of the tradition) but in recent years other varietals have also been used. The must is reduced overheat until it forms a glossy, sweet-sour fruity syrup.
The making of Moskonfyt arrived in South Africa with the French Huguenots and is now a core taste building block for the sweet in the savoury flavour repertoire of the related but distinct Cape Dutch and Cape Malay fusion cuisines. Three common examples of usage are Smoor snoek (made with smoked or fresh snoek fish, potatoes, onions, and spices) which is often served with Moskonfyt on rice and poured over Mosbolletjie bread (which is itself leavened with grape must). Moskonfyt podding is a much-loved Cape treat.
Few people still cook authentic Moskonfyt in South Africa, it being extremely time-consuming and labour intensive. It is also season bound - cooked from clean, fermenting grape juice only during harvest time in the Cape, February, and March. it cooks in the traditional way, outside over open wood fires. Wood is harvested from alien blue gum trees on the farm.
Pour you must through a fine sieve or a cheesecloth, into a saucepan. Bring to a boil, and then lower the heat and simmer gently until the must has reduced and has become syrupy. Remove from heat and taste; you may need to add a little bit of sugar if your grapes were not sweet enough and Pour into a sterilised glass container. Love you chanel Dee from Iceland
Fabulous information. Thank you 😊
HAHAHA, thanks for that fabulous Freddy giggle first thing in the morning. Great way to start the day. Store room is looking great and I can't wait to see how the house comes along as the work progresses.
Delighted you enjoyed it 😊
Tasting random stuff out of jars is a RUclips channel all of it's own. 🤣
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The small jar looks like a beeswax-based home-made boot polish. I make my own and not too dissimilar in colour. Straining the sweet concoctions might show a fruit preserved in honey, or perhaps a mulberry or birch sap concoction. Maybe all of the jars' contents are for protecting leather?? Fun to watch your discoveries.
Great ideas. Thank you 😊
So loved that video.
Hope the straw mattress turns up trumps, 😊
I would use the honey mixture topically rather than eating it. Maybe on your hair, or hands.
As a district nurse, we used honey on wounds as a great antibacterial base, wounds cleaned easily and healed
quickly.
Maybe put some in soap and use on hands or feet.
Love your enthusiasm with things you find and preserving or restoring some is a great idea.💚
Great ideas for using honey 🍯
Luvd the fashion show😍
Meraid an I hav the same taste in car art ,nice head light!!!
You sure do rock those bibs🤩👍🏻
Yall keep at it things are coming together!!!
Thanks, Hatcher. ☺️
the 'metal bottle' is a hot water bottle for the bed
the honey thing could be syrup...in Portugal there were some sugar cane plantations
I must look into that.
Ah the beetroot dinner that never was! 😂 Very happy memories xx
Great memories 😊
honey and pollen and a few bees would be my guess for first the coffee jar. Why not keep a tiny jar amount and chuck the rest.
Thank you 😊
You guys are hilarious!!
So much fun going through thd beautiful items left by tgd previous owners!!
I love that!!
So much history behind it !!
Love all your episodes 😂
Glad you enjoyed. Thank you 😊
What fun to try the clothes on!
Still using the trousers 👖
the winery barrels, the largest ones were usually made inside the cellar.
That seems to be the case. The same for the big grain boxes too 👍
Happy New Year to you two intrepid taster of strange bottles 😅 Glad you didn't try the beetroot 😂😂 Can you freeze them, I wonder? This year should be a very special one with the house renovation beginning. Very exciting❤❤❤
We grow beetroot all year round so no need to freeze. I have no experience freezing beetroot perhaps another commenter will help you out. Thank you 😊
Beetroot ! Lol! 😂. After reading some of the comments re the mystery ‘ honey’, do you think there are or were quince trees on the property? They are quite common apparently . Cheers !
We haven’t found any quince trees but perhaps they were cut down or on another part of the farm. It was much bigger in the olden days.
I read an article about finding intact champagne bottles in an old shipwreck. That, I would try. Brown stuff from a bottle? not so much.
Fingers crossed 🤞
Dan that was the second best Freddie Mercury impersonation I've ever seen! 😂
What was the first? 😂
@@NearbyVeggies 😆
Thans 🥰
My guess is pomegranate molasses/syrup? It has a taste flavour as well as sweet…?
I’m going to ask the neighbours 👍
a vazilha de latão era uma garrafa de água quente para aquecer os pés no inverno, punha-se ao fundi da cama.
Obrigada 🤩
I believe you have found yourselves some homemade cough syrups…enjoy 👋😄🇨🇦
I thought that was possible too but it was with foodstuffs not the medicines 👍
@@NearbyVeggies I keep mine in the fridge, so…maybe? By the way, love your channel. 👋🤗🇨🇦
Thank you 😊
Puede ser arrope ( así se llama en Argentina). Es un concentrado de frutas y sus azucares, de consistencia de melaza. Se puede hacer de tuna, de caña de azúcar, de uva, etc
That’s a strong possibility. Thank you 😊
I think the brass canister is a rolling pin which would be filled with cold water
Thank you
1800 Coins are Rare.n you can sell thm at a high price.i hv bn waiting fr ur video fr long.
😂😂😂 soo funny 👍
Thank you 😊
In Portugal when farmers or anyone who has an allotment and have big crops of tomatoes 🍅 they make tomato jam to keep and eat throughout the year. One of the things they put in it is lemon peel. Think that's why when you taste it, you have a citrus flavour in it. Don't eat it, it has obviously gone off...
