What did PEASANTS EAT in medieval times?
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- Jason begins a journey through the social strata of the medieval age by taking a look at the kinds of food the knight might have experienced in his travels. He’s joined by food historian Chris Carr, who first demonstrates some of the dishes the knight might have eaten when staying at a humble roadside inn. #medieval #cooking #recipes
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A medieval peasant travels in time and comes to 2020, we invite him into a fancy restaurant and serve him salmon and brown bread, so the medieval peasant is like “Oh for f**k’s sake”
Lol.
He'd be equally shocked because he can buy a whole bag of white bread for less than $1 at the store, though.
And even more so when he's visiting students living off of Ramen instant noodles. :D
Weird times we live in, indeed.
@@Remer714 hey I love my instant ramen lol
@@Remer714 He would be soon jailed for illegal hunting lol.
@@Remer714 Can you imagine introducing a peasant to our food though? We're so liberal with spices and such that it would blow his mind
Nice to know my diet is worse than a medieval peasant.
Ezra Poore 💀💀💀
Ahahah I'm dying! 🤣 It's so true
@@eddiespaghetti54321 Wrong, they salted and smoked their food.
@@eddiespaghetti54321 They were smoking food by then and it was well preserved. They actually had to catch their food, so you damn well know that the fish was fresh out of the river. That said, I am not saying the water quality was good - depending on where the river was and how many people were using it as a source for disposing human waste and bathing.
lmao!!
"You would probably begin drinking at the age of 5".
That explained 90% of all British history!
Yep 👍
Seems it was only about 1% alcohol beer so American beer.
Welcome to Eastern Europe lol
Don't forget the inbreeding
In some areas, we still DO start drinking at that age. It's legal to drink at home from that age, after all.
Ive had salmon, brown bread and mushy peas with sorrel sauce on multiple occasions since seeing this video a year ago.
Is it really good?
I want to make this dish. It looks so good.
@@ryeguy7941 yes, it really is
Peasantry... :))
@@ryeguy7941 its fantastic
medieval peasant: peas, fish, and bread
college student: surviving on instant ramen
the amount of work that had to go into making food to survive ate up so much of their time it would be exasperating to most people today
To be fair, the average peasant probably worked harder than most students today lol
Falbere! * modern peasant
Invest in a rice cooker. A 20 lb sack of jasmine rice cost around $30 and lasts for months and almost a year if you live alone! After that, for around $100 a month buying other food to eat with your rice, you can eat decent meals at home and not flood your blood with sodium.
@@NutnRoll 1. I am not the college student
2. College students are either too lazy to cook or don't have time to cook
Nice to see the Steward of Gondor out doing better things than setting his son on fire
lmfao! cannot unsee now
you are a genius, grandpa gary
Best comment
Lmfao is it really him?
You totally got me xD
The next time someone calls me "peasant" I'm gonna reply "I wish!"
Same here.
Oh right!
@@ofmyownaccord Better living conditions relative hygiene
Me too.
@@ofmyownaccord it cracks me up how easy it is to convince people to want to become peasants. Step one, remove history. Step 2, convince them it was great to be poor. 🐑🐑🐑🐑
Many people seem to underestimate how much difference herbs can make. It's true that spices used to be very expensive and as such reserved exclusively for the nobility, but this in no way meant that everyone else just had to make do with bland food - any ordinary peasant with a small garden at their disposal could easily grow herbs like mint, thyme, rosemary, basil and so on, as well as aromatics like garlic, onions, shallots and chives. They would still mostly live off of porridges, potages, soups and stews, but they were certainly capable of making them palatable.
Also worth noting is that there are many spices that we no longer use. Hogweed seeds for example. Hell, dill is common 'herb' (or spice) in Eastern Europe, yet I don't find it much west of Poland.
One of my favorite foods is a baked potato with plenty of green onions and malt vinegar. No need for butter, cheese, sour cream, etc and the majority of the people that have seen me prepare it look at me like I'm a crazy person for eating a potato that way. In fact, when I eat out and potatoes are on the menu with steak or whatever I always tell them I would like mine plain and keep a small container of chopped green onions and a small bottle of malt vinegar on me.
The irony there is that butter, cheese, and sour cream were also available to those who had access to dairy back then...
@@darkestkhan I just ordered some Hogweed seeds!!! I had the chance to try some and it's a delicious, savory spice that you can grow in a temperate climate. Try and find some if you can.
Herbs are a really incredible addition to any dish. Highly recommend to everyone to experiment with adding them to your food.
What was once peasant's food is now a 65 dollar plate at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant.
Just like what was once Prison Food is now served in an expensive seafood restaurant.
Just like lobster
All pasta dishes and pizza were all ' peasant food '.
Probably 10 year later people will eat process dirt for their main food
MSgt Porkins Buckwheat used to be a poor man's food in America, now it's a bloody $10 per kg. 20 tl (Turkish Lira per kg here in Turkey, where normal cracked wheat is only 4 tl per kg) They have poisoned the food so badly that they make you pay extra if you want to eat healthy. I'm speaking for those who are gluten-intollerant, which is now a huge part of the populations around the world.
Salmon is peasant food...cries in student.
RealiableCandy4 Yummy too!!! Clam chowder, oyster chowder, baked salmon, some gumbo, breaded catfish, with honey cornbread, plenty of cold beer, plenty of fruit salad, roasted marshmallows, some home made peach wine, with plenty of goood music, sex, and fireworks! That's some nice peasant life aside from living off grid! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😀😋😋😋😄😊😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Salmon shouldnt be this expensive but then everything that is healthy costs 3 times more than it should in the UK
Even better lobster used to be considered to be fit only for poor people🤯☹️
The fact that i know exactly what "cries in student" is like
@@lzad3764 not only that lobster once was only used for prison meals - which prisoners rebelled against ( Source: "Lobster". All About Maine. Secretary of State of Maine.)
