How To Make A Feast From The Elizabethan Era | Time Crashers | Absolute History
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2021
- TV presenters Fern Britton and Louise Minchin, weight-lifter Zoe Smith, former rock chick Meg Matthews, actors Kirstie Alley, Keith Allen and Charlie Condou, comedian Chris Ramsey, ex-footballer Jermaine Jenas and long jumper Greg Rutherford sign up to be transported back to six periods of history, starting with the Elizabethan era where they are servants at a great hall preparing a banquet for the lord and his guests. Here they discover just how menial a menials life was.
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I came across Absolute History one day out of sheer curiosity, now I can't stop watching
This YT Channel can be addicting, and send you down a rabbit hole looking for missing episodes and more programs. Victorian farm, and others can be found via Roku, amazon prime & netflix.
@@glindathegood4007 It's on Netflix and Amazon Prime!? Thank you so much for telling me. You're a wonderful person, time to binge **EVERYTHING**
Haha same !!! I’m absolutely hooked and I learned lots. I can’t get enough 👍
Same and after I finish this I'm definitely going to look on Netflix
The best way is to type in "time crashers' or victorian farm, coal house into the YT search. Then go to the pay streaming sources like ROKU, Amazon Prime, with netflix last.
Who else has watched so many of these Time-Travel documentaries that they not only already knew it was pee in the wash bucket, but also knew why they used it?
I feel like somewhere there is an army of Absolute History fans ready to inherit the post-apocalyptic earth should our technology ever fail us. We'll just be like, "don't worry. I saw this on CZcams."
You beat me to it. Couldn't agree more. I always tell anyone willing to listen, that when the sh*t hits the fan, they will want me by their side. "Yeah right' immediatly appears on their faces. They probably cannot imagine me as a post- apocalyptic MacGyver with an encyclopedia sized knowledge of life hacks from hundreds of years ago. Well they must just wait and see. My moment of glory, if not imminent, is at least a certainty at some future time.
@@stephanterblanche4597 I constantly joke that I'd have probably made a great prepper if I actually thought things would ever go *that* sideways. I just really enjoy doing things myself, preserving old knowledge and techniques, and being moderately self-sufficient. There's something both gratifying and wholesome about knowing you made, grew or otherwise provided for yourself, and being able to do something "the old fashioned way" means you can bypass a lot of our reliance on pre-made items.
I can hand-spin, and have both the knowledge and tools to go from a raw plant or an animal fiber to a garment. I have a massive organic garden, and once I buy property I'll start raising livestock again. I know how to make a surprising number of medicinal items. I do woodworking, and I work in construction so I know how to build a safe & sturdy structure. I understand how to process a lot of useful compounds. All for the love of learning and diy.
Still, my friends joke back with me that if the world does ever go to heck in a handbasket, they're coming to my house.
oh my goodness yes! But at least we know about toothbrushes and such now. We would definitely survive
Here we are. Have you found Ruth yet?
@@thebovineavenger If you mean Ruth from the Farm series, she is one of my heroes.
“Put down that apple!”
*yeets it into the stratosphere over shoulder*
The way the people in the background as servants do their work as people who lived at the time impresses me on how they did it for real. They are, in my opinion, real professional actors!
Pahahahaha
I would want to be one of those people
@@Izzy_xx06 Me too! They only need to be there for filming and don't need to sleep on the floor. lol
I just realised the lady of the manor is eve goodman, daughter of ruth from the tudor etc farm series.
I noticed it when they were washing her feet. The camera closed in on her face and my mind screamed, "OMG IS THAT EVE??? WHERE'S RUTH?" 😆
@@not.applicable. thank god ruth isn’t in this! She’d start laughing at nothing, talking over everyone and being overzealous and annoying. Good god I could go on. 🤢
@@not.applicable. lol same here, saw her instantly when they were washing her
Thank you for pointing this out! 💜
OH I missed that! I'll have to watch it yet again! I love this series, and I wish there'd been more of them.
