Well, they still have to be able to hold and carry it, and they are smaller than a human. I posit that Hobbits would eat smaller portions, but far more of them. One of the race of Men might eat one medium-sized mincemeat pie, but a Hobbit might have two or three or four small ones.
This channel is the very essence of Tolkien's quote “If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world” Thanks for making the world that much better Babish!
I've always imagined lembas bread to taste like Irish shortbread. It just looks so crumbly in the movies and it's supposed to be sweet so my mind immediately made the connection when i was a kid and watched the movies for the first time and I still cannot be convinced that they don't taste like shortbread.
American English is kind of messed up. But grill implies cooking on a mettle grate, while broil means expose to radiant heat. But technically the effect is really about the same.
What do you call a charcoal barbecue? In Canada, at least Western Canada, we just call it a charcoal grill and now I'm confused that in Britain a broiler is a grill.
When my friends did a food and movie marathon for lord of the rings, our lembas was a buttery shortbread that also had ground almond replacing some of the flour that was, in fact, very filling and lasting
Babish did pretty good with what he had, but Lembas was presumably sweet and softer. In the Lotr wiki, it made reference that Gimli first thought it was Cram, but was found sweet and pleasant. It was then described as a wafer. All in all, he did amazing, and I can't wait until part 2 comes out :D
I did that once, when we got all the extended edition discs. Second breakfast to start at ten a.m. and then another meal put out at every disc change, and finishing with the theatrical version of the last film. The menu was medievalish rather than full on authentic Tolkien, several of the meals were repeated, and hot dishes were only hot on the first serving.
I'm British and my grandmother's famous mince pie trick is to add about a tsp of fresh orange zest to the pie crust, also about 2 tbsp of the juice, makes it crumbly and compliments the flavours of the mince meat! Absolutely delicious. Tradition in my family. lol I don't know why it's called mince meat either
I'm a bit late here, but from what I understand, the "meat" part of mince meat was once, in fact, actual meat. Specifically, old meat that was most definitely past it's prime. The fruit flavors were (supposedly) strong enough to help cover up the unpleasantness that is expired meat. It was meant to try to avoid food wastage in hard times, especially during war times or famine when you literally couldn't afford to let things go to waste.
There's another TH-cam channel that delves into food history & did a story on the origins of mince pies. It's called "Tasting History with Max Miller" & is very informative & entertaining.
This show is such a subtle feat in editing. I have so many restaurant clients that wanna do a “Binging with Babish” kind of video. Let me tell you, it is a tedious couple days in Premiere. Bravo!
When I made Lembas Bread I went the hard-tack route as well, but used brown sugar and honey in addition to the regular ingredients. I got something that was an odd mix of hard tack and sugar cookie. It was enjoyable.
In England we call them "Mince Pies" not "Mincemeat Pies", it can be confusing as the main ingredident is reffered to as "Mincemeat" , over here "Mince Meat" is what Americans call "Ground Meat", it's easy to confuse the two but they are different things
To be honest this just confused me more. But on the other hand there is a lot more I'm confused about in american english. Then however I'm german and we describe the shit out of things. And then there is French.
And it's called "mincemeat" because in Tudor times sugar and spices were for the rich, and combinations of sweet and savoury were the thing you ate when you were rich. The mincemeat was half the filling for a pie. It was mixed with minced (ground) meat, and put in a pie. As tastes changed over the centuries, the meat was left out and the pie became a sweet treat.
I bet Tolkien is smiling right now. He’d did every thing to make his universe feel lived in and visceral, and I’ve always thought that the food you eat is a big part of who you are, so bringing that bit of his world to life in a way anyone can do at home? Perfect.
Townsend's is probably the most underrated channels on TH-cam, they show you how they did things hundreds of years ago. It's very interesting and worth a sub
Wow I'm so proud of them! I met them at the Feast of the Hunter's moon in Lafayette before I even knew they had a TH-cam Channel. I was interested in their mushroom ketchup, so when I got home I looked up how to make it. Imagine my surprise when the top result was a video of the guy who was just selling it to me! I've followed ever since.
I always pictured lembas as a cookie type of bread. Like a wafer similar to a fortune cookie or something akin to a shortbread. Something buttery and dry but lightly sweet like the books say.
the pandemic is actually doing him a real solid. His kind of content is barely slowed by the pandemic so he has a leg up against many impeded YTbers fighting for our screen time. He is still pumping 1-2 videos a week which is impressive.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - J.R.R Tolkien Brilliant video as always, especially when it’s based on my favourite fantasy writer!
The shout-out to Townsends was so unexpected and the best thing ever! Their channel is so amazing. It'd be awesome to see you try more historical dishes and techniques.
My family celebrates "Lothrs Day" every year on the weekend of December 17th. We watch all the extended versions of the original trilogy back to back in one day, and this year I will definitely be using some of these recipes. This is amazing!
In case anyone cares, “mince meat” comes from the sweet meat pies of the Middle Ages: they didn’t have desserts per say but fruit were mixed into many dishes. So mince meat, once upon a time, contained actual minced meat.
@Dyanosis I don't think there was such a strong distinction between sweet and savoury dishes like we have today. It was commonplace to have both elements feature quite prominently in the same dish, hence mince meat pies as OP describes.
That's not the etymology linguists subscribe to since its language external. "Meat" has only exclusively referred to animal flesh for a relatively small and recent frame of time, with it having a more general definition of "food" or "meal" from Middle English all the way back to Proto-Indo-European.
Care of Mr Googlepants: Filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices called 'mincemeat', mince pie ingredients can be traced back to the 13th century. ... Mincemeat developed as a way of preserving meat without salting or smoking 500 years ago. The filling comes from the medieval tradition of spiced meat dishes, usually minced mutton.