And during the 18th century servants had contracts forbidding the "master" to serve them lobster more than twice a week ( Source: 18 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 2012)
*"Bread, Beer, and Bacon"* sounds like a really good pub name with great food and drink
The 3 B’s of Idubbbz
Omw to copyright that
Serve a nice slice of thick toasty bread with a couple slices of bacon, a hunk of aged cheese, and a couple sprigs of fresh onion or a slice of tomato, $3
Add a cheap homebrew beer for $1.
ohh. a pub that makes its own bread, beer and bacon.
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger lmfao
My husband grew up poor in Appalachia. No plumbing or climate control. His diet was amazing though! I love that he always saw it this way. Everything homemade, organic, free range or truly wild caught. He’s a very hearty man.
No climate control ...heaven forbid ...how did he cope
So nice to hear that.... There is something so soulful in your comment that it made me smile
@@gew12 by being a real man not a fat balding oaf who eats mcdonalds to keep his motor running
i've been living my whole life without climate control and im considered a "middle class" in US
@@gew12 DBAD, you know she meant AC.
I need to work my daily budget up to the level of peasant.
@Johnny Gamer yeees. I just came here from watching the Game Of Thrones season 8 teaser
GamerPoets i love u
Just join a Village.
They'll have people there that make clothes, weapons, and tools. They'll have jobs like hunting, fishing, and Gathering.
I would love to find a colony like this to join but not a lot of people can live constantly in the outdoors without electricity, plumbing, or simple necessities.
I'm one of those people . . . I like my PS4
Today you have the option though. They didn't.
I feel your pain
In the future restaurants will be serving doritos and ramen
U made me laugh a lot😹😹😹
The year is 4020, you're watching HoloTube straight from the hologram chamber, having robots with historical data making you "Weeb food" which consists of Mountain Dew and Doritos. Which has now been considered fine dining in the time you're in.
hahaha
Some restaurants already put cheeto crumbs on fries and burgers.
They do already. Ever heard of tostilocos
This is literally the most calming video on TH-cam.
Best description. I come back here often to just relax and look at the food and absorb the ambiance.
@@misterpayah7723 right?? I could watch them eat Taco Bell!
Aye!
So, the Bob Ross of Food?
try to watch Bertam - craft & wilderness :)
4:38 ''Peasants were eating slob and mud'' Oh man that cracked me up. Reminds me of that scene in Monty Python's holy grail. ''There's some lovely filth over here!''
Slop* and mud!
My grandfather grew up in the maritimes in the 30's he used to tell me that they ate lobster often because it could be freely caught - and people would laugh at families who ate Lobster because they couldn't afford fish....he used to laugh and say he worked his whole life to afford to eat the foods he ate growing up poor.
Jimmy Nance I was born and raised in the Caribbean and me and my parents and grandparents go to the reefs to catch snapper, mussels, oysters and lobsters every weekend and we eat like kings, while people pay $100 or more for seafood in restaurants which are most likely either old or the fake stuff made from fish paste and it infuriates me
@@guinnevereschronicles2225 damn. Have always envied people who live by the sea/ocean. Our harsh Siberian climate only lets us hunt or fish.
@@vlad_4614 dont look over to the other side where the grass is greener. i am so sure you have great things for eating in the siberian wildlife.
elisabethsyou I was not complaining! :) Plus, the heat outside Siberia would probably kill me instantly :D
When my husband and I were in the beginning years of our marriage, whenever we would go out to eat he would usually order something other then seafood. One day I asked why that was so. Turns out that in the seaport town that he was raised in, his father would often be paid in lobsters for doing carpentry work. They had them all the time along with New England clam chowder (which he now detests). When I was growing up it was ground beef (I used to joke that my mom knew 101 ways to cook up ground beef). To this day, he prefers beef or chicken rather than seafood.
When you gave up on Discovery and The History Channel because they only show reality TV and come to TH-cam to actually learn something
Jonathan Guzman True
Ain't that the sad truth...
Same
and come to TH-cam to actually learn some vegetarian bullshit. Salmon in any river and any day, butter for cooking, but no tallow, lard, cheese, sausages, steaks, chickens, eggs, pigs? C'mon!
Right? This video is something that I would have seen on The History Channel like 10+ years ago. The production quality of TH-cam videos these days is crazy awesome.
I'm Scottish (now living in Ireland) and until fairly recently in history, common Scots ate extremely well (unless they were in the Highlands during the Clearances, of course, or the potato famine). In Edinburgh, e.g., street food was oysters, clams, beef pasties, lobsters and more. In fact the upper classes sneered at peasant food. How times have changed...now I can't afford to buy salmon or beef, and if I want good bread I make my own rather than eat the supermarket white mush.
I used to be a Viking Age reenactor (domestic history) and viking age peoples ate very well indeed, including onions, garlic, goat and pork and beef as well as mutton, all kinds of vegetables and herbs. In fact they ate better than most people do now. (my fave exhibit food to make...beer and cheese soup. Delicious)
@@davidvasey5065 Erm...I'm not a "son", I'm a woman. Plus tend to your own head before telling others how to think or live.
We have traded micronutrients for macronutrients. Quality for quantity. I would still say that we have it better now but health issues will become worse due to this imbalance of elements in our food.
That soup would really sit well with the meal they made here!
@@davidvasey5065 Stfu idiot.
