Look up some WWII Britain cookbooks or "ration cookbooks" from the period. They have a lot of the wartime 'mock' recipes. Some are actually pretty good, but some are truly hideous!
That's one of the things that keep me hooked on HH: they take their details serious. Most of the pronounciation of names / places is spot-on (at least where I can tell). And even for fluent speakers, switching from one pronounciation to the other in mid-senctence can be tricky. I especially like the slight undertone of "you might want to simmer down, because while you two have been judging entrées I've been surviving in a fascist terror regime". Not aggressive (yet), but hinting that that's an option.
plate of meal :D I love Ben and Jim in this, they're hilarious! I especially love Ben's facial expressions and how he says MANATS instead of minutes :D
Actually there is one from the time of WW1 I really like, called Panhaggity. Its basically left over veggies, gratted up and laid down in a dish with layres of cheese, then baked, so the layers cheese melt through the layers of veg, then served in slices a little like lasagna
@Fussbudget the Ninth Partly true, Yanks are never late when it comes to eating. Watch them at a restaurant. But the food is indestructible and will last forever. "Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so" But I was thinking of the "food" packages sent over from the U.S. All of which, while healthy, was tasteless glop. (Glop is a word, isn't it?)
@Fussbudget the Ninth It's better that way. The *one* time I had it, it came in one of those freeze-dried kits you can buy at a camping store. I suppose it's all right if you've been in the bush for a week, but other than that. All I can think of is: The NAZIs are bombing us again. Why not come inside and have some nice buttered SPAM.?" …. …. I'm thinking!
During the Franco-Prussian War of the early 1870s, the besieged Parisians also resorted to eating zoo animals when there was no other meat left in the city. A common occurence in any late stage of a war, particularly modern ones.
Happened in Paris, too, during the siege in the Franco-Prussian war: the zoo animals were eaten, too. And cats, and priced race horses ... civilisation is about two missed meals away from barbarism. (Sir Terry Pratchett) When you're kids have been hungry for long enough, things start looking differently ...
@@lilsunny7399 I am aussie, never even heard of torode until now.. The guy still sounded like a NZ'r when he said minutes... other than that, spot on accent
Nein, nein, das ist leider nicht wirklich gelungen, aber HH gefällt mir trotzdem sehr gut. Was man aber bei einer Kochshow zum WKII unbedingt hätte einbauen sollen: die Zubereitung von "Dachhase" (Hauskatze).
Oh dear, I wonder how Edna from London would have done instead. Or wasn`t there any food rationing going on at that time? Edna of course would have had a huge handicap compared to Hilda because even peacetime British food was inedible for starters at that time. I wonder how you could improvise on food like boiled mutton with stale cabbage and slimy potatoes, all topped with green mint sauce? Or Welsh rabbits? The mind boggles because this sort of food is mock up food to start with. But as some previous commentators have already mentioned, there was a very promising way of improving food quality for British WW2-housewifes: spreading their legs - sorry, minors present - ahem, being very friendly with US- or Canadian air force members, while daddy was fighting in the war (probably in the Royal Artillery Concert Party....). Then of course Edna could dish up a feast with white bread, American spam, American chocolate, American cookies, plenty of other food the US quartermaster would not miss, accompanied by American cigarettes, and all washed down with plenty of Coca-Cola (or even American whisky). She might even had a bun in the oven when daddy finally came home because the yanks had left her with more than just chewing gum under the chair..
I was wondering how did she get a rhino a tiger and a gorilla then cook it and make it into meat where did she get that from like that's what I was asking until this popped up 2:21 Why would the zookeepers let this happen?
I assume it was the humane thing to do. There was no food to feed the zoo animals. There was limited food for humans. It was humane to slaughter the animals (as opposed to letting them starve to death in captivity) and let humans eat the meat.
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I think the mock duck sounds rather tasty, just seems like a kind of stuffing
me too
yeah for turkey idk if you mean to stuff at christmas or turkey day
Some of the cookbooks from the time can be found online. And yes, I have stolen a few recipes from them.
Stuffing is evil.
