2000-Year Old Recipe STINGING NETTLES Patina | Apicius -- Oldest Cookbook of the West
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 3. 05. 2020
- It's spring and #stingingnettles are popping up here and there, so why not make a 2000-year old recipe from the Apicius, widely considered to be the oldest cookbook in the west? Let's see what this stinging nettle patina tastes like, shall we? Will it stand the test of time?
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I donât normally eat plants that can stab me but if Emmy says I can then I will
If you like pineapples you might
@@TheCinderfang try eating pineapple with a palette expander... on second thought, don't.
In Scanndinavia we dry nettles for the winter to use when baking bread. Nettles are superhealthy. Also the seeds can be dried and eaten.
All trust in EmmyđđŒ
@@ritvaljungqvist6666 it also makes really delicious tea!
In romania we eat a lot of nettles. Theyre prepared just like garlic sauteed spinich and are served with polenta. As its a vegetarian meal, we usually eat it before Easter when we fast. Delicious!âșïž
polenta is super popular in brasil's south too! first time I ever see someone from another country mentioning it haha although eating nettles is definitely pretty rare here :p
Sounds delicious!
That sounds good!
Loopy Adrian My mom is Romanian, but Iâve never had the pleasure to try this! :) Iâll ask her to make it for me some day!
When I make it, I only use the leaves (originally from Romania). And I also serve it with Polenta and maybe some chicken, if my sons are eating with. I also make it as the original garlic spinach recipe. But this video inspires me to have it with eggs too. People also make spinach buns.. I wonder if likewise, one could make nettle buns :D
Love the string lights adds a homey feel!
History brain: Huh, I wonder what the Romans used to handle stinging nettles without rubber gloves!
Dark history brain: Slaves
Probably, but the slaves may have used some kind of tool.
I think the common thing would be to handle it with another leaf from a different plant or simply with a rag
Any kind of glove would be useful
Only the rich had slaves. This is commoner's food.
Bet they used long sleeve with ends tied closed
Dont forage by the roads, they can have alot of toxins (like actual toxins (heavy metals, oil, engin fluids, and shit like that) not "toxins"
Foraging by rivers can be even worse depending on where you are
@@Eueueyw also very true
Dogs piss all over them too đ€ź
@@GreenBananaz You can wash the pee off
@@GreenBananaz one usually avoids foraging right by animal trails for that reason too
I am from Bavaria and nettles and dandelions are common vegetables.
Both are used in several different ways.
Nettle soup is wonderful.
I agree I love nettle soup
I want to know who thought " wow this makes me all itchy and uncomfortable....let's eat it!"
Not just that, it makes great rope and cordage and supposedly silky cloth.
LMAO đââïž
When you're starving, many things become appetizing :)
@@brad__s I concur when you are starving lots of things look appetizing that never looked good before
In the uk they have competitions to eat them raw and who eats most wins
Nettles: evolve irritating hairs so they can't be eaten
Humans: cooks nettle to make them edible
Nettles: hol up
"Am I a joke to you?"
Pesky humans đ
the entire nightshade family are in the same boat
Humans: we WILL eat you
I haven't even started yet and I'm freaking out! My grandparents and previous ancestors have used nettles for a healing tea. We use many different plant and roots and this is one of them. I'm First Nations from Vancouver BC Canada and I'm very excited and grateful for your time and all the wonderful things you bring us! Love you â€ïžđ
Nettle tea is really interesting.
Nettle tea is pretty good đ
I was taught to forage for wild edibles and greens as a child from my grandmother & now I've taught my children the same skill set!
This gave me flashbacks of being 4 years old living with my grandparents, where canned spinach was served fairly often. I would sit there and hold it in my mouth for ages, before finally gagging it down.
Oh, poor thing. đ€ą
That was me with canned peas. I used to swallow them with my milk like pills đđ
Cheap tinned meat for me as a child- chewing until it has no flavour because it was so tough.
