A Regular Folks Supper 200 years Ago - March 1820

Turnips, Beef, Carrots & bread rolls. Maybe not so exotic compared to what you'd eat today. Only, it's prepared completely different.

[EarlyAmerican]

Well, unfortunately have to make this comment. A lot of new viewers coming by to watch this one. Hello everyone!!! Since you're new please note that I always post a photo copy of the actual, original recipe at the end of my videos so that you can see I followed the recipe exactly, for better or for worse. This is a historical cooking channel. I recreate dishes as they were written down 200+ years ago. Sometimes historical dishes suck! Sometimes they are amazing. But for better or for worse you came here to watch me prepare these accurate dishes. I am making this post because a lot (like 3/4) of new comments since this video went viral are from people telling me that I needed to add this seasoning and this and that and this but the problem is that then it would no longer be loyal to the actual original recipe which is why you all are here to begin with. I am not claiming that this food is good. Sometimes it isn't. A lot of the foods and seasonings that we take for granted today were very hard to get back then or were only seasonally available. Some are saying such things as, "they didn't have milk back then." "butter wasn't invented yet." "they had no garlic and onions yet." etc. despite it literally saying to use these things in the actual 200 year old book that I reference at the end. I cannot possibly reply to all of these comments. I only added what the original recipe said to add. Please take a look at that and thank you to all for watching and you take care!!

[MrBluegrouse]

Struck me watching this how quiet life must have been then. No music, television or video games playing in the background. No cars, airplanes, sirens, etc. No furnaces, refrigerators, water heaters, air conditions kicking on and off. Just the crackle of the fire, wind in the trees, birds and whatever kitchen noises you directly made.

[ccsmooth]

You know its a true meal from the 1820s when the amount for one of the ingredients is "However much you can afford". I really felt that!

[GerynSloane]

one of the things I never really thought about is how skilled a person had to become at managing the hearth fire and using the coals in a variety of ways for cooking. Different utensils and cooking devices are fascinating too!

[johnlennon]

Reminds me of going out to my grandparents farm in the 1960-70s. Everything was cooked on grandma's wood stove. Lots of time spent in the preparation, getting the oven to temp for the roast, potatoes peeled, but most of all was the love she put into it to feed us. Im 60 now, and those memories are as fresh now as if it were yesterday.

[tacticoolnurse]

If you've ever done this type of cooking, you understand why someone had to be at home. Maintaining a house was truly a full time job.

[nancycurtis]

PS: Almost all family/home cooks kept a sourdough pot going on their mantle or very top of the cast iron stove before the days of commercial yeast. It was one of their most prized and well cared for possessions. With your sourdough starter, you always had something to feed your family…if you had wheat flour, rye flour or cornmeal…even if it were only sourdough pancakes, or you used your starter to raise your cornbread. A mother usually gave each daughter a gift of some of her own sourdough starter when that girl married and set up housekeeping in her own home….an important gift.

[charlesmiller]

May sound odd, but I am approaching retirement and finding this sort of simple living very appealing. I might do it from a RV instead of a cabin, but the idea of spending time gathering wood, building a fire and cooking like this, it just looks so totally satisfying. Rewarding, even. People talk about feeling connected. Well, here it is! Thanks a million!

[Veyronp]

It’s funny how a fireplace is mostly decorative at this point but it was absolutely essential to survival back then. Warmth, light and cooking

[dancompton]

I don't know what confuses me more. The fact that Youtube thinks I would like to watch a video of a nice lady cooking 200 year old meals with no sound other than the dishes clinking around, or the fact that they are
absolutely correct.

[reverie]

My mom grew up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma in the 1930s. They lived very much like this. No electricity. Cooked over fire. Outhouses. My grandma used to crawl on top of the kitchen table to scrub the soot off the ceiling. I ate this exact meal millions of times growing up only everything including the carrots went in the roasting pan. I can hear my grandmother saying “just cover all that with water and put it in the oven”. I haven’t had turnips in ages…..Wow. Lovely video.

[to]

Not sure if this has been done yet on this channel, but I’d also love to see how a homesteader would have cleaned up after making such a meal. Heck, I’d love to see a “day in the life” sort of video, documenting everything. These videos are incredibly interesting, and visually stunning. Thank you for this amazing content!

[hazetiva]

Watching her prepare and cook the meal from scratch makes you appreciate what we have today.

Plus, I commend all the women during that time. They were the backbone of the household! Sure the men worked the fields or whatever they did to support the family but the women worked just as hard and kept the family alive!

[myrtlebeachtv]

This meal is even more difficult to make than it already looks. Somebody had to chop the wood for the fire, make those special utensils for the fireplace, grow and pick the veggies, raise the animal and slaughter, milk the cow, churn the butter, etc. So much time and energy devoted just to survival. But likely a more meaningful and appreciated life than we experience now.

[JL]

the whole time you were cutting the turnips and carrots i was like “these would be perfect scraps for the chickens” and now i am so pleased that you showed us feeding time

[wishicouldshowmyname]

Incredibly hard work. Even my mom's work with six kids in the sixties until the eighties, was unthinkable. Thank all mothers every day and even to today. They are amazing heroines.

[Fidi]

I like the "beef, however much you can afford" part. That hits home again today for more and more people.

[Linda]

Beautiful meal. And I appreciate the only sounds we hear are the ones coming from the activity in the kitchen. The sound of the fire crackling calms me. These videos are great for my anxiety.

[UrbanAlchemystic]

Me and my daughter are watching the video for a homework assignment of what early colonists ate in Early America and we're enjoying the video. It's giving me a little ASMR action and it's interesting to see how people cooked back in the day. She really utilized to the fireplace and everything around here. This wasn't the video she assigned we couldn't find it but I feel like this one is the best way to complete her assignment❤

[Becomingjust_mama]

I’ve been so sick during my pregnancy and after countless trips to the hospital, medicines that fails to work in riding me of this horrible nausea and vomiting I HAVE TO TELL YOU WHILE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS IM NO LONGER FEELING SICK I FEEL RELAXED AND YOU ACTUALY GIVE ME AN APPETITE. Please never stop making videos