Memory lane! I was there when the fountain was being built and the sugar "subtleties" were being created. I remember all those "old guard" cooks, chatting with them, copying down their cooking techniques. No more eating the food at the large table. No more cooking multiple dishes for actual consumption. The presentations have changed by 2024, but the knowledges, sharing, and interacting with the staff is still there. Many thanks to Hampton Court for continuing to keep the Tudor kitchens alive and breathing!
Yes, I would love to be there on one of those 50 days & get to taste some Renaissance food. It must of tasted very different. I have a medieval recipe book which may have been very similar; they ate just about anything & everything.
Are Renaissance fairs/festivals this accurate to true cooking technique? Does anybody know? I've been wanting to go to one for about five years now and never seem to make the time to actually attend. Sounds like a lot of fun though!
Before refrigeration was invented, meat had to be cured, because if it wasn't, it had to be eaten within days of being slaughtered, or else it would go bad. A pig weighs several hundred pounds, which is enough to feed a family for a few months. Since every part of a pig would be eaten (even gelatine from the bones), it would be a huge waste if most of it went bad. Especially with food in such short supply in winter.
most expensive ice cream is coated with a thin layer of gold in new york city for like 1,999 I think? Its ridiculous a business like that exists and succeeds. Its just people with more money than they know what to do with.
Note that the staff are all male. This is because, in the Tudor era, men were paid more than women. So, it was a sign of wealth and status to employ only men. Women were employed there, but in menial roles: laundresses, water-gatherers, and cleaners.
When the place is lit only by candles and cooking fires, you need whitewashed walls to reflect that light, increasing it. Whitewash contains caustic lime, which pulls moisture from the air, reducing dampness. Medieval castles had rendered, whitewashed walls for the same reasons. We just don't see it in the castles that remain, because it's worn off through the centuries.
Fascinating documentary; however, it fails to address one important aspect - the lack of hygiene in Tudor kitchens, including those at Hampton Court! I'm quite sure today's re-created meal preparations at Hampton Court are conducted under the most up-to-date health codes - which were not around in the Tudor era! In those days, kitchens and meal preparation were totally unsanitary by today's standards.
nightofcrimson13. That's a good observation they didn't have a real understanding at that time of germs and bacteria they worked under the belief that the body was made up of humours that when misaligned caused a person to become ill. Unlike today of course we now know that bacteria and germs cause illness and that good hand washing and sanitation practices prevent illness. During Henry's time western medicine was still in its infancy they used practices in treating people that had been around for centuries and passed down through the generations. Most families even had areas around their homes for medicinal plants and herbs used to treat various ailments. Don't get me wrong though we have thing that we know now thanks to The physicians of Henry's time they I believe and I may be incorrect that it was in Henry's time that they began using the bodies of hanged prisoners as medical cadavers.
movement26 The kitchen workers got meat *every day* - yes, it was small portions shared with several others, & it was salted meat that was then boiled, but they got it every day- & they were also entitled to 16 pints of ale or small beer, as well as a pound of bread.
Yes. It's inert, so it goes right through the digestive system, without breaking down at all. That's how *real* gold leaf can be safely eaten. Artificial gold leaf cannot be eaten, because it's a blend of toxic metals, which break down in the digestive system, and are absorbed into the body.
Ever wonder why there are no English restaurants in your neighborhood? No "Big Ben Drive-in"? No Picca-dillycatessen? That's because the British have always created the nastiest cuisine of any civilized country on Earth! Everything is too sweet, too gritty, too greasy and generally too gross to eat. Mmmmmm! Suet!
Well a lot of American food is actually based on English food, bacon for breakfast, fries, Yankee Pot Roast, for example.Also, from a country that has syrup for breakfast squeezes cheese out of tube, please! Oh, and by the way, where does Cheddar Cheese that Americans love so much come from? Now, erm let me think.
@Robert Frapples -- Fish and chips is usually nice. Afternoon tea can be very nice. Likewise, the Sunday roast beef dinner. The less attractive foods -- jellied eels, mushy peas, chip butty (french fries / chips between slices of buttered bread), etc. -- are mostly working class food ; the workers could afford only cheap ingredients and they needed a lot of calories, so they ate fatty, starchy foods.
I strongly recommend the book by Alison Weir " Henry VIII , the king and his court" she describes every aspect of Henry's everyday life! it's great!
I read it after my sister got it for me for Christmas! It was very fascinating.
I’ll have to check it out
Quite possibly the best book about Henry's court that exists! I bought it and read it so many times it wore out and I had to buy another
That kitchen is even more jaw dropping when standing in it.