"You think everything needs sugar"
"That's because everything does"
Do you know what else everything needs according to Greg Wallace (probably)?
BUTTERY BISCUIT BASE
@@digitaldeathsquid3448 two minutes!!!
@@digitaldeathsquid3448 I like the base base base base
I like the buttery biscuit base
It's so true though
@@miloandalfie5509 1 minute!
"You can't serve this its to rare"
"Would you prepare it well done???"
Josephine Torrefranca 😂😂
That Mock-Duck actually sounds pretty good. Might actually try that one
It's literally just American style mashed potatoes.
Actually most of this Mock foods. Are really just American style quick foods.
Anarchy Empire Why do you think Americans got “their” style? lol, nothing American is actually American
@@anarchyandempires5452 The mock goose was mashed potatoes. The mock duck was more akin to a stuffing.
Yeah it actually does sound pretty good.
I'd love to see behind the scenes for this to see how many times they cracked up laughing 😂
WeaselMeister there is
Horrible Histories, series 1-3 are fab. Cheerful for these days.
You and me both. I wonder how many times they had to reshoot the scenes in each episode to get it right.
"Hilda's starter hasn't gone down well, except with Hilda." Lol
Well, of course she's starving!
Sausagemeat, apples, onions and sage- that sounds like it would be a good stuffing.
@Kabuki Kitsune sounds very tasty
@@theonionsystem7779 you could be replying to any of the replies in this comment, even Din Ding's reply
Actually want to try it
It doesn't sound terrible
Sounds banging
Jim and Ben's impressions of Greg ans John are the funniest things I've seen all quarantine.😂
I like how her meal seems relatively normal compared to the other contestants. :'D
until you get the zoo animals
@@taliesincoleman6569They were desperate during the siege of Berlin!
@@user-gi8pk9uc7q still...
"Plate of meal" is my new favourite phrase.
And when she says "Listen, Liebling!" she has an uncanny resemblance to my mother.
Is your mother german?
She actually is. How do you know?
@@JackhammerJesus Liebling is a german term. Kinda outdated tho
"What's duck normal made from?"
LOL
Ben’s face when Jim says that! Lol!
In war time, Pigeon.
Well... you see.. umm..
John: "Dingo!"
Hilda: "Dummkopf!"
Look up some WWII Britain cookbooks or "ration cookbooks" from the period. They have a lot of the wartime 'mock' recipes. Some are actually pretty good, but some are truly hideous!
Know what they did in the Channel Islands for tea and coffee? They used bramble leaves and parsnips!
2:13 "Listen Liebling" I- as a german i have to say her pronunciation is on point
Maybe the actress has German family? Maybe it's why she's so precise with the accent? Or she's just genuinely impressive with it
@@theonionsystem7779 maybe who knows. I just wanted to make her a compliment because being honest german is a difficult language.
That's one of the things that keep me hooked on HH: they take their details serious. Most of the pronounciation of names / places is spot-on (at least where I can tell). And even for fluent speakers, switching from one pronounciation to the other in mid-senctence can be tricky.
I especially like the slight undertone of "you might want to simmer down, because while you two have been judging entrées I've been surviving in a fascist terror regime". Not aggressive (yet), but hinting that that's an option.
It is only two syllables guys... and she is a professional
@@theonionsystem7779 or maybe be she actually is German?
plate of meal :D
I love Ben and Jim in this, they're hilarious!
I especially love Ben's facial expressions and how he says MANATS instead of minutes :D
Actually there is one from the time of WW1 I really like, called Panhaggity. Its basically left over veggies, gratted up and laid down in a dish with layres of cheese, then baked, so the layers cheese melt through the layers of veg, then served in slices a little like lasagna
“Plate of meal” always gets me 😂😂😂
Coming here for tips now all the food has run out in the uk
Stinging nettles make for a _very_ good spinach. Enjoy!
@@Julia-lk8jn thank you, how do I prep them plse? Hawthorn leaves and nasturtium good for salads.
@@Julia-lk8jn there's also nettle soup and tea
If you have to eat ersatz food, what do you use for ersatz toilet paper?
@@carlbirtles4518 leaves and newspapers?