@Dyanosis Personal idiolect. Additionally, @Ghonosyphlaids is quite correct: at those times people didn’t eat courses but had the entire meal presented to be eaten at once and strict desserts were quite uncommon (but not unheard of). @AdvancePlays while you may be correct from a etymological perspective, I hope I was clear in using the contemporary definition of “meat”. And @Ursula Hirzel, thanks for doing the Google I couldn’t be bothered to do.
The mincemeat "history" thing is as you would expect, originally they had meat in them. It was back in the day that common folk couldn't afford meat often so mincemeat pies was just to flex that you could afford to put meat in stuff that doesn't need it. It's like how people put gold leaf on food these days.
Its more that they were originally made to show off the new spices that were being brought back to England during and after the crusades. They were originally paired with meats and over time got sweeter and sweeter until eventually meat was no longer really a component
You would put meat into mincemeat because raisins act like a preservative. Salt wasnt always available or affordable. Besides, meat done sweet is completely normal, so why not preserve it sweet instead of super mega salty? :D
Goddammit. I just had an extended edition marathon with some friends. Should've copied this. Instead I made chicken pot pie and hobbit sized pumpkin pies and I created 10 cocktails. One each for the fellowship +Gollum. They had whacky names. They were numbered and were served for specific times jn the movies. It was soooo much work and I saw barely half of the movies. But it wad worth it. It's a memory to cherish.
@@annettecruz8830 It's because we tried to convert to metric but really half-assed it. people just didn't care to switch. So we now have this awkward metric-here-imperial-there kind of thing going on.
@@annettecruz8830 also most of our appliances are imported from america and have Imperial Scale. And back when we switched long duration purchases (like ovens) didn't get rebought just to have a metric scale. This is also (partially) why human weights are often in lbs to this day, even if food weights are usually metric now. Oh, and it wasn't a seamless transition. Someone added too little fuel to a plane because of the conversion and it ran out of gas mid-air. I add this for the obvious LOTR tie-in that it's known as the 'Gimli Glider'. (Note not really a LOTR reference.)
Honestly, as a Canadian, the whole “Metric measurements and Fahrenheit for oven temperature” is pretty normal here up North. Don’t ask me why we do that, we kind of suffer from bi-measurement disorder.
It stretches further than the kitchen too: we use Celsius for weather temps, feet and inches for measuring people, but cm for measuring objects… 🤷♀️ I know, it’s weird
It’s because our largest customer for export is the states, who refuse to go metric, so a lot of our own at home measurement have been influenced by them
I love how all the food channels, (Binging with Babish, Cooking History, and the Townsends) all just shout eachother out and are generally nice with one another. It’s honestly great and they give eachother their well deserved props.
@@daddywhatchucookin2924 Nope, it's definitely "mince meat", but as that sounds wrong "mince" has become more common. The original pies had fruit and meat in though, hence why it was called "mince meat".
@@erikjaroy8214 Still, Tolkien wrote that Bilbo's relations where especially eager to bring all their children to the party, because you get that much food hardly anywhere and apparently Hobbit children can eat you into ruin. And don't tell me they're still growing. They're not. They're Hobbits :D
The mince pie thing links back to the Tudor times, where large game pies, with pork, dear, or any gamey meats, would also have things like cranberries, raisins and peel in, and over time, people that weren't as wealthy as say, king henry the 8th, left out the meat, and with just adapting it over time you get "mince pies" without any meat, however I don't know exactly how true this is, it was just a word on mouth thing in my family, if there is an actual food historian, do enlighten us.
A given temperature is the same regardless of what you call it, but metric is better for baking, which needs to be precise, because it measures mass, not volume like imperial units. Think of it this way, a cup can fit a varying amount of flour depending on how much it's packed, but 500g of flour is the same amount regardless of how packed or loose it is.
1:35 - I love the townsends! Not only does the food look great, I'm writing a fantasy novel in an early industrial time period, and their channel has been a fantastic help.
I'll never forget how Ian Holm enriched my imagination with his thoughtful performances. I also will never forget of the kind of childhood traumas he suffered at the hands of his parents he described in his biography. Rest easy Holm, rest easy...
@@vojtechnovacek7776 I think the Kosher salt industry is doing just fine, between professional chefs, restaurants/diners/food industry and average people who actually cook/bake at home. Do you really find his use of Kosher salt so surprising, or is this like an inside joke or something on the channel? I go through boxes of the stuff; a lot of it for salting pasta water alone.
Respect for the Townsend plug, they got me into watching cooking on TH-cam. Back when you did the Bear dish, I have wanted to see you do a crossover with them.
Townsends is great! But when I saw Babish do the RGR2 bear stew, all I could think of was a collab with Kent Rollins. I mean, he has his own authentic chuck wagon!
It probably is, Gimli sees it in the book and assumes it's cram, even makes a face and says the word before taking a bite. Than eats the whole thing because he's surprised by the delicious flavor. So ideally true lembas bread would look like cram but have better flavor and more nutrition. I've seen several recipes based on travelers breads with a little honey for flavor.
@@arielshuffield4188 Cram/hard tack would make the most sense as Tolkien was drawing from his experience as a WW1 vet and hard tack was still a staple of rations at the time.
That was majorly disappointing. I made lembas myself, messed up (they were like sweet biscuits rather than flatbread) and I did better than him. I was looking forward to him making them so I could see a legitimate way myself.
Mincemeat did traditionally include meat - a fruit and meat mixture like a non-dried version of pemmican. This was back before industrially produced, pre-packaged foods were a thing and nearly everyone made their own food. Over time, food producers substituted out more and more meat to cut expenses that it eventually became just fruits, nuts and spices.
The mentioned Townsend often refers to sweet dried fruits as "sweet meats". So I guess if you chop 'em up it would be minced sweet meats. But who has time to say three whole words!? =D Though sweet mince might have been a less confusing choice....
