You had me at Teddy Roosevelt. He’s one of my favorite presidents; from the work he did to alleviate working conditions in sweatshops, to his conservation efforts, to the Panama Canal, what a great man. The day spent in your cabin and the efforts you needed to undertake to use the wood stove show we do live in a soft, albeit sometimes stressful, world.
Theodore Roosevelt is hands down my favorite president. I have more respect for him than I can express-one of the few truly virtuous men to have held the office. 🙌🏻 Amazing how lots of people don’t know who he is 🤦🏻♀️ Love that you get it-one of the rare ones. Cheers from a very snowy, cold Montana this morning ❄️
He was always saying, "Whoa, Nellie!!" My comment, was meant as a joke. As in... shopping for cast iron pans and pots for that beautiful stove. At 80 years old I remember a lot of cooking on wood stoves. This channel is priceless!
Thank you for sharing these humble experiences at your prairie homestead. I truly love the old ways. My dad made his coffee that way his whole life, he did not like perked coffee. I've drank gallons of his cowboy coffee until he passed away in 1986. So you make such fond memories resurface and for that a, heartfelt thank you.❤❤❤
Yup. My family lived and grew up on our ranch/farm since the 60's and only up until Covid and your right the daily grind meant no room for soft life anxiety 😊
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescueand had good common sense from first hand knowledge of working hard. These woke people who live a soft life and sit around studying philosophical ideological ideas but have no idea of what it takes to grow and process food and textiles. Then spin and weave the textiles to make fabric for linens and clothes.
Theodore Roosevelt: What will destroy America; Peace at any price and the love of soft living. I thoroughly enjoy your commentary in all of your videos. It's one if the reasons I enjoy watching them. So educational! Many people need to be reminded of things or shown things that the years and technology have caused us to forget. The irony is that it's technology bringing you to them. THANK YOU for all of the hard work you all have done and continue to do!! Bravo!! 👏 👏👏
LOVE your comment. The irony is absolutely thick-tech is the method of sharing 😆 So I can’t say I’m a true Luddite 😉 But like you I can see that we are forgetting too much, getting too comfortable, and that could be our downfall. Cheers from Montana!
I think this just might be my favorite video yet. So beautiful and full of wisdom. If America could only embrace the spirit and wisdom of Teddy Roosevelt again! He had the heart and vision of a pioneer. You and your sweet family are bringing that same spirit to life again through these wonderful videos. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all. May God bless you richly❤
May God Bless you, thank you for such thoughtful words ❤️❤️❤️ It really means a lot. It’s hard to put ourselves out there like this, but this history is worth telling I think. I adore Theodore Roosevelt & all his virtue. He knew what our country could be. How strong Americans have been. I expect he’d be sad to see what it has become.
Thank you so much! Some people think it’s too hard for kids to experience, but Maggie and George love being out there! If I can just keep their toes warm they relish getting to help with the little jobs. Love your comment-really, thank you! ❤️
What an epic opening, Jessica!! Thank you so much for that rock solid perspective. Great quote by Roosevelt. I love your channel! And your candles and spoons 👏
Appreciate your comment 😊 Roosevelt is hands down my favorite president (Washington of course being the greatest) for his virtuous character and strength. Hi from Montana!
Once again I'm envious of your experience...your pancake reminds me of a crepe...I'm polish so we called it egg Plotski . Yes coffee is it's own food group. Kent Rollans would love cooking there ! Nothing better than my woodstove keeping the house in upper 70 's. & no furnace running!! Living vicariously thru your videos...Thanks
Wonderful comment, love it! Rebuilding this cabin was a blast & now cooking in it might be even more fun 🔥 Been watching some Cowboy Kent! History and food, what could be better?
Burning almost all pine, be sure to stay on top of the Creosote. That pine resin will build up in the flue and stovepipe pretty quickly. Having to wear heavy coats the entire time you visit tells me this cabin needs a second and more dedicated wood burner.
Historically, dried apples would have been squirreled away for special times. A bowl of apple slices, reconstituted with a drizzle of maple syrup, would be up in the warmer, maybe for a couple days, waiting for that lovely Dutch Baby to come out of the oven. Made a Christmas breakfast pure heaven in those hard times.... Sweet video. Always enjoy your content!
Love your comment!! This is wild-I just read a recipe from the old cookbook last night about taking dried apples and reconstituting them with molasses to make a winter’s cake. I’d like to try it!
You are wonderful, thank you ❤️ Of all the people in my family I’m definitely the least likely to be on film or talk to a camera. Total introvert. So your comment means an extra lot to me 😉
Granddad kept winter keeping apples in boxes in the bedroom next to the pork barrel, just above freezing. They were usually used up in pie for Easter. If you want to make your Dutch Baby extra special lightly sautee fruit in season, apples, pears, cherries are yummy, then add your batter. A dusting of cinnamon sugar or 10X is all the sweetener needed. If you are short of jelly melt a little with just a little water and brush it on when the pan comes out of the oven.
Brilliant advice! I think about that much more now-finding a spot to keep food cool but juuuuust above freezing 🤔 You had to know your house, know your food. Took a lifetime of knowledge. Love hearing your stories 🔥
I just found your channel. VERY INTERESTING!!! My dad was born in Denton, Montana in 1918 and spent the first 8 years of his life there. He was very proud of his pioneer childhood! Your channel reminds me of his childhood that he told me about! Thank you
Cheers! 🙌🏻 Year round! Hoorah, that is so special-I would love to do the same. I lived alone off grid for my 20s and did the same then on an old cookstove and wood heating stove. Miss it. This is my small way to have it again 🔥 Glad you found us!
Thank God you've been able to Rebuild a piece of History !! But more than that A Beacon of LIGHT !! A reference point of what's good and wholesome and pure !! In a dark dark world where GOOD VALUES of Excellency and TRUTH are being LOST and Distorted !! Watching your videos what you are Creating , people of HONOR , PILLARS of Goodness and TRUTH !!! You bring joy to my heart and light up my SOUL !! Never be diminished , what you do has far more ramifications than what anybody can SEE !! Your labor of planting values of goodness and Truth , It's like a SEED !! First the blade then the ear then the full corn in the EAR !!!!
Cheers from Montana! 🔥Thank you for the very kind comment ❤️ It’s a humble house & humble commentary, but we are loving working on & in this small house. God Bless!
I’ve been watching you from early early on so that means a TON 🔥 I honestly hope we can grow a bit but stay kind of small-I’m connecting with the neatest people through these videos. I bet it’s similar for you. Great people out there. Thanks for your thoughtful comment ❤️
Hi Jessie & good morning over there in Montana USA. Well, you are more comfortable & familiar with the Firewood cookstove, It's enjoyable watching you prepare the Pancake and the Dutch Baby, in the old-time kitchen using the recipes from the oldtimers. I`m still impressed by the kitchen equipment pans and pots and the accommodations who breathe the time's efforts to keep the homestead warm. sofar so cosy. I saw the winter did leave a real part of snow outside looking clean & cold. Thanks for sharing this first video in the New Year. Greetings and blessings as always from Hubertus to all of you🙏🏻🇳🇴🇳🇱🍀🇺🇸🎄. and on the 1st day, January 20 cm of new snow and on the second day 50 cm of new snow so I used my Arians snowblower to remove most of it. And then the rain came so now Wednesday the eighth of January the weather is clear but cold the weather forecast predicted the coming two weeks of cold and snowy🥶❄.
