Weird, Hot Cereal 'Panada' - 18th Century Cooking

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[MrGrenadeMcBoom]

"IDK why mace and not nutmeg." ....that's got to be one of the most Townsends sentences I've ever heard.

[lyllydd]

And now we have the answer to the question that has been plaguing us for YEARS. Namely, if Jon was stuck with only bread and water, would he still find a way to add nutmeg?

[VideoSaySo]

So it's a good hangover food then? I'm thinking that's why the tavern was serving buckets of the stuff in the morning lol

[Bigstan]

When I was a young lad, growing up in the Shetland Isles, we had a dish called "saps" which was very similar. It was white bread soaked in hot milk and usually had some sugar added. I remember having it when I had mumps and had difficulty swallowing. Occasionally, we would have it because that was all we could afford.

[annagulina]

Post-Soviet countries know this dish as tyurya. It is either sweet (milk, white bread, jam) or savory (rye bread, lots of greenery, onions and kwass (fermented beverage made of rye bread)

[martianhighminder]

As a morning breakfast food in taverns, perhaps panada was a way for proprietors to use day old or stale bread and recoup some money from what would otherwise be wasted anyway?

[ian_b]

I first read it as "panda" and wondered what the heck you were going to be cooking this time.

[firecrest]

My grandparents (in north England) used to call this sort of dish 'Pobbies' and it was also given to babies as their first food.

[dallas-cole]

Bread = Pane (Italian) = Pan (Spanish)

Panada = Made of bread

Empanada = Into bread or bread wrapped

[lucassolomon]

I feel sorry for those whose fathers disappeared soon after they tried to go find a waterina skillet.

[megashredderofkate]

we in the uk still make this and serve it with our sunday roast. we call it 'bread sauce' now. we stud the onion with cloves as well.

[rwaitt]

Jon looked so sad in the thumbnail I had to click to make sure he was ok.

[annconlon]

I remember my mother telling me that she used to eat this as a child in Northern Ireland in the 1940's. I've never heard anyone else mention it until now.

[kerryhagerty]

Growing up, when we were sick, my mom made something similar. Bread, cut up, in milk (warm or cold), with nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon and a touch of sugar. The bread would break down to almost pudding like.

[emanonfox]

This reminds me of a "bread and butter soup" my Czech grandmother made, she'd add cinnamon and sugar, sometimes raisins. It was made with hot milk and white bread.

[ashleighlecount]

This channel makes me look forward to Mondays and Fridays

[coolguts]

I love this channel so much, because it's everything from delicious food to making a cabin and forging.

[garyheaton]

This still shows up in modern kitchens. Meatloaf is often made with a panade of bread soaked in milk. And then there's the French onion panade. That's basically onion soup with the soup to bread ratio flipped. Sliced bread in a casserole doused with an onion soup and gratineed with cheese.

[Docbell]

My grandma's "American Women's Cook Book" has a recipe for it and it's just hot water or cream soaked into a soda or gram cracker and double boiled. It's located right next to Indian-Meal Gruel and Rice Jelly and they're all surprisingly good

[StrangeCreed]

The Necromancer of Nutmeg is perplexed that a recipe does not include it.