1800s Thanksgiving at the cabin cooking a turkey in the fireplace
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Come along as I cook my very first turkey, and I did it with a salters warranted spit jack rotisserie and an open fireplace. Cooking a turkey in the stone fireplace of the log cabin. Also making sourdough bread without measuring any ingredients. Thanksgiving with friends. 
This is the best Thanksgiving dinner I've ever been to without actually attending in person......thank you for inviting us to attend via video 😃 I am using a new pumpkin pie recipe this year for Thanksgiving.....making an eggnog pumpkin pie.....hoping it turns out delish. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your friends and family 😊
I've cooked in a Fireplace and it's such a good thing to have a Fireplace! People do not understand that having a wood burning Fireplace is important, even if you do have electricity and gas .
Losing power for 4 or 5 days, and still being able to have meals is quite important, if you don't own an outdoor grill. Also supplies heat if needed. It really irks me to see people " cover up " a Fireplace ( why ???!) or turn a woodburning one into a gas conversion.
I'd have some kind of Fireplace in every room, if possible! Lol.
I always cook the dressing ( stuffing ) in a separate pan , because it is safer than cooking it inside the turkey, the turkey takes longer if it has stuffing inside. My Grandmother was a great cook, and made so much from scratch , she had all the recipes in her head, it was amazing. I've cooked Thanksgiving Suppers for many years, by myself... I start one to 2 days ahead of time , and that really helps take away the " frustration level ", lol.
( taught that by my Grandmother).
I commend you, for doing this,.. cooking in order to have Thanksgiving with your friends . The bread looks sooooo good !
I'm glad that your Thanksgiving Day was so enjoyable ,with Thankful hearts and good food. 🙏🏻🍛🥧🍽
This video is fantastic. I feel like I was taken back to the 1800’s watching a true old fashion home cooked meal. Happy Thanksgiving Jerry! Keep your videos coming.
Thanks Susan!
Good morning Jerry! I am so impressed that you gave this fire place roast turkey a try. I saw one of those of colonial cranks at a tour of our Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH. I'm sure you could contact them and ask questions. This answers my question as to how far back you are going into our country's history. Its wonderful to see you researching and emulating how the colonial cooks managed their fireplace kitchens. I will use some of the early traditions and recipes, but mostly stay between 1900 and 1940. My 1930 farm recipes come out well in our 1930 kitchen wood 🔥 stove :-) Love-love sour dough! ~ Diane
Jerry you try so hard and you deserve our respect and appreciation! God Bless you and your wonderful home
Food for you at the youthful age of 50, you are still trying new things. I am sitting back and enjoy the show… Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Thank you my friend! Happy Thanksgiving
Bravo, looks as you walked away with some wisdom well earned. God bless!
The cooking smells in your kitchen has got to be phenomenal just like in a real house, I prefer the cabin because I grew up cooking like old school and still do and when the dinner is over I can't get any one to leave because they want to eat more and they tell me they are so relaxed and content and they have never been so humbled, they want to live like this, like I said I love the simple life, you just have to adjust, and by the way my turkey was a wild turkey 🦃 whole different way to cook it, thanks for the 📸 video
You done very well to never have cooked a turkey before. 🤔 So now you know how to do it even better now. Good for you & may Jehovah God continue to bless you. P.S. a subscriber from former Kentucky who now resides in sw Fl. 🤗
You're sure I can't move it, huh? What about move in next door? Love your home, your style, and your videos. Thank you!
Aww, thank you! You and alway move into my town. I’m always having people over
Happy Thanksgiving!🦃....I really appreciate you taking us back in time. It's unbelievable the hardship & hardwork that colonial & pioneer women/men went through to prepare a Thanksgiving meal. I loved seeing so many antique cooking devices, the dough mixer and the colonial crank. It's my first time seeing those. You done a great job at preparing dinner for your friends. I'm sure this is one Thanksgiving meal they will never forget! I know it was a blessing for me to watch. Thank you for sharing it with us.❤️
Yum.. I'm hungry now! Good thing you don't have smell-a-vision or I would be eating this phone🦃 thanks again for sharing! Have a great holiday season!