Hi Hubertus! Oh you and Robbie are the same sort of men-great tools for handling the snow! ⛄️ ❄️ We are in the midst of lots of snow falling here. Robbie has been snow blowing and plowing at the ranch and in town. Lots of family to take care of along with plowing a path to Uncle Dan’s. We cooked the last couple days out there & had lots of fun! 🔥😊 Sending you warmth from the fire here in Montana. 🇺🇸
Recently found your channel - learning valuable skills and perspectives in this uncertain time and indulging in rejection of this sickeningly soft life. Time to revert back to reality and real work. Thank you and never stop! -a brand new subscriber
Hey you are from right here! We must know each other 🤔 I subscribed to your channel ❤️ Looks like you guys do great homesteading! Looking forward to watching
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue I am sure we have probably crossed paths at some point :🙂Thank you, I appreciate that, I am looking forward to catching up on your channel as well, your videos are very well done!
You are lovely ❤️-I was intimidated totally too, but Robbie convinced me to start trying it & Dutch babies are easy as pie. Fun recipe 🔥 Even when not perfect I still think they taste amazing. I’m learning.
Here in New Mexico cowboy coffee, as I was taught, is made with roasted Mesquite beans. In the area we live they are abundant and we finally foraged some and made it this last summer. It is actually quite delicious and flavorful I was very impressed.❤ Although some older cowboys argue that whatever coffee they make is cowboy coffee because a cowboy made it😂.
Oh how fascinating!! Wild! What do the mesquite beans taste like? Smokey? Sweet? That is too cool you made some 🤠 Ha I hear ya on the definitions of cowboy coffee-old timers here say you should be able to stand your spoon up in it 😉
I'm watching your videos from Mexico City, I really appreciate all the effort you put in to share these beautiful and wholesome moments with us. I wish you and your family a happy new year!
So wonderful! Sweet little family!! When I lived in the community in my 20’s the majority of us were single but some children. We drew names for the children and made homemade gifts. My friend Steve & I crafted a toddler bed for my godchild Ariel. I painted the headboard. Wondering what you use for the “ necessary?”.💕🙏🕊✝️
Oh I love that you built and hand painted an heirloom like that 💗💗💗 We have many more projects on the list, just waiting for nicer weather. An outhouse, restoring a railroad bunk car, digging a well-all fun 😊 Love your comments. What a fascinating adventure your life has been thus far!
That is exactly what I hear from people who have actually LIVED this life-work, yes, but not a sense of life being overly hard or brutal. Love how you describe the awareness of blessing. Beautiful. ❤️
Ahh i appreciate your support very much (I do hate Amazon though) 😆 But there are some cool makers out there like Townsends that I highly recommend. Or our little online store has candles and wooden spoons with more handmade items to come 🔥
I love your storytelling! It takes me back to my last big project. In 2010, a Fannie Mae bank foreclosure came on the market I had to jump on. A 3 bedroom cabin on 5 acres of perfectly symmetrically planted mature pine forest in northwest Wisconsin. Due to a poor economy, I picked it up for a song from the bank. The catch was that the previous owner, in a drug fueled rage, trashed the place to the point I had to take most of it down to the studs and start over. Still, the bones were good and the potential even better. When done, it was unheated during the week, and like your cabin downright cold for the first hours upon arrival, waiting for the woodstove to take the chill off. After 3 years, I sold it for a tidy profit and headed to Arizona for 10 yrs of nomad life. I've often thought of trying out a recipe for Dutch Babies. Now, as central Texas goes into a cold stretch, maybe I'll get motivated to give it a go. Thanks for another great video!
Love your adventures! What a cool property to give new life to-I really enjoy projects like that too 🙌🏻 I bet that house will last long into the future for a new family (when it otherwise would have been wrecked by that precious guy, yuck) You have the wildest life-I love it! It’s absolutely treacherous cold this morning here. Hope it’s a fun chilly morning for you to cook 🔥 The Dutch baby is particularly delicious!
I don't know where to begin. You are brave souls to attempt this pioneer life. I love seeing the recipes come off & out of the stove, the use of the pots & pans. Have you read "Montana Women Homesteaders"? Also, Dutch baby is also known as German & Swedish pancakes. Montana like all of the U.S. began with all nationalities who put their hand & knowledge to everything to live from the beginning. If you have time RUclipsrs Ron & Justine on Early American are interesting to watch. She cooks over the hearth with much success & of course some flops. But it is also a look at the early days. Much success to you & all it takes to put this program out.
Really love your comment-thank you 🔥💗 I’ve caught an episode or two of theirs! They seem very genuine. I watched Jon Townsend’s channel for years-highly recommend if you like 1700s cooking/history. I really enjoyed “Montana Women Homesteaders”. My local librarian found it for me & it is full of honest & humbling tales from history 🔥 Highly recommend
My favorite black and white photos from my grandparents' photo album are a little boy setting on a wooden carved horse my grandpa made out of a fur trre log. Wish we had that carved horse 🐎 today, but i was told the leg broke, and they barred it. This carved horse had real horse hair glued on it by using their ranch horses. Maybe your husband might try carving a rocking horse with wood and use real horse hair. I love the video 📹.
What a treasure! I’m so sorry it was lost to time 😔 I’d very much like to make an heirloom like that. Something no amount of money can buy, only time and one’s hands can make 🙌🏻❄️
Hi Jessie and Family from frosty ❄❄ New Hampshire. Watching you and thinking of the Little Britches series, when a thought came to mind. I remember reading about the logging camp cooks. If you can find some books detailing the life of the cook. Maybe one of the Foxfire books? That Dutchbaby looked mighty fine :-) My Grandmother Hazel told me so many stories about her life during the Great Depression that I know most by heart. She said no matter what, keep your larder full! And plant a Victory Garden. When so many folks were off work during the height of the pandemic, we did not skip a beat on the farm. It was work as usual. I agree with you regarding us becoming too soft and unprepared if any really hard times come to our doorstep. Makes me feel pampered by the copious amounts of heat our kitchen wood stove pumps out, to the degree that I have to open doors or wear shorts and a t-shirt. Pilgrims had solid high backed chairs to place in front of the fireplace to trap the heat. I can't imagine cooking full time with a fireplace and yet our ancestors did it! Question: Are you planning to have a kitchen wood stove at your main house? Great video! Cheers! ~ Diane
Adore your comment, Diane, as always ❤️❄️ It’s bitingly cold here today. I’m reading recipes from the old cookbook and planning what to make next. I should get out my foxfire and see what ideas are in there-great idea! Your grandmother certainly knew what it took to keep her family going. So much of a woman’s life was planning. I was reading Laura Ingalls’ books to Maggie and it hit me how much knowledge & foresight it took just to have the raw materials to cook a meal. I’d love to develop a true dugout root cellar 🤔 I cooked exclusively with a Monarch woodburner for years and would 100% do it again in our house. We live in town at the moment (until a house opens up on the ranch). I’d like to find another cookstove and put it in our forever home someday 🔥
Get some heat in the cabin, propane even just keep it off camera, then you can keep control of fire in the cook stove a smaller fire will give you more control over cooking baking heat. I ask my grandma in the late 40's early 50's why she only put a few small pieces of wood in the stove she told me I'm cooking not heating. I will never forget that tidbit, I was just tall enough to see straight in the fire box.. You are creating memories for your children they will remember long after we are gone. Thank you.
