Colonial Cooking
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- We learn how Colonists in 18th Century Virginia prepared foods in a Hearth-fired kitchen. Frank Clark, Supervisor of Historic Foodways at Colonial Williamsburg, shows us around the kitchen of the Peyton Randolph House.
A production of the Culinary Media Network. www.culinarymedianetwork.com
Remember, the concept of dinner 200 plus years ago was different. Dinner was what we now call lunch. The late evening meal was usually "supper" and consisted of cold foods and leftovers. Luncheon or lunch did not come into being until the Industrial revolution and the workers need a meal break around noon. In Latin America, meals can be as many as 5 a day, starting with a light breakfast of coffee and bread and ending with a supper at 9 or 10 in the evening.
I would love to have a cottage one day where I could do stuff like this ❤️
I would imagine for poorer families, who couldn't afford to eat luxury items on a daily basis, treats like a jam tart or apple pie would be a special weekly treat for the family, perhaps something the mother would cook on a Friday for a Friday or Saturday evening supper treat, particularly for the children. Don't forget for poor families, meat and vegetables had to last days, till the next market or slaughter etc, so many wet foods and fish and meat would be made at home and salted to last etc, dry foods such as flour products could last days, except bread which would be daily made, only wealthy people could afford fresh fish and meat etc on a daily basis. I am from the UK but love the cooking and living methods and ways of the 19th century and before.
I had to do this for school
We have something like that in Delaware and the lady made sugar cookies for us and they smeeled good and tasted good. She baked them on the old stove
Good Lord, can we stop with the mutual prejudice and actually discuss what's in the video for once?
I LOVE Colonial Williamsburg, I wish I could go back. I've been making johnnycakes lately to reminisce over the time I spent apprenticing at Claude Moore Colonial Farm some years ago :)
This dude rocks.
So THATS why they called it a Dutch Oven, the coals were on top of a flat iron lid that "baked" the pies inside, course today the lid is rounded so coals would not be used....
They have camp ovens that the coals go on top too. In fact, biscuits and breads need the heat from above more than below.
@hisboo911 "Black" and "slave" are a couple of words that really get things going, even when the video is about
FOOD. So, since I know a bit about this time period, here are a couple of facts that aren't discussed very much. Many of the slaves who were transported into this country were sold to slavers by their own people. Williamsburg and other towns had many free blacks and some of those same free blacks owned slaves.
Exactly. But don't confuse them with facts and the truth. They would be in a pickle if they couldn't play the victim or martyr.
Legit colonial Peter griffin
flies on everything?!!!
wkgm11 that’s authentic! The flies that is! Lol
I have a feeling those are wax replicas used as models. Its fairly common in some Asian restaurants to have displays so I've seen how real that can look. They aren't going to place "real" food out like that day after day.
Screen doors would probably ruin the vibe.
i'm quite suprised about dinner in the middle of the day because i'm from holland and the part where i'm from you eat dinner in the middle of the day
Same here in the southwest US.
Damn, everything lookes so tasty
There were alot of poor people in the colonies , including my ancestors and it frustrates me that whenever I try to do research on colonists , particularly how they dressed or ate,the attention is always focused on the upper classes
very interesting!
Very informative
@hisboo911 Throw words around like what? I just said what they explained in the video, that the original owner had a slave cook. That's just what he said, that's all. You asked if he had a slave cook. he doesn't. The original owner did.
@hisboo911 And I'm well aware that Blacks were not inherently slaves. People all around the world made slaves out of eachother in the past. The Romans grabbed some Greeks for slaves regularly. The Vikings made slaves out of any town they captured by burning. The taller African tribes sometimes made slaves out of the shorter tribes. The Persian empire made slaves out of all the neighboring countries they overthrew. That's how their empire grew. That's how the Roman empire grew too.
quail is YUMMY
How did they keep the food from spoiling until night and the next morning?
+j pun Food does not necessarily spoil in just a few hours, or even a day. If the cooking utensils and dishes were all clean to start with, and the food cooked to a proper temperature, there were not necessarily enough food poisoning germs around or alive to cause any illness. I know this to be true from cooking frequently in my own kitchen, and leaving food in pots, covered by lids, to be eaten throughout the day and into the next day. Even without refrigeration I have practically never experienced any symptoms that might have been food poisoning. When I did it was usually because I left food for more than a day without reheating it properly, or the food was perhaps a bit old (in my fridge) before it was cooked to begin with.
These standards would not be appropriate for a modern restaurant, of course, but it is not unusual for home kitchens around the world historically.
With all due respect, have you had food poising often your lifetime? I have gotten it once and I am 32, it was from a work luncheon I attended as 15 other co-workers got sick as well.
***** As I mentioned, I have very rarely had anything that might be called food poisoning. Certainly never the vomiting, feverish kind. I had diarrhea once or twice that might have been due to something I ate, but it was mild, and for all I know it might it have been totally unconnected with any food I cooked or left on the counter for a few hours. And I do leave food out on my counter OFTEN, like daily. So for it to be that common for me to break those sanitation rules, yet my children and I suffer virtually no bad consequences from it, I'd say the hype is probably overstated.
Possibly the reason why I don't suffer it at all, and you did once from a luncheon at work is that we always wash our hands thoroughly here, especially after the bathroom and before preparing food. Most likely whoever poisoned your food failed that simple requirement. I'm sorry for your suffering and that of your coworkers.
Most homes had root cellars dug into the ground which was several degrees cooler than the surface temperature. Also no more food was cooked than what could be eaten. Meats were heavily salted down or smoked to preserve them.
Alcohol was used as a health drink. Usually hard cider. Everyone had cider with dinner. The alcohol would kill most of the bad stuff in the food so kids grew up drinking hard cider.
FLYS EVERYWHERE!!!😮😮
american generally eat dinner much earlier than europeans.
You have a twin you look like somebody I know y'all are exactly alike
@hisboo911 250 years ago the original owner had some. Several people in the area did back then.
Wait... unlike today, dessert was eaten FIRST, as a rule. Sweets and all manner a' danties are eaten first, unless my history fails me...
pie
there are a lot of flys
thats what i thought lol
@hisboo911 Oh okay! ;D Have a nice time! I thought you were mostly responding to someone else. I don't mind if you argue. It's interesting. I'm not easily offended. I am white too; you're right. ;p I don't think I'll ever really know what it's like to be Black, actually, though I think about it.
@Lee05211 You mean blacks? They're still people, and still worth thinking about. Every consciousness is some aspect of All That Is, or Universal energy, or God. Everything has something to offer.
apple pie yummmm
old
Wow..... soapboxing much?
Back then he could have made a lot of money in the circus as the world's fattest man. Nowadays he's just a normal-weight American.
And back then you could have been the world's largest asshole, maybe even
now you would qualify.