You did a great job, Sir. This will be all mankind's situation soon. So we better stop being soft! Congrats! It looks delicious!
Thanks Robert! And your right about the rest of that as well
Truth……
Life can be complicated but I loved the process. You did it right and yes you may have to adjust but be thankful for a great day and year. Hugs
Fine dinner , well done ! The only thing I'd do different is to pre cook the stuffing . Yummy
I agree with you on the stuffing
Very interesting video and bravo for you trying how to cook from the old days but here a tip for you, in those times most women cooked bread in the Dutch ovens. I have them (creuset France) and used them to cook bread in and it works really wonderfully. Remember to heat the pot before you put the bread in and hardly any chances to burn your bread.
I was wondering how you would cook a turkey in the fireplace. That antique bird turner is a pretty cool thing to have. It all looked pretty damn good to me. Great video.
These kind of videos make you really appreciate what this modern day world is. Just started watching today and have learned an immense amount of knowledge I will be able to share with my kids one day. Thank you for sharing your life with the world and God bless you Jerry!
Your words mean so much to me! Thank you!
awesome cooking and now I'm hungry
Thank you 😋
The greatest part of your friends is your ability to show your human side success fears and failures, I certainly enjoyed this and found it to be very much inspirational.
Your handmade fireplace is a masterpiece. I think we haves missed so much of the value that doing things slowly and in a purposeful manner. Never too late to reverse😄
I love all the antiques that you work with. I also would like that antique apron you're wearing.
Love those old school, settler style cabins
Gee this brings back memories. I haven't made bread & baked it in a "range" oven for years!
Tips from experienced cooks who make the whole meal with just one oven: Cook the turkey without the stuffing. Cook the stuffing separately in the oven, and you can use drippings from the turkey to flavor it. The internal temperature of the bird will be more even compared to the outside. Faster cooking time. Make the bread ahead of time in the morning! Mix the stuffing ahead of time in the morning. Then pop the stuffing in the oven when you have drippings from the cooking turkey to add to it. Let the bird rest before carving. Then just warm the bread for a minute in the oven before serving.
Another great video by the way.
I think I have seen all your videos. I have been unmotivated because of the real estate market. I have to sell my house. I'm in to living like what I see in your videos.
We are getting ideas for the next chapter from your channel. That will be passed to my 3 grandchildren. You can't put a dollar amount on that! Great videos!!
Really enjoyed this I thought you did amazing! Your cabin is my dream home you are living the way I always wanted to so now I can through your vlogs.Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving
Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving
Double take for me with this video. Love it!
I think it is amazing the way you cooked the turkey and the bread and shared this dinner with good friends I can't think of a better way thank you for sharing with me
Your very welcome
Enjoyed your video, and watching your first at making your THANKSgiving Turkey. Love the genius idea of using Copper surround... it all turn out perfect- even with the glitches. 🍁🦃🍁
Thanks Lisa!!
You’re so welcome!!! Enjoy all your videos- when able to watch. Brings such a relaxing sense of peace, along with my faith in The Lord...while living in such a world full darkness. Staying focused, on what’s really important....our relationship with Christ,friends, and family🌿🕊☕️📖
Your words mean the most to me!! Thank you!
Really enjoyed this one. After I recently smoked a turkey for the first time for a family gathering. I was 45 minutes late because it took way longer than expected. It all turned out well. I'm gonna try making some of your bread. It looks so good. Oven first, then in the dutch oven out in the yard. Thanks for sharing.
Love these videos, working my way through them. I like that the dog came up to see if his dinner was ready and the cat walked under the dog because she can.
They are just a part of our family!❤️
Happy Thanksgiving my friend just subscribed to your channel and I love it
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you!
Jerry what a great day for you and your friends! I was also reminded today that it is about the friendships that is the most important and what endures. I continue to be impressed by your knowledge, skills, and your genuineness! Thank you and take care....Robin
Thanks Robin!