Love your comment-thank you! ❤️ We have had serious conversations about putting another woodstove in the cabin. Good idea to sneak a propane heater in 🤔 It won’t hurt the stove to fire it up cold, I don’t think, but I bet you’re right that the oven won’t work it’s best when the interior of the house is so cold.
Some mighty fine wool is produced in Montana. Layering long underwear, flannel lined jeans and sweaters keep kids, small and large toasty warm in a cold house. Be sure they button so you don't overheat. Until you warm up a toque also helps.
Love this series. Thank you for sharing. The cowboy coffee with DutchBabies pancake along with explaining how the recipe works. You are the best. Now I need the cast iron pot used for brewing the cowboy coffee. Please list source. Thank You
Thank you for your wonderful comment ❤️🙌🏻 ☕️ 🔥 Okay I tried tagging the Staub cast iron kettle in the products description for the video. A little icon should pop up when you watch this episode. Let me know if it works? I’ve never tried doing this before 🤪 I’m learning, ha
I bet that a chinook would be very welcome right now, because it got so cold again. The faith, determination, and resilience got our ancestors through the tougher times, such as in The Great Depression, in North America. There is so much we can learn from them. We take so much of of our modern amenities and conveniences for granted. I'm fascinated by the birch twig whisk. It's pretty neat. Birch trees do grow here in Alberta. It's paradise to look out those windows in your cabin and see that view. I wish you and your family all the best in 2025. Cheers! 🙏✌️
I’d love to try to make a birch whisk like this-we don’t have much birch around here… maybe I could swap for another species. You should try to make one of these-I’m curious about how to do it right 😄 Love your comment. I think about the suffering people endured in the Great Depression a lot. I’m not sure psychologically my generation could survive another Great Depression.
@Montana_Ranch_Rescue My dad will be 95, this year. My (late) mother would be 86 this year. They, their siblings, and their parents would know all about that life in the 1930s and in the 1940s. I even have cousins who were living in a farm house in Alberta, that had no power. One of my elder siblings even remembers when power was hooked up on the farm. Pretty interesting how people were living back in those days.
@@dwaynewladyka577 Yes! And wild how it was NOT all that long ago. People today pretend like the past is so far away, but like you said, it is still living memory.
It's one of my favorite old black and white photos from my grandparents' photo album. It is a 3 year old child setting on a carved horse 🐎 my grandpa 👴 carved from the fur tree log. He gathered real horse hair from the ranch horses 🐎 to glue on the carved toy horse. At times, I wish we as a family had that today to look at it. I was told its leg broke, and it was put in a fire. I like how you cleaned your case iron pan with salt 🧂. I never thought of that before I use warm water 💧and then oil. Maybe your husband would like to try carving a wooden horse 🐎 and add the real hores hair by drilling holes to glue it on. ❤ I love watching, and I can't wait to see what you guys work on this spring to save history on the ranch.
@@timothychandler1725 Cheers! I love your idea of making the real horsehair rocking horse. What a treasure--made with love. I hear you, wish that had been saved... I'm putting that project on our list. We pulled the frozen wheels of the railroad cook car out of the ground this week 🤩 Its on its way to being our next project-- I can't wait! -5 out right now though, so nobody is in a rush to go outside and work😂
Here's an idea for a popular 1800s breakfast, Buckwheat Pancakes. My father and grandmother survived the Depression with this morning staple. I was raised in the 50s, likewise enjoying the unique flavor. There are numerous recipes online for the quick version, but I, by far, prefer the yeast method, letting the batter ferment in a bowl on the counter overnight. Even better, adding more buckwheat flour to remaining batter for the next days breakfast. Many recipes water down the batter with white wheat flour, but I prefer straight buckwheat. Your shortbread recipe looks similar to what I was raised to call Scotchbread. Another old family recipe we often had during my childhood.
The green teapot I’ve had for a decade + and I LOVE IT! I put a link in the video to it-Staub green kettle. The copper one was a wedding gift from Townsends that is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever cooked with 🔥
Teddy Roosevelt was right what he said about soft living, reminds me of what a late neighbor once said after I said today we have so much stress but back than the stress was different (to have enough food) than he said "no we had no stress back in the day, you worked than ya came into the house ate maybe took a short nap than went out and worked again" I have heard that a few times over the last few years from folks that where around his age. I do know that my grandparents which where born in between 1910s and 1920s they would of said the same thing. Just to think that folks before they made that Cowboy coffee they grinded there own Coffee beans (first roasting them over the fire). What Christmas trees used to have back in those days and even to this day (sadly the number of families doing it is getting lower over the decades) is having real candles on the tree which they usually lit only when they where sitting around the tree and than blow the candles out again after singing Christmas carols. Awesome video
Beautiful comment-absolutely right! They worked very hard, but they did not carry our anxious, constantly changing, environment like it is today. I struggle with the mental weight of that constant change. I don’t like it. People in history had it physically hard, but my goodness they knew WHO they were and WHY they worked hard every day. Quiet work in this cabin sends that message home to me 🔥
Oh thank you! ❤️❄️ We had so much fun together, us girls. It’s a Staub cast iron pot I’ve had for 10+ years and I LOVE it! I put a link in the video if you want to pick one up for yourself 😉 Like all cast iron, an investment, but lasts forever 🔥
Yes exactly right. The stove has 2 dampers to adjust air intake, but I should have added a damper to the stove pipe. Ah, I didn’t… kicking myself a bit
Thanks for asking 🤠 The whisk I ordered from Townsends-you can find them online. We even registered for our wedding with them 😆 The candle holders and lanterns are from all over, acquired through the years. Part of the fun is the hunt 😉
Does "Paper Birch" trees grow in your area? The bark will light and burn long and hot f*even when wet) for lighting a fire. The wood is a great fuel for your cook stove.
Chinking the wall boards was done by people everywhere, inside and out. Walls were covered with blankets or rugs or news paper. Often the walls were filled with horse hair and dirt or ashes. Even in the east this is what was done in old Victorian homes. Pine lumber will not make coals.
Very nice video! Thanks for sharing. A few questions though, where did you find the coffee pot? What's it called? and I know that is not your primary residence, but could you not have insulated the cabin a little better but still keep it looking authentic? Just worried about you guys getting stuck out there and not freezing! Take care, vr, S
Love your comment, cheers! Ahh we could have insulated it better, it’s true, but part of the experience that matters to me is how it really FELT to cook & live like this. I can make myself more comfortable, sure, but honestly I’ve learned so much from the cold/hardship that I’m grateful for. ❤️ That cast iron coffee pot I’ve had for a decade +, but I know you can still get them 😄 I put a link in the video for shopping it. It’s a Staub pot in green. I have loved it for years!