The more expensive nature of those, in the past, common food staples likely also came from the fact that some of the animals you mentioned have unfortunately become more rare due to pollution, destruction of habitat etc. (filter feeders like clams and oysters in particular are very sensitive to pollution).
It's a given that species that are rare today were probably way more common in the past (like wild salmon f.ex).
There are number of times in history where the typical diet of the poor was considerably healthier than the diet of many of the rich. The very idea of resorting to eating leaves and roots and organ meats was often regarded as an ignoble contingency.
This was characterized by the fact the aristocracy had blackened teeth caused by the sugars they ate, whilst peasants had white healthy teeth due to a diet that had very little sugar, funny how it worked out best.
So peasants in the middle ages ate salmon with a sorrel pesto crust over wholegrain foccacia with a jus of garden peas
You bet
You pay good money in restaurants for that meal
Yeah, wtf?
And a beer to wash it down
That actually sounds pretty good though
this guy looks like he came from the past and couldnt support himself in this brave new world, so he started a channel about a regular day in his time.
Lol, you may want to google me, I work in high tec creative industry.
Modern History TV I’m sorry didn’t want to offend you it kinda was a complement.
Still love you’re channel man.
No offence taken, I just thought it was funny lol!
Funny.
I'm at this moment eating my first try of home-made (somewhat brown) bread, salmon and pea pottage right now, and it is amazing. I don't know what it is supposed to taste like, but I like what I ended up with.
Sorrel sauce will be tested once sorrel becomes availible. Fairly hard to find in the winter.
Excellent, it really is a hearty meal.
@@ModernKnight It is going on the regular menu from now on
The talk about bread reminded me of a great moment in Croatian politics. The people were complaining about the rising prices, bread in particular. So the wife of the prime minister at the time said "Just buy dark bread, it's much denser, so you can slice it thinner, and it will last you longer."
No wonder she was dubbed the croatian Marie Antoinette.
China would conquered europe if their economy would still like that!
My mom live by the beach in Mexico. She was poor, she ate poor people food, lobster and abalone almost everyday.
Back during the colonial period, poor people were told by the wealthy upper class, to eat lobster and other sea food, because the face of a lobster was ugly just like the poor peasants. Now sea food is very expensive.
Jackie chan_WTF Mainly because as the peasants would eat sea food, and it seemed like an infinite food source, they really began to eat such items like lobster or salmon to near extinction. Then now since there’s a limited amount of these foods, upper class began to look at the limited amount and decided “well if it’s rare it must be good” and began to eat it.
@@Gorilla_Chaos True. 💯
wtf? reversal in society lol.
So what did rich people eat? Geese livers?0
D man
We all know. The rich were extra as fuck.
Typically things that required extensive time to prepare, such as white flour food products, or exotic goods such as imported fruits and spices, were popular with the rich/noble, just to flex their wealth.
No clickbait, straight forward knowledge and facts about history, actually quiet entertaining and very interesting
Thank you for this channel
Just look out for the video pitting a breastplate against a rifle. They did a lot of things wrong on that one.
@@CoffeeSnep What exactly do you think they did wrong?
And pointless
@@garthfairfield8357 pointless how?
@@garthfairfield8357 with your mindset everything is pointless
You mentioned that the meal went together relatively quickly, but you forget that someone had to take hours grinding that flour and then kneading and baking the bread. Someone had to catch the fish and skin it and debone and slice it. The peas had to be picked in the garden and then cooked in the pot. The sorrel had to be picked and then as you did, it had to be mashed and turned into a sauce. It was done quickly for the video, but there was a great deal of preparatory work that took place in order to make that "quick" meal for you.
To be fair though, that is the daily work for the peasant most days. Grow/catch the necessary ingredients to have food.
In the early 1800's a loaf of bread for a family's daily needs consumed 1/8 of their daily wages.
@@floxy20 Wow!!!!!
I prefer my peas porridge hot.
The coal were probably the remnants of a fire started in the morning used to prepare other meals and hot water to wash. The flour would have been ground in bulk perhaps by a miller, maybe more arduously at home but definitely was not part of everyday meal preparation. Fish may have been caught but it could also be bought, fishermen have been around as long as civilisation.
I will agree that the peas would be a pain to pick and remove from their pods, but that is a task which was daily existence for my grandmother. So yeah I’d call it a fairly quick meal.
I mean, everything was slower and definitely less convenient. It’s not a 15 minute affair for sure. But probably very light work for the time.
I love this series! Not only is it very informative and interesting, but it's just two really lovely people sharing a joy of that interest, which is simply beautiful.
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Medieval age: peasants eat healthly and were fit while rich ate unhealthly and were fat.
Present: peasants eat unhealthly and are fat while rich eat healthly and are fit.
Just cut down to 2 meals and you can eat healthy.
Most people aren't working the fields anymore to burn off that fat or marching on campaign
People who work like construction and stuff don't have many issues eating junk.
Very true.. well.. not entirely, seing how many millionaires and billionaires seem to be out of shape
let me correct that sentence : people who work usually dont have issue with eating.
*Salmon in the Middle Ages:* Peasant food
*Salmon today:* Worth my entire college tuition
Farmed shite at that
Thanks to salmon illegal poaching and decrease quality of river it becomes rare in quantity and very expensive
@Justin bieber is underated I'm a med student bro, far from dumb. Let us enjoy some mundane humor to offset the sad reality of America's education system. It's the only solace we get from massive student loans.
@@TheVeryAngryShrimp not to bust your balls but I ve been to med school and surprisingly there were a lot of idiots studying there as well. There were many differences in iq between students I can assure you
@@rogueninja185 That frightens me actually. 😦
I really find the enthusiasm of both of these people very appealling.