No joke. It took me awhile to realize that fresh spinach was good.
at my house it was canned asparagus... even after I moved out of my parents house it was YEARS before I would even try asparagus again lol
*burp
"Don't rub peaches on your cheek"
WORDS đ TO đ LIVE đ BY đ
It should be on a t-shirt.
Why can't you
@@jonazbermudez7638 think the "peach fuzz" is abrasive to sensitive skin
unless you're a poor family who tricks a rich family into hiring them all separately and needs to get rid of the housekeeper who just so happens to have a peach allergy that you can claim is tuberculosis...
@@vanillakitten1210 I get it lol
If you get stung by nettle, there is another plant growing nearby called dock or rumex that takes the sting away. You just crush it and rub it in.
Also, you can taste nettle raw if you crush it.
Prince Mononoke is this the same as what we Texans call âbull nettleâ?
The funny thing about that dock was a native to England long before the Romans introduced nettles
Michelle Taylor Itâs not the same but very similar. I remember up in llano they were growing everywhere. I got stung a lot by them
Yep, it's called burdock where I live, and you always would chew it and tie it on a nettle sting with a handkerchief.
So, I will guess those little irritating hairs on the nettles are a defense mechanism against browsers such as deer and rabbits?
"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food" -Hippocrates
Near wear stinging nettles are growing if you look around you will find a yellow flower growing near by, pluck the stem of the flowers and rub the goo in the stem on where you touched the nettles it counteracts the effects and will immediately make the burning stop
Interestingly, the nettle's own roots have the same effect. A lot of antidotes in nature are found in the same plant the poison comes from, the nettle being no exception!
@@K1ddkanuck stinging nettles are an extremely nutritious plant, often used as a spring tonic in rural areas. It's one of the first wild spring greens to come up. After cooking, the hairs that cause the sting break down and are no longer an issue.
Can you identify this yellow flower for me? It will help me to also know where I might come across the nettles. Thanks for the info!
@cynthia g Because it's not necessarily "dangerous", per say, at least I wouldn't call a skin irritation that, personally. The reason why people promote it is because it has various uses, like in cuisine as showcased here, or I drink nettle tea when I have certain IBS symptoms
Would this be Jewel weed. I know it's an antidote for poisin ivey.
"Don't rub peaches on your face"
Well, now I want to know what it feels like đ
Hahhaha, right? I'm definitely gonna try it as soon as I buy some! I never felt any inch or anything and I do remember licking the skin, since it was so fuzzy and I get curious. But nothing really happened, it was more like this fur kinda sticked to my tongue and it wasn't very pleasant, but it wasn't painful or uncomfortable too. Or maybe there are different kinds of peaches. Like I never had that kind of heart or butt-shaped ones, like in this emoji. Are these real? Here peaches are round and look like nectarines, but fuzzy.
Zielony Lis with sensitive skin it can be quite abrasive. I always got ruddy, itchy cheeks after rubbing them lol.
My Weâre Gonna Be Ok shirt came today! I think my wifeâs going to be stealing it by tomorrow.
Awesome! I'm glad it arrived. Sharing is caring. đ
Who exactly got stung by these things and thought âoh hey Iâd love to eat theseâ?????
Eaten for revenge
People who were starving
Right? "Ow that hurt like fire. Better put it in my mouth."
Same guy who saw milk come out of a cow and thought, "I want some of that!"
I'm still trying to figure out how eggs made it to our plates. Who said let's open those orbs coming out of chicken butts and eat them?
Should you have used stinging nettle as a garnish? That seems like an accident waiting to happen. đ€Ł
Exactly what I thought đ€Šđ»ââïžđ€·đ»ââïž
What i thought too.
I think it was just for photography purposes.
Stinging nettles where I come from we call them itch weed. When I was a kid I was riding my radio flyer down a big hill about half way down the radio flyer went out of control and rolled me in to a patch of stinging nettles. Yep that was a bad day.
