How To Prepare A Traditional Medieval Feast | Let's Cook History | Chronicle
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- Many think of The Middle Ages as a gloomy period for cuisine, as famine ravaged many parts of the world. However, throughout Europe, medieval kitchens were often filled with innovative and healthy dishes. Let's take a deep dive into world of the medieval feast: from the preparation of bread, meat, wine and herbs consumed in castles to the banquets in the monasteries and the growing cities.
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For the reheating at 15:15, I would think that is why SOOO MANY recipes are much better when they are reheated the next day, perhaps with new veggies or meat added. There are even recipes that were kept going for weeks and weeks by adding new stuff.
There's a burger joint somewhere that has been frying their patties in the same grease for 100 years. I think it's in Pakistan. Or maybe it's a Japanese restaurant.
Apparently the old grease is all the thing for enhanced flavor (umami). It's animal fat so it doesn't turn rancid as fast.
Constant renewal keeps it fresh, but the seed of the original grease remains, like a sourdough starter.
Harrgh!
@@Tipi_Dandude how can you mix up pakistan and Japan?😂😂
Those are the two most different countries I can imagine!
I love history ❤️ especially the middle ages I find fascinating
You're in the right place!
@@ChronicleMedieval
Indeed 👍🏻❤️
"Butter had yet to be invented?" That is the sort of statement that keeps modern people ignorant of their past. Clearly written by someone that doesn't study archaeology.
Butter has been a food for thousands of years. Bog butter caches have been found and dated as early as 3000 BC.
The butter was yummy.
I was about to say the same thing ! And even while not going as far as the bog butter there are lots of accounts about the Franks (first mentioned in the 3rd-century by the romans) eating butter so that part is really strange
My thoughts precisely! Neither do they look at documentary sources: there are mediaeval drawings of women churning butter!
32:14 Seeing this makes me smile, as it shows that even those of the medieval periods knew how to have some humor.
I cant thank you enough for bringing such a brillant materpiece of information
BEST regards from Inca land
God do really bless you all
Our finest regards to you too!
My favorite part of all of this research is the statement in the beginning about how this is when things were actually slowly getting better. Really adds meaning to our modern life!
The Forme Of Cury, a compendium of recipes, was written by the Head Chef under the English King Richard II.
Can you imagine taking out a twig at the store and being like "Put that on my tab, my good man!" 😂
One only needs to book at records the medieval societies kept to see that it wasn't as dark as we were once led to believe.. Watch Medieval Lives documentary (6 partner?) With Terry Jones narrating.. very eye opening.
Medieval times known as “the dark ages” were so called dark due to the minimal amount of written accounts of history of the time.
@@ThorneyRose good to know
This is a thoroughly enjoyable and informative video! The authenticity of the settings, the actors and background sounds are simply outstanding. So many historical videos seem contrived but I found this one lured me into medieval times and allowed me to feel as though I was living it with them. Well done and thank you!
I doubt that there were many leftovers in those days. But, I still remember when, as a child, if I wanted a bite of leftovers, I would have to get at least one pot, depending on what all I wanted, and reheating it in the stove.
Microwaves changed my life. I could eat whatever I wanted, whenever I pleased.
Such luxury was beyond the reach of even royalty. We are indeed rich.
Great documentary I love it thank you ❤
Thanks for tuning in!
Loved this ❤
I want that basted salmon in pastry recipe. I watched that several times because it looked so good.
Definitely. Need to try it in summer over a fire. Yummy.
The visuals in this documentary are superb, scenes that look like paintings by the Masters. Those re-enactors are wearing beautifully colored costumes.
Yes!
I love watching these documentaries where the details are so beautifully reproduced.
This video is very impressive, wonderfully put together!
Fantastic , so interesting . Thank you 👍
Food IS medicine, up to a point.
Gotta have those vitaminz 'n rockz!
Excellent
That was great thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very enjoyable and interesting, love to learn more about the Middle Ages.(But butter had been invented.)
I Think horseraddish îs not looked as a weed in nowadays..at least I like it😁
I used to cook Mediaeval feasts for our Renn Faire group.
Regarding the spices there’s no mention or depiction of the moors
Love a good cooking show, even if it IS 800 yrs. old!
An interesting history lesson but I didn't learn "how to prepare a traditional medieval feast".
By using his cookbook. Lol
@@Pooka_or_Puck Ahhh...I see.
When I was in high school Friday was Fish day to accommodate the Catholics, not one person minded BECAUSE Thursday was 'Sloppy Joe' day.
Like how average life expectancy 40 years w/o the context that if you made it past childhood you had a good chance of living into old age. Also the peasants had to poach to eat meat, then later how they didn’t mind going without meat during lent lol.
History much like the stories on this channel are all made up. Like nobility would put up with picking ashes from their food. LOL
Thanks for the clarification. I'm 40, so I was curious as to why people my age would suddenly drop dead. Apparently they wouldn't, especially since they had such healthy diets back then, and walked frequently. I guess they should use "median" age, not "average."
Absolutely brilliant.
Thank you.