C'mon lembas should've been done with sourdough, milk, butter, honey and eggs for added nutritional value. It would still have a shelf life of a month or two being low hydrated.
Actors described it as tasteless so, if we’re going for movie accuracy I think hardtack nails it. Personally I’ve always thought it would be something with semolina.
@@datdudetrent8938 but in the books is described as sweet, and if my memory serves, they were made with some kind of fruit (or nut. Idk, haven't read the books in a while). So... Yeah, that hardtack was a letdown.
Agreed, I've seen recipes that made lembas with a long shelf life and also with a fuckton of nutrients, to mimic the "full stomach" feeling. Like, at the very least it could've seemed more filling 🤷♀️
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We’ve had one yes. What about second Babish?
yes.
Great episode and an excellent shout out to the Townsends!
What?!
Well played, Babish... Well played.
Do you mean baby with babish?!
Thanks for the shout out! Great video.
Im amazed, I've been subscribed to both of you for years. Never expected the crossover!
omg i love you
AND he used freshly-grated nutmeg!! ;)
A well deserved shout out, your channel is amazing!
I heard the reference and had to see if you commented. Love you guys
A Babish is never late, he arrives precisely when he means to.
What a legendary quote
Love it!
...nor is he early ...
2nd to Chuck Norris who is never late the world is.
he arrives when im hungry
Next episode:
"LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!"
MAN FLESH!
Mincemeat?
What about their legs? They don't need those!
Hobbit feet
how do they know what menus are?
Fun fact: the elven lembas bread in the Lotr movies was shortbread cookies made by the production team.
I always assumed shortbread as well based on what we saw
Mmm shortbread. I'd have eaten that the way hobbits eat lembas.
They looked like small cuts of garlic bread to me for some reason
That's disappointing
I always imagined it to taste like plain pie crust. Which tbh isn’t that different from shortbread I guess.
Bold of you to assume that “hobbit sized” wouldn’t be twice as big as a normal portion.
Good point
I was like "hobbit sized? i can hold it in one hand!"
Yeah, I'm pretty sure "hobbit sized" in relation to food is *supposed* to mean a double portion haha
This!
Well, they still have to be able to hold and carry it, and they are smaller than a human.
I posit that Hobbits would eat smaller portions, but far more of them. One of the race of Men might eat one medium-sized mincemeat pie, but a Hobbit might have two or three or four small ones.
Legolas: “Lembas bread. One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a full grown man”
Merry: “How many have you had?”
Pippin: “Four”
@Miky Miller lmao😂
@Poe Soul and short
What Orlando Bloom referred to as his lembas commercial.
Legolas didn't say "bread". "Lembas" is the proper name, and adding "bread" is incorrect.
@@tavern.keeper like chai tea
In this episode: Babish realizes he has a bag of flaked almonds which is about to go bad.
yes
Yes
yes
Probably so
That and his apricot preserves
Babish: "A very low oven, as low as your oven can go"
Me: **turns oven off** " *_Yeah, this is big brain time_* "
INFINITE IQ
Absolute massive brain
No, this is not how you're supposed to play the game
*freezes oven*
*wait. That's illegal.*
This channel is the very essence of Tolkien's quote
“If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world”
Thanks for making the world that much better Babish!
Wow love this :)
I think hobbits would be incredibly miffed at the notion that they would get a smaller pie because of their size!
Very miffed.
Remember Mary in pippins excitement over pints!
Shogun Merry? (Sorry to be _that_ person)
Also, those mince pies were only about half size tbh, though it's funny he didn't cover them fully.
Great comment!
As an actual hobbit, I can confirm
I've always imagined lembas bread to taste like Irish shortbread. It just looks so crumbly in the movies and it's supposed to be sweet so my mind immediately made the connection when i was a kid and watched the movies for the first time and I still cannot be convinced that they don't taste like shortbread.
Lol the crew did actually use shortbread as lembas in the movies
I hope the second episode gives us such wretched creations as orc draught, maggoty bread, and Eowyn’s stew
And hobbit legs since they don’t need them
I've been searching Eowyn's stew for many years already. Long have it eluded me.
LMAOOOOO Savage 😂
Would rather eat maggoty bread than Eowyn's stew
hahaha yes!
“There is only one Lord of the Tiny Whisk, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.”
Well done sir.
One whisk to rule them all, one whisk to find them, one whisk to bring them all, and in the kitchen, bind them.
Sorry had too!
"under a broiler or, as the brits call it, a grill"
*so thats what a broiler is*
Ikr I never knew what a broiler was
I mean it’s not hard to google
American English is kind of messed up. But grill implies cooking on a mettle grate, while broil means expose to radiant heat. But technically the effect is really about the same.
What do you call a charcoal barbecue? In Canada, at least Western Canada, we just call it a charcoal grill and now I'm confused that in Britain a broiler is a grill.
Pepper Blackburn In the Eastern U.S we just say grill for charcoal and propane barbeques as well
"I'm making the mince pies hobbit sized." Babbish you fool, hobbit food is human sized because they love eating so much!
As a hobbit size human I can confirm
Hobbits are dwarves that have faster metabolisms and there spines are normal thickness so there not as big
The only thing about a hobbit that isn’t small is their appetite.
@@projectiledysfunction are you sure about that
@@zackbab7093 where tf are you going with this 😂
When my friends did a food and movie marathon for lord of the rings, our lembas was a buttery shortbread that also had ground almond replacing some of the flour that was, in fact, very filling and lasting
That sounds much better, tbh.
Niiice. I’d love to have something like that!! 😍
Timothy Engelstad I mean yeah it’s fucking hard tack
Babish should try this.
Babish did pretty good with what he had, but Lembas was presumably sweet and softer. In the Lotr wiki, it made reference that Gimli first thought it was Cram, but was found sweet and pleasant. It was then described as a wafer.