Wheel loader 55_10_15 Ah, to be a kid again. đ
Best true story award of the day, hands down..
You should consider story telling.... Because that was spot-on engaging... :)
Literally yesterday I was riding my bike and fell on a cactus I still feel small needles in my arm
@@dawsoncarpenter2244 gosh! I hope you're alright!
This happened to me but it was by a river stream! I couldnât imagine eating something that gave be such pain! đ
It still amazes me that someone would be like "yeah, this hurts when I touch it, but what if I eat it instead?" People back in the days were either really brave or just didn't know any better.
Or they were so hungry they tried anything, from roots to dirt, from tree cortex to itchy plants
People back then had a much more intimate relationship with food. They would forage, hunt, pick, plant and harvest and keep their own animals. They knew exactly what was good for them and what wasn't, they ate local and seasonal foods, and that knowledge was passed down by communities and families. We can't even pronounce half of the stuff in our food. It's really us who don't know any better tbh.
Hunger makes the best flavor enhancer.
oi hunger pains hurt so bad
I used to get them all the time and want to cry
Now I think that I should eat some food before they come back
Desperate
I LOOOVVEEE NETTLES!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOOOO AMAZING!!!
Nettle tea is glorious.
FAX sisđ đ đ !!!!
Really?
I loooove nettle tea! It's so freaking delicious!
Yeah, I really like neetle tea, the smell is quite pleasant and it's also wonderful with tad of honey! I heard that it really helps with keeping your hair and skin in great condition!
My the most favorite vegetable ever.
The texture and the flavor and the best part is the medicinal value.
This is so weird! I told my kids I wanted to make dandelion jelly and two days later you made it. Then my friend just brought me stinging nettle and now you are using it too. This is quite interesting!! Ok my next thought is... letâs see if you get it. Haha đ lol just kidding
Emmy eating toast in any scenario is sublime.
I love nettles , they would grow in abundance in the woods behind my old house and I would pick them by the bucketload and fry them up in bacon grease and flour
"Funky" isn't a smell or taste I find pleasant. That word makes me think of a smelly foot đ
Yaria Samavan Carlan funky like a nice Parmesan cheese or mushrooms or sauerkraut! I love it
Lol, don't try funky wine!
@@ScrewedTimeLord Sort of umami nose? Like some wines?
Not a cheese man I take it.
Thinking: toe 'cheese'!
I loved this video! More recipes from that book please! đđđ
When I was a kid i went to a camp and we made nettle omelette and dandelion salad. I was the only one who wanted to try it. I remember that omelette as so good. Memories!
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A tip for you Emmy direct from Ray Mears in his TV series Wild Food he 'discovered' on camera that if you plucked a whole stem of nettles and passed it through the hot air overa camp fire (substitute the heat over your stovetop) it not only wilts the leaves but kills the stinging hairs after doing fhat he was plucking leaves off and eating them. I'm sure you'll be able to find that online somewhere
misolgit 69 Similar random info, to pick prickly pears you can bring a blowtorch and just burn the needles off:)
nettles also don't sting, when they are soaking wet đđ»so pick them in a heavy rain!
You can grab them from behind too so as not to get stung, also have calamine lotion if pre planned or Dock leaves to hand just incase. And of course don't pick them in high trafic areas especially at dog pee height. Or any other wild roaming animal or drunk fella's walk home. đ
Thank you, I love seeing old receipts you normally wouldn't see with the unexpected. Like when people cook with roses and lavender. Love you Emmyâ€ïž
Stinging nettles grow at the bottom of my garden wild. The Romans introduced them to my country for food. The best time to pick them is in March. You kind of treat them like spinach and they're great in soups with soured cream. Theyre also very healthy, but use they do sting before being cooked if you don't wear cloves
6:45 how cute!!!đ©â„ïž
Tfs this recipe, Emmy. Just a tip: Do not eat stinging nettles after the point they start to flower. Don't eat them if they are woody, even if they are not getting flowers yet. Stinging nettles develop a high concentration of formic acid as they grow and it can kill humans. Also, stinging nettles are poisonous to cats and dogs.
