500 Year-Old Pizza VS Today

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[VodkaHellstorm]

This recipe just reads like "take butter, add butter, while waiting for your butter to cook, eat some butter, rub butter on your butter, then on yourself, then on your butter again. Throw a bit of dough in there somewhere. Serve hot."

[solDelta]

I'm Australian and I could hear those shots fired at Chicago from here

[m.pellegrini]

Fun fact: in Italy, specifically in Central Italy, we have a dish that we call "pizza", even though it looks nothing like Neapolitan pizza and it's tall and fluffy like the one in the video. It's called "pizza di Pasqua" or "pizza al formaggio" (literally "Easter pizza" or "cheese pizza") and we eat it during Easter, especially in Umbria and Marche which were also part of the Papal States. Maybe these tall and fluffy foods were what central Italians used to call pizza back in the day...

[thecynicaloptimist]

Hearing you describe Chicago-style pizza as "basically soup" brought me a chuckle. It reminds me somewhat of the pie debates I have with my parents in England. Sometimes you go to a pub and order, say, a steak and ale pie, and the pastry is just a lid. I'm staunchly of the view that a pie crust has to completely encase the filling, if it's just a lid, that's not a pie, it's stew with a hat.

[neilholmes]

I love how old recipes have ingredients like "enough salt"

[Lauren.E.O]

When the pizza takes WAY longer than “30 minutes or less” to arrive 😂

[hcn]

"Pineapples in Pizza? That's so outrageous! They don't even do that in Italy!"
16th century Italians: Hmmm yes SUGAR PIZZA

[CTRIsTheBest]

"whats the pope favourite pizza topping" i can't be the only one who said "Poperoni"

[janbaer]

"You can use our mill whenever you want, but you have to cater two pizza parties a year at the church." That seems like a good deal.

[BlaineTog]

Chicago and Oboe Doctors: "What did we ever do to you, history boy?"

[FailSonOfAnarchy]

"and enough salt." Love the vagueness of old recipes.

[rowan_jalso]

I think you just made a cake shaped, rose flavored croissant. Which sounds awesome.

[PhantomSavage]

Soo... when the pope wanted "Pizza" he really meant "Bake me a giant loaf of brioche, crust it in sugar, and spritz it with perfume."

I mean.. I wouldn't call it "Pizza".. but I can't deny that'd be delicious.

[TheSamuelCish]

Every time this engaging cooking show starts the history segment, I'm like, "Hey, I forgot this was history too!" Then when it goes back to cooking, I'm like, "This history channel does cooking too! Amazing!"

[marcmaubertcrotte]

I don't see enough people complimenting Max's old timey presenter voice. Nailed it!

[MurderWho]

As soon as I heard rose water and sugar, I knew it would be Scappi :)

The summer before last, I earned a fair amount of coin making historical pizzas for a client, and Scappi ended up being his favourite excursion into that part of food history.
I'm hoping to pick up some more catering contracts from him this summer.

[Orbnoticas]

"was Dumont a drama queen or severely gluten intolerant, you decide". My sides are in orbit. Liked and favourited.

[diamondddude]

“That delicious”

Well of course it is, it’s got a pound of butter in it lmao.

[bshaw]

something that i just realised is most traditional pizzas are basically an antipasto/charcuterie board cooked on bread

[davidcatanach]

glad I found this channel! Super funny, mildly informative, time warps 20 mins into 5, such fun. Thank you, sir.