This series just reinforces that though I was born in 1950, I was born 100 yrs too late to have lived the best possible life. Progress isn't all it's cracked up to be. 🤠
I raised my seven children completely off grid! We have lived this way for 20 years. I cook on a wood cook stove, we use oil lamps for lights, we hauled our water from a spring four miles from our house and we raised our animals and had a garden. Then we canned our food as we had no electricity or solar. I love living this way.
Oh well done!!! 🙌🏻 I have just enough knowledge to understand how impressive & wonderful your daily life must have been raising a family this way 💗 Wow! Incredibly special. Talk about a like of intentional & loving work. Thank you for sharing ✨
My wife's a gourmet Cook !! She makes blackened chicken , blackened bacon , blackened flapjacks , blackened Pie , and if you don't like it !!! She makes blackened Eye balls 😵💫😊🤪
The ash that builds up on top and bottom and sides of the oven is what helps with keeping the burning of food from happening. A freshly cleaned out stove wreaks havoc…a heavy build up of ash makes the oven too cool…finding the sweet spot takes time to figure out. Your Woodstove Cookery book was my first wood cook stove instruction book…the best! Every stove has to teach you its own peculiarities…😂
Great tips-you are totally right about there being a sweet spot 🔥 I just have to learn what that feels like (time & experience, right?). Going to be a great adventure!
I have SO enjoyed all of your efforts in building Uncle Dans. Your passion in completing and learning from this project has been inspirational! I hope you find ways to continue this channel. Thank you🫶
Many thanks! Love your comment & am so glad you’ve been here on the journey. The little homestead cabin has been giving us so much joy. Looking forward to a winter of cooking & soaking up its charm. Best to you!
I watched the video where you folks placed that stove in the cabin. It looks like it weighs a ton. But all that cast iron will hold heat for both cooking and warming the cabin. My grandmother used to tell me when she was a little girl they cooked with a big old cast iron stove like that. They would heat water in a big cook pot to bathe her and her brothers and sisters with. During the summer it was taken out to an "outside kitchen" that was attached to the big old drafty house they lived in so it wouldn't heat up the house. It was the centerpiece of the kitchen area during the winter. They cooked food on it heated water for baths with it and it was the children's job to cut stove wood. Can you imagine giving a bunch of young children an axe in todays day and time? She was 89 when she passed away in 1971 so she lived through the days before electricity. She remembered when they got electricity in the late 1930's. Said there was one bulb in the living room of the house.
Wow what a life! I loved hearing about your grandmother’s story-that era must have seen the most new experiences of any time period! The daily work of just living was immense. So much knowledge & skill just to feed your family.
Hi Jessie,Today Sunday the 10 th of November I did watch this cosy coocking time in the cabin🇺🇸😊,The natural lessons you share with the kids makes you an great teatcher👍🏻 ,in the way you explane your daughter how it was in the old days what was needed to survive with the example of the Pumkins as get your belly full and survive.The entourage in the kitchen tools, dous me remember the Old times of my earlier live in the Senter of Amsterdam were we lived also a simple live in the Jordaan.I was born there in 1944 il 1958 wenn iI did my time in the army.but back to you again,Thanks for sharing this part of the history & having diner with the familie in uncle Dan`s cabin,see you all,in the final Ep building the stove stear,tree steps.Greetings from te old🇳🇱 Dutch 🇳🇴Norwegian Hubertus🙏🏻🇳🇱🇳🇴☮🇺🇸
1944-almost the same age as my father! He was born 1945. You probably got to glimpse the old pioneer ways in your childhood 🤔 What was Amsterdam like then? Thanks for your wonderful comment 💗 Hope you stick with us for more adventures
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Hi Jessie I give you the link from my little documentar from the street were I was born,Hubertus in de Jordaan.November 2023 ruclips.net/video/sXy8f_VfCX4/видео.html Greetings .Hubertus
Thankyou for sharing another wonderful, heartwarming day at Uncle Dan's. Cooking on a wood stove is an adventure! I still do it once in a while in our old farmhouse. I found that covering pies or casseroles with a lid can help with the burning on top (otherwise you have to check it constantly and move it around to avoid burning, which is so hard to do when you've got other things going on, especially with kids). Just let it cook uncovered for a few minutes at the end so it doesn't get soggy. Your pie looked wonderful - as do all your woodfire-cooked meals! Keep up the good work! I look forward to your next video!