It’s the yellow stuff that’s citrusy. 👍
Hi, I only discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago. I have been binge watching and really enjoying getting to know you both. I'm actually a little sad that i now have to wait for the next video, but I will certainly be staying with you to see the house renovation. All the best from a chilly Kent.
Welcome 🤗 Delighted to read you are enjoying the videos. See you on Saturday morning. 😊
Happy New Year, wonderful funny video! Stay well
Thank you! You too!
I think that what you find in coffe bottels may be tomatoes jam because my portuguese neighbours used to make it with mature tomatoes end of august.
Thank you
Another great video from NV ❤. Clearly you have gourmet rodents that are quite learned about hoarded beetroot....lol
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it is probable that in the 2 honey jars there is cooked grape must, in southern Italy it is used for Christmas desserts and biscuits
Quite likely indeed. Especially the second jar.
I would check out the price of that old auto headlight online. Vintage auto parts can sometimes be valuable.
We’re going to use it anyway 👍
That stuff could have been rat poison for all we know... How were you the next morning? L.
Thanks for sharing.
Alive and well 👍
fun episode. Brave of you both to taste those jars of something. It did make me laugh, as I probably would have done the same. The poor beet root. lol. But your garden still gives you vegetables and fruit in January. How wonderful. Have you grown coriander? I had a disaster trying to grow it in the hot summer in Italy. It died and returned in the winter. shocking. Thanks for showing us around again. Looking forward to more soon.
Our coriander grows in deep shade during hotter months and full sun in winter. We have coriander now but rarely in the full summer heat. I planted it twice, once in late summer and early spring.
Looks like engine oil, you are braver than I am...
Agreed 👍
Super
Thanks
I tend to agree with the moskonfyt answer as grapes are grown in those districts (I assume!) and that is one way of keeping it. Look at the bits in the jar, do they not look like grapes boiled off? Interesting I must say! Glad you did not taste the sausages in that old pot thingie!! Ha! Ha!
Good point. Thank you 😊
Happy New Year to you both. My husband and I suggest that you filter the brown liquid in the jars and see what you are left with. Love your videos, keep up the good work.
Great idea. Thank you 😊
You folks are brave to taste that but you could boil it and see what is left.
Way too busy at the moment for further experiments 😉
So it’s easier to taste the honey or molasses with your glasses off - that’s a mixture of the senses!
I wanted to see the contents so have to remove glasses. Interestingly, I can’t hear 👂 without my glasses 😂
Se encontrarem uma moeda de 01 centavo, de 1922 - é muito rara e valiosa!!!
Não encontrei 😉
Happy new year Meraid and Dan
Thank you 😊
Love watching this kind of video ❤
Thank you 😊
That is tomato jam Very old!
Definitely not tomato jam. Thank you for the suggestion. 😊
Aos 9:00 são moedas do tempo da monarquia, o "Real" (Reis, plural) foi a moeda portuguesa, desde cerca de 1430 até 1911, após a implantação da República em 1910, a moeda portuguesa passou a ser o "Escudo" 🤑
Aos 10:32, isso é uma BOTIJA, era colocada na cama, com devida antecedência, para aquececer e manter quente a cama durante a noite. Era feita de cobre ou latão e enchida com água a ferver (para se manter quente durante toda a noite) e normalmente revestida com uma capa de tecido grosso para evitar queimaduras
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Muito obrigada. 👍
So exciting. ____
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Happy New Year! Fun vlog🎉
Thank you. You too.
Darn! I was hoping your sand storage experiment would be successful because I cannot grow beets year-round.
Perhaps if we’d checked a year earlier they might have been good. 18 months is a stretch too far 🤣
Aguamiel!
Obrigada
Hello from the Netherlands. My mother makes a delicious cake using agua mel. But I wouldn’t use the stuff you found in those Nescafe jars 😅
Thanks for sharing!
Excelente 2024 ❤❤ grandes descobertas são um autêntico tesouro 😊😊
Obrigada 🤩
I would never taste any of that! I don't know how you both did it! I hope you don't get sick. BTW l am Portuguese 😊
We are well 😊
Loved this video so funny! I hope you have another video next week so we know you're still standing! Typically you store veggies in sand for one season the beets may have been good 6months ago?
I envy your gardening season there in Portugal. However by the end of the season I'm ready for a rest from gardening. So I get my rest with shovelling snow here in Canada.😂Have a great week!
We forgot all about the beetroot 🤣
I think the previous owners were rich people, any idea who they were?
We know the family. 👍
silly me 🙄
Good idea Sam. Its going to get cold here in upstate NY and I will be letting my faucets drip. My water bill is only 13.00 a quarter.Bless you and your family. Also have you thought about putting up thick blankes on your external doors. It helps with the drafts.
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, you guys are so funny thanks 👍😁
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Should I not see you guys next week I will know that your taste test did you in! Happy New Year just in case!
Happy new year 🥳
A mim me parece compota de ginja. Um doce tipico português.
Obrigada
Well that was very entertaining 😂 As far as what to do with the honey?/ treacle?/fruity molasses? Empty and use jars to store your silver
Good idea 👍
You're brave! Could the second jar be malt? I used to be force fed it as a kid! I'm still not keen...
Not malt. I like malt.
@@NearbyVeggies I expect it was quince cheese, then. I didn't see that suggestion until after I'd posted...
I really think it’s some kind of molasses especially the second jar. 👍
Well if we don't see you two anymore we'll know why😝
We’re great 👍
Could be jam
, like tomato jam.
It’s not tomato.
Is connoisseur Dan still alive??😂
Still alive 😊
Caramelo líquido?
Não é 😋