All in all, he did amazing, and I can't wait until part 2 comes out :D
man now I'm thinking about having a LOTR-themed party, maybe for one of the solstices... imagine the *aesthetics*
There's plenty of food ideas in the books tbh. The meal at Bree, the meal at Bombadil's, even the meal at Beorn's in the Hobbit
The after party has to be The Hobbit theme. Specifically, when the dwarves visit Bilbo. The night will end with deep, bassy, manly singing.
Well ya just missed the summer solstice, but this food would be great for Mabon I think. Second Harvest and Autumn Equinox.
Imagine the price
I did that once, when we got all the extended edition discs. Second breakfast to start at ten a.m. and then another meal put out at every disc change, and finishing with the theatrical version of the last film. The menu was medievalish rather than full on authentic Tolkien, several of the meals were repeated, and hot dishes were only hot on the first serving.
*“Even the smallest Whisk can change the course of the future.”*
- Galadriel when she give Elvish Whisk to Babish
This man said "fingies" with all the seriousness as he would "tiny whisk"
10:25 for a timestamp
I dunno if he has leat fingies though.
This is one of the many reasons why we love him :')
Dan Avidan says fingies!! Chicken fingies! 🤣❤️👍🏻
Only babish can say "fingies" with the cold seriousness of a sergeant telling you your husband died in combat
Things I know to be fact from watching:
Babish bought too many sliced almonds and needed an excuse to use them.
Lmao
Is there ever a case of to many sliced almonds though
@@matthewmcnamee2864 if youre allergic...probably
And tarbonaro sugar too he used that on everything
"Sorry i don't do magic food"
Alright then keep your secrets
One does not simply not use magic
@@linktriforce9669 but a good magician doesnt reveals their secrets
@@fmj1978 "all right keep your secrets"
lmao
I'm British and my grandmother's famous mince pie trick is to add about a tsp of fresh orange zest to the pie crust, also about 2 tbsp of the juice, makes it crumbly and compliments the flavours of the mince meat! Absolutely delicious. Tradition in my family. lol I don't know why it's called mince meat either
I'm a bit late here, but from what I understand, the "meat" part of mince meat was once, in fact, actual meat. Specifically, old meat that was most definitely past it's prime. The fruit flavors were (supposedly) strong enough to help cover up the unpleasantness that is expired meat. It was meant to try to avoid food wastage in hard times, especially during war times or famine when you literally couldn't afford to let things go to waste.
Also instead of butter, folks would often use beef suet!
@@kattriella1331 my family still adds the meat. Pork or veal are best
@@kattriella1331 thank you. I was curious why it was called mincemeat pie when there was no meat in it.
There's another TH-cam channel that delves into food history & did a story on the origins of mince pies. It's called "Tasting History with Max Miller" & is very informative & entertaining.
This show is such a subtle feat in editing. I have so many restaurant clients that wanna do a “Binging with Babish” kind of video. Let me tell you, it is a tedious couple days in Premiere. Bravo!
Haha I bet. You're a food videographer/Editor?
Lembas is the equivalent to the US military MRE "Wheat Snack Bread" and tastes like it will keep you alive.
"Tastes like it will keep you alive" is a phrase I need to remember for reasons.
If this ain't the truest thing I've ever heard 😂 wheat snack bread and jalapeño cheese spread
@@edwardc1688 a delicious combo, but in a different way from peanut butter atop a chocolate pound cake
Hard tack lol
I'm just saying if you get enough of the ones by Pangea Bakery you could make yourself some body armor.
"What about LOTR special?"
"You've already had it."
"We've had one, yes."
"What about second LOTR special?"
Dzaki Prakoso Ramadhan the hobbit special?
He needs to do one Po-Ta-Toes
When you eventually hit 10 million you should do No-Face’s feast from Spirited Away
that's a death wish meal.
Oh man, don't get my hopes up
Yes that would be awsome
YES
This is a underrated comment
When I made Lembas Bread I went the hard-tack route as well, but used brown sugar and honey in addition to the regular ingredients. I got something that was an odd mix of hard tack and sugar cookie. It was enjoyable.
That doesn't sound half bad. Was it as hard as hardtack?
@@kentuckycryptid It was stiff but not too hard. Took some chewing. It was kind of ginger snap cookie quality.
Who else was so glad when Babish mentioned Townsends?
Ismt that the 18th century guy?
@@finnagetemp3186 yup
@@Linkofvalor ohhh i saw him make cheese soup the other day
I am so pleased to know Andy loves John Townsend 😍 I need a crossover! Now!
Yea good man I want Townsend and primitive technology together
In England we call them "Mince Pies" not "Mincemeat Pies", it can be confusing as the main ingredident is reffered to as "Mincemeat" , over here "Mince Meat" is what Americans call "Ground Meat", it's easy to confuse the two but they are different things
THANK YOU
A channel called How to Cook That actually made one of the ye olde ones with meat. It looked disgusting, but worth a watch
@Jeffrey Grimes i'm a Brit and have always wondered why the fruit was called mincemeat. Thanks for that!
To be honest this just confused me more. But on the other hand there is a lot more I'm confused about in american english. Then however I'm german and we describe the shit out of things. And then there is French.
We call them "mince pies", but the filling is very often called "mincemeat".
"Mince meat" is also ground meat or "minced meat".
And it's called "mincemeat" because in Tudor times sugar and spices were for the rich, and combinations of sweet and savoury were the thing you ate when you were rich. The mincemeat was half the filling for a pie. It was mixed with minced (ground) meat, and put in a pie. As tastes changed over the centuries, the meat was left out and the pie became a sweet treat.
Wow this is going in my history report
I'd eat that. Then again I'm French
I bet Tolkien is smiling right now. He’d did every thing to make his universe feel lived in and visceral, and I’ve always thought that the food you eat is a big part of who you are, so bringing that bit of his world to life in a way anyone can do at home? Perfect.