Very wise advice, I will do the same-thank you! Love your comment. Snows are expected to fall today here in Montana. Excited to do some cooking in the old homestead house 😊
The little protruding ring on bottom of the old cast iron pans is made to sit in the burner hole on your wood cook stove. You take the burner plate out and either pan in it's place. Each stove manufacturer had their own pans which fit their stove.
Really?! That is very neat to learn-Thank you! 🙌🏻 I’m going to try it! My skillet is a Wagner and I believe this stove is an early Monarch 🤔 but I’ll give it a shot
@Montana_Ranch_Rescue my grandmother was still using her Home Comfort stove up into the 2000's. It finally burned out. My cousin has the stove now. He is one day going to repair it. Grandpa bought her that stove in the early 1940's when they first moved onto their farm. She could bake the best bread in that oven.
Oh what a life 💗 I have heard stories of the women who mastered bread baking in these cast iron stoves & it sounds magical! These stoves fed big hungry families for generations. Hope your grandmother’s stove finds new life ✨ Certainly is special
Thank you, Ron! A very Merry Christmas to you & yours-cheers to a big year ahead 🙌🏻🎉 Thank you for your support this year-it has meant the world to us!
It is funny that this is the video that dropped for y'all. I just made a from scratch pumpkin pie and pumpkin soup this week. I cheated though. I had a modern stove and roasted the pumpkin. I really enjoy this channel.
11:29 was a beautiful shot! I also love the authenticity where you all had fun even though you got on each others nerves lol. That little bit of narration made this so relatable and fun to watch.
I had to go back to that spot to look-yes! The candlelight and oil lamps make for pure magic 😍 I was thinking how rare it is now to even see non-electric light 💡
It is Blue Onion! 😍 I think that is my very favorite
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I've enjoyed witnessing the rebuild of Uncle Dan's cabin. I am looking forward to the next topic. A cookie sheet or pan of water, placed above the food in your oven, will mitigate the burning problem. It appears you only have one oven rack position. You might try placing some bricks on the oven floor, then your food on the bricks. The cookie sheet or pan of water could be placed on the oven rack. There are other solutions, but that one may be easiest for low-profile dishes.
That is brilliant 🙌🏻 I will try the pan of water idea! It’s true, there’s only one rack space 🤔 It’s very odd. I almost want to cut away the mounts and weld 2 rack positions… But since I probably won’t, the brick idea might be the best solution for lowering the top from that high heat. Thank you!
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@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue The main thing is to get a radiant barrier (cookie sheet, pan of water, etc.) between the food and the top of the oven. Keeping a layer of ash on the top of the oven is effective, too. You might be able to build a frame that slides into the oven and provides you with multiple oven rack positions. That way, you would not have to permanently modify the original stove. Best!
I never done pumpkin pie from cooking down a whole pumpkin before. I’m gonna have to give that a try. If nothing else at least for the experience and to taste it for myself. Love watching your first cabin usage video..
Cheers! That cabin has a magic to it-the light through the windows & now with the cookstove 😃 We had a great day. Love your comment-thank you for being a part of this journey
Regulating an oven is reasonably easy, all you need is a piece of kindling to open the oven door more or less. I'm 72 and my mom taught me to cook on a wood range by the time I was 10. BTW as far as steaks go, no fry pan, right on top of the stove.
Love the idea of going straight onto the cast iron stove plates 🙌🏻 This stove is… quirky. My old Monarch was much easier to regulate. Maybe I need to get new grates for it? Might be setup for coal 🤔 Another commenter mentioned that & I bet she is right. Did you use coal in yours growing up?
