Corn Dogs 250 Years Ago? - Time Travel Food! - 18th Century Cooking

In Time Travel Food, we go back in time and make modern favorites for historical figures. In this episode, Jon makes Corn Dogs for Samuel Adams. The struggle is making them with ingredients and tools/techniques that were available in the 1700’s. Thanks for watching 18th Century Cooking with Townsends!

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[tricky]

I wonder if there will be videos on authentic microwave dinners, 200 years from now.

[peternordhaus]

John is fighting his nutmeg dependency, I'm so proud of him!

[CircleToonsHD]

I genuinely love your videos so much. In a world of quick-bite reaction content and clickbait garbage, this channel's content is like medicine for my brain. :)

[TheCheat_]

I know this was a corn dog recipe but those onion rings looked (and sounded) incredible. Seriously doing a stall with 18th century versions of street food would go down so well at a fair, throw in the McMuffin recipe and the 18th century fried chicken you did a few years back and it'd sell like crazy

[suem]

Last weekend with extended power outages post derecho, I had to cook ‘18th century’ style over open fire. Used your red ware for batter. Thanks to your channel and the skills you teach, I could feed not only myself but neighbor family too. Thanks

[ldc]

Townsends are a pure comfort channel. It's so well made, relaxing and wholesome in every way

[will-o-the-wisp-witch]

You gotta adore how this man came up with the idea that what he would do with a time machine would be cooking the equivalent of America's current popular favorite foods for his heroes.
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[gregorylee]

watching this channel over the last 5 years or so has completely changed my life. I was miserable at work, about to drop out of college, and struggling with drugs and alcohol. Now I'm a 3rd year park ranger and I love learning stuff every day.
thank you.

[sukeywatson]

This is the first time I have eaten a corn dog in my 60+ years of life. I watched the video, got up and made them right away. I substituted oat flour for the regular wheat flour - works just fine. I added sage, onion, and garlic to the sausage. I think a little nutmeg in the corn crust would work well. I will try that next time.

[MidnaOfficial]

just one dorito has more extreme nacho flavor than mister Adams would have in his entire life

[johnzengerle]

Since it is for Sam Adams, you could have used a beer batter.

[keevansixx]

i like that the history of the american corn dog involved a collaboration at one of the late 18oo's american centennial world's fairs where a sausage merchant who was not very successful at the fair, and a popular food vendor who ran out of their signature product and only had batter left got together in desparation and came up with the idea to roll the sausages in the batter and then cook them. the corn part in a corn dog'a story came much later when someone in the U.S. south figured out that wet cornmeal bread batter made a tasty coating dip substitute for the original world's fair savory pancake crepe batter recipe and the rest is history. the first american corn dog was, in essence, a savory pancake on a hot griddle roll wrapped (french crepe style) around a sausage on a stick. eventually efficiently was reached when they figured you you can save time and effort by "dippin' dogs" into wet loose batter and deep frying (yeah, there was an old corn dog franchise that ran under the name "Dippin' Dogs" in early 20th century food americana.) ironicaly, the series of World's Fairs also gave us the birth of the american hot dog on a bun, french waffles, cotton candy, and oddly enough...the beginnings of fast food.

[NotMyWar]

Jon, you are a national treasure my friend. Keep on making content.

[robzinawarriorprincess]

I was already amazed and delighted. And then you threw in the onion rings for good measure. I had to breathe into a paper bag. 😂

[nelly]

This is maybe my favourite series you've ever done. It's just such a genius concept executed perfectly.

[kotdish]

i am admittedly not american and have always wondered what the sticks in corndogs were for. this answered it. and they somehow look delectable! that's incredibly surprising

[MynewTennesseeHome]

That sounds great. I have three grandkids spending their summer with me on the farm. I think I'll make them some of those "corn dogs" for a treat.

[rudydjordjevich]

I love this series. This dude has the most original content on this platform and deserves some type of reward for the creativity

[Paperfiasco]

this is definitely the most fun sub-series you and the team have been doing. Love these time travel episodes, looking forward to the next classic piece of modern Americana you can recreate.

[dancing_odie]

You arent just making substitutions... you're making the dish better