Townsends shout-out has to be the most ambitious cross-over in TH-cam history
AAAAAAHHHHH, I'M FREAKING OUT OVER IT
Molly?! Bidet!
it's so weird when you realise that youtubers watch youtube too
All he needed to do was mention nutmeg in the recipe and I was set!
I was going to look for this comment and was pleasantly surprised to find it right on top! Love Townsends! Babish knows the good stuff! :D
Townsend's is probably the most underrated channels on TH-cam, they show you how they did things hundreds of years ago. It's very interesting and worth a sub
Love that he gave my dude a shoutout. Now we need a nutmeg episode.
Him and tastinghistory, they do basically the same thing but instead he does specifically cooking
@@mikep1530 where did do the shoutout? I mustve missed it.
my dumbass thought u were talking about andros townsend 🤦♂️
@@HeavyMetalMike it was when he was putting the pork in the container and filling it with more salt
All of us history buffs just felt so happy when he shouted out Townsend
now thats a collab i hope happens one day
@@TheGcd1 only if Babish dresses in 18th century garb
BRUH
and then made hard tack
Wow I'm so proud of them! I met them at the Feast of the Hunter's moon in Lafayette before I even knew they had a TH-cam Channel. I was interested in their mushroom ketchup, so when I got home I looked up how to make it. Imagine my surprise when the top result was a video of the guy who was just selling it to me! I've followed ever since.
I always pictured lembas as a cookie type of bread. Like a wafer similar to a fortune cookie or something akin to a shortbread. Something buttery and dry but lightly sweet like the books say.
The “honey cakes” make me so happy, Andrew definitely didn’t skimp on the research!
Ha, a true follower of Binging with Babish ....you remembered that his name isn't "Babish".
Ron 3, you are correct sir.
except for potatoes: boil, fry, stick them in a stew
I think his name is Bing
Part 3 is, "Potatoes. Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Stick 'em in a stew"
Better than "we ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!"
And bilbos cake
Give it to us raw. And wrrrriigggling
Funny comment!
dang it great minds think alike XD
So about the taters: will you be boiling, mashing them, and sticking then in a stew, or not?
Ah early memes.....
I remember discovering this on Albino black sheep along with a few other LOTR clips
What’s taters precious? What’s taters?!
@@jg1335 PO-TAY-TOES
Yes
@@babishculinaryuniverse Even you wouldn't say no to that.
The fact that he just got 7 million three weeks ago and hes almost at 7.5 million.
the pandemic is actually doing him a real solid. His kind of content is barely slowed by the pandemic so he has a leg up against many impeded YTbers fighting for our screen time. He is still pumping 1-2 videos a week which is impressive.
@@yiklongtay6029 and the most important thing, he does what he loves to do
There's no stopping him
now over 8 mil just a few months after that
8 million now
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - J.R.R Tolkien
Brilliant video as always, especially when it’s based on my favourite fantasy writer!
P.s Looking forward you the next video, food looks lovely
Blows marijuana smoke on the screen
Love Tolkien. Love the movies. Love babish. What more could I ask for
Things I did not expect:
-A Townsends shoutout
there's nutmeg as well
Nutmeg daddy getting his dues!
Yes. I was happy to hear that, too. So many neat recipes over there.
My heart got all warm when that happened!
So happy to hear that shout out. It's a great channel.
Babish: "I don't make magic food"
Also babish: "This week we are making Peter Pan and the lost boy's invisible pies"
That pie was imaginary not magic slight difference. :)
@@omenrose Technically correct!
@@noanoxan The best kind of correct!
you should’ve made Eowyns Stew, the greatest food in all of fantasy.
The gamiest, blandest stew in the land!
The most lore breaking, impossibly terrible stew on earth!
I love that Eowyn marries Faimir in the end.
@@FunkensteinsMeunster *Faramir smh
Link’s Grandma’s soup is way better!
I think "hobbit-sized" foods would be slightly larger than human portions...
Little Bits
Definitely. Food for a hobbit, and food the size of a hobbit, are definitely different proportions.
@ChillPacks
Lil’ biiiiiiiiits
How does something so small eat so much?
indeed, Bread with Butter, Cheese and Cured Meat, Fruit as fresh as you can get, those would just be the Appetizers.
The shout-out to Townsends was so unexpected and the best thing ever! Their channel is so amazing. It'd be awesome to see you try more historical dishes and techniques.
This was my thoughts as well.
Great comment!
My family celebrates "Lothrs Day" every year on the weekend of December 17th. We watch all the extended versions of the original trilogy back to back in one day, and this year I will definitely be using some of these recipes. This is amazing!
Chani Daly Welle
We do this too! They’re considered Christmas movies in my family 😂
Sad
You should bring them out when they are served on screen the first time.
Awesome tradition. I should start doing that.
Adopt me, please
If you didn’t sweep those biscotti crumbles onto half a scoop of vanilla ice cream I swear Andrew, I don’t even want to know ya.
In case anyone cares, “mince meat” comes from the sweet meat pies of the Middle Ages: they didn’t have desserts per say but fruit were mixed into many dishes. So mince meat, once upon a time, contained actual minced meat.
@Dyanosis I don't think there was such a strong distinction between sweet and savoury dishes like we have today. It was commonplace to have both elements feature quite prominently in the same dish, hence mince meat pies as OP describes.
That's not the etymology linguists subscribe to since its language external. "Meat" has only exclusively referred to animal flesh for a relatively small and recent frame of time, with it having a more general definition of "food" or "meal" from Middle English all the way back to Proto-Indo-European.
Care of Mr Googlepants: Filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices called 'mincemeat', mince pie ingredients can be traced back to the 13th century. ... Mincemeat developed as a way of preserving meat without salting or smoking 500 years ago. The filling comes from the medieval tradition of spiced meat dishes, usually minced mutton.