*grabs popcorn* I was seriously just wondering what an Elizabethan feast would have looked like for a project I'm doing. Thanks for the upload!
Weow
That is amazing timing
I love when that cockentrice makes an appearance. Tasting History with Max Miller did a great video (and made one) about that weird culinary abomination. I also like the fact that these nobles absolutely rotted out their teeth, and I find that to be a bit of poetic justice.
I laughed a full 60 seconds when I first saw the body with the goose legs. Lol I’m laughing again now, just thinking about it.
It was really nice to come across this with Kirstie Alley , since she recently passed. 😞 rest in power
After watching all of the Ruth Goodman series I just realized the “Lady in the house” is her daughter Eve!!! This series was great but I love the Farm series I literally watch them every night to sleep. Weird I know but it works
Try Time Team with Tony Robinson.
I thought it was Ruth’s daughter too! So excited 😊
Let me get this straight. These people spent 10k on a feast but they only have one needle in the entire manor capable of crafting the centerpiece dish for this bloated meal?
That was the most shocking part, to be honest. If Tudors had suddenly gotten an ikea, it would have been mayhem
Also they didn't feed the kitchen staff any meat because its too expensive to waste it on them even tho they hold these eleborate feast angers me
@@carolinpurayidom4570 It would be much too difficult for me not to pocket a scrap of meat for myself if I ever made something that wasn't supposed to look untouched essentially. Yes, I'm aware it's a fireable offense. I think I'm with Kirsty on the when in doubt, tits out, mantra, though.
@@TheShauNanigans Actually, I think you could be executed for that. Lol
As a nurse who’s working during the Covid pandemic 70 to 90 hours a week… I can relate to this. When people think 40 hours a week is “working hard“ I resist the urge to laugh😂
As you should because 40 hours a week is much of a persons waking hours to do Everything else. Working over that for a period during a world wide crisis is commendable, but still part of what you signed up for so there really isn't any reason to try and get more attention or sympathy. You've all gotten extra treatment and benefits besides the overtime. We all went through it.
As a trucker, now retired, we referred to the 40 hour work week as a part time job.
There definitely were bed warmer pans in the 16th century, and even before them people would just put a brick or a stone heated in the fire to warm the beds. Nobody would put their servant in a bed to warm it.
There were a lot of moments like that. Plenty of accuracies, and then weird little inaccuracies that only seemed thrown in for shock value.
@@Arianrhod9 poitot
Yeah expecially since they wouldve been dirty
“I think we should get the horses and leave” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL when she tossed the apple away!!
This is a really cool social experiment!! Life has sure changed from way back then! 👩🏻🍳🙂
Omg I love Kirstie! Watched her growing up!!! She was always such an amazing actor!
I know! I thought I recognized her and was like of course not and then she started speaking and I was so confused as to why!
I'd forgotten about this show. It's an upload from 2015 but it's still awesome.
Was uploaded 5 hours ago? You might have meant the show was filmed in 2015?
@@DenethordeSade.90 filmed 2015
“Elizabethan feasts were all about showing off” no different than Edwardian feasts then
I love watching Tony Robinson present, but I can't help but think of his role as Baldrick every episode I watch. XD
20 years of Time Team, countless historical documentaries, truly a lifetime of service to the education of the country and all everyone can think of is Baldrick.
@@gasfiltered to be fair, I also think of Baldrick every time one of my elected official speaks, at least Tony Robinson was acting a part...
Lol ...I have a cunning plan my lord
This is the most fantastic series I've seen in ages. Well done. I laughed, got angry, horrified and was totally in awe of the celebs. They were just amazing. My absolute favourite part was definitely the Edwardian jelly. I could just see myself in that situation. The whole series really makes me grateful for my lot. At least to have a presence and a voice. Thank you so much. Would love to see another series in different eras.
Not to be dramatic, but I would die for Fern. She seems so kind!