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Thank you for the quick response! You are making memories with you family that they will cherish forever! Just found your channel and I like it! Keep up the good work. Cheers from the NC Coast. vr, S
@ Cheers! It’s so special working as a family unit out here. Doing little tasks. Love your comment ❤️ Thank you! I will remind the kids to enjoy this experience next time they complain 😉 jk they honestly have a blast out there
That’s a great question! 🤔 It’s very… zonal. Right by the firebox of the stove is pretty darn nice. 65? But every foot away from that the temperature drops 😆 I bet 15 feet away it’s 40 degrees. Takes an hour to get warm around the stove. But even after 4 hours the house just won’t warm up any more. This little house leaks air mostly due to the single layer floor and the single layer vaulted roof. If we put a ceiling in it would likely hold much better heat.
@ ohh wow that’s seems terrible!!! I would have expected the stove to warm it up to a comfortable level. People were made different back then! Thank you for answering my question 👍
@@GrowingLittleCountryhomestead It’s true! Tough stock. I lived in a log house with a woodstove and it held heat really well. Stick built houses are just really hard to heat 🤦🏻♀️🤪
Ah bacon...did you know that what we consider bacon, and what old folk/pioneer folk considered bacon, to be very different. Old folk bacon is salt cured and slow _(and low)_ smoked, then lastly dry-aged; almost anything off the pig, not only the pork belly. Ham is salt cured and semi-dried...almost anything off the pig. Both, done right, don't need to be kept in a fridge... people didn't have fridges, even ice boxes were rare. Just ham did have a shelf-life of a couple months or so. Bacon had a shelf-life of a good half-year. _(Made them in the mid to late autumn, and the ham lasted till about Christmas/New Years, while you'd hope your bacon lasted until well into Spring.)_ Laurel homestead, grandma made huge slabs/sides of bacon, rest was ham. But, on the Billings homestead, my German/Hungarian grandmother made bacon, in every way, shape, and form, that you could imagine, even cured, smoked, and dried sausages. So yes, and more yes, pioneers lived off of bacon...day in, and day out. But, you can't forget canned meat...which was actually the majority of stored meats, beef, venison, chicken, turkey, duck, even fish. In fact, I'd bet that somewhere nearby your cabin, there use to be a root-cellar. Both my grandmothers, when they got too old and left their homesteads, left behind root-cellars loaded with canned goods to last years. Even after their children grew up and moved out on their own, these grandmothers kept canning; the same amount, year in, and year out. It was the pioneer way of life. Now about that cabin; Where did you get that date of 1889? The Métis, who first settled Lewistown _(1879)_ built piece en piece log houses, a unique French style that was common in Quebec. Scandinavian and Germans _(next group coming in)_ made log houses using either square-cut dovetailed logs, or round Swedish Cope logs. Stick houses, like yours, were normally only built by homesteaders, coming from the eastern US, as they transitioned from sod dugouts. While the Yellowstone valley had its first saw mill in 1877, lumber was very expensive, usually coming in from Minnesota, via railcar. Making houses of it, before the turn of the century, most could not afford. But after the turn of the century, stick houses became major fashion. In fact, most of the Métis piece en piece log houses, you would drive by today, and not even notice them. They have been clad on the inside and outside with siding and drywall. I am no fan of stick houses. For Montana's weather conditions, both summer and winter, they are very poorly suited... as you can see from your cabin. Log is far superior. _(Which reminds me, I need to watch your construction videos.)_
Fantastic information on bacon 🙌🏻 You’ve answered so many questions I’ve had about how pioneers kept their meats. Thank you! I hope you’ll watch a few of the cabin rebuilding videos-I think you’ll enjoy the journey and get some lingering questions answered 😊
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue As you can see, I'm watching them, and trying to solve the mystery of this house of yours. Historical architecture is a life-long interest of mine, that actually brought me to your channel.
@@Allie3613-i2z Cheers to you, love your comments ❤️-we found a scrap of red cloth tucked into the doorframe when we renovated the house, so you are 100% right! People insulated however they could.
You had me at Teddy Roosevelt. He’s one of my favorite presidents; from the work he did to alleviate working conditions in sweatshops, to his conservation efforts, to the Panama Canal, what a great man. The day spent in your cabin and the efforts you needed to undertake to use the wood stove show we do live in a soft, albeit sometimes stressful, world.
Theodore Roosevelt is hands down my favorite president. I have more respect for him than I can express-one of the few truly virtuous men to have held the office. 🙌🏻 Amazing how lots of people don’t know who he is 🤦🏻♀️ Love that you get it-one of the rare ones. Cheers from a very snowy, cold Montana this morning ❄️
Agree!
This vlog is incredible. Please don't stop.
Thank you very very much-means a ton ❄️ God Bless from us here on a snowy Montana day
He was always saying, "Whoa, Nellie!!" My comment, was meant as a joke. As in... shopping for cast iron pans and pots for that beautiful stove. At 80 years old I remember a lot of cooking on wood stoves. This channel is priceless!
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Thank you for sharing these humble experiences at your prairie homestead. I truly love the old ways. My dad made his coffee that way his whole life, he did not like perked coffee. I've drank gallons of his cowboy coffee until he passed away in 1986. So you make such fond memories resurface and for that a, heartfelt thank you.❤❤❤
Beautiful stories, strong ancestors, thank you for sharing 🔥🇺🇸 Keep telling me more-I learn so much. Cheers from a frosty Montana ❄️
Yup. My family lived and grew up on our ranch/farm since the 60's and only up until Covid and your right the daily grind meant no room for soft life anxiety 😊
Yes, yes 🙌🏻 Strong people 🔥 but also people with real day to day work that didn’t have our modern stresses. Love your comment
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescueand had good common sense from first hand knowledge of working hard. These woke people who live a soft life and sit around studying philosophical ideological ideas but have no idea of what it takes to grow and process food and textiles. Then spin and weave the textiles to make fabric for linens and clothes.
Theodore Roosevelt: What will destroy America; Peace at any price and the love of soft living.
I thoroughly enjoy your commentary in all of your videos. It's one if the reasons I enjoy watching them. So educational!
Many people need to be reminded of things or shown things that the years and technology have caused us to forget.
The irony is that it's technology bringing you to them.
THANK YOU for all of the hard work you all have done and continue to do!! Bravo!! 👏 👏👏
LOVE your comment. The irony is absolutely thick-tech is the method of sharing 😆 So I can’t say I’m a true Luddite 😉 But like you I can see that we are forgetting too much, getting too comfortable, and that could be our downfall. Cheers from Montana!
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue same from the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas!
I think this just might be my favorite video yet. So beautiful and full of wisdom. If America could only embrace the spirit and wisdom of Teddy Roosevelt again! He had the heart and vision of a pioneer. You and your sweet family are bringing that same spirit to life again through these wonderful videos. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all. May God bless you richly❤
May God Bless you, thank you for such thoughtful words ❤️❤️❤️ It really means a lot. It’s hard to put ourselves out there like this, but this history is worth telling I think.
I adore Theodore Roosevelt & all his virtue. He knew what our country could be. How strong Americans have been. I expect he’d be sad to see what it has become.
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue I completely agree😥
I love your vídeos, your kitchen and your iron skillets.
Congratulations, you have a beautiful family.
Beauty is in simplicity.