@Dyanosis Personal idiolect. Additionally, @Ghonosyphlaids is quite correct: at those times people didn’t eat courses but had the entire meal presented to be eaten at once and strict desserts were quite uncommon (but not unheard of). @AdvancePlays while you may be correct from a etymological perspective, I hope I was clear in using the contemporary definition of “meat”. And @Ursula Hirzel, thanks for doing the Google I couldn’t be bothered to do.
What I'm hearing is that pies were the multipurpose cooking and eating medium that Burritos hold today.
The mincemeat "history" thing is as you would expect, originally they had meat in them.
It was back in the day that common folk couldn't afford meat often so mincemeat pies was just to flex that you could afford to put meat in stuff that doesn't need it.
It's like how people put gold leaf on food these days.
Its more that they were originally made to show off the new spices that were being brought back to England during and after the crusades. They were originally paired with meats and over time got sweeter and sweeter until eventually meat was no longer really a component
Traditional mincemeat still uses beef suet as the binder.
I thought it was because meat used to mean solid food.
You would put meat into mincemeat because raisins act like a preservative. Salt wasnt always available or affordable. Besides, meat done sweet is completely normal, so why not preserve it sweet instead of super mega salty? :D
Until I watched this video, I literally thought mince meat pies had meat, and the descriptions in books and stuff always confused me to no end.
Babish: "damn this bag of almonds is about to expire... Put it in everything."
Hahaha for real. I hate almonds so that just ruined all these recipes for me.
He opened another packet by the time he got to the carraway cake XD
Yup, that's every single recipe I'm going to have to modify, then.
Yeah, I don’t see almonds as being the primary nut of the Shire. The climate seems much more like walnut weather.
Goddammit. I just had an extended edition marathon with some friends. Should've copied this. Instead I made chicken pot pie and hobbit sized pumpkin pies and I created 10 cocktails. One each for the fellowship +Gollum. They had whacky names. They were numbered and were served for specific times jn the movies.
It was soooo much work and I saw barely half of the movies. But it wad worth it. It's a memory to cherish.
How dare you tease us like that! Would you consider posting the recipes? I’m curious and inspired.
"Is it bothering anybody else than I'm using metric for measurements but not temperatures, I bet it is"
Welcome to the life of cooking in Canada
celsius is for the weather, farenheit is for cooking
@@HKgaming86 that is interesting can I ask why you guys make that distinction? As an American
@@annettecruz8830 It's because we tried to convert to metric but really half-assed it. people just didn't care to switch. So we now have this awkward metric-here-imperial-there kind of thing going on.
Sunkyu Park yup pretty much
@@annettecruz8830 also most of our appliances are imported from america and have Imperial Scale. And back when we switched long duration purchases (like ovens) didn't get rebought just to have a metric scale. This is also (partially) why human weights are often in lbs to this day, even if food weights are usually metric now. Oh, and it wasn't a seamless transition. Someone added too little fuel to a plane because of the conversion and it ran out of gas mid-air. I add this for the obvious LOTR tie-in that it's known as the 'Gimli Glider'. (Note not really a LOTR reference.)
"Hobbit size"
Not sure why that would imply small, an average hobbit has the appetite of a stoned NFL lineman.
thinking of it another way, if they're small, then it'd allow an ordinary man to feel as though he's consumed as much as an average hobbit
Dyanosis Also because their mouths are smaller so they probably can’t take as big bites as we can.
Easily the best comment on this video, 10/10
If you don’t eat a cherry tomato very grossly in the next one, I’m going to be dissappointed
I was hoping this would come up
You gotta bite the lip, get that blood drainage ya know.
Don't forget about biting into that chicken leg!
Honestly, as a Canadian, the whole “Metric measurements and Fahrenheit for oven temperature” is pretty normal here up North. Don’t ask me why we do that, we kind of suffer from bi-measurement disorder.
I'd rather deal with bi measurement disorder to be honest.
It stretches further than the kitchen too: we use Celsius for weather temps, feet and inches for measuring people, but cm for measuring objects… 🤷♀️ I know, it’s weird
Bruh no it aint. Imperial system is a disorder... and Im American
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s because our largest customer for export is the states, who refuse to go metric, so a lot of our own at home measurement have been influenced by them
Babish shouting out James Townsends made my day.
May your food be well seasoned with Nutmeg, Andrew.
goes on the list of things I never quite expected.
I concur.
I use Townsend recipes every day.
Same!
Right???
I actually flipped out. Can they do a collab please???
Babish really be out here pronouncing the T in “soften”
This is the same person who says "saucepn" so it's expected.
Vigilant Cosmic Penguin I guess 😂
**proceeds to have a stroke trying to pronounce Worcestershire**
@@michaelmyers8596 worst-esh-pesh-cesspool-jester-abracadabra-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-shire
@@michaelmyers8596 "Whatyoursistersaidsauce" Easy.
I love how all the food channels, (Binging with Babish, Cooking History, and the Townsends) all just shout eachother out and are generally nice with one another. It’s honestly great and they give eachother their well deserved props.
To be confusing...
"Mince pies" are what you made with "mince meat"
But "mince meat pies" would be a pie made with minced (ground) meat like beef.
Ha ha, true. There's no help for anyone trying to understand.
I though it was a bit weird lol. Thank you for clearing that up 😂
Never heard it called ‘mince meat’, just ‘mince’. A pie with meat in its just called a pie. Beef pie, chicken pie, fish pie, mince pies.
@@daddywhatchucookin2924 Nope, it's definitely "mince meat", but as that sounds wrong "mince" has become more common. The original pies had fruit and meat in though, hence why it was called "mince meat".
@@tams805 Is it not mincemeat (one word) in a mince pie, and mince meat if it's actual meat?
It will not ever cease to amaze me how many carbs Hobbits can stick away.
It all goes right to their feet.