Frustrating yes and we’ve all been there but believe me you, you wouldn’t find me turning down that invitation no matter if the turkey was burnt to a crisp 😋 Me too, never cooked a turkey most of my life, and when I did it was in an electric oven! Can thoroughly appreciate all the time and effort my mother put into it. So impressive seeing it done by the fire. Hmmm … blue plastic jug 😉 funny how modern things become so visible when they’re from another era. My project this winter … make some homemade bread, perhaps I’ll try your mothers recipe, seen in one of your others videos. Thanks Brenda & Yves
Brings back fond memories of my mother and grandmother making Sicilian style pizzas and loaves of bread throughout the year in her I’m 73 and remember this back in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
I meant to say in her antique electric mixer😉
Happy Thanksgiving, your turkey looks great!
I love your humble attitude! I enjoyed your bravery in inviting friends to an unproven cooking event! And the human emotions of tge stress and dread the recipe and time lines may fai, i personally have felt that sickening dread!! Great job!l
Thank you for the comment. Means a lot
I love seeing all your old "toys" lol
Harikasın üstat...Türkiye den selam....
Exactly what Thanksgiving is all about. Great video
Cooking does take a lot of time patience and care. Yes. Thats Life...
I understand your stress. But you live, and you learn. Things are bound to go wrong the first time you do things. Love your "cabin". Greetings from Norway.
Wonderful! Loved this video
wow man i love that kind of cabin given the choice as a place to live i wow choose that kind any day
Thanksgiving is about being with family and friends. The food is just the icing on the cake.
My Dad, born in 1916, cooked in the open fireplace. He had swinging arms set up and could swing the pot out to check it, season it or remove.
An excellent video. Like you said be Thankful. Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year
Hey Jerry, I’m joe from NYC and I’m new to your channel. Absolutely loving it! I’m a foodie and this just might be right up your alley . I see that the rotisserie is your favorite. What about a turkey roulade? I totally deboned the turkey without breaking the skin except cutting down the backbone. Learned this on CZcams! I stuffed is and it was a success and now it’s the only way I don’t it. I would love to send you a picture of the turkey but I don’t know how.
Ingenious!! You are a wealth of knowledge...Happy Thanksgiving..I enjoyed seeing your friends watching your every move! Dog and kitty...
Cooking is a lot of work and coordination combined with artistic flair. I usually sauté up the onion and celery in my stuffing before combining with the bread cubes and stuffing the bird. A bit of melted fat in the mix is a good idea, too. I bet you got a lot more flavor your way as long as the celery cooked through. What an awesome way to cook a turkey. I’m going to have to try that some time. With a Holiday meal/get together something always goes Murphy’s Law. Lol. Thanks for sharing.
You did it so wonderful, that turkey looks so cooked and delicious 😋 and the bread yummy, overall you did just awesome ! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽🙏🎄
Fantastic Video!!!!! Just love your cabin!!!!!!!!!
Thank you
Awesome awesome
Great video!
I smoked my bird this year but I’m a little jealous of yours actually. It looks amazing.
Great video! Happy the bird and bread turned out perfect for you all.
I wish there was a space like yours!
If you have any secrets to getting a good sourdough starter going, please pass them on. Call me crazy, but I would have been asking for that nice dark bread and some good olive oil for dipping! Good job on you first turkey, no one that I know hosts this meal without being stressed. My sister had a Pyrex dish full of something explode all over the room!! Fun times!!!😂
Nice!! My fireplace is not ready... I'm gonna cook a Ham and a Quacker
For Christmas!!!!! I hope!!!!
Hey, no worries there's always next year. Still had food and great company. 👍
Awesome video
Love your videos. I've never seen or heard anything about the"spitjack" or anything even like it (vertical meat hang etc). And your shield adaptation is genius.
Simple, safe, very effective. Outstanding!