My husband and I wish we were 30 yrs younger, we would live very differently. We do grown most our own fruit and veggies and pretty independent. So glad I just found your channel.
@ Oh wow good for you guys! That is impressive 🙌🏻😄 It’s a goal for me to do the same-Montana is so darn tricky for fruit trees… I’ve failed many many times to get them to survive
Years & years of collecting from local blacksmiths, woodworkers, etc. And also from “Townsends”-it’s a great company that sells handmade reenactment gear/tools. Highly recommend!
Just found you. What a fun adventure you've been on. Love what you've done, and love your cook stove. Have you named her? She needs a name so you can sweettalk her 😉 They can be temperamental and once you get her mastered, you won't want to cook on any other. (For reals, no two are alike.) Also, what a great experience for your munchkins. They will grow up loving history and asking questions.
Love your comment 🙌🏻 She totally needs a name! 🤔 Might have to ask my 5 year old for ideas. Hmmm… Betty? Today I cooked with a good friend with 50+ years experience on a woodburning cookstove & it was THE BEST FOOD OF MY LIFE.
Great idea!! The cabin is so small-16’x20’. It’s on the family ranch, but we don’t live it (though I’d be up for it!) We just finished restoring it last month & are enjoying any free days on the ranch by going out to the cabin to cook & relax 🔥
In NZ and Aus pumpkin is a staple (for some) even now. But nearly always savoury (roasted or in a soup) rather than sweet (in a pie). All day stewing seems excessive to me. I’d roast it then blend it for soup (or pie). But I’d need to check with the boss. She usually does the cooking after I cut it up.
Ha I like it! Yeah I think roasting it makes a ton of sense. I’d do that next time. But this all day method seems to have been a pioneer tradition… guessing it makes the pulp more smooth? Since they didn’t have blenders. The kids had fun stirring though 😊
First and foremost pretty cool! Second, not sure if it's an issue. Don't you need some type of heat shield behind that stove to protect the wood from overheating?
It’s an excellent question! I’ve been wondering the same thing-So I’ve been sticking my hand behind the stove and up by the stovepipe every half an hour or so when firing up the old stove-the wall is only ever gently warm. So, I’m thinking all is good. But of course we have a fire blanket and extinguisher here ready 😉
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This series just reinforces that though I was born in 1950, I was born 100 yrs too late to have lived the best possible life. Progress isn't all it's cracked up to be. 🤠
I hear ya, 100% 🎄🎄🎄 Life had more meaning and connection with one another
I raised my seven children completely off grid! We have lived this way for 20 years. I cook on a wood cook stove, we use oil lamps for lights, we hauled our water from a spring four miles from our house and we raised our animals and had a garden. Then we canned our food as we had no electricity or solar. I love living this way.
Oh well done!!! 🙌🏻 I have just enough knowledge to understand how impressive & wonderful your daily life must have been raising a family this way 💗 Wow! Incredibly special. Talk about a like of intentional & loving work. Thank you for sharing ✨
My wife's a gourmet Cook !! She makes blackened chicken , blackened bacon , blackened flapjacks , blackened Pie , and if you don't like it !!! She makes blackened Eye balls 😵💫😊🤪
Hahaha I’m gonna tell my husband that one! 😆😂💥
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Yep that's a good one...
The ash that builds up on top and bottom and sides of the oven is what helps with keeping the burning of food from happening. A freshly cleaned out stove wreaks havoc…a heavy build up of ash makes the oven too cool…finding the sweet spot takes time to figure out. Your Woodstove Cookery book was my first wood cook stove instruction book…the best! Every stove has to teach you its own peculiarities…😂
Great tips-you are totally right about there being a sweet spot 🔥 I just have to learn what that feels like (time & experience, right?). Going to be a great adventure!
Such memories this conjures up from my childhood ❤❤❤. Bless you all.
