Tasting Jane Austen's Comfort Food | Food History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Indulge in a culinary journey through history as we taste Jane Austen's favorite comfort food: toasted cheese.
I'm also going to discover the delicious dishes and drink that inspired her writing. Join mein exploring the intersection of food and literature in this mouth-watering video. Watch now to uncover the flavors of the past!
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00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Jane Austen's Food
01:10 - White Soup
03:22 - Toasted Cheese
04:28 - Honey Mead
04:58 - Tasting
Recipe:
White Soup: Make your gravy of any kind of Meat, add it to the yolks of four Eggs boiled hard & pounded very fine, 2 oz of sweet Almond pounded, as much Cream as will make it of a good Color
Toasted Cheese: Grate the cheese and add it to one egg, a teaspoonful of mustard, and a little butter. Send it up on toast, or in paper trays.
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Can't go wrong with toasted cheese!
I’ve never found her more relatable.
Silly, you should have dipped the toasted cheese in to the white soup! 😂
… dammit!!!
I'd like this a whole lot more if you didn't reference that ridiculous series, Bridgerton is so incredibly bad
Entirely fair, though it felt like as good a time as any to talk about Jane Austen. And I tried to be up front that I was pandering a bit.
@@unicornstew lol understood
2:32-2:33 - that's a lusty laugh! A reaction to Pounded Sweet Almond, perhaps...? Best not go anywhere near the marzipan then; because, methinks, that would defiantly get you in the mood for dancing. What a delightful euphemism... especially when enjoyed behind closed doors.
I’ve never been told I have a lusty laugh before, but I’ll take it! And you’re right, though I’m definitely more averse to the scrambled egg than the powdered almond!
White Soup sounds like Soup Lorraine, which is a chicken broth base with sieved egg yolk and finely ground almonds which should also be sieved before adding to remove any grainy bits. It's delicious, don't mock until you've actually tried it, soldier boy.
Definitely try to reserve judgement until I’ve tried something, but I also feel I’ve probably come close enough to soup Lorraine to feel I’ve had the rough experience. Thanks for sharing!
That toasted cheese is a lesser version of Welsh Rarebit. Which, in both forms, is a most wonderful thing. Funny i never thought of downsizing Welsh Rarebit to a toasty. Shame on me.
Absolutely - it got cut for time, but I spent some time comparing it to Welsh rarebit or the croque monsieur where they did more to make the egg part of a sauce, which I think only improves it.
Now there's a thought - would the cheese toastie be improved by having the egg fried and on top, á la croque-madame?
I don’t think it could have hurt!
As an American I have to say that your accent sounds "posh" to me all the time. And now I want a grilled cheese sandwich!
That’s fair. It depends on where you live here. When I lived in the North, everyone thought I sounded posh as hell. When I lived in the south, people thought I sounded common. So I’ve no benchmark anymore!
@@unicornstew So then: from where is your accent...?
I’m from Manchester but went to school in Surrey and London, so I have a mixed northern and southern accent. To me he sounds typically middle class Home Counties. Not posh, but middle class. Boris Johnson or Jacob Reese Mog is posh
southern they’re touching closer to Received Pronunciation, like Prince Charles or the former queen.
@@peteradaniel Is this then the reason for "Unicorn Stew?"
@@Mark723 it’s association with Scotland?
"Honey" mead? What other kind is there?
I just call it as she wrote it 😊
Maybe extra honey was added for flavouring, in the same way that chili or nettles whatever might be added to flavour it? (Those are the only two flavours of mead I've encountered, and I didn't get to drink them as a) I was at work and b) they were samples for quality control testing of the food safety variety.)
Would nettles get added to mead?! That sounds herbaceous!
I don't think it would gave been comfort food back then, more like it was their meal
I think questioning comfort food is fair, though I think it’s also fair to say with the available evidence that toasted cheese was one of her favourite dishes.
Would love to see Bridgerton incorporate a nod to the Austen cookbook on regency food! :)
Currently watching the new season now… they seem to be more focused on chest hair and cheek bones!
Eggs in everything! yuck (allergies). But who doesn't love toasted cheese, or a rarebit? Yummy.. And definitely English mustard!!
Completely agree. I love finding out what food historical figures liked, as it demystifies them to an extent. And this just made JA so much more relatable for me.
Eggs and cheese were relatively inexpensive sources of protein, unlike today. Especially if you kept hens.
It’s called a Welsh rabbit
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*Rarebit
I know that’s what I’d refer to it as today. I just recreate it as they wrote it 😊