Love your comment-appreciate it very much 🔥🙌🏻
For people not as old as I am. Back in 1950s a black and white western on TV, Pat Buttrum1 drove a jeep called Nellie Bell. He was always Nellie"
Love it!
What an amazing way of life you are giving your littles! To teach them the ways of our ancestors is the real treat! Love this
Thank you so much! Some people think it’s too hard for kids to experience, but Maggie and George love being out there! If I can just keep their toes warm they relish getting to help with the little jobs.
Love your comment-really, thank you! ❤️
What an epic opening, Jessica!! Thank you so much for that rock solid perspective. Great quote by Roosevelt. I love your channel! And your candles and spoons 👏
Appreciate your comment 😊 Roosevelt is hands down my favorite president (Washington of course being the greatest) for his virtuous character and strength. Hi from Montana!
Once again I'm envious of your experience...your pancake reminds me of a crepe...I'm polish so we called it egg Plotski . Yes coffee is it's own food group. Kent Rollans would love cooking there ! Nothing better than my woodstove keeping the house in upper 70 's. & no furnace running!! Living vicariously thru your videos...Thanks
Wonderful comment, love it! Rebuilding this cabin was a blast & now cooking in it might be even more fun 🔥 Been watching some
Cowboy Kent! History and food, what could be better?
Burning almost all pine, be sure to stay on top of the Creosote. That pine resin will build up in the flue and stovepipe pretty quickly. Having to wear heavy coats the entire time you visit tells me this cabin needs a second and more dedicated wood burner.
It does need one! Thinking about it seriously 🔥 Appreciate your comment
Historically, dried apples would have been squirreled away for special times. A bowl of apple slices, reconstituted with a drizzle of maple syrup, would be up in the warmer, maybe for a couple days, waiting for that lovely Dutch Baby to come out of the oven. Made a Christmas breakfast pure heaven in those hard times.... Sweet video. Always enjoy your content!
Love your comment!! This is wild-I just read a recipe from the old cookbook last night about taking dried apples and reconstituting them with molasses to make a winter’s cake. I’d like to try it!
Oh my goodness I forgot to comment when this was posted.. I always came back to rewatch your videos❤❤❤🥄🥄🥄
You are so kind! I appreciate you watching 💕 You’ve been SO wonderful to us! 🔥
Young lady, you have a great voice for narration. You guys have a really nice channel going here.
You are wonderful, thank you ❤️ Of all the people in my family I’m definitely the least likely to be on film or talk to a camera. Total introvert. So your comment means an extra lot to me 😉
Thank you for sharing your special cabin with us! I hope elementary teachers find you. What a great resource for kids too!!😊
Such a thoughtful comment-thank you! 🔥
I wait eagerly for every new video - watching the old-style home cooking and living in Uncle Dan's cabin is way better than ASMR for me.
Ah you’re makin my day! 🙌🏻 Love your comment 🔥
Granddad kept winter keeping apples in boxes in the bedroom next to the pork barrel, just above freezing. They were usually used up in pie for Easter. If you want to make your Dutch Baby extra special lightly sautee fruit in season, apples, pears, cherries are yummy, then add your batter. A dusting of cinnamon sugar or 10X is all the sweetener needed. If you are short of jelly melt a little with just a little water and brush it on when the pan comes out of the oven.
Brilliant advice! I think about that much more now-finding a spot to keep food cool but juuuuust above freezing 🤔 You had to know your house, know your food. Took a lifetime of knowledge. Love hearing your stories 🔥
I just found your channel. VERY INTERESTING!!! My dad was born in Denton, Montana in 1918 and spent the first 8 years of his life there. He was very proud of his pioneer childhood! Your channel reminds me of his childhood that he told me about! Thank you
Oh wow that is so neat to us! Denton is a wonderful small town. My grandmother was born in 1919. Love your comment, cheers!
Love the lessons you are installing in the kids.
Thank you ❤️ That means a ton to me. They love helping with the little jobs out there
I just found your channel. I cook with wood year round. I love when other people have the same passion for wood stoves as I do. From NB Canada.
Cheers! 🙌🏻 Year round! Hoorah, that is so special-I would love to do the same. I lived alone off grid for my 20s and did the same then on an old cookstove and wood heating stove. Miss it. This is my small way to have it again 🔥 Glad you found us!
Great video ! Thank you for allowing me to live vicariously through you
Ha cheers man, thanks for coming along🔥
Thank God you've been able to Rebuild a piece of History !! But more than that A Beacon of LIGHT !! A reference point of what's good and wholesome and pure !! In a dark dark world where GOOD VALUES of Excellency and TRUTH are being LOST and Distorted !! Watching your videos what you are Creating , people of HONOR , PILLARS of Goodness and TRUTH !!! You bring joy to my heart and light up my SOUL !! Never be diminished , what you do has far more ramifications than what anybody can SEE !! Your labor of planting values of goodness and Truth , It's like a SEED !! First the blade then the ear then the full corn in the EAR !!!!
Cheers from Montana! 🔥Thank you for the very kind comment ❤️ It’s a humble house & humble commentary, but we are loving working on & in this small house. God Bless!
Your videos are SO good! You’ll be at 100k in no time and it will be very well deserved. I get excited to sit down and watch whenever I can! ♥️
I’ve been watching you from early early on so that means a TON 🔥 I honestly hope we can grow a bit but stay kind of small-I’m connecting with the neatest people through these videos. I bet it’s similar for you. Great people out there. Thanks for your thoughtful comment ❤️
Oh my. I love that stove so much.
We’re lucky to have this one in good shape! What a workhorse. 🔥
Your daughter is cute, and she seems genuinely appreciative for what you do!
She’s a kick, this girl 😄🙌🏻 My spitfire. Love your comment-she is a great helper
Hi Jessie & good morning over there in Montana USA. Well, you are more comfortable & familiar with the Firewood cookstove, It's enjoyable watching you prepare the Pancake and the Dutch Baby, in the old-time kitchen
using the recipes from the oldtimers. I`m still impressed by the kitchen equipment pans and pots and the accommodations who breathe the time's efforts to keep the homestead warm. sofar so cosy. I saw the winter did leave a real part of snow outside looking clean & cold. Thanks for sharing this first video in the New Year. Greetings and blessings as always from Hubertus to all of you🙏🏻🇳🇴🇳🇱🍀🇺🇸🎄. and on the 1st day, January 20 cm of new snow and on the second day 50 cm of new snow so I used my Arians snowblower to remove most of it. And then the rain came so now Wednesday the eighth of January the weather is clear but cold the weather forecast predicted the coming two weeks of cold and snowy🥶❄.
Hi Hubertus! Oh you and Robbie are the same sort of men-great tools for handling the snow! ⛄️ ❄️ We are in the midst of lots of snow falling here. Robbie has been snow blowing and plowing at the ranch and in town. Lots of family to take care of along with plowing a path to Uncle Dan’s.
We cooked the last couple days out there & had lots of fun! 🔥😊 Sending you warmth from the fire here in Montana. 🇺🇸
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Thanks Jessie ,ditto🔥🌞
❤😊I love that stove!
Hoorah! We were SO lucky to find one that needed some love but wasn’t rusted and neglected beyond repair 🔥
Beauty is all around you!