Sending you warmth & cheer from a tiny cabin in Montana 🔥💗
I like how you made the chair from scratch, drawknife, spoke shave, brace and bit.
Thank you! Old school tools are so satisfying
I have SO enjoyed all of your efforts in building Uncle Dans. Your passion in completing and learning from this project has been inspirational! I hope you find ways to continue this channel. Thank you🫶
Many thanks! Love your comment & am so glad you’ve been here on the journey. The little homestead cabin has been giving us so much joy. Looking forward to a winter of cooking & soaking up its charm. Best to you!
Just wanted to say how much we admire you for taking on such a beautiful challenge on your channel.❤ Absolutely love every video we have seen so far.❤
Love your comment 🙌🏻🔥 So glad you are watching! This old cabin is a treasure. Lucky to get to cook in it
I watched the video where you folks placed that stove in the cabin. It looks like it weighs a ton. But all that cast iron will hold heat for both cooking and warming the cabin. My grandmother used to tell me when she was a little girl they cooked with a big old cast iron stove like that. They would heat water in a big cook pot to bathe her and her brothers and sisters with. During the summer it was taken out to an "outside kitchen" that was attached to the big old drafty house they lived in so it wouldn't heat up the house. It was the centerpiece of the kitchen area during the winter. They cooked food on it heated water for baths with it and it was the children's job to cut stove wood. Can you imagine giving a bunch of young children an axe in todays day and time? She was 89 when she passed away in 1971 so she lived through the days before electricity. She remembered when they got electricity in the late 1930's. Said there was one bulb in the living room of the house.
Wow what a life! I loved hearing about your grandmother’s story-that era must have seen the most new experiences of any time period! The daily work of just living was immense. So much knowledge & skill just to feed your family.
Also love squash. Hubbard squash comes from our area. This is a great recipe and looking forward to making it myself.
Squash has been a favorite of mine since childhood 😄 A bit of cinnamon… yum. Thank you so much for watching-hope you cook some up soon!
Hi Jessie,Today Sunday the 10 th of November I did watch this cosy coocking time in the cabin🇺🇸😊,The natural lessons you share with the kids makes you an great teatcher👍🏻 ,in the way you explane your daughter how it was in the old days what was needed to survive with the example of the Pumkins as get your belly full and survive.The entourage in the kitchen tools, dous me remember the Old times of my earlier live in the Senter of Amsterdam were we lived also a simple live in the Jordaan.I was born there in 1944 il 1958 wenn iI did my time in the army.but back to you again,Thanks for sharing this part of the history & having diner with the familie in uncle Dan`s cabin,see you all,in the final Ep building the stove stear,tree steps.Greetings from te old🇳🇱 Dutch 🇳🇴Norwegian Hubertus🙏🏻🇳🇱🇳🇴☮🇺🇸
1944-almost the same age as my father! He was born 1945. You probably got to glimpse the old pioneer ways in your childhood 🤔 What was Amsterdam like then?
Thanks for your wonderful comment 💗 Hope you stick with us for more adventures
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Hi Jessie I give you the link from my little documentar from the street were I was born,Hubertus in de Jordaan.November 2023
ruclips.net/video/sXy8f_VfCX4/видео.html
Greetings .Hubertus
Thankyou for sharing another wonderful, heartwarming day at Uncle Dan's. Cooking on a wood stove is an adventure! I still do it once in a while in our old farmhouse. I found that covering pies or casseroles with a lid can help with the burning on top (otherwise you have to check it constantly and move it around to avoid burning, which is so hard to do when you've got other things going on, especially with kids). Just let it cook uncovered for a few minutes at the end so it doesn't get soggy. Your pie looked wonderful - as do all your woodfire-cooked meals! Keep up the good work! I look forward to your next video!
Very wise advice, I will do the same-thank you! Love your comment. Snows are expected to fall today here in Montana. Excited to do some cooking in the old homestead house 😊
Real food of a real life. GOD BLESS.
