We hope you enjoy this new instalment of The Victorian Way. Here are the answers to some questions you may have about the recipt... • Is it frumenty, furmenty or furmity? It’s all three (and others) depending on the region and the era in which you’re talking about it. This is very much a working class dish, rarely committed to paper, and therefore spelling and pronunciation changed according to oral tradition. • Isn’t this going to be cold by the time Mrs Crocombe serves it? Not necessarily. Our copper pans are very thick and hold the heat well, so we were able to work fast and keep it hot. If you are making it at home, you may well want to keep it on a low heat while you cook it. However, it can also be served cold, as it is essentially a type of porridge. • Why does Mrs Crocombe says it is food for the poor and the rich and then say she’s lucky to eat rich people’s food? We do have some frumenty recipes from the seventeenth century. Robert May’s 1660 recipe is very much a rich person’s dish, containing dried fruit, sugar, saffron and lots of spice. However, we also know that at its most basic - i.e. just wheat grain and water - it was widely eaten by the poor. By 1881 the price of spice had come down as more was being grown, as had the price of sugar, both through a reduction in tax in the 1870s and the development of the sugar beet industry, which resulted in British-grown sugar (sugar beet is a root vegetable), which was chemically identical to imported cane sugar. • What’s this about Mothering Sunday being a day for religious pilgrimage and nothing to do with mothers? It’s true! Mother’s Day in its modern sense was an American invention, and didn’t take off in Britain until the mid-twentieth century. For more on this, have a look at the Simnel Cake video we made last year (and read the pinned comment). th-cam.com/video/-z4bIJgfCSw/w-d-xo.html
I was fortunate enough to have a great aunt born in 1907 who lived until 2008, who also could remember almost her entire life with great clarity. I realized at a fairly early age that she could tell me things that I would never learn from any book and so I should listen to her as much as I could.
I think the internet is a great way to preserve such 'everyday' knowledge. I've an interest in historic cooking and more and more people show their everyday cooking or that of their parents/grandparents. For example, some of the dishes John Townsend is cooking are quite similar to thing my grandmother (born 1923) has cooked as everyday meals. Few and simple ingredients, simple procedures, great taste. Unfortunately, I didn't do my fair share of recording when she was still alive, something I keep regretting since then.
@@ThomasDawkins88 hopefully you also have the wisdom to write down as much as you could, of what she shared with you? Thus her knowledge doesn't end with you...
That comment reminded me of a scene in _By the Shores of Silver Lake,_ one of the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Their old friend Reverend Alden was traveling through with another religious man, who was a young man who would be "batching it" on his homestead claim (a bachelor fending for himself). The young man asked Caroline (aka Ma) if she could tell him some of her recipes (receipts in those days) so that he could write them down to use to make his meals. Caroline said that she didn't measure anything, but she could do her best to estimate the amounts. She likely didn't have anything written down, and verbally passed on her knowledge to her children as they grew old enough to help in the kitchen. I do cook some savory dishes from memory, but baking is more of an exact science, and I need a recipe for such things!
Mrs Crocombe makes a good point about “way of life” dishes that have no recipes set. If you have a favorite family dish from a relative, it’s very important that you get that recipe from them. It doesn’t matter if it’s an original recipe nana made in the old country, or a 1950s Kraft recipe, it’s special to you. The beauty and fun of channels like The Victorian Way, or Townsend and Sons and others, is that recreating old recipes is the only way to effectively time travel. For you, dear reader, personal family recipes are even more special. You can go back to a time when mother served you rice pudding when you were sick, leftover turkey casserole after thanksgiving, or a birthday cake you once had and never forgot. The smells and tastes can literally transport you back in time to old forgotten memories. So while we enjoy Mrs Crocombes recipes, don’t forget to immortalize your own family favorites, don’t let them be lost to time.
I can not agree with this enough. My mom use to make this soup. I can still taste it but I don't know how she made it. I remember it had a oniony tasting very light broth, she would just put potatoes, maybe carrots and little clumps of minced meat. I THINK that was it. I can't imagine that's all there is to it, but for the life of me I can't duplicate it. I just want it so bad when I have a cold. I think the onion broth would just settle so well in me. She passed away before things like recipes were important.
Thank you. My mum really loved these videos. She passed away last year at the age of 88. They are so well done! I also enjoy them and find them very comforting.
I'd love to see an episode where the servants are eating Mrs. Crocombe's food and commenting on it. After all, Mrs. Warrick and Mr. Lincoln loved furmenty. The lower servants love amber pudding. Everyone loves Mrs. Crocombe's cooking.