I bet.
I live 5 mins away by car
Lucky you!
Hoping to go one day ....
@E M u will love it. Be sure to hire the headphones
Find this absolutely fascinating. Am a big fan of medieval and renaissance cookery. Thank you much.
Memory lane! I was there when the fountain was being built and the sugar "subtleties" were being created. I remember all those "old guard" cooks, chatting with them, copying down their cooking techniques. No more eating the food at the large table. No more cooking multiple dishes for actual consumption. The presentations have changed by 2024, but the knowledges, sharing, and interacting with the staff is still there. Many thanks to Hampton Court for continuing to keep the Tudor kitchens alive and breathing!
Could you do a video on how they kept food cool and fresh?
That would be a great way to spend an afternoon.
I have truly traveled back at time with this wonderful 💕 post. Simply wonderful ❤ 😊
Omg-this video is so awesome! I would work there for free! Thanks for sharing:)
Wonderful! 🇬🇧 Greetings from London! 💗
We went to Hampton Court last year as we live close by and saw them doing exactly this and I got to try out roasting some meat myself Fascinating.
What did it taste like
food factory!!!! i like the roasting rooms, the very big fireplace who cook the chickens
Wonderful to know abt.Tudor Cooking in Henry's days!
Amazing! loved it!
Yes, I would love to be there on one of those 50 days & get to taste some Renaissance food. It must of tasted very different. I have a medieval recipe book which may have been very similar; they ate just about anything & everything.
Come and say hello to the team, as you know we are very approachable.
It won't hurt you, you can't digest it. It just kind of moves on through.
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@@marydelrey4451 my mom commented this when i was 6-
Gold is inert. Eating it is neither heathy not unhealthily. It goes right through our system. Hey - in that sense, it's reusable !
Heavy metal poisoning is the way they used to kill kings.
"heathy not unhealthily." say what son?
Well, of course it's reuseable. Hence why it's so valuable can't easily be destroyed.
I'd like to taste Tudor's food
The way they cooked it. On a spit
I cannot imagine the heat from those hearths, must’ve been excruciating
Love the kitchen 3600 square FEET 🎁🍀🌴
Are Renaissance fairs/festivals this accurate to true cooking technique? Does anybody know? I've been wanting to go to one for about five years now and never seem to make the time to actually attend. Sounds like a lot of fun though!
To think cured meat was for peasants and raw meat with nothing done to it was for the rich shows how much our world has changed.
It hasn't changed that much; it's not the rich in modern times who eat spam and hot dogs.
Before refrigeration was invented, meat had to be cured, because if it wasn't, it had to be eaten within days of being slaughtered, or else it would go bad.
A pig weighs several hundred pounds, which is enough to feed a family for a few months. Since every part of a pig would be eaten (even gelatine from the bones), it would be a huge waste if most of it went bad. Especially with food in such short supply in winter.
Ok, when they said "roasting room" I actually thought for a second that they had a roasting room, the savage roasting.
ohh im sure they did
Rie knowing our lot of kings they probably did but that parts been buried.
@@GothicaBeauty Exactly.
No roasted lamb. I am heartbroken. :-(
Que impresionante es su cocina antigua buena!
"You want fries with that?"
JohnPaul Dixon Lol!
Ingesting gold, you can even buy liquor today with gold flakes floating in the bottle
most expensive ice cream is coated with a thin layer of gold in new york city for like 1,999 I think? Its ridiculous a business like that exists and succeeds. Its just people with more money than they know what to do with.
I want to recreate 19th century cooking.
Alex Ehlers that should be fairly simple....
Eating gold--I'll pass on that Thank you...
its gold flakes, not gold chunks you'd break your teeth lol! think of it as a garnish.
Gold passes right through the body and comes out the other end, intact, in gold-flecked poo.
Would that include the standards of food hygiene of the time?
Its not much different today. The uber wealthy eat ice cream sundaes and burgers coated with gold.
Note that the staff are all male. This is because, in the Tudor era, men were paid more than women. So, it was a sign of wealth and status to employ only men.
Women were employed there, but in menial roles: laundresses, water-gatherers, and cleaners.
You've forgotten the dogs that sometimes turned spits.
Hey what colour should we paint the kitchen and fireplace?
White.
errmmmmm.....
When the place is lit only by candles and cooking fires, you need whitewashed walls to reflect that light, increasing it. Whitewash contains caustic lime, which pulls moisture from the air, reducing dampness.