Thank you 🙏 Asking God’s blessing for you as well. Appreciate the comment 😊
The little protruding ring on bottom of the old cast iron pans is made to sit in the burner hole on your wood cook stove. You take the burner plate out and either pan in it's place. Each stove manufacturer had their own pans which fit their stove.
Really?! That is very neat to learn-Thank you! 🙌🏻 I’m going to try it! My skillet is a Wagner and I believe this stove is an early Monarch 🤔 but I’ll give it a shot
@Montana_Ranch_Rescue my grandmother was still using her Home Comfort stove up into the 2000's. It finally burned out. My cousin has the stove now. He is one day going to repair it. Grandpa bought her that stove in the early 1940's when they first moved onto their farm. She could bake the best bread in that oven.
Oh what a life 💗 I have heard stories of the women who mastered bread baking in these cast iron stoves & it sounds magical! These stoves fed big hungry families for generations. Hope your grandmother’s stove finds new life ✨ Certainly is special
Wanted to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas. Look forward to watching lots of episodes in 2025! Thank you for what you do!.
Thank you, Ron! A very Merry Christmas to you & yours-cheers to a big year ahead 🙌🏻🎉 Thank you for your support this year-it has meant the world to us!
It is funny that this is the video that dropped for y'all. I just made a from scratch pumpkin pie and pumpkin soup this week. I cheated though. I had a modern stove and roasted the pumpkin. I really enjoy this channel.
Man, thank you!! 🙏 I always thought growing up that pumpkin came in a can 😂 Sure is fun cooking it old school. Bet your batch tasted great!
11:29 was a beautiful shot! I also love the authenticity where you all had fun even though you got on each others nerves lol. That little bit of narration made this so relatable and fun to watch.
I had to go back to that spot to look-yes! The candlelight and oil lamps make for pure magic 😍 I was thinking how rare it is now to even see non-electric light 💡
I would be all over that pumpkin pie! Just sayin'!!! Well done and Cheers! Loving the series! From my little house on the prairie to y'alls!
Cheers! Love your comment-thank you 🎃
Just noticed your Blue Onion dishes. My parents have this pattern. Memories.
It is Blue Onion! 😍 I think that is my very favorite
I've enjoyed witnessing the rebuild of Uncle Dan's cabin. I am looking forward to the next topic.
A cookie sheet or pan of water, placed above the food in your oven, will mitigate the burning problem. It appears you only have one oven rack position. You might try placing some bricks on the oven floor, then your food on the bricks. The cookie sheet or pan of water could be placed on the oven rack. There are other solutions, but that one may be easiest for low-profile dishes.
That is brilliant 🙌🏻 I will try the pan of water idea! It’s true, there’s only one rack space 🤔 It’s very odd. I almost want to cut away the mounts and weld 2 rack positions… But since I probably won’t, the brick idea might be the best solution for lowering the top from that high heat. Thank you!
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue The main thing is to get a radiant barrier (cookie sheet, pan of water, etc.) between the food and the top of the oven. Keeping a layer of ash on the top of the oven is effective, too. You might be able to build a frame that slides into the oven and provides you with multiple oven rack positions. That way, you would not have to permanently modify the original stove.
Best!
Great thinking. Cheers! I’ll see if Robbie is up for making me a rack like that for Christmas 🎄 Appreciate your ideas 💡
I never done pumpkin pie from cooking down a whole pumpkin before. I’m gonna have to give that a try. If nothing else at least for the experience and to taste it for myself. Love watching your first cabin usage video..
Cheers! That cabin has a magic to it-the light through the windows & now with the cookstove 😃 We had a great day. Love your comment-thank you for being a part of this journey
Regulating an oven is reasonably easy, all you need is a piece of kindling to open the oven door more or less. I'm 72 and my mom taught me to cook on a wood range by the time I was 10. BTW as far as steaks go, no fry pan, right on top of the stove.