I'm pretty sure she just rubbed them through a coarse sieve. I can see poor Annie sitting in the corner with a bowl between her knees peeling wheat grains. 😄
A sweet version of frumenty. I have always made it with chicken broth, onions and garlic and herbs and raisins, and yes i always soak my raisins before using them.
When I think of furmenty I automatically think of Michael Henchard getting drunk on several bowls of furmenty that had had alcohol added to it and then selling his wife and baby daughter in Thomas Hardy’s book “The Mayor of Casterbridge”.
This really reminds me a lot of "coliva", which is also a grain and spice based dish that, in Romania at least, is served at funerals and memorial services at certain milestones after a person's passing, as well as All Saints' Day. This seems much heartier with so much cream and egg, and I would certainly like to try it! I often thought it was a pity coliva was reserved for the dead.
The lighter mood from a recipe being a personal favorite, and the lack of pressure since it's not going to the table but to her own table as a surprise- The acting is just so spot on, lovely recipe too. I bet it's the kind that warms you to your toes
Reminds me of a dish that Greeks and Middle Eastern Christians eat year round. Sweetened wholegrain or barley, with raisins and other dried fruits and cinnamon
I've MISSED YOU SO MUCH Mrs. Crocombe, so informative about the dishes and their histories not to mention no one can do the verbal side eye like you can with such precision.
I love these videos way too much. There is a ritual to watching them. Put on the kettle, parse the tea out, slice a couple of pieces of banana bread (or whatever tea treat you have in the cupboard), pour your boiling water over your tea, then steep. Now take your tea and treat and settle in for Mrs. Crocombe instructions. ❤❤. Heaven. TeresaSue
My grandma made the most delicious fruitcake. Sadly, when she passed we found there was no written recipe left behind. She did everything with "a pinch of this" and a "handful of that". ☹
My Mum used to make us Frumenty, she got the recipe from a 1970s Look and Learn magazine. I think it may have had flour as a thickener, it was more pudding consistency. We had it for breakfast quite often.
This is one of those recipes that, sans the spices and sugar, probably has been made for thousands of years in one way or another. A simple meal of filling boiled grains and dairy. I'm sure other cultures that've had wheat grain as a staple has something very similar.
I was just thinking about this for my Easter cooking, because my family is Italian; in Naples there is a traditional Easter dish called Pastiera, which is a pie that is essentially filled with frumenty! Of course, they call it "grano cotto" or "cooked grain", but it is whole wheat grains, cooked with milk, butter, and flavorings, mixed with ricotta cheese, milk or cream, eggs, sugar, and more flavorings, and baked in a pastry-lined dish. Minus the sugar, milk/cream, eggs, and flavorings, it is definitely just porridge or pottage, one of the simplest and oldest dishes.
I made this many long times ago. Boiled the bulgar in beer and saffron, stirred in a bit of shredded meat, raisins, sugar, and almond milk. That recipe had a unique taste. I prefer it make like oatmeal without the beer, meat and saffron.
this makes me think of how I like my sweet oatmeal or cream of wheat. But it also reminds me of tapioca pudding, but with wheat berries instead of cassava pearls.
I thought from the name that this would be some kind of horrible fermented dish, but this actually sounds quite nice, especially served warm and with sugar!
I wonder who was whistling at 5:30 . I love how the technology progresses through out the episodes as though we are visiting at different parts of the Victorian Era.
I googled "Mothering Day" just to make sure that it was, in fact, another expression for "Mother's Day." I had never heard it before this video, perhaps because we don't use the expression in the US. It has a lovely ring to it. :)
omg i have been trying to find this channel im so glad ive finally stumbled upon it i love these old ways also the narrators voice is fantastic and calming
Finally got around to making this recipe, and it was quite nice. Can absolutely see this being a comfort food back in the day. It's a bit similar to rice pudding, but the wheat grain makes it a bit chewier (and probably a bit more nutritious). Used dried black currants soaked in warm sherry, mace, and 3 parts cinnamon to 1 part allspice for the 'sweet spices.' Hard red wheat berries soaked overnight for the wheat grain.
Definitely don't lengthen the boiling time, as you're liable to blanch the wheatberries doing that (I have done this when attempting a different porridge, the result is quite tasteless). The soaking time is needed for the wheatberries to ferment: hence "Furmenty". The boiling stops the fermentation and gets rid of the alcohol produced, leaving only the sourness. A three day soak will likely give a flavor similar to sourdough bread, though your results may vary. Yeast is more active in warm environments and sluggish in cold ones, so you can use this to adjust the fermentation time. If you don't like the sourdough bread flavor, an overnight soak plus the boil would be sufficient to break down the wheat proteins so they will absorb the milk and eggs.