It's always interesting when you watch a variety of documentaries on the same time period and you're left wondering if a documentary doesn't include all the information or if all the new/extra information was wrong. 😶
we keep learning (bias / propaganda is also a factor but literally we are always learning new things about our past)
When researching I tend to read a little from alot of different sources... I then use my judgement and compare the sources for intent of selecting a few to thoroughly read. From there I piece out what is opinion and fact. I record the facts and draw my own conclusions from only what I know is true... This works in science history medicine and best of all solving mysteries like the great pyramids to how the universe works.
And not everyone knows the same details on a given topic
Yes, I just watched one that stated poor people ate fish on all those fast days…and this one said “Poor people couldn’t afford fish!”
One also needs to focus on the exact location that is being talked about. Europe was not homogenous, in fact Italian city states were each different & Englands tastes & practices completely different from mainland Europe.
Very generalised view of the period, and the bit about the wine consumption is only valid in wine regions, a lot of regions in northern Europe relied more on beer than wine. Even though this "documentry" gives the impression this is how it was in all of Europe..."Butter had to be yet invented" oh gee, so the finds of prehistoric bog butter, or butter mention in use by the Romans is all false? Who ever wrote the text to this should do a bit more research and not make claims that can be found false with in seconds.
Yeah the Romans mention how the barbarians loved butter
This is exactly what I came to the comments for, I didn't want to repeat fact butter is literally thousands of years old at least
Butter goes way back. As long as goats, sheep and cows were domesticated milk, butter and cheese were were not far behind. Butter making was described on Sumerian tablets 2500BC.
Recipe for pork chowder
the glasses i want to know how they were made and done i want a pair of wooden glasses those look cool
Love me a good foot pressed wine lmao
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'Butter had yet to be invented'
....What? Butter was invented thousands of years ago, very likely before agriculture was invented. The romans didn't use it as food but they certainly knew about it and it was known to be an ancient food then
10:27 ah! German-suited playing cards!
I was going to say, it's pretty simple.
It would be helpful if we knew what year this documentary was released.
Judging by the camera quality and outfits probably 2005ish
Outfits of the historians*
According to IMDb, a 2005 French production
Wow, imagine being a December baby X)
Can someone tell me where the accent of this guys is from?
Buckingham ? mybe Canadian sometimes
I like how they say Salmon was a dish for the Ritch. No in this time salmon is a dish for the poor. Why cause it was so easy to get.
Hopefully, the meal include the little bugs, grubs, sand particulates, grainy chunky flour, E Coli, coughing and sweat. I heard a little sawdust in the bread really spiced things up. Don't forget the mutually shared the cloth to clean one's teeth as a pass around.
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They had the immunity for it!
I can’t imagine life without McDonald’s 🍔
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Interesting that today, white bread is most unhealthy while brown breads with seeds and nuts are much healthier.
Invented algebra? Know I know who to blame
Why is the art of the subtlety not addressed?
Just to point out that when the church fasted and sacrificed more, exorcisms were faster. (Mentally ill people don't get stuck to ceilings...)
In short the poor have never been looked after all throughout history
That pig chowder sounds awful.
"Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that cometh from the mouth of God." - Jesus Christ.
The way he says fillets is infuriating.
At 32:00 was it really necessary to show the painting of the bloodied pig being slaughtered....accompanied by the AUDIO of an actual pig being slaughtered??? Come on! : (
Pigs are just like huskies.
They scream their heads of at the smallest inconvenience...
Move a couple of porkers from their outdoors pen, back into the barn, and it'll sound like mass slaughter !!! 🤣🐷🐖
My cat got a little freaked out about it. Had to mute.
I’ve heard that the poor could easily get fish because they could fish in the rivers
I should imagine they did. Apparently they classified otters and beavers and anything that lived near water as fish too (so they could still eat meat during meat free religious holidays)
No they were not allowed to take the fish and game. It belonged to their lord.
@@kellywhite174 the game belonged to the lord, but fish was another matter especially for free peasants
Generally speaking, seems a good idea to let 900 yrs go by before messing around with war reenactments.
Fewer hurt boooboo loser feeeelings of descendants. 👵
They both made out ok.😢
The intro sounds like somebody doing something and it ain't writing scripture!
Eating well back then is like billionaire's going to space today, it's only for the rich 🤑 peasants eat dirt
Not true.
Peasants had a much healthier diet than the nobles
@@johnr797 seems in school there were lot's of famine death & corruption in monarchies back then , didn't it basically create the French revolution ?
Yea the English kitchen was well stacked because they created a genocide in Ireland and called it a famine. FACT
Fiction! Try doing some proper historical research (preferably free from political bias) and then comment.
@@bork2739 says the English man
Bitter much there princess?
You're not talking about the potato famine, I hope? Because that was centuries in the future.
So much of this is false, wivestales, or so very specific to a region and time period that its irresponsible to refer to this as 'medieval'
If the men only lived to 40 , then why so many scruffy old dudes eating at the table 🤪
I cant thank you enough for bringing such a brillant materpiece of information
BEST regards from Inca land
God do really bless you all