Oof.
It actually seems to be pretty popular in certain countries, if you take a look at the comment section!
@Redheaded Stranger Actually thats fire ant stings not bee stings
The formic acid levels will not kill humans. You shouldn't eat old leaves, but this is not why.
Formic acid is indeed present in stinging nettles, but it doesn't increase with age, and it's not enough to harm humans. Formic acid has a low toxicity, and is an approved food additive. Nettles do not contain enough formic acid to produce toxic effects in humans. Formic acid is used as a food preservative, and also found naturally in foods like honey and fruit.
In addition, formic acid decomposes at cooking temperatures, meaning the end product doesn't contain formic acid. In fact, formic acid is denatured by drying and maceration as well. That means, unless you are eating the still-stinging fresh nettles (mouth of steel) then you actually aren't consuming the formic acid. Even so, the amount in fresh leaves isn't toxic. Fresh squeezed nettle juice and leaves eaten fresh have been implicated in allergic reactions, though, as in addition to formic acid, the plant contains histamines. Nettles also contain oxalic acid (like so many vegetables!) which is reduced by cooking. You can do a warm pre-rinse of the nettles before cooking to lower levels of oxalic and formic acid even further. So for those reasons, it's best to dry or cook nettles.
However! Old leaves develop cystoliths, which are gritty particles that are a urinary tract irritant if you eat a lot. They're also tough and less tasty. It's not going to kill you. But eat young leaves, anyway.
Debate on harmfulness aside, once they get flowers, they don't taste good. Bitter and nasty. They are 100x better when they are young. Then they taste sweet and tart, a little like citrus. Speaking from personal experience.
a bit too late for fiddleheads but Time For Nettles !!!! YES đżđżđȘđŸ
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We have stinging nettles in our yard, looking forward to making tea from it and using it like spinach too. I may try this recipe. Thanks!
I grew up with grandmother who knew how to use nettles, first it was soup, bread or in a cream sauce and later in the season she used to gather the stalks for fibers to make fabric. She helped some one else who like to make nettle fabric, since she had the knowledge she wanted to pass it on.
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I am so doing this eating history + so many times I've cussed those stings seems poetic tyvm new one for the bucket list.
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Pyro Kai All the luck to your channel!
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I love when you do the old recipes. So fun.
Love your old cookbook recipes!
Watching this very late at night/early in the morning making streusel. Itâs in the oven and Iâm on the floor drinking herbal tea. I think I messed it up a bit but it should still be good with some homemade custard! Thanks for keeping me entertained!
HEYYY EMMY, THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER VIDEO
Thank you for all of your nature spring videos recently, I love them. Also so totally waiting for your bee vlogs
I like the ancient cookbook, I want to see more!
As I was writing a comment complementing the lights in the background I heard fish sauce and grape juice (1:58). I don't know wether it's my ear or she actually said fish sauce and grape juice.
Yes to both!
The Romans used fish sauce in custard too
@@jamesfry8983 I would try that. But I also fully admit that I have an unnatural love of fish sauce.
The Romans were like those people that put hot sauce on absolutely everything except that it was fish sauce rather than hot sauce
As a descendant of those Romans (I'm Italian since... A lot of generations, at the very least), I find that fish sauce fetish kinda appalling.
The only time I've ever heard of nettles is from salad fingers.
Alycia Moore Same. Youâre gorgeous btw đ„șđ€
makes the milk drop out from my teat
Thank you, Emmy, Iâve been waiting for this video. Please do more from the book, the weirder the better! đ
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Emmy: *cooks nettles*
*salad fingers wants to know your location*
So this made me think of salad fingers from like well over 10 years ago. Just me? Ok đđ
I didn't know that kettles grow in the USA.
New York born, Irish raised, comedian Des Bishop, has a comedy sketch about first encountering nettles, for the first time, as an American growing up in Ireland.