This meal looks very delicious! Peasants may have had less access to many foods and had more simple diets compared to the upper classes, but simplicity does not automatically equate to blandness. I’m a university student working towards a history major, and I want to be a medievalist (someone who specializes in medieval history). This video is very informative and gives me a lot of insight into the lives of the commoners during the medieval times, including their diets.
Salmon, brown bread, peas, beer
Then: Thats peasant food!
Today: That'll be £60
What the frig?!
At least they didn't pay $ 12 for avocado toast, LOL
Bah, I could get 1 kg's worth of that (all counted together) for 10 € or so. And butter too. Did peasants in Middle Ages have butter for every meal? Also most peasants didn't buy bread from the market. They baked it at home. 1 kg of rye flour cost less than 2 € here in Finland.
Peasants spent all their money on food and housing though.
@@DoctorMandible Not all the money. Some of it had to go for tools of trade (hoe, shovel, hatchet etc.)
@@mattikuokkanen They didn't really have money as such though
"Drinking from the age of 5"
I'd love to see the daycare bar fights.
Highly underrated comment
Well I mean the legal drinking age in the UK is still 5 xP
This guy wins the grand comments prize!
well back in the medieval ages 5 year olds were already getting married and moving out.
Beer in the Middle Ages wasn’t nearly as strong as it is now. They fermented it to make it edible but doubt they went further in terms of making it more alcoholic
I’m obsessed with medieval food. I wish I could find some Eastern medieval food channel like this
I love whole grain bread so I'd love to try this recipe.
Bread, olives and if you had the money, cheese
I grew up on a large farm in Ireland. The food was great. We also lived very near the sea. And - my mother was recognised as being a gifted cook. We were so blessed. Wish I could go back.
She's great. It's rare to find a guest that's not only knowledgeable and interesting but also approachable in their expertise and great at speaking.
Anthropologists and anyone who studied a specific area of humans usually do it from a passion. It's so fun to share your passion with anyone!
I thought the same thing.
100th Like LoL.
Yes, she is. I hope she guest appears in more stuff. I could listen to her all day. Really interesting!
This video madr me so hungry, too.
I'm dead 😂💀👆
You are what the History Channel should have become
YES
Is it still aliens mysteries? I used to watch History Channel back around 2010 when it was back-to-back Roman Emperors, Carthaginian battles, and Egyptian Pharaohs. Then one day it was Secret Alien Mysteries and I quit.
Leo You seriously: if the history channel showed stuff like this people would lap it up, and it would cost a tiny fraction of the budget they spend on those crap alien programs.
You mean you don’t like alien conspiracies and dudes bartering for junk??? That’s real history
@@jackglossop4859 the history channel is for history not maximizing profit off of stupid topics
Perfect. This is the difference between the media telling us what to watch and show that IS what we want to watch. Please keep up your good work.
My mother who lived in London's East End in the 1920s related how it was quite common for people to keep a pig or chickens in the gardens. I have also heard, though not been able to confirm, that poor Londoners would eat oysters as they were easily obtainable from the Thames, around Barking and Dagenham, whereas now oysters are, like salmon, expensive foodstuffs.
Poor person’s dinner in 1400: Salmon, ale, and artisan bread.
Poor person’s dinner in 2019: Ramen Noodles and whatever...
salmon if the local lord permitted fishing on his land and waterways.
Why do I keep seeing people say they eat ramen noodles? You can buy a kilo of oats for 75p. A tin of tomatoes for 35p. A can of evaporated milk for 45p. A can of sardines in tomatoe sauce for 36p. Eating a balanced, respectable diet is easy, you nincompoops are just too dumb to feed yourselves as soon as mummy isn't around. Relying on nothing but cheap carbs is just going to cause your blood sugar to spike, making you hungrier. Fools! Rant over
ujustgitshrecktscrub!bettergitgudeh? When your at school all day then come home to study it’s easier just to put ramen in the microwave instead of doing whatever the fuck you said to do. Plus who the fuck wants to eat sardines
Add hotdogs.. if you're lucky
You must suck at cooking if you only eat ramen.
tfw you realize that this dude is the CEO of Rebellion and you've played his games
Pectoralis Major holy moly. I LIVED on the Delta Force games when they first came out! That’s so cool!
Sniper Elite. The best game i've ever played and honestly has the most AMAZING ragdolls.
I haven't. I have played rainbow six, but that was on the N64. Rebellion was hired to port it to the PS1.
Holy mother of Joseph!
@@Risen_Star Best Nazi testis simulator ever
I love how knowledgable this lady is. Such tasty food.
Bro it's cool that the video has aged a bit, but the uploader is still liking and replying to comments. Thanks bro.
In the year 2486:
“Back in the 21st century, people filled their lives with so many things to do each day that they had little time to prepare nutritious food. So they settled for quick food that was prepared earlier. This is called a Whopper and fries. The drink was called a Dr. Pepper.”
“Amazing, historian. You’ve managed to remake food from so long ago.”
“This is the real deal. The preservatives and chemicals have kept it in stasis for the past 3 centuries. They wouldn’t have noticed the difference.”
Ahahaha love this
@@MargaritaMagdalena ?
@@MargaritaMagdalena Yeah says someone with a sugar drink in their name. If you aren't another brain dead republican I'll eat my shoe strings.
“They wouldn’t have noticed a difference”
Lol
@@MargaritaMagdalena stop being an ignorant fool.
Not gonna lie, that looks like a goddamn nice meal.
It actually is! I tried it myself and it's actually quite delicious.