I’ve watched these all in the wrong order and I’ve grown to expect Zoe to wimp out of every challenge! She didn’t even make it 5 minutes on this show! Who ever cast her should be fired! Love everyone else!💕❤️
She doesn't participate fully and her entitled attitude ruins pieces of the show. Someone with humility and open to experiencing different things in life would have made it so much better.
Well, I can relate with eating the leftovers. I worked in Hotels and restaurants before, and leftovers untouched by the guests from banquets goes to us.
I'm really enjoying this series and loving Kirstie Alley.
love these historical dramas but can't help scoffing at the fact that all the actors see this as a kind of radical alternate universe from today, when really it is more like they are getting a quick peek into class consciousness
I also love this series, but completely agree. Especially the socialite (can't recall her name) who has a personal chef and dogwalker! Class division really isn't so different today-- it's just masked more effectively.
I feel like there are folks that are perceived to be upper class who work tremendously hard...it's not just the "lower classes." In my country, medical professionals, for example, would often times not be considered to be "lower class." No one would deny how hard they work, though...That being said, I'm a blue collar worker myself. I can totally relate to the servant's experience, even as a middle class mechanic in America.
@@z_ed Definitely agree. thats the difference i suppose between the "old money" and "new money," those that merely inherit wealth and those that work hard to make it.
@@xXMeepzXx I'm trying to figure out how this person could even be considered famous. Even Paris Hilton started creating her own companies, acted, and recorded an album many moons ago to where if she did a show like this, she would be called more than just a socialite. This woman seems to be old enough to where she could have done something with her life by now other than simply being called "socialite". At least everyone else was famous for actually doing something.
I would like to see them work in a fast food job although that’s not the premise here. They can’t imagine someone working that hard nowadays but there are people who do. Working in fast food 17 years ago was the most difficult, exhausting, humiliating, and least rewarding job ever and for less than $60 a day.
That is true. Fast food, in fact all restaurant work, is very hard work. My son has a well-paid job as a welder now, but he trained up with 2.5 years working in a fast food restaurant, with good results. He turned down multiple offers to become a manager, and instead worked on getting into a more satisfying job.
But still better than this is
I absolutely love this channel and those British documentaries they upload, especially this kind of documentaries. Be it this, be it Victorian Pharmacy, Victorian, Edwardian farm. Or be it this series which seem to be interesting as well. There is something in British documentaries that makes them interesting even for foreigners. Maybe it is because they are able to recreate places and times in such believable way that they almost seem like the footage was shot in that given period.
I love how one table just had a pile of pies and the other had every type of meat known to man… Love that for the guests. And they just sat in silence as this catastrophe unfolded. 😂
I keep inserting Black Adder references whenever Sir Tony Robinson speaks.
The head kitchen guy reminds me of an Elizabethan Gordon Ramsey
My daughter found out that we had a relative that was choir/music teacher for Elizabeth I. This is very cool to watch!!
Yesss!!! Love this. Upload all the Time Crashers episodes!!! Pretty please. 🙏🥺☺️
I'll second that!
Oh YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did they think meat comes from styrofoam packets in the supermarket? It comes from animals. The first time I butchered animals it was a problem. But you get used to it pretty quickly. Very nice to see the other women help out when one of them was having a traumatic moment.
I mean to be fair the younger lass was saying that she has a panic attack even taking chicken breast out of the packet so I think in her case it's just something overall she can't handle and fair enough as she was saying she might go vegetarian
@@Melonlordrinrei Absolutely. It wouldn't have been fair to push her that hard, and good on her fellow participants for helping her out. For me it would have been heights.
@@Melonlordrinrei I'm sorry, but I laughed at that. She's a weight lifter, how is that going to work I wonder.
@@Sirah1981 The secret twist is the Roman gladiators were often vegetarian but would have a porridge with deer antler in (calcium) for strong bones. A lot of weight lifters don't eat much meat, myself included.
@@Melonlordrinrei Hmm, I suppose then she can turn veg, with some supplements. Seems from her face she might.