So I just thought that they weren't growing over there in the USA, if he hadn't known about them before coming to Ireland.
Wow. You learn something new everyday! đđâșđđđđ
Where I grew up there was a lot of stinging nettles and I was always getting stung. You are my favorite foodie to watch. Thank you for sharing this with us. God Bless and stay safe.
I'm always happy when the CC is auto. Itadakimasu => "to knock him off".
Aw, mine just said `(Speaks in a foreign language)` today. I was so disappointed lol
Mine always says âeat my ducky ballsâ or itâll say speaks in foreign language đ€Ł
@@one_smol_duck They probably got real CC up.
Lol my cc actually spelled itadakimasu lol first time usually says eat the ducky moss lol
No one:
Absolutely Nobody
Emmy: *Fake Fig*
Does it need garlic?
I love how she just randomly labels stuff and I deeply appreciate her honesty that itâs fake đ
B.S relate's to phallic objects( dildo breath)đ
This is so cute and fun! I love funky weird niche flavors and combinations. Iâm sure i would love this recipe!
I love all your foraging cooking videos! I just got into foraging in the last two years or so so these are great.
Ahh, I adore you, you happy soul.
Aww...shucks. â€ïž
I love watching these ancient recipes being made. You might like the Historical Italian Cooking channel on CZcams.
I'll check it out! Thanks for the suggestion.
WHOA how didn't I know about that channel, being me an Italian?
Always excited when I see you have uploaded new content!! â€ïžđđ
This spring I found a nettle soup recipe. Wild harvested a batch of fresh nettles. The soup was amazing! Nettles have a delicate yet earth taste that is best described as tasting the color green. They're good to cook or fry with spinach, or add to a split pea soup
The studio feels more like home every video.
Hi, Emmy. â€ïž This was so interesting. đ My husband and I just returned from our afternoon walk here in the Pacific Northwest. đWe had picked a few handfuls as my husband told me they are delicious and loose their âstingâ as soon as they are cooked or âhitting boiling waterâ. On our walk, we saw two types of stinging nettles. I plan to rinse mine then add them to my cast iron wok to sear and wilt. Iâll drain them before adding them to a đ§ garlic and Parmesan đ„ Keto bĂ©chamel sauce (just heavy cream reduced by half over medium heat). Iâll place the creamed nettles in an oven-safe dish before sprinkling with shredded mozzarella đ§ and broiling the cheese until itâs golden brown for a lovely Nettle Gratin. Thanks for your serendipitous video! đż
Mmm...that sounds tasty.
I love these ancient recipes!
Emmy you are informative and fun. I have tried the recipes that you have shown. Thank you for all that you do.
When I was little and we would play in the mountains behind my grandmother's house we would often accidentally brush some kind of leaves that would immediately give us a stinging feeling. Almost like a bee sting. Would that be a stinging nettle? It was immediate pain and we would sometimes even cry lol. I'd forgotten all about those.
Yes :)
Thankfully it doesn't last long and isn't too painful. As an adult, I tend to suffer through stuff just to see what happens. Felt a yellow jacket sting me near my ankle so I watched him until he flew off then dealt with the sting. Crazy little buggers, saw one land on a piece of KFC and nibble off a little piece for takeaway.
I wounder who the first person to eat these was.
"These irratate my skin real bad but maybe I should eat them"
Same person who decided to eat puffer fish, eels (their blood is a toxin), lobsters AFTER boiling and clams that opened on their own. People are weird...we have eaten things that evolved to specifically keep them from being eaten for a millennia. đ
i love how emmy describes food
Every Spring, I make a nettle and lemon cake~! It's delightful !! I'm going to put this cookbook on my wish list~!
One of my earliest memories is of being strapped in a pushchair and jiggling about, only for the pushchair to topple over and I landed in a huge patch of stinging nettles, don't know what happened after that, guess the pain of it was blocked out from being remembered... :S
who remembers salad fingers' obsession with nettles?