Thanks jim
nice authentic turkey day jerry. brian h saying hello from RI cabin life is tough those people out there in Ukraine would be styling at your place they wouldn't care if the bread was burnt. u got it made
Your right! Sorry for the late response. Been sick for a few days
Looks great job for your first time
Another wonderful video. Thank you, Jerry! Your ex wife should have given you more Thanksgiving cook chores because your food looked amazing. Even if it didn’t finish the way you had intended. You’ll have it down by next year, I’m sure! Some beer can chicken, or any chicken, would be soooooo good cooked that way! I hope your visit with your boy was a good one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!
I loved your dog looking at you like, you sure do trust me...
She is a very good girl. She never gets into anything that doesn’t belong to her. Plus she knows that she gets some when it’s done.❤️
@@logcabinlifestyle Good girl. :) My husky just chewed the cord off my dehydrator tonight lmao. But he's 13 and set in his ways. ;) I blame my husband. The cavalier that i raised is a very good girl too. :)
I would replace that iron boiler with a massive Tulikivi soapstone stove!
you save a huge amount of wood and 24 hours of heat output.🔥🔥🔥
I absolutely love this, its my dream to build a cabin and use it like you are. thank you for this!!!
Your very welcome!!
I had friends brine the turkey before cooking and it turned out incredibly well. I wonder if it would have worked with wood fired cooking. Also I learned a few years ago about spatch-cock turkey. Basically cutting up the turkey for easier cooking, but mostly in the oven. Something to look into if you want.
I really loved this
I lost your channel somehow when I bought this new tablet. So glad I have you back! Motto...don't sweat the small stuff. Got ya. Great video! Skip McCain
Welcome back Skip
This is soooo awesome!!! Hahaha, I think Lavender wants to baste the turkey with her tongue 😁❤️. And that bread mixer...ugh ...soooo cool!! I LOVE making bread but to bake it in a wood fired oven...the ultimate baking of bread!! I bet it smells absolutely AMAZING in your cabin!!!
Absolutely love this video, very informative
Wow that looks delicious 😋
You did a great job! First time on a fire cooking the turkey! Great job dude
The dog is funny. All this activity, delicious bird cooking and must be awesome aroma..dog isn't moving for anything! Lol. She found her place. You can drag hot coals over her..nope she ain't moving..hahaha. she really trusts you!
Yes! 100%. She’s a good girl
Well Happy Thanksgiving to you and success with your first turkey as long as it's impeccably clean and personally I would have removed that plastic band that's holding the legs together to me that's dangerous and I wouldn't want that melted plastic on my turkey but enjoy I didn't see you season it or anything but hey good luck with your first turkey!!
OMG I love your cabin!!! It's like my dream layout. But being your age, I'd have to have a downstairs bedroom, preferably behind the fireplace like Ma & Pa Ingalls... 😘
It does. As matter of fact it has 2 bedrooms on the first floor
I try too avoid having turkey on thanksgiving because it’s so time consuming. I use a modern oven and I can’t imagine taking on cooking one like you did plus never doing it before. You did good.
Thank you!! It did take forever and was so demanding
@@logcabinlifestyle You at least tried it and succeeded. It takes a lot to cook one in a modern oven I don’t like it, I bribe my girlfriend to do it.
That’s the problem!! I don’t have a girlfriend. 😂😂
walnut bread is great
Bruh.......that turkey looked fabulous! Couple of base line recommendations. Bring your turkey to room temp before cooking. All those guides in the literature accompanying the bird are meant to alleviate their legal liability. Trust me. I'm the man of the house and have been cooking the bird for 35 years. Room temp is were you want to start.
The bread was amazing! Bother with the over browned! I spent 6 years in Italy! Those were the good loaves!
Never stress about a holiday meal! It will be done when it's done! Your guests are not going to leave on you. Just chill and have a glass of cider and when it's done, you eat!
I once raised 6 turkeys during my Mother Earth News period.. Free range on my 55 acres... The coyotes and dogs got three!!!!
A local told me how to
Laughter.. Just grab the head and spin him around and break his neck..