It is for sure. Very Hardy very filling, very warm in the tummy, and PACKED with nutrition. Lots of good fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals and good complex carbs for serious glycogen energy storage.
Bread like that takes getting used to though bc it's not as light and fluffy
@@jlogan2228 About a decade ago, my doctor insisted that I eat breads like the 12 and 15 grain breads you see at the store. It soon became habit and I began to enjoy the heartier breads much more. Even a plain old peanut butter and jelly sandwich tasted better on these breads to me.
Just in the past two months, my husband started buying sliced white bread. It seems so delicate and falls apart easily now, but worst of all is that it's got little flavor of its own! It's okay for French Toast and Fluffernutters, but I've no taste for it other than that. The only caveat to that is freshly baked bread, like the big French and Italian and other breads you get at the bakery. Those I still love and I think it's because they have more flavor.
@@k8fearsnoart I make home made honey wheat and sour dough bread as well
Then why have GOD damn it?
I keep going back to this video every once in a while. I dont kow why, i just like it. 😋
Come to think of it, this is one of the earliest video of this channel that i watched early last year i think. Look at how big the channel have grown. 😆
lol, thanks.
This gives me the same emotion as when I researched recipes from the great depression....I found out due to the shift in economic tides they were still more expensive to prep than what I eat.
Did you know that back when french fries were released in supermarkets in the 1940's tater tots and hash browns were MUCH cheaper which caused people not to purchase them due to not wanting to appear destitute which in turn made the companies who produced them to bring their prices up to match french fries. Once that was done tater tots/hash browns saw a significant increase in sales.
Hail Denethor, son of Ecthelion, Lord and Steward of Gondor.
He does resemble the actor
YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY SON FROM ME
LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT, THANK YOU! HAHAAHA
@@caseD5150 looks so much like the actor that played him
*lits on fire* AAAH AAHH AHHHHHABBASHSJDLDKSKAIANSNDLDKE (runs a long asssssss way downnnnnn to the edge of a cliff and throws himself off instead of rolling over or getting into water)
When you realize medieval peasants ate better than you
Inflation...
We can still eat like this (minus the salmon and the bread) if we aren't increasingly becoming potatoes.
@@TinoNyabowa That's not inflation, it's a measure how much capitalist morons fucked up the planet spewing pollution everywhere. Salmon was so cheap because the rivers were full of them, then mad rush for profit poisoned their habitat, wrecked up environment and destroyed their food sources...
Barış E. Makes you wonder if civilization is progress
TojuNanu Designs civilization is coming to end the final journey will be mars
Growing up on a farm from a long family history of farming, our biggest meal was ALWAYS the mid day meal. And we called it dinner. We never said "lunch" but we many around us did. And we'd have a lighter meal at the end of the day which we called supper.
This guy seems so sweet and kind :)
"The browner the bread, the poorer you were"
I'm almost eating black bread
😂😂😂
Debating how rich i am since mine is brown with green patches on it 😕
big ste you’re rich, those are what we call “flavor spots”
@@michaelhofvenschiold9177 when my ex had a yeast infection i called thst the flavour spot 😉 lol
Oh ho...so somebody can afford bread I see...nice try richie
One problem I saw with this is pretty minor in the overall production, but should have been noted. "Beer" as it was known in medieval Europe was mostly unrecognizable to modern people. First of all, the use of hops as a flavoring and preservative wasn't very common in the middle ages. While hops were known and used in beer, the average cup of ale you'd find at an inn would have been brown or black in color and bittered with locally available herbs like yarrow, heather, mugwort and juniper. The quality and flavor profile could vary wildly (just like modern homebrewers with various levels of skill and talent). It was also usually somewhat sour, as it was open fermented with wild yeast carried across the wind. (if you want to try something as close to medieval beer in the modern era, try a Flemish Red Ale, Belgian Lambic or Scottish Gruit) The other major difference is that the alcohol content was very, very low. Of course strong ales existed for the wealthy (though not posh like imported grape wine from the continent), but the average household was drinking 1% abv beer brewed by the matron of the house morning, noon and night unless they were lucky enough to live next to a natural spring. By comparison, you'd have to chug five medieval beers packaged in a modern 12oz (375ml) beer bottle in under an hour to get the same effect as one bottle of any modern pale lager (Carlsberg, Becks, Red Stripe, Budweiser, Fosters, Molson, etc). It was probably lightly carbonated at best.
The idea that everyone was completely drunk in the 12th century is a myth. If you tried to get drunk off medieval peasant beer, you're likely to get sick due to a distended stomach first. One modern beer's alcohol content would require you to drink 60oz of slightly sour, carb loaded medieval brew that likely tasted similar to liquid pumpernickel bread to get the effect of one bottle of the average pale lager. (you might only have to chug 48oz of sourdough breadwater an hour to approximate one lite beer) I'm guessing that alcoholism wasn't even on the radar of the average peasant in the 12th century. You just had to deal with your terrible life by trusting that there was a heaven after all that suffering.
Fermentation and microbial life (yeast and harmful bacteria alike) was unknown to science and thought of in a more spiritual manner. They didn't know why beer was safe to drink and river water wasn't, so the process of making beer was considered mildly holy. Monks took up the process, as beer was a good fit for fasting, and largely perfected and developed the process and regional style of beers across Europe. To this day, only certain Trappist monasteries in Belgium (possibly the Netherlands as well) are allowed to brand themselves as "Trappist Beers" brewed on site by actual monks, and their styles of beer are completely different from what the average person thinks of when they imagine beer. Chimay is easily the most widely available, and it's darker than the average pale lager, much sweeter, and has strong fruity overtones of peach, banana and currant, and almost no hop bitterness. The finish can be quite spicy by way of clove or anise, with a bit of an alcoholic bite and a touch of fruity sourness. Monks in Germany developed similar flavors with the local wheat that's still popular today as weissbier.