I don't know if Zoe formally thanked Fern for taking on the boar's head all by herself or not, maybe that clip didn't make it to the video. But if she wasn't going to help, she could at least just sit there and not look, as opposed to continuously glancing over and whimpering as if she were the one doing the skinning.
I've skinned a few animals (part of my biology degree), and eventually found it very fascinating and rewarding once I'd succeeded, just like Fern felt at the end. But yes it's pretty intense at first, before you get the hang of it. For me the stomach-to-throat nausea wasn't even the worst part (though it was there for sure); it was the full-body tension of forcing myself to do continue doing something carefully and methodically, when I wanted to just rush through to get it over with, or stop completely. You must look closely rather than look away, grip firmly rather than let go. Incidentally one of the grossest aspects was how the cold flesh felt through latex gloves, so on that first animal (an otter) I took the gloves off about midway through the skinning, touched the squishy moist flesh directly, and it was actually much better, also easier in the practical sense, no more slipping around.
But I still started off with severe "ickies" with each subsequent animal (mink, opossum, field rat, bat). And I tell you, if there had been someone there making it worse with little noises erupting out of them repeatedly, I would have blown up at them and told them to get the F away, if this was so "hard" for THEM. Fern has my utmost respect now.
I swear, this channel keeps getting better and better!!! Seeing Kirstie Alley in this documentary reminds me of her in the movie "For Richer or Poorer".
The Lady of the manor is Ruth’s daughter! Y’all documentary’oholics saw that, right?
This is so cool! I'd kill to be able to do this 😂 this seems terrible but in the best ways 😂
This is what life feels like. Being thrown in somewhere in time, having no idea, trying to survive while someone out there creating troubles for you to make your life more "entertaining". I mean I feel that, it's bad.
*existential crisis intensifies*
I had the honor of visiting Haddon Hall in 2019. Simply breathtaking!
OMG, this is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!! I can’t stop watching it! I’ve been rolling on the floor laughing!! More episodes please!!
That’s Ruth’s daughter playing the fancy lady isn’t it!
yes.. that's Eve..
In modern days we have forgot were our food comes from; hunting, doing a lot of thing in our own; but something still prevail; the need of social classes and the inequality in paid.
Be kind and reward the ones that provide a service to you. We're not in that era. Each one deserve dignity
I agree.
Also, impressive kind of "run on" sentence, in the first sentence; one semicolon will always suffice...
Edit:
In modern days, we have forgotten where our food comes from, i.e. hunting and doing alot of things on our own. Something still prevails: the existence of social classes and the inequality in pay.
The best example for the use of a semicolon that I learned as a kid was something like, "He regretted leaving her; she regretted meeting him." The tonality of the punctuation is 🔥.
@@z_ed Well, thank you for not only the lesson, but for also the demonstration!
@@nessamillikan6247 Thanks to you, as well. Gotta love linguistics 😅
A truly wholesome comment section.
Loool "the Loud Fellow"
Naturally the comedian is the one who earns that title..
Anyone else recognize Ruth Goodman's daughter as the lady whose feet got washed??
Yes! It is always fun to spot her in these documentaries.
It takes thousands of people living in poverty to support each wealthy person-even more, tens/hundreds of thousands, to support each million/billionaire. And yet, the average person still idolizes/worships them. Who should be more ashamed: the worshiped or the worshiper? That's the best thing these videos show, is the truth behind the false glamour of the rich.
Great video. Natural gas is used to make ammonia via the Haber Process. Ammonia is also the basis for nitrogen fertilizer. Which along with potash, phosphate fertilizer. Help make today's farms so productive. Some can throw food on paintings. For most of history, people would have fought over the wasted food.
The architecture of Haddon Hall is truly incredible! Love this series.
R.I.P. Kirstie 🙏🏽
I love seeing Ruth's daughter in so many of these shows, she's good on camera
This channel is one of my favorites on youtube. Loving the series!
I can't believe I haven't seen this until now!! I usually love this kind of thing
Kirstie Alley cracks me up. 20:38 That’s Ruth’s daughter!
please upload more episodes of this! I really enjoyed it!