It's for all the mischief
Keep in mind, Hobbits are farmers. They NEEDED that many carbs to give themselves the energy to do that much hard work.
@@erikjaroy8214 After seeing how they work with cattle and pig twice their size
Yeah i can see why....
@@erikjaroy8214 Still, Tolkien wrote that Bilbo's relations where especially eager to bring all their children to the party, because you get that much food hardly anywhere and apparently Hobbit children can eat you into ruin. And don't tell me they're still growing. They're not. They're Hobbits :D
The mince pie thing links back to the Tudor times, where large game pies, with pork, dear, or any gamey meats, would also have things like cranberries, raisins and peel in, and over time, people that weren't as wealthy as say, king henry the 8th, left out the meat, and with just adapting it over time you get "mince pies" without any meat, however I don't know exactly how true this is, it was just a word on mouth thing in my family, if there is an actual food historian, do enlighten us.
deer*
Theres a fascinating podcast called "the Dollop" that has an episode on the history of mince pies.
@@freddieevans6378 so that's why something felt wrong as i read it.
sounds pretty plausable
Yeah, mince pies definitely had meat and fruit together originally. Much like modern middle eastern cuisine does.
For someone as new to baking as I am, Babish say "it's going to be fine" is really what I needed.
"Is it bothering anyone else that I'm using metric for measurements but not temperatures?"
I see you too are Canadian.
Yup that about sums it up for living in Canada
Large or Liquid in metric while dry/small amounts with imperial. Oh, Canada...
He’s from NYC
A given temperature is the same regardless of what you call it, but metric is better for baking, which needs to be precise, because it measures mass, not volume like imperial units.
Think of it this way, a cup can fit a varying amount of flour depending on how much it's packed, but 500g of flour is the same amount regardless of how packed or loose it is.
@@canadious6933 exactly sums it up for us
1:35 - I love the townsends! Not only does the food look great, I'm writing a fantasy novel in an early industrial time period, and their channel has been a fantastic help.
Mince pies in July, as a Brit, just feels wrong.
Thank you! I'm craving a mince pie now and it's not even close to Christmas.
But i want to demolish one now 😫😂
But in the Shire, every day is mince pie day.
@@GryffDavid So glad i have an extra jar of Mince in the cupboard. Know what i'm making at the weekend
Made by the well known hobbit Mary Berry as well😂
I'll never forget how Ian Holm enriched my imagination with his thoughtful performances. I also will never forget of the kind of childhood traumas he suffered at the hands of his parents he described in his biography.
Rest easy Holm, rest easy...
This man is single-handedly keeping the flaked almond industry alive
And kosher salt industry
@@vojtechnovacek7776 I think the Kosher salt industry is doing just fine, between professional chefs, restaurants/diners/food industry and average people who actually cook/bake at home. Do you really find his use of Kosher salt so surprising, or is this like an inside joke or something on the channel? I go through boxes of the stuff; a lot of it for salting pasta water alone.
@@sonmi2246 It is indeed an inside joke.
A shout-out to Townsends, an unexpected thing, certainly welcome though.
Gotta love Townsends
Respect for the Townsend plug, they got me into watching cooking on TH-cam. Back when you did the Bear dish, I have wanted to see you do a crossover with them.
Townsends is great! But when I saw Babish do the RGR2 bear stew, all I could think of was a collab with Kent Rollins. I mean, he has his own authentic chuck wagon!
I imagined lembas bread to be more of a big shortbread with a particularly long shelf life, not some bland tooth breaker.
Completely right. It should be sweet and delicious. I imagine like a crispy cookie or shortbread with almond or anise flavor.
It probably is, Gimli sees it in the book and assumes it's cram, even makes a face and says the word before taking a bite. Than eats the whole thing because he's surprised by the delicious flavor. So ideally true lembas bread would look like cram but have better flavor and more nutrition. I've seen several recipes based on travelers breads with a little honey for flavor.
@@arielshuffield4188 Cram/hard tack would make the most sense as Tolkien was drawing from his experience as a WW1 vet and hard tack was still a staple of rations at the time.
"He knows about second breakfast doesn't he?"
I don't think he does pip
What about elevensies?
Luncheon? Afternoon tea?
Dinner? Supper?
Dinner, supper
Babish: LOTR Feast
Pippin: A second breakfast
Bombur: snacks
Underated comment lmao
Me: Temptations greater than the One Ring
Pippin's a glutton.
@@TheRojo387 doesn't that come standard for all hobbit folk? 😂
Do Avatar: The Last Airbender foods, like fire flakes
Lmao unfried dough would be hilarious
Jasmine tea
Seal jerky haha
I always imagined fire flakes as some kind of dehydrated pepper snack or something
cabbage
I just love that the seven million subscriber special hasn't been out for a month and he's already almost halfway through to eight.
Wait... a broiler is just a grill?
Every american cooking show makes so much more sense now!
It's like an inverted grill. High heat with the food directly underneath to brown. Will burn quickly.
@@blinkandrhcp that's what we call a grill in the UK.
@@blinkandrhcp a broiler isnt an inverted grill.
*it IS a grill.*
Just a different name for it, it's like you havent even watched the video.
I always wondered what it was when people said broiler. I assumed it was something to do with boiling...
@@onelegout do you not have like, outdoor grills?
Pippin: We have salted p-
Babish: *pulls out every ounce of kosher salt he has in his pantry*
Babish: “I don’t do magic foods”
Harry Potter episode:
That was majorly disappointing. I made lembas myself, messed up (they were like sweet biscuits rather than flatbread) and I did better than him. I was looking forward to him making them so I could see a legitimate way myself.
Hmm... doesn't say he can't, though...
@@James11111 he did lembas bread in the HP episode?
Coolchilion no
@@James11111 Feel you on that. I was thinking he'd add protein powder or something to up the calories so it could fill a man for an entire day...