'Talk us through your plate of meal' damn near killed me.
I love Hilda's german accent.
The guy playing Greg is funny AF
I was waiting for the English cook: "Well you start with American SPAM and the you add some American margarine....
You're name cracked me up buddy, nice
@Fussbudget the Ninth Partly true, Yanks are never late when it comes to eating. Watch them at a restaurant. But the food is indestructible and will last forever. "Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so"
But I was thinking of the "food" packages sent over from the U.S. All of which, while healthy, was tasteless glop. (Glop is a word, isn't it?)
@Fussbudget the Ninth You haven't lived until you've had powdered artificial butter. It makes everything taste better...….by comparison.
@Fussbudget the Ninth It's better that way. The *one* time I had it, it came in one of those freeze-dried kits you can buy at a camping store. I suppose it's all right if you've been in the bush for a week, but other than that.
All I can think of is: The NAZIs are bombing us again. Why not come inside and have some nice buttered SPAM.?"
….
….
I'm thinking!
@Fussbudget the Ninth I've been self vaxing by drinking a lot of Corona beer.
all the food she cooked besides the last one sounds good
FIVE MUNUTES! Their Greg and James is just spot on! xD
The 1940's look suits Martha a lot.
NGL that starter sounds alright.
"What's duck normally made from?" 🤣 killed me
Uh, duck, that's what!
You know I expected Hilda’s “duck” to be a lot grosser but it actually sounds pretty good
"What's duck normally made of?"
Can we just take a minute and appreciate Matt's flowing locks??? 🥵😍
The writers must really hate Greg Wallace, I dont blame them.
I think of Historical Masterchef every time Saturday Morning Kitchen is on!
During the Franco-Prussian War of the early 1870s, the besieged Parisians also resorted to eating zoo animals when there was no other meat left in the city. A common occurence in any late stage of a war, particularly modern ones.
In occupied Jersey, the German soldiers sometimes resorted to shooting their own horses and seagulls to survive!
Martha is such a brilliant actress.
Hilda says that meat is rare in World War II Berlin, even though her starter of mock duck has sausage meat in it.
"sausage meat" is usually ground up bits of offal, not actual meat cuts. It's the bits of meat we don't normally eat.
@@frankvalentich5410 still meat though
WWII Sausages, you really don't want to know what is in there.
@@22espec I read somewhere that British butchers used bread in sausages when they couldn’t get the meat.
If you didn't told me she was an actress I would've thought she actually lived in the 40s XD
Me: bruv u think everything needs sugar
My brother: CuZ EvErY ThInG DoES!!!
I learnt something there!
Martha
Maybe I should put sugar, apple and cheese in mashed potatoes. Sounds pretty good.
That zoo animal thing was not taught to us in school!
Happened in Paris, too, during the siege in the Franco-Prussian war: the zoo animals were eaten, too. And cats, and priced race horses ... civilisation is about two missed meals away from barbarism. (Sir Terry Pratchett) When you're kids have been hungry for long enough, things start looking differently ...
That's the beauty of 'Horrible Histories' for you!
I need to go back and watch horrible histories again
5 Munites
Ben is amazing!
I love these, entertaining and give you information!!!
"zat is cuz it aint DucK"
"not bad but it aint duck"
"what is duck normally made out of? ;-;"
1:30 - Thought that was a great Aussie accent until I heard him say minutes... sounded more like someone from NZ
its supposed to be english, taking the piss out of john torode and gregg wallace
@@lilsunny7399 I am aussie, never even heard of torode until now..
The guy still sounded like a NZ'r when he said minutes... other than that, spot on accent
I loved this! You're awesome!
this british made Hilda Schmidt is priceless.World war look suits all people. British and germans as well.
Nein, nein, das ist leider nicht wirklich gelungen, aber HH gefällt mir trotzdem sehr gut.
Was man aber bei einer Kochshow zum WKII unbedingt hätte einbauen sollen: die Zubereitung von "Dachhase" (Hauskatze).
The mock duck actually sounds nice
0:56 Jim Halpert intensifies
Happened also, again in Paris during the first world war as well
Martha is pretty good at playing Elizabeth the first as well.