The British brewing tradition still favors low-strength amber to black ales averaging around 4% abv, even though slightly stronger international pale lagers have become very popular with young people since the late 1970's.
Our modern perception of a golden, crisp, bubbly beer wasn't invented until the mid 19th century in Bohemia. I'm not poo-pooing modern beer. I love a good pilsner at a cook-out in the summer, or even just a couple cans of Miller High Life with friends. When winter comes, the ideal night for me is a seat outdoors next to a campfire with a quality cigar and a bottle or three of imperial stout or barleywine.
Will this all be on the test?😬
@@katwilliams9483 LOL. It's all about adventure in small forms. Maybe buy a weird fruit or a strange beer while at the supermarket. Educate yourself through life experience.
@@mouija1450 I totally agree!😊👍
best comment. very informative. i suspected something like this but you educated me. thank you
@@franktib Thanks for reading, Frank!
I really wish they made more of these food segments. I literally keep researching them during meals as it's so calming and oddly visually appealing while I eat lol. This could easily be a popular on going series with Chris
The charm and harmony between you two is amazing 😊
This is so cool. I remember being a peasant back in 1387, I used to make turkey burgers and chips and sell them to the local baron. He was a bastard.
Did you lose all your money when Barings Bank collapsed? That's why it's important to diversify. With your cooking experience, have you been working at Blackfriars in Newcastle since then?
@@johnroberts719 Yes. How did you guess? I turned to giraffe poaching when my medieval burger truck went out of business.
Where did you get the turkey from? Europe didn't know they existed until the discovery of the Americas.
@@tananari47 I invented molecular biogenesis in 1325, the Sith lords were able to genetically modify octopus cells to create synthetic Turkey meat.
@@attentionlabel Sounds legit.
So this is what the Steward of Gondor is doing now
Ok.....well now you mention it! Lol
YES! 😂
Hahaha
I'm dead 😂😂😂😂😂
Help is on its way! The Beatles
I went to a tourist place with reenactments of a colonial village and native village where you could immerse yourself and ask questions about the ways of the past. My dad asked a Native if they eat lobsters and the man said "yes.. but not really, it is considered a lazy person's food." Because back then you could just walk into the water and pick up a HUGE lobster right away. The salmon bit just reminded me of this
A native *what*?
I smell a yank🙄
Hey I had a very similar conversation with my grandfather who as a kid visited his friend near Odessa. Rather poor family, he brought to them as a gift ham and sausages, they were over the moon, and his friend told him "all we eat is bread and caviar, I am just sick of it"
Recently I checked the prices of that Caviar, the amount that my grandpa was served on a weekly basis could pay my rent for months.
@@kunimitsune177 get over it
Lobster was considered poor people food in Greece as well. It was reserved for people who couldn't afford or couldn't catch fish.
Plus, another historical fact for you. Have you seen these very expensive cave hotel rooms in Santorini? These were originally the dwellings of the poorest people who couldn't afford a house, so they dug a hole in the rock to live in.
Your genuine excitement in this video is contagious and heartwarming :) Great video as always!
I like how enthusiastically he looks at the food. You can see he really digs this
They are a great team. Direct, informative, knowledgeable, excellent chemistry.
I mean, that is some good-looking food.
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@@TheKonga88 wtf?
when i grow up i wanna be a peasant
When I grow up, I wanna die of smolpox
@@PuckishAngeI Better than being a corporate slave
So you will live to the ripe age of 32
Mission accomplished.
When I grow up I......
Antivaccine Soccer mom: *_I have to Stop you right here!_*
5:19 - for Central and South European peasants, salami was what they made for winter. We now think of salami as posh food (and it is expensive), but back then it was peasant food.
My grandma can relate to the pig thing. Here in Spain we oiled parts of the pig in jars to keep it. Also she grew rabbits (wild) and chickens and trade with them. All the things explained here are not very far from how we did things here after civil war. We also boiled rocks to purify water. Misery times.
*Scientist brings medieval peasant to the future
Peasant - I hath obtained the hunger doth thou have any food?
Scientist - Sure! Here is one of our finest meals, grilled salmon and peas.
Peasant - Nooooooeth!!!!!!
LMFAOOOOO!!!! XD
You mean LMAOeth
More like "fookin ell i'm bloody starvin!"
Imagine if you gave the peasant a Whopper with bacon, fries and a Coke - or better yet, a foot-long BLT on Monterey Cheddar or Italian bread from Subway... Hell - just imagine letting the peasant have a supreme pizza from a good local pizzeria. That'll set him up right!
Hahahaha
That was quite an entertaining video, Denethor, Steward of Gondor. Thank you!
I'm dying 😂
Baruchas I knew he had a familiar face haha BRING WOOD AND OIL!
Im looking for a hobbit...
lmfaoooooooooooo
LOOOLLL :v
This is the first video I've seen of this channel, and I must say, these videos and people seem absolutely delightful
5:57 The excitement over the mushy peas even changes his accent.
? does it?
@@ModernKnight To my ears at least
lol, I'll have to listen more closely!
So considering the reversal of food value... in 1000 years will Ramen, Mac and Cheese, and PB&J be considered a delicacy?
isnt that a delicacy now in america?
Fallout 4.