“I don’t do magic foods”
*sad imaginary pie noises*
Life of Boris fan?
I was kind of sad he didn’t do anything with inducting any into the clean plate club
I'd imagine that by "twice baked bread" Tolkien meant a South African food called "rusks". Twice baked, baked at first like a cake then baked to dry.
And then 'baked' once more when you dip it in tea
@@shaneben8745 am I missing something, how is that baking?
@@AidanXavier1 Benke här
We have rusks in India too, best served with tea
@@aarchitasharma oh yes, absolutely.
"Check out the Townsends channel."
Okay, Babish/Townsends crossover happening..... when?
OOO, Next episode? Though in 'Plainclothes'. (or maybe full cosplay! Imagine The Lord of the Rings but re-imaging set in Colonial Times!)
I want Babish/Townsends/Steve1989MREInfo collab
I want a Babish, Townsends, How to Drink crossover
Babish, Forgotten Weapons, Cletus McFarlane, Britney Spears crossover.
Babish visits the Nutmeg Tavern.
Babish: check out townsend
Me: aw I see youre a man of culture as well
Babish cross-over with 18th century cooking when?
The crossover we deserve!
I stumbled onto that channel last year. I’ve learned a lot since then.
Nutmeg for days!
You beat me to it lol love that other ppl watch Townsend too
1:38 A Townsend and Babish collab in the future? Don't tease us, dude!
Hai Nhat Phung needs more Nutmeg
Yes absolutely! Townsend's channel is the most wholesome channel around! And it never fails to inform about the history of American cooking.
@@trin7346 I love Townsend too! Kinda like video klonopin sometimes, really chills me out
I can imagine food from something like Barry Lyndon as the Townsends collab. Or maybe The Patriot or some film set in the revolution.
"is it bothering anyone else that I'm using metric for measurements and not temperatures?"
YES
Unless you're Canadian. We do that kind of mixing all the time.
freshly-grated nutmeg...Townsend's has entered the chat
Lost it when he dropped Townsend's, great channel
@@PeanutButterGyrfalcon Same!❤
Babish: "You might notice that these are pretty small. That's because I wanted them to come out Hobbit sized."
Me: "Then shouldn't they be bigger?"
Exactly what I thought
Mincemeat did traditionally include meat - a fruit and meat mixture like a non-dried version of pemmican. This was back before industrially produced, pre-packaged foods were a thing and nearly everyone made their own food. Over time, food producers substituted out more and more meat to cut expenses that it eventually became just fruits, nuts and spices.
"Rolling out to our desired thickness" is what me and the boys call going to the club.
Babish - "I don't do magic foods, sorry that is Babish store policy."
Also Babish - Monster Cake from Breath of the Wild
He’s learned from that
It's not magic though, it's just a durian cake that uses one special ingredient.
its not magic? but okay monster dosent = magic
What about Imaginary Pie from Hook?
I broke the 420
Jus' sayin', we generally just call 'em mince pies, the meat part doesn't make too much sense.
the filling is still called mince meat when you buy it in a jar tho...
@@davidburton2229 It ain't tho because mince meat != mince
I thought it was called mincemeat because originally, in the before times, it usually contained meat as well
where are you from? Mince is ground meat, like pork or beef. Minemeat is fruit, spices, and spirits.
The mentioned Townsend often refers to sweet dried fruits as "sweet meats". So I guess if you chop 'em up it would be minced sweet meats. But who has time to say three whole words!? =D
Though sweet mince might have been a less confusing choice....
Me at 1:20: "Oh, I see that Andrew too is a man of culture who has partaken of Jon Townse.... NAILED IT"
The Redwall series of books would he perfect for this channel. But unfortunately it might not be so popular...
Oh yes! There actually is a redwall cook book. I had to order it internationally (living in Europe). It never arrived :'(
Just picked up the first 3 books at a thrift store. My friends read them, but I never got around to it.
Oh man that would be so good
YEEESSSSSSS
Oh my goodness I used to yearn to be part of those feasts :((
YES, WAS THAT A TOWNSENDS SHOUTOUT I HEARD?!
You know it!!!!
I was so excited,!!!!!
Yes!!! That was lit!!
Ready to experience the aromas and flavors of the 18th century? I sure am.
I had to search the Comments as soon as I heard him mention it
Babish "hobbit-sized" should be the size of your head, they do 10+ meals a day they don't skimp
Remember hobbits are tiny. Normal sized things would be the size of their heads.
I like men
I completely misread that as they don't simp, this year is cursed
It comes in pints?!
As a kid, I always imagined lembas bread as really big croutons for some reason.
I always thought it was like expired pita
I always thought it was similar to naan
@@KarissaGaskill it's practically naan
It's fancy hardtack so you're not too far off.
C'mon lembas should've been done with sourdough, milk, butter, honey and eggs for added nutritional value. It would still have a shelf life of a month or two being low hydrated.
Actors described it as tasteless so, if we’re going for movie accuracy I think hardtack nails it. Personally I’ve always thought it would be something with semolina.
@@datdudetrent8938 but in the books is described as sweet, and if my memory serves, they were made with some kind of fruit (or nut. Idk, haven't read the books in a while).
So... Yeah, that hardtack was a letdown.
Agreed, I've seen recipes that made lembas with a long shelf life and also with a fuckton of nutrients, to mimic the "full stomach" feeling. Like, at the very least it could've seemed more filling 🤷♀️
Why don't you all make it? Babish is doing his best.
Chris Parlamas true
Ok now that you've shown us how to make breakfast
*What about second breakfast?*
Just make it again
thats part 2
I'm looking forward to elevenses.
@@boinkmaster9000 r/whooosh
Don't think he knows about second breakfast
In order: breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, supper.
I always imagined the seed cake being full of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, etc. Caraway seeds somehow never crossed my mind. haha
'Enough horsin' around'
What is this, a crossover episode?