2:15, funny!!
My brother is engaged!🎉💥🌟 0:59
5 minutes people
5 MINUTES HILDA!
0:53 What is duck normally made from 🤣
Jim is hilarious 😂
The first one sounded pretty good tbh
Oh dear, I wonder how Edna from London would have done instead. Or wasn`t there any food rationing going on at that time? Edna of course would have had a huge handicap compared to Hilda because even peacetime British food was inedible for starters at that time. I wonder how you could improvise on food like boiled mutton with stale cabbage and slimy potatoes, all topped with green mint sauce? Or Welsh rabbits? The mind boggles because this sort of food is mock up food to start with. But as some previous commentators have already mentioned, there was a very promising way of improving food quality for British WW2-housewifes: spreading their legs - sorry, minors present - ahem, being very friendly with US- or Canadian air force members, while daddy was fighting in the war (probably in the Royal Artillery Concert Party....). Then of course Edna could dish up a feast with white bread, American spam, American chocolate, American cookies, plenty of other food the US quartermaster would not miss, accompanied by American cigarettes, and all washed down with plenty of Coca-Cola (or even American whisky). She might even had a bun in the oven when daddy finally came home because the yanks had left her with more than just chewing gum under the chair..
“5 MINUTES HILDA!!!!”
They made Mock-Duck in Britain during the war too.
Honestly thought "Liebling" was an insult but it means "darling/sweetheart", which could be an insult or at least, mockery, in that context.😄
she should have said "danke schon!" xD
So, she's the same as Venezuelan Master Chef. =)
Poor tigger:( and curious :(
"Whats duck usually made of?"
Kinda I guess, probably related in concept as a means of using up left over veggies and making food stores last longer.
Jim didn't really shave his head for this, did he? That baldness is rather convincing...
Y'all should try mockbrain it's delish
MEALS OF FOOD ONTO PLATES
No offense to anyone who has been in an actual war😬💀☠️ 1:06
Love love
0:13 No Offence To Anyone Who’s Been In An Actual War
Honestly Hilda Is So Pretty💎 2:32
Still much better than Masterchef US.
FIVE. MINUTES. HILDA.
I'm sorry, you can't eat that, that's too rare!
Uhh, would you prefer it well done?
Only true cultured people will know the background music from 1:02
0:58 LOL
To be fair hers actually sound edible
So... basically cheesey Bubble and Squeak
Great idea, i'm from germany and the only thing we get told is how they faked coffee...@kogularam01 it's spelled Liebling
We learned about this in school in Germany :D
Edit: Okay not the zoo thung tho
Yea of the 16,000 animals originally in the zoo, only 96 survived the war. Including Saturn, Adolf Hitler's pet alligator.
FYI, Master Chef is in Oz.
Are they ever going to show the second round
I like how unlike the other chefs, the odd thing she uses is the least disgusting or unnatural. All it is is mock food and zoo animals.
5 minutes Hilda 😂
its does but i think cleopatra suits her more
What's the matter with her plate. After there previous experience, exotic steaks shouldn't disgust them...
2:14 LISTEN LIBLING
I've eaten crocs before, I can't say shit about the zoo thing.
my german teachers name is mrs Schmidt!!! XD
FIVE. MINUTES. HILDAAAAA.
I would not like to live there in her time
What is duck actually made of though?
Uhhh, duck?
What's with the quality of the video
because it is edible..
Wos dat, 'ilda?
My guess is that vegans owe something of a debt to the people who had to deal with rationing
I was wondering how did she get a rhino a tiger and a gorilla then cook it and make it into meat where did she get that from like that's what I was asking until this popped up
2:21
Why would the zookeepers let this happen?
I assume it was the humane thing to do. There was no food to feed the zoo animals. There was limited food for humans. It was humane to slaughter the animals (as opposed to letting them starve to death in captivity) and let humans eat the meat.
@@howtubeable but wait didn't they have other kinds of meats then just zoo animals
Bow Wow no because all of that was being sent to the front lines
Because all the prey animals were dead.