Montana is stunning 🏔️ Love your comment
Recently found your channel - learning valuable skills and perspectives in this uncertain time and indulging in rejection of this sickeningly soft life. Time to revert back to reality and real work. Thank you and never stop! -a brand new subscriber
Your comment means a great deal 💗 Thank you for all you said 🔥🔥🔥 Cheers to strength!
Hello from Central Montana! What an enjoyable video to watch. We're looking forward to watching more!
Hey you are from right here! We must know each other 🤔 I subscribed to your channel ❤️ Looks like you guys do great homesteading! Looking forward to watching
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue I am sure we have probably crossed paths at some point :🙂Thank you, I appreciate that, I am looking forward to catching up on your channel as well, your videos are very well done!
Lovely video. I watched it twice. I want to make a dutch baby, but it intimidates me. Here, you did it with the wood stove
You are lovely ❤️-I was intimidated totally too, but Robbie convinced me to start trying it & Dutch babies are easy as pie. Fun recipe 🔥 Even when not perfect I still think they taste amazing. I’m learning.
Its 75F at 11pm in Aus and I've never felt cosier and more wholesome than watching this video
Wild 😎 It’s -5 with windchill here, so I’m a gonna close my eyes and pretend I’m where you’re at ☀️
Here in New Mexico cowboy coffee, as I was taught, is made with roasted Mesquite beans. In the area we live they are abundant and we finally foraged some and made it this last summer. It is actually quite delicious and flavorful I was very impressed.❤ Although some older cowboys argue that whatever coffee they make is cowboy coffee because a cowboy made it😂.
Oh how fascinating!! Wild! What do the mesquite beans taste like? Smokey? Sweet? That is too cool you made some 🤠 Ha I hear ya on the definitions of cowboy coffee-old timers here say you should be able to stand your spoon up in it 😉
Just found this Vlog and love it. Your green pot u made the cowboy coffee in is amazing. ❤
Cheers! ❤️ I love finding vintage and antique pieces but that one is still available through Staub. I’ve used it for a decade plus. Love it! 🔥
I'm watching your videos from Mexico City, I really appreciate all the effort you put in to share these beautiful and wholesome moments with us. I wish you and your family a happy new year!
Thank you for watching from Mexico City! Cheers to a good year ahead for you & your family! 🔥
So wonderful! Sweet little family!! When I lived in the community in my 20’s the majority of us were single but some children. We drew names for the children and made homemade gifts. My friend Steve & I crafted a toddler bed for my godchild Ariel. I painted the headboard. Wondering what you use for the “ necessary?”.💕🙏🕊✝️
Oh I love that you built and hand painted an heirloom like that 💗💗💗 We have many more projects on the list, just waiting for nicer weather. An outhouse, restoring a railroad bunk car, digging a well-all fun 😊 Love your comments. What a fascinating adventure your life has been thus far!
Another amazing video❤. These videos are such treausures! ❤
Love your comments-means a ton to me ❤️
I grew up without running water or electricity don’t remember it being hard work but a blessing
That is exactly what I hear from people who have actually LIVED this life-work, yes, but not a sense of life being overly hard or brutal. Love how you describe the awareness of blessing. Beautiful. ❤️
This is the best
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This is the best. Just tiny bit disappointing you don't have Amazon
Com list.
Plus really truly like your hat.
Ahh i appreciate your support very much (I do hate Amazon though) 😆 But there are some cool makers out there like Townsends that I highly recommend. Or our little online store has candles and wooden spoons with more handmade items to come 🔥
I love your storytelling! It takes me back to my last big project. In 2010, a Fannie Mae bank foreclosure came on the market I had to jump on. A 3 bedroom cabin on 5 acres of perfectly symmetrically planted mature pine forest in northwest Wisconsin. Due to a poor economy, I picked it up for a song from the bank. The catch was that the previous owner, in a drug fueled rage, trashed the place to the point I had to take most of it down to the studs and start over. Still, the bones were good and the potential even better. When done, it was unheated during the week, and like your cabin downright cold for the first hours upon arrival, waiting for the woodstove to take the chill off. After 3 years, I sold it for a tidy profit and headed to Arizona for 10 yrs of nomad life.
I've often thought of trying out a recipe for Dutch Babies. Now, as central Texas goes into a cold stretch, maybe I'll get motivated to give it a go.
Thanks for another great video!
Love your adventures! What a cool property to give new life to-I really enjoy projects like that too 🙌🏻 I bet that house will last long into the future for a new family (when it otherwise would have been wrecked by that precious guy, yuck)
You have the wildest life-I love it! It’s absolutely treacherous cold this morning here. Hope it’s a fun chilly morning for you to cook 🔥 The Dutch baby is particularly delicious!
I don't know where to begin. You are brave souls to attempt this pioneer life. I love seeing the recipes come off & out of the stove, the use of the pots & pans. Have you read "Montana Women Homesteaders"? Also, Dutch baby is also known as German & Swedish pancakes. Montana like all of the U.S. began with all nationalities who put their hand & knowledge to everything to live from the beginning. If you have time RUclipsrs Ron & Justine on Early American are interesting to watch. She cooks over the hearth with much success & of course some flops. But it is also a look at the early days. Much success to you & all it takes to put this program out.
Really love your comment-thank you 🔥💗 I’ve caught an episode or two of theirs! They seem very genuine. I watched Jon Townsend’s channel for years-highly recommend if you like 1700s cooking/history.
I really enjoyed “Montana Women Homesteaders”. My local librarian found it for me & it is full of honest & humbling tales from history 🔥 Highly recommend
My favorite black and white photos from my grandparents' photo album are a little boy setting on a wooden carved horse my grandpa made out of a fur trre log. Wish we had that carved horse 🐎 today, but i was told the leg broke, and they barred it. This carved horse had real horse hair glued on it by using their ranch horses. Maybe your husband might try carving a rocking horse with wood and use real horse hair. I love the video 📹.
What a treasure! I’m so sorry it was lost to time 😔 I’d very much like to make an heirloom like that. Something no amount of money can buy, only time and one’s hands can make 🙌🏻❄️
Great video!
Hi Jessie and Family from frosty ❄❄ New Hampshire. Watching you and thinking of the Little Britches series, when a thought came to mind. I remember reading about the logging camp cooks. If you can find some books detailing the life of the cook. Maybe one of the Foxfire books? That Dutchbaby looked mighty fine :-) My Grandmother Hazel told me so many stories about her life during the Great Depression that I know most by heart. She said no matter what, keep your larder full! And plant a Victory Garden. When so many folks were off work during the height of the pandemic, we did not skip a beat on the farm. It was work as usual. I agree with you regarding us becoming too soft and unprepared if any really hard times come to our doorstep. Makes me feel pampered by the copious amounts of heat our kitchen wood stove pumps out, to the degree that I have to open doors or wear shorts and a t-shirt. Pilgrims had solid high backed chairs to place in front of the fireplace to trap the heat. I can't imagine cooking full time with a fireplace and yet our ancestors did it! Question: Are you planning to have a kitchen wood stove at your main house? Great video! Cheers! ~ Diane
Adore your comment, Diane, as always ❤️❄️ It’s bitingly cold here today. I’m reading recipes from the old cookbook and planning what to make next. I should get out my foxfire and see what ideas are in there-great idea!