"they'll be stripped of their celebrity status..." For Kirsty Alley this will NOT be a new experience!
It would be great to see all of these, absolutely fantastic!
BRING BACK TIME CRASHERS!!!!
This was fantastic!!
I just discovered this series and I love it !!
Loved it!! Can't wait for the next one.
That was amazing, thank you.
I absolutely love these videos, so addictive!
I am addicted to this channel!!
Me 3
i love these sm!!!! we need more
This had some hilarious moments. Love!
I absolutely love this show
It's not a show. It's a series of unrelated like licenses purchased by this company.
Good job Greg !
One of the best channels on YT .. :) so interesting.
12:10 Saskia, the 17 years old from the other series , would have done any job, she is a doer with a can do attitude always very positive and therefore successful. She was not a moaner unlike this one, this bad attitude and the fact that she is not even a team player ... is hard to watch, why did she bother doing this adventure then and the worse is that she describes herself as a doer at the beginning, lol 😂
I love how we all watch the same videos and understand what you mean😂
I don't. Which one?
@@Katharina-rp7iq turn back time: family on the same channel
Lmaoo yes I watched these out of order, and after watching Zoe crack it and give up twice, I actually laughed out loud when she said she wasn’t a quitter
@@georgiagrace1014 I just posted nearly the same comment! Definitely not a Zoe fan!
Great series!
Excellent video
Hey! Now I know where "none of your beeswax" comes from! And on to another episode. I'm so hooked!
More Tony Robinson please, I couldn't stop laughing 😆
what an amazing display. kudos to the time crashers
Incredible ❤️✨
I love history.History with Kirstie and food from thst time is Great
Well, new favourite series
Obviously filmed before Kirstie Alley turned into a lunatic.
Kirstie Alley is the second most disgusting human in history behind Tom Cruise
Right
@@ztuzar163 Excuse my ignorance, But why are these 2 persons the most disgusting humans in history?
@@anita83music they joined a cult
@@anita83music i will tell you if you tell me where is shelly miscavige is !
After watching every Ruth Goodman video I had a great idea how to do all of these tasks. Lol If you knew you where going to be in history reenactment wouldn't you research some basics like laundry?
I would love to find the other ones. I would love to see those too.
Answers to questions I never asked. Will I still watch? Of course
Would have enjoyed it so much more without Kirstie Alley. Other than that: awesome idea and really well done.
OMG, the food preparation was 100% disgusting! I almost barfed my brain out!
Zoe may be a weight lifter 🏋️♀️ but for this stuff she is a snowflake. I love how Kirstie jus dives right in and helps
rolled my eyes when she said she can barely take chicken breast out of the package at home.
This was an excellently entertaining and educational presentation! Job well done. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.
I enjoyed this 😊damn i just love history
Wow I love this ❤
39:25 when they can't help but laugh at how ridiculous the amount of food was, coming out from the kitchen.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought that centerpiece was weird enough...until frogs jumped out of a pie.
I don't think he like me face best line ever
😆 seriously
33:44... "Scullions"...I just picked up a new debasing insult
The pigs head!! 😰😰😰😰
They have a disadvantage in here because these time crashers were thrown in to a time they had no experience with and expected to do the job instantly. The real live servents already knew the jobs and experiences.
oooooooooooh hope this is going to be a good series
When the house servants are practising bowing in the great hall, one of them tips the toes of his front foot up, which was a deep insult, since it showed the recipient all the muck he'd been walking through. They are right to keep the insides of their hats hidden, for showing the inside of one's hat was also an insult.
I still hear Baldrick :)
Baldrik is a Sir!? Well done!!!
Ohhhh a new addiction
The Boars head was neat! I worked at a slaughterhouse so I’d of felt right at home stuffing it with sausage :)
I've raised and butchered meat animals, and made my own sausage with the scrap, so I'm with you there.
imagine what a feast was like at a castle of a royal, and not just a house of a noble. also, all that meat was definitely out at room temp for longer than 4 hours. lol