Love the idea of going straight onto the cast iron stove plates 🙌🏻 This stove is… quirky. My old Monarch was much easier to regulate. Maybe I need to get new grates for it? Might be setup for coal 🤔 Another commenter mentioned that & I bet she is right. Did you use coal in yours growing up?
What a fun journey. Absolutely enjoy your vids. Hope there will be many more to come. Love, love the cooking on the wood stove.
Thank you so much-means a ton ❤️ The kids and I cooked this week on the stove as the snow was falling outside ❄️ magical!
Very very good thank you my friends ❤
Cheers my friend! Thank you 🎃
What a great learning experience and great memories. With time you will master that oven
Whew, it’s a tricky one! 🙃 but I’m practicing on it with a friend tomorrow who really knows her woodstove cooking-say a prayer for me 😆 I can learn!
Looks wonderful and very yummy..❤️
Definitely a pioneer dish, but really hearty & delicious 💗
My husband and I wish we were 30 yrs younger, we would live very differently. We do grown most our own fruit and veggies and pretty independent. So glad I just found your channel.
@ Oh wow good for you guys! That is impressive 🙌🏻😄 It’s a goal for me to do the same-Montana is so darn tricky for fruit trees… I’ve failed many many times to get them to survive
Love this! Where are you acquiring your household items?
Years & years of collecting from local blacksmiths, woodworkers, etc. And also from “Townsends”-it’s a great company that sells handmade reenactment gear/tools. Highly recommend!
Just found you. What a fun adventure you've been on. Love what you've done, and love your cook stove. Have you named her? She needs a name so you can sweettalk her 😉 They can be temperamental and once you get her mastered, you won't want to cook on any other. (For reals, no two are alike.) Also, what a great experience for your munchkins. They will grow up loving history and asking questions.
Love your comment 🙌🏻 She totally needs a name! 🤔 Might have to ask my 5 year old for ideas. Hmmm… Betty?
Today I cooked with a good friend with 50+ years experience on a woodburning cookstove & it was THE BEST FOOD OF MY LIFE.
Do you guys live in this tiny cabin full time? Can we ger a tour? God bless you all!
Great idea!! The cabin is so small-16’x20’. It’s on the family ranch, but we don’t live it (though I’d be up for it!)
We just finished restoring it last month & are enjoying any free days on the ranch by going out to the cabin to cook & relax 🔥
In NZ and Aus pumpkin is a staple (for some) even now. But nearly always savoury (roasted or in a soup) rather than sweet (in a pie).
All day stewing seems excessive to me. I’d roast it then blend it for soup (or pie). But I’d need to check with the boss. She usually does the cooking after I cut it up.
Ha I like it! Yeah I think roasting it makes a ton of sense. I’d do that next time. But this all day method seems to have been a pioneer tradition… guessing it makes the pulp more smooth? Since they didn’t have blenders. The kids had fun stirring though 😊
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Wonderful vid. Thank you for for sharing. Any chance you could ever dig a well for the cabin?
I love that idea! I wonder if we could hand dig it 🤔
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue LOL isn't that what RUclips is for?
@@erniewood3159 haha 😆
First and foremost pretty cool! Second, not sure if it's an issue. Don't you need some type of heat shield behind that stove to protect the wood from overheating?
It’s an excellent question! I’ve been wondering the same thing-So I’ve been sticking my hand behind the stove and up by the stovepipe every half an hour or so when firing up the old stove-the wall is only ever gently warm. So, I’m thinking all is good. But of course we have a fire blanket and extinguisher here ready 😉
Yo where are you in MT? Your geography makes me question whether or not we’re dang near neighbors 😮😅
Right smack dab in the middle of the state! Lewistown 🙌🏻
@ wow, I’m right on the Fergus/JB county line. We’ve probably waved at each other on the highway before 🤣🤣🤣
Hate to bring this up. Just something off about the pictures of house and surrounding area. NO outhouse. 😮
Haha you are right! It’s on the list to build once the ground warms up 😉 Until then it’s a drive to the ranch shop or grandma & grandpas house