Your grandmother certainly knew what it took to keep her family going. So much of a woman’s life was planning. I was reading Laura Ingalls’ books to Maggie and it hit me how much knowledge & foresight it took just to have the raw materials to cook a meal.
I’d love to develop a true dugout root cellar 🤔 I cooked exclusively with a Monarch woodburner for years and would 100% do it again in our house. We live in town at the moment (until a house opens up on the ranch). I’d like to find another cookstove and put it in our forever home someday 🔥
I would love a stove like this one
We were SO lucky to stumble onto it-friend of a friend found it in a storage unit in our little town
Get some heat in the cabin, propane even just keep it off camera, then you can keep control of fire in the cook stove a smaller fire will give you more control over cooking baking heat. I ask my grandma in the late 40's early 50's why she only put a few small pieces of wood in the stove she told me I'm cooking not heating. I will never forget that tidbit, I was just tall enough to see straight in the fire box.. You are creating memories for your children they will remember long after we are gone. Thank you.
Love your comment-thank you! ❤️ We have had serious conversations about putting another woodstove in the cabin. Good idea to sneak a propane heater in 🤔 It won’t hurt the stove to fire it up cold, I don’t think, but I bet you’re right that the oven won’t work it’s best when the interior of the house is so cold.
Some mighty fine wool is produced in Montana. Layering long underwear, flannel lined jeans and sweaters keep kids, small and large toasty warm in a cold house. Be sure they button so you don't overheat. Until you warm up a toque also helps.
This week I am happy you have alternative housing !!
Love this series. Thank you for sharing. The cowboy coffee with DutchBabies pancake along with explaining how the recipe works. You are the best. Now I need the cast iron pot used for brewing the cowboy coffee. Please list source. Thank You
Thank you for your wonderful comment ❤️🙌🏻 ☕️ 🔥 Okay I tried tagging the Staub cast iron kettle in the products description for the video. A little icon should pop up when you watch this episode. Let me know if it works? I’ve never tried doing this before 🤪 I’m learning, ha
In Austria we still get oranges in our shoes from St. Nikolaus!
🙌🏻🔥 I love it! You guys have all the good traditions
I bet that a chinook would be very welcome right now, because it got so cold again. The faith, determination, and resilience got our ancestors through the tougher times, such as in The Great Depression, in North America. There is so much we can learn from them. We take so much of of our modern amenities and conveniences for granted. I'm fascinated by the birch twig whisk. It's pretty neat. Birch trees do grow here in Alberta. It's paradise to look out those windows in your cabin and see that view. I wish you and your family all the best in 2025. Cheers! 🙏✌️
I’d love to try to make a birch whisk like this-we don’t have much birch around here… maybe I could swap for another species. You should try to make one of these-I’m curious about how to do it right 😄 Love your comment. I think about the suffering people endured in the Great Depression a lot. I’m not sure psychologically my generation could survive another Great Depression.
@Montana_Ranch_Rescue My dad will be 95, this year. My (late) mother would be 86 this year. They, their siblings, and their parents would know all about that life in the 1930s and in the 1940s. I even have cousins who were living in a farm house in Alberta, that had no power. One of my elder siblings even remembers when power was hooked up on the farm. Pretty interesting how people were living back in those days.
@@dwaynewladyka577 Yes! And wild how it was NOT all that long ago. People today pretend like the past is so far away, but like you said, it is still living memory.
It's one of my favorite old black and white photos from my grandparents' photo album. It is a 3 year old child setting on a carved horse 🐎 my grandpa 👴 carved from the fur tree log. He gathered real horse hair from the ranch horses 🐎 to glue on the carved toy horse. At times, I wish we as a family had that today to look at it. I was told its leg broke, and it was put in a fire. I like how you cleaned your case iron pan with salt 🧂. I never thought of that before I use warm water 💧and then oil. Maybe your husband would like to try carving a wooden horse 🐎 and add the real hores hair by drilling holes to glue it on. ❤ I love watching, and I can't wait to see what you guys work on this spring to save history on the ranch.
@@timothychandler1725 Cheers! I love your idea of making the real horsehair rocking horse. What a treasure--made with love. I hear you, wish that had been saved... I'm putting that project on our list. We pulled the frozen wheels of the railroad cook car out of the ground this week 🤩 Its on its way to being our next project-- I can't wait! -5 out right now though, so nobody is in a rush to go outside and work😂
thanks for cowboy coffee recipe
Nothing complicated, but the outcome is really unique! 🔥
Here's an idea for a popular 1800s breakfast, Buckwheat Pancakes. My father and grandmother survived the Depression with this morning staple. I was raised in the 50s, likewise enjoying the unique flavor. There are numerous recipes online for the quick version, but I, by far, prefer the yeast method, letting the batter ferment in a bowl on the counter overnight. Even better, adding more buckwheat flour to remaining batter for the next days breakfast. Many recipes water down the batter with white wheat flour, but I prefer straight buckwheat. Your shortbread recipe looks similar to what I was raised to call Scotchbread. Another old family recipe we often had during my childhood.
Fantastic idea!! I definitely want to try that 🙌🏻 It’s going on my list
Great video ❤️ 👍
Thank you! Cheers 🔥
I loved how you used salt to clean your case iron pan. I have only warm water 💧 and after oil. Im going to try that next time.
The salt worked well! 🙌🏻 I’d like to try using those chainmail scrubbers too. Oiling after is really smart though, I need to be better about that 🔥
The egg shell is the key to great coffee
Secret ingredient 🔥
I want to know where the teapot came from? I want one. Loved it!
The green teapot I’ve had for a decade + and I LOVE IT! I put a link in the video to it-Staub green kettle.
The copper one was a wedding gift from Townsends that is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever cooked with 🔥
very very good love...
Cheers our friend 🤠
I have one cook on it all the time
Oh how wonderful!! 🔥 Special experience in our world today
Teddy Roosevelt was right what he said about soft living, reminds me of what a late neighbor once said after I said today we have so much stress but back than the stress was different (to have enough food) than he said "no we had no stress back in the day, you worked than ya came into the house ate maybe took a short nap than went out and worked again" I have heard that a few times over the last few years from folks that where around his age. I do know that my grandparents which where born in between 1910s and 1920s they would of said the same thing. Just to think that folks before they made that Cowboy coffee they grinded there own Coffee beans (first roasting them over the fire). What Christmas trees used to have back in those days and even to this day (sadly the number of families doing it is getting lower over the decades) is having real candles on the tree which they usually lit only when they where sitting around the tree and than blow the candles out again after singing Christmas carols. Awesome video
Beautiful comment-absolutely right! They worked very hard, but they did not carry our anxious, constantly changing, environment like it is today. I struggle with the mental weight of that constant change. I don’t like it.
People in history had it physically hard, but my goodness they knew WHO they were and WHY they worked hard every day. Quiet work in this cabin sends that message home to me 🔥
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Amazing video!!! Sweet mother/daughter moment!!! I love the cowboy coffee recipe and I love the green pot!!! Where did you find it??