I love watching old Bert and Ernie skits. My favorite is the one where Ernie is calling the đ.
I have so much stinging nettle growing in the fields behind my yard. To me they were just painful weeds until my husband's aunt told me I have a gold mine of edible plants. Still haven't had the nerve to pick and cook with them so I'm really glad you found this recipe!
Garnished with fresh stinging nettle? That's brave... :) I've found that stinging nettle soup has a slight numbing quality.
I know the feeling of rubbing fruit on my cheeks. When I was young I saw a MANGO and got so excited and rubbed it on my cheek and my face blew up and I was a chipmunk for a week. Turns out Iâm allergic to mangos.
Mango is related to poison ivy. The skin can cause the same rash. I learned that the hard way
we used to pick them with our hands as kids since if you pick them right they don't sting/burn. springtime is the best time when they taste the best yuuum
this is so small but iâm so glad you have things to label when you walk away from the counter !! i missed that little detail
One time when I was little I crashed my bike into the woods, and when I started walking my bike home I suddenly felt all these itchy stings. I crashed into a bunch of nettles. Itâs one of the most uncomfortable things especially all over your body!
I take freeze dried stinging nettle capsules for my allergies.
WHAT! get out! Does it work well? My allergies are so frustrating and Iâm tired of taking regular medicine for it :(
@@katqt32 I took a tincture of it. It definitely worked for me quite well.
So excited to see Cooking with the Apicius again!
My grandmother used to forage for stinging nettles and I seriously forgot they were edible until now đŹ
I think I just swept the memory into dandelion greens and fiddlehead fern pile! I didnât eat nettles nearly as often as the ferns or greens, itâs still so strange how a memory will just reappear! Thank you for triggering some nostalgia and this is such a fascinating piece of history Iâd love to see every recipe made đđ»
Love your foraging videos!
So wait, peaches sting? How am I 48 and never experienced that when I eat them, skin and all?
I was shocked by that, too!
great, now i want to see what a peach feels like on my cheek
Don't do it. đ đ»ââïž
Youâve clearly not watched Parasite lmao
@@CharLotte-el2lb not yet! is that actually in the movie? đ
Donât do it. The hairs hurt on the areas of your body where itâs typically sensitive skin. Very unpleasant. And if had the fine hairs imbed themselves in my skin. It itches, and burns. Much like the hairs of certain cacti
Haley Day yessss! Hahahahaha the first thing I thought when Emmy said that đ I was like ânoooo guuuurrllllâ
Wow sounds amazing đ€€
The new kitchen looks more and more homey every video. Nice â€ïž
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Great idea!
Whenever I say âDoes this smell funky to you?â itâs not in a good way. đ
Emmy, your videos are always so interesting. Thank you for bringing brightness to these days of self isolation.
Thank you. â€ïž
I love how emmy's informative and full of knowledge down to her shirtđ„°
Wait why cant I rub a peach on my face?
People, please donât go outside and just start cooking up weeds and eating them. đ
I had my fair share of nettle soup as a child, it's pretty common where I live and I vividly remember it being absolutely delicious.
Nice to see you covering this. These grow as commonly as grass down here but because it is the end of autumn, most of them are quite bitter. It's been warm during the day, so unless we have another hard frost there may be some new growth to try. I like young dandelion and false dandelion greens tossed into a pan of roasting or pan roasted chicken or soup. đ
Rhode island is so so small yet you find more varieties of produce and meats and everything there than I ever could in any state I've lived in. I'd love to visit the markets in your town.
Years ago I stayed with my sister for a week in San Francisco. As a thank you, I took her and her now wife to Chez Panisse, where, among many yummy dishes, we had pizza with stinging nettles. That is the dish I remember from that meal. So tasty!
Just ordered the Apicius Cookbook đ
Cant wait!
I love the way they feel on the hand. Tingly!
But yeah, don't be afraid, they're like spinach with more fiber.