@@cmccable LOLOL
@@cmccable Fucking ROASTED
no. the reversal happened because the source of mentioned foods got abused and became a rarity
That actually looks like a damn good meal
Yes, it does. Now imagine having to eat it every day for weeks or months on end, because it's the only food you have access to...
jic1 that would suck but atleast I’m not eating shit everyday. I’m a college kid, I’m used to eating shit for days and weeks and be ok with it, I’d be fine with this meal.
@@connorgolden4 I know right. I cant count how many Ramen i have eaten. Or Pasta with cheap Pesto Sauce.
@@jic1 The lady in the video said they also ate bacon and cheese but I am sure that short list of things would still be boring. I can see how they would never over eat
Funny to think about how college students literally are worse off than medieval peasants.
All of history seems that much brighter to me now. Thank you.
After seeing this and all the other food episodes, this one has got to be my favorite. Not only did I try these foods and absolutely loved them; I also liked the principle of earning your supper and working for your food. I personally like the idea of setting such a standard when raising kids, honestly.
I’m going to open a restaurant called Bread, Beer, and Bacon.
Sean Urciuoli no
Here in Brazil we have a restaurant called Bacon Bar, or something like that.
Dont forget the butter.
B³
Bread, Beer, and Bacon as a restaurant specializing in authentic medieval-style food. That'd be kinda fun!
It had to give you at least +25 to health and stamina.
lmao
Also restores some MP.
You have just leveled up
henrys here to see us
Camp Master Noob you are a douzy, those animals arnt points, i call you out on carmageddon, go and visit an abatoir, and wales.
I love this series! I must come back to these videos every couple of months.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for these wholesome videos. Absolutely fantastic chemistry between the two of you and very informative. You have a new subscriber.
Glad you like them, welcome!
Lobster was prison food well into the early 1900s. Like the salmon, if it is abundant, then it is mundane. But when it is rare, then suddenly it is demanded. Humans are so weird that way.
I love that deceiving story of how prisoners were fed lobsters. Yes they were fed lobster once in the past because it was on the verge of spoiling. Also rare anything is usually because demand/expensive.
not a human triat its a psychopath trait ..idiots hive minds pretentious fuks...anyway back to my baked beans fish and chicken with a fried egg
@@droidnewton5610 www.maine.gov/sos/kids/about/lobster.htm
Keyboard Crusader living up to your name i see
WizardsOf12
Imagine if caviar was as abundance as corn
And rice was as abundance as truffles.
Just as brown bread and salmon were once the food of peasants, here in America lobster was once considered "junk" and fed to prison inmates.
Oysters as well.
Guess in the future Spam will be high class.
@@iamhungey12345 difference is all of the seafood mentioned are extremely nutritious. Whereas spam isn't haha.
@@nilsyuan5778 Still, give it time, lol.
I wonder how urchin taste.
I actually hate lobster.
@@oldencreek6587 There's always blue crabs.
I’m a little late to the party , but thanks for this
You’ve managed to convince me that there are worthwhile things on TH-cam
good, YT can get depressing sometimes.
"Today salmons are expensive but back then people can get them freely in the river"
Yeah, but back then they got drowners lurking around the river so it's always risky
You sir, have made me laugh for almost 30 secs, thank you!
If the accent didn't give him away: I don't know if there is anything more British than being that excited about mushy peas.
so is it really just peas mashed up or is anything else added?
@@dinosdiscountsmokesjoe2747 Literally just mashed up peas as the basic recipe. Some add water, or milk, or even cream to control how mushy they are. Then season with salt, pepper, and/or butter.
And then you can throw on a big dollop of mint sauce.
@@CynicalOldDwarf a bit of bicarbonate of soda is added sometimes too.
@@CynicalOldDwarf disgusting
@@k2ggers961 I agree. YUCK!. :-/
Now the peasants eat macaroni and cheese or hotdogs. Sounds like we've gone backwards.
McDonalds. Must'nt forget McDonalds.
Even today's soldier food is ridiculously weak food. Oil and Grains, people nowadays are eating only shit and nothing natural anymore. Everything based on the 80's research that was paid for by the oil and grain industries.
Unless you live in the country and are eating steak and meat from the deer, elk, and birds you hunted.
And in 500 years this will be an upper class dish
@@MrMhtmht To be fair natural could never get the shelf life those mre's get.
These videos are such a treasure. There's all sorts of sources that talk about what the rich and well off would have eaten. seeing what my ancestors may have eaten, feels really nice.
thanks
Stumbled across this video and was delighted with what i learned. Nicely put together, kudos.
I never knew I was so interested in medieval history until the algorithm recommended me one video and now I've watched about 2hrs worth...
Thanks for watching, and thanks algorithm!
Sign me on - I’m in!
Saw Shad's assisted longbow rapid shooter video, got introduced to its creator, found this channel testing a older model which I think would last longer in actual combat cause it's simpler, and stayed for other of this channel's videos.
All hail the Algorithm.
That's how a lot of us got started. I can't remember if it was Shad, Skal, or Lindybeige, but I've been on-and-off obsessing over these historical channels for about six years now.
The food that was once common, peasant food like salmon, oysters, and lobster became overfished and that's why they're luxury expensive items today.
There are dozens or hundreds of times more people now.
The third world breeds dangerously and archaically that's why
@@plantstho6599 yes. And their billions are overfishing the oceans. With China help I assume
@@plantstho6599 no. Our waste is a tiny fraction of the food stream.
Richard Miller I'm a middle-class person in a third world country and I hardly ever eat salmon, let alone those who are lower class.