He didn't exactly die... He was spinning around on the ground.... So I stomped on his head... I tried an axe on number 2.... Apparently missed the vitals and he was also spinning around and spewing blood... Stomped on him!!!! #3 I decided to shoot while in his cage... He looked right at my 22....his head disintegrated... I buried all three!!!!! And bought a turkey!!!!
Wow a Freudian algorithm.. That should be "slaughter"... Not laughter!!!!
Hey Jerry , just recently found your channel , your cabin is awesome ! As i redo this old house to replicate the , old days , & ways , look -- i'm looking at your lights and wondering where i can get some , like the ones you have .
As for your turkey dinner slight disappointment's , its all about mak'in memories , and i'll bet everyone had a great time , and waiting to come back !!!!!!
As for me --- the first bird i cooked in a wood cook stove , followed directions/instructions , i thought to a T --- everyone that ate it got food poisoning , including me , Not many will eat my cooking anymore hahahahahahaha
That one was a friends great-aunts. It’s a real oil lamp but I dropped a light bulb in the top
Looks like a lot of celery, good luck.
The stuffing acts as an insulator and slows down the cooking time for the turkey. Maybe next time, cook the stuffing in a pan in the oven. You can add some herbs in the turkey cavity with some onion, etc to help flavor the bird. Happy Thanksgiving! 🍂🦃🍁
Yep - always cook the sfuffing 1st - put it hot inside the turkey ( dont forget to take the wrapped giblets out 1st if store bought ) which helps to cook it from the inside as well
Nah!!!
Yes, the stuffing, which I dont do, I cook dressing, needs to cook to a certain temp.
Kind of scary. 165*
Looks good though.
@@kingscairn never ever ever put hot stuffing in a cold bird
You created a beautiful Thanksgiving Turkey and you sourdough bread was not burnt it was just a little browned on top. I am sure both breads were delicious. 🦃🦃🦃🦃🍞🍞🍞🍞
Thankful i found your channel! Next video can be coffee soup video. I’ve Never heard of it or seen how it is made.
Yes! I’ll be shooting that one today and should be able to post it later today
❤❤❤
Hey man fool proof way to cook a turkey chicken or ham / deep fry it in peanut oil or oil of your choice / take your pot out side what ever you you cook put it in the pot , cover it with water, mark the water line in side the pot. Take out what you are cooking, dry off what you are going to deep fry with paper towels, poor off water put oil in pot to the the line / watch the oil temp slowly lower it in to the fire pot /cook to time / take out drip dry oil then eat / deep fry is so good / stays moist in side try it you will like it for sure
When you finish with your dough maker, wiped it out, and keep it covered from dust and animal hair.
It was good anyway God bless ps it's not Thanksgiving yet lol
Like your videos I have the same spit Jack but it's missing something to turn the meat. I fixed the gears inside and a bracket but I can't figure the rest out. I'm from Ellsworth so we're local do you think I could look at your spitjack somehow
Sure thing. Just let me know when you will be around.
It's been 14 years since we cooked a store bought bird and wild bird has many options Turkey, Grouse ,Sage hens Goose, Duck all are great eating , Happy Hunting..?
Old school baby
Why you did not show the finished product the turkey or the complete Thanksgiving table thats what we were dying to see..
PS if it started to get to brown cover with foil to finish cooking !
Here at 29,128 views. Simplier times back then, I need to go back.
Just remember basting is the key basting basting it will come out great season in side butter under skin if you can
How did you keep the turkey from drying out? I would make something you can set the bird in with some water and cover it so it steams it with all that airflow I bet it was so dry lol but good attempt.
Oh since you moved the camera closer I see there is a pan under it with the juices. Great 😂 job
You don't steam a Pavo!!!!
It didn’t dry out at all. Probably the most moist bird I’ve ever eaten
What is the big colander looking thing your mixing the bread in? Is that what its made for? What is it made of?
It’s a galvanized dough mixing bowl
@@logcabinlifestyle Thanks! Happy late new year!