Medieval castles had rendered, whitewashed walls for the same reasons. We just don't see it in the castles that remain, because it's worn off through the centuries.
Thank you.
The obsession with sugar that started trending during this time is why Queen Elizabeth had very few teeth.
Fascinating documentary; however, it fails to address one important aspect - the lack of hygiene in Tudor kitchens, including those at Hampton Court! I'm quite sure today's re-created meal preparations at Hampton Court are conducted under the most up-to-date health codes - which were not around in the Tudor era!
In those days, kitchens and meal preparation were totally unsanitary by today's standards.
DICK HEAD
absolutely good point
nightofcrimson13. That's a good observation they didn't have a real understanding at that time of germs and bacteria they worked under the belief that the body was made up of humours that when misaligned caused a person to become ill. Unlike today of course we now know that bacteria and germs cause illness and that good hand washing and sanitation practices prevent illness. During Henry's time western medicine was still in its infancy they used practices in treating people that had been around for centuries and passed down through the generations. Most families even had areas around their homes for medicinal plants and herbs used to treat various ailments. Don't get me wrong though we have thing that we know now thanks to The physicians of Henry's time they I believe and I may be incorrect that it was in Henry's time that they began using the bodies of hanged prisoners as medical cadavers.
Love it.
@AWickedMind that is true
@AWickedMind i agree on most things, but i wouldn't really like sugar in my wine
As far as jobs go, working in Hampton court kitchens with 600 other muckers sounds ok........never go hungry.
movement26
The kitchen workers got meat *every day* - yes, it was small portions shared with several others, & it was salted meat that was then boiled, but they got it every day- & they were also entitled to 16 pints of ale or small beer, as well as a pound of bread.
I love to cooking my own food then i know the value there... 🌐🇬🇧❤️
Awesooomee!!!
Henry loved strawberries, very high in Vitamin C, so probably not scurvy.
Back then, there were no cultivated strawberries, only tiny wild strawberries. It took a couple of hundred to fill a pint box.
they should add more actors to make the reenactment looked real
Only thing left out, the secret recipe.
SPIT
1 person obviously has indigestion.
@AWickedMind Unfortunately we would probably get food poisoning. lol.
My goodness ☺️
LLAAV!!
(Means Laughs Like An Anime Villainess) XD
Oh God, they actually put high priced metal on sweets??!!!! That CANNOT be good for you!!
@@Jakegothicsnake In the US, ingesting was used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. My mother was treated that way.
"Consumer of food and women".
Ingesting gold does not sound healthy.......Is it????
It's not exactly unhealthy. It passes through the body without harming it; it is in fact perfectly safe to eat gold.
Is gold even edible?
Yes. It's inert, so it goes right through the digestive system, without breaking down at all. That's how *real* gold leaf can be safely eaten.
Artificial gold leaf cannot be eaten, because it's a blend of toxic metals, which break down in the digestive system, and are absorbed into the body.
Cooks handling food who never washed their hands. Eeeew! The food was probably never washed either.
Drake, what kind of liquor has gold flakes in it ?
@AWickedMind what about cheescake? can u say no to a cheescake diet...i think not lol
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he was an evil man an evil king who killt his wives. so creedy terrible man sorry but a nice place realy ,,,
francis olivier to be fair, he only killed a couple of them...😉
francis olivier "killt"!!!???
Think someone is on mum's account ... creedy IS greedy , kilt Is killed , realy really .. bless
🤔🤔🤔looks dirty
39 dislikes.
Canibalists Mr Duvalier ?
there diet was nasty
To much fat
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Ever wonder why there are no English restaurants in your neighborhood? No "Big Ben Drive-in"? No Picca-dillycatessen? That's because the British have always created the nastiest cuisine of any civilized country on Earth! Everything is too sweet, too gritty, too greasy and generally too gross to eat. Mmmmmm! Suet!
Well a lot of American food is actually based on English food, bacon for breakfast, fries, Yankee Pot Roast, for example.Also, from a country that has syrup for breakfast squeezes cheese out of tube, please! Oh, and by the way, where does Cheddar Cheese that Americans love so much come from? Now, erm let me think.
Britain is not a country.
@Robert Frapples -- Fish and chips is usually nice. Afternoon tea can be very nice. Likewise, the Sunday roast beef dinner. The less attractive foods -- jellied eels, mushy peas, chip butty (french fries / chips between slices of buttered bread), etc. -- are mostly working class food ; the workers could afford only cheap ingredients and they needed a lot of calories, so they ate fatty, starchy foods.