Her energy and enthusiasm is amazing :-)
i was born in northern finland by kemi river. my father used to tell that when he was a child and there were no power plants to prevent salmon rising the house masters were forbidden by law not to serve more than thrice a week salmon for workers... without the law it would have been on every meal.
you: stew
me, an intellectual: *p o t t a g e*
luce and in the video it looked like split pea soup. Our marketing has gotten so much better, lol. But I do like the term pottage. Imagine opening a restaurant and you only have one item on the menu - pottage - yet everyday you go you get something different.
And interesting biggest for pottage : it has often been an evolving meal as everyday you would add something new to the pot to fill it up. So you have yesterday’s left overs, todays new additions and essentially serve a different meal.
Nobody cares about your pretentious stew, just shut the fuck up
4philipp ya really cool.... your restaurant idea is very good!!! I wonder if there is anything like that!
I actually didn't think of the term pottage, my history teacher told us.
@@4philipp Of course, until some asshole throws an unknown ingredient into the pot and it tastes awful for the next 4 days. Lol
I can see a London restaurant being opened quite soon: Ye Royal Peasant.
Ye Medieval Peasants
Well, now you done, cursed it to happen
That will be successful resto. Medieval comfort food and beer. Fills you up and reasonably priced.
Leto85 hahaha
Too late!
This is my favourite video on the channel. Makes me hungry whenever I watch it.
Wow , amazing video. It's like stapping in a time machine, so interesting.
Keep up the great work.
A couple of interesting facts that indirectly tie into this video:
1. In the past, caviar was considered to be peasant food in Russia
2. In Maine, lobster used to be a common staple in prisons. There really wasn't much demand for it so it was cheap.
Fascinating how tastes and supply/demand change and what used to be a readily available and therefore cheap food becomes a hot commodity. On the other hand, beef used to be a big deal in Medieval times and now is much more common and accessible.
oysters as well -- used to be peasant food
common thread I suppose is that they were abundant, thus eaten by the masses. and then when they weren't abundant anymore, they became expensive and thus status symbols
I have nothing to back this up but i read somewhere back in the early 1900s and in the 1800s steak was considered a lower class food and was incredibly cheap.
warmpi basically what ever you could catch in the river
@@Matt-pv7gw What the heck was fancy food then?
Forty K Steak has never been lower class food. Cows were expensive, and a steak means a dead cow. A cow that could give you so much more during its whole lifetime (milk). So cows werent butchered that often, and thus steak was never available in quantities to classify it as lower class food.
Sheep werent butchered often either, thanks to their wool.
While this does seem surprisingly yummy, the real issue with peasant diets isn’t that they lacked good food - outside famines, peasants often got a reasonably decent nutritional spread. The *real* issue is repetition. Most people in the modern day have trouble understanding why peppercorns were so insanely valuable back then because they aren’t used to the desperate craving for flavor variance that comes from eating the same thing nearly every day. This is a great meal, but imagine eating it every single day (except maybe at holiday feasts). I promise you’d be damned sick of it within months, never mind years, decades, a whole life.
Its like living like cattle
That sounds like my diet... only with ramen noodle.
@@grananda90 yeah but ramen noodles are cheap and easily accesible, imagine If you had to make it every day and take care of crops and no clean water for what? A bowl of Raman?
@Paddy Ryan yum
Coming from a country that still very much uses this diet as the staple, it's honestly NOT as bad as it sounds.
First off, if you are used to it it's not really frustrating like how it would be if you ate many different things frequently (like many people do nowadays) and suddenly had to stop. It's just how things are and you don't really question it.
Secondly, it's just not true that they ate the same thing everyday. There were many different kinds of breads depending on the mixture of ingredients, the recipe you'd use, etc. that produced vastly different flavour profiles. The same is true for cheese, which changes taste massively depending on even such simple things as how long you let it rest. So even just the base foods were a lot more varied than you'd imagine :)
Third, over the course of the year, very different ingredients would be available. You wouldn't have peas everyday, 365 days of the year. Different vegetables, mushrooms, fruit, nuts, etc. would be ready for harvest at different times of the year and you'd eat what would be in season. That means while food may not have differed much from today to tomorrow, over the course of the year you had quite some variety :)
Pepper in specific and it's incredible popularity has less to do with a complete LACK of flavors in people's everyday diet and more with the fact that the HOT flavour in particular wasn't well achievable in other ways as Europe lacks herbs and spices that produce that specific taste (while also not being poisonous) as well as the fact that it could - similarly to salt - be used to preserve food and/or mask the bad taste of food on the verge of going bad.
I’m having the salmon, potted peas and sourdough toast for dinner tomorrow, it been a staple of my weekly dinners since discovered this episode a few years ago, cheers!
I just tried this Medieval dish myself for the first time. I have to say, the salmon, peas pottage and trencher bread was delicious. The sorrel sauce I had to modify a bit with some butter and white wine vinegar (I know, not very peasanty but it improved the sauce a lot in my opinion) but overall it's a very nice dish. Thanks for the inspiration!
This guy is an historian and a videogame producer/CEO. I mean...as soon as I discovered that my mind was literally blown away. How many other talents do you have, sir? You career is extraordinary
I can whistle fairly well.
CEO of what?
@@CatnamedMittens your mom
@@CatnamedMittens Rebellion
He's like a cross between Townsends, and Ray Mears.
These peasants are eating better than college kids like me :P
Ramen Noodles and 99c Arizona Teas are the new peasant food.
I'm sure peasants from those times would've gladly traded for your instant ramen.
Malcolm I’d gladly trade my ramen noodles for bread, bacon, and fish.
They're also working a lot harder than college kids like you ;)
@@malcolm1732 ramen depletes your vitamin levels causes dementia in the long run...
I think this is one of my favorite videos. I've now watched it twice. 👍
This is just lovely.