Oh thank you! ❤️❄️ We had so much fun together, us girls. It’s a Staub cast iron pot I’ve had for 10+ years and I LOVE it! I put a link in the video if you want to pick one up for yourself 😉 Like all cast iron, an investment, but lasts forever 🔥
I heard your Owl, say, " who cooks for you"? That's what they say owls sound like
Love it 😁
Think about a wood burning heat stove on the other end of the cabin , that would make it warm an comfy , just a thought Seasons Greetings..?
Great idea-I dream about building a structural stone fireplace one day 🙌🏻🔥
Where did you get the pot that you made your coffee in. Love the green color.
Oh thanks! I’ve had it for a decade-actually more 🤔-but I know they still make them. It’s a Staub kettle in deep green. I LOVE IT.
I was thinkng there was a damper on some cook stoves to adjust how much heat went around the oven, and how much flowed over the top to the stove pipe
Yes exactly right. The stove has 2 dampers to adjust air intake, but I should have added a damper to the stove pipe. Ah, I didn’t… kicking myself a bit
The thermal bridging is crazy tho
Oh yeah, it’s true 🤪 Not… efficient
Where did you get those outdoor candle holders??? And your egg whisk??? Please🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for asking 🤠 The whisk I ordered from Townsends-you can find them online. We even registered for our wedding with them 😆 The candle holders and lanterns are from all over, acquired through the years. Part of the fun is the hunt 😉
Does "Paper Birch" trees grow in your area? The bark will light and burn long and hot f*even when wet) for lighting a fire. The wood is a great fuel for your cook stove.
People have told me birch trees do grow here but I’ll be honest I’ve never seen anything but aspen-I’m still looking! 👀 Really smart idea, thank you!
Chinking the wall boards was done by people everywhere, inside and out. Walls were covered with blankets or rugs or news paper. Often the walls were filled with horse hair and dirt or ashes. Even in the east this is what was done in old Victorian homes.
Pine lumber will not make coals.
Thanks for your comment. We double layered the boards to act as a wind barrier
Very nice video! Thanks for sharing. A few questions though, where did you find the coffee pot? What's it called? and I know that is not your primary residence, but could you not have insulated the cabin a little better but still keep it looking authentic? Just worried about you guys getting stuck out there and not freezing! Take care, vr, S
Love your comment, cheers! Ahh we could have insulated it better, it’s true, but part of the experience that matters to me is how it really FELT to cook & live like this. I can make myself more comfortable, sure, but honestly I’ve learned so much from the cold/hardship that I’m grateful for. ❤️
That cast iron coffee pot I’ve had for a decade +, but I know you can still get them 😄 I put a link in the video for shopping it. It’s a Staub pot in green. I have loved it for years!
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Thank you for the quick response! You are making memories with you family that they will cherish forever! Just found your channel and I like it! Keep up the good work. Cheers from the NC Coast. vr, S
@ Cheers! It’s so special working as a family unit out here. Doing little tasks. Love your comment ❤️ Thank you! I will remind the kids to enjoy this experience next time they complain 😉 jk they honestly have a blast out there
P.S. your voice reminds me of Megan Fellows 🙂.
Oh I will have to look her up! You’re very kind
What’s the warmest it gets with the stove going on cold days?
That’s a great question! 🤔 It’s very… zonal. Right by the firebox of the stove is pretty darn nice. 65? But every foot away from that the temperature drops 😆 I bet 15 feet away it’s 40 degrees.
Takes an hour to get warm around the stove. But even after 4 hours the house just won’t warm up any more. This little house leaks air mostly due to the single layer floor and the single layer vaulted roof. If we put a ceiling in it would likely hold much better heat.
@ ohh wow that’s seems terrible!!! I would have expected the stove to warm it up to a comfortable level. People were made different back then! Thank you for answering my question 👍
@@GrowingLittleCountryhomestead It’s true! Tough stock. I lived in a log house with a woodstove and it held heat really well. Stick built houses are just really hard to heat 🤦🏻♀️🤪
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Ah bacon...did you know that what we consider bacon, and what old folk/pioneer folk considered bacon, to be very different. Old folk bacon is salt cured and slow _(and low)_ smoked, then lastly dry-aged; almost anything off the pig, not only the pork belly. Ham is salt cured and semi-dried...almost anything off the pig. Both, done right, don't need to be kept in a fridge... people didn't have fridges, even ice boxes were rare. Just ham did have a shelf-life of a couple months or so. Bacon had a shelf-life of a good half-year. _(Made them in the mid to late autumn, and the ham lasted till about Christmas/New Years, while you'd hope your bacon lasted until well into Spring.)_
Laurel homestead, grandma made huge slabs/sides of bacon, rest was ham. But, on the Billings homestead, my German/Hungarian grandmother made bacon, in every way, shape, and form, that you could imagine, even cured, smoked, and dried sausages.
So yes, and more yes, pioneers lived off of bacon...day in, and day out.
But, you can't forget canned meat...which was actually the majority of stored meats, beef, venison, chicken, turkey, duck, even fish.
In fact, I'd bet that somewhere nearby your cabin, there use to be a root-cellar. Both my grandmothers, when they got too old and left their homesteads, left behind root-cellars loaded with canned goods to last years. Even after their children grew up and moved out on their own, these grandmothers kept canning; the same amount, year in, and year out. It was the pioneer way of life.
Now about that cabin; Where did you get that date of 1889? The Métis, who first settled Lewistown _(1879)_ built piece en piece log houses, a unique French style that was common in Quebec. Scandinavian and Germans _(next group coming in)_ made log houses using either square-cut dovetailed logs, or round Swedish Cope logs. Stick houses, like yours, were normally only built by homesteaders, coming from the eastern US, as they transitioned from sod dugouts. While the Yellowstone valley had its first saw mill in 1877, lumber was very expensive, usually coming in from Minnesota, via railcar. Making houses of it, before the turn of the century, most could not afford.
But after the turn of the century, stick houses became major fashion. In fact, most of the Métis piece en piece log houses, you would drive by today, and not even notice them. They have been clad on the inside and outside with siding and drywall.
I am no fan of stick houses. For Montana's weather conditions, both summer and winter, they are very poorly suited... as you can see from your cabin. Log is far superior. _(Which reminds me, I need to watch your construction videos.)_
Fantastic information on bacon 🙌🏻 You’ve answered so many questions I’ve had about how pioneers kept their meats. Thank you!
I hope you’ll watch a few of the cabin rebuilding videos-I think you’ll enjoy the journey and get some lingering questions answered 😊
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue As you can see, I'm watching them, and trying to solve the mystery of this house of yours. Historical architecture is a life-long interest of mine, that actually brought me to your channel.
a pinch of salt in the pot will also remove the bitter taste
I will try that next batch I brew! Cheers ☕️
Bacon and salt pork
Kept everyone alive 🔥
Settlers used something like cloth, animal hides, straw or clay to insulate their cabins. Please try to help plug the holes in that drafty cabin
It’s the nature of the beast 💨 Drafty, cold, and just perfect 🔥😉
@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Much Love & Respect to you + the family.
@@Allie3613-i2z Cheers to you, love your comments ❤️-we found a scrap of red cloth tucked into the doorframe when we renovated the house, so you are 100% right! People insulated however they could.
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