It depends. In Chile (I guess other places in South America) you can buy hulled wheat, raw or cooked. It's called "mote," and is used in traditional dishes and a famous drink/dessert (mote con huesillos). The raw wheat can be cooked like rice is, in boiling water; it takes about 20 min. If you start with regular wheat with hulls - things will take way longer. If you have any Chileans nearby, ask them whether there's any "mote" available in town. Good luck. ✌
Southern Italians eat something similar on the feast of Santa Lucia, December 13: boiled grain with ricotta and sweets, called cuccià. Frumentum is the Latin word for grain. (Btw, All this stuff about "shade" feels kinda creepy to me.)
We hope you enjoy this new instalment of The Victorian Way. Here are the answers to some questions you may have about the recipt...
• Is it frumenty, furmenty or furmity?
It’s all three (and others) depending on the region and the era in which you’re talking about it. This is very much a working class dish, rarely committed to paper, and therefore spelling and pronunciation changed according to oral tradition.
• Isn’t this going to be cold by the time Mrs Crocombe serves it?
Not necessarily. Our copper pans are very thick and hold the heat well, so we were able to work fast and keep it hot. If you are making it at home, you may well want to keep it on a low heat while you cook it. However, it can also be served cold, as it is essentially a type of porridge.
• Why does Mrs Crocombe says it is food for the poor and the rich and then say she’s lucky to eat rich people’s food?
We do have some frumenty recipes from the seventeenth century. Robert May’s 1660 recipe is very much a rich person’s dish, containing dried fruit, sugar, saffron and lots of spice. However, we also know that at its most basic - i.e. just wheat grain and water - it was widely eaten by the poor. By 1881 the price of spice had come down as more was being grown, as had the price of sugar, both through a reduction in tax in the 1870s and the development of the sugar beet industry, which resulted in British-grown sugar (sugar beet is a root vegetable), which was chemically identical to imported cane sugar.
• What’s this about Mothering Sunday being a day for religious pilgrimage and nothing to do with mothers?
It’s true! Mother’s Day in its modern sense was an American invention, and didn’t take off in Britain until the mid-twentieth century. For more on this, have a look at the Simnel Cake video we made last year (and read the pinned comment). th-cam.com/video/-z4bIJgfCSw/w-d-xo.html
the tittle of this video has a typo，not furmenty，but frumenty
So is this a breakfast cereal in varying degrees of fancyness?
"Nobody writes down the everyday" written down tearfully by the researcher working on this episode. We feel you
We should write down the everyday so it won't be forgotten.
I was fortunate enough to have a great aunt born in 1907 who lived until 2008, who also could remember almost her entire life with great clarity. I realized at a fairly early age that she could tell me things that I would never learn from any book and so I should listen to her as much as I could.
I think the internet is a great way to preserve such 'everyday' knowledge. I've an interest in historic cooking and more and more people show their everyday cooking or that of their parents/grandparents. For example, some of the dishes John Townsend is cooking are quite similar to thing my grandmother (born 1923) has cooked as everyday meals. Few and simple ingredients, simple procedures, great taste. Unfortunately, I didn't do my fair share of recording when she was still alive, something I keep regretting since then.
@@ThomasDawkins88 hopefully you also have the wisdom to write down as much as you could, of what she shared with you? Thus her knowledge doesn't end with you...
That comment reminded me of a scene in _By the Shores of Silver Lake,_ one of the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Their old friend Reverend Alden was traveling through with another religious man, who was a young man who would be "batching it" on his homestead claim (a bachelor fending for himself). The young man asked Caroline (aka Ma) if she could tell him some of her recipes (receipts in those days) so that he could write them down to use to make his meals. Caroline said that she didn't measure anything, but she could do her best to estimate the amounts. She likely didn't have anything written down, and verbally passed on her knowledge to her children as they grew old enough to help in the kitchen.
I do cook some savory dishes from memory, but baking is more of an exact science, and I need a recipe for such things!
When the world needed her most, she returned
Absolutely true!
Return of the Queen.
True😊😅
Mrs Crocombe makes a good point about “way of life” dishes that have no recipes set. If you have a favorite family dish from a relative, it’s very important that you get that recipe from them. It doesn’t matter if it’s an original recipe nana made in the old country, or a 1950s Kraft recipe, it’s special to you. The beauty and fun of channels like The Victorian Way, or Townsend and Sons and others, is that recreating old recipes is the only way to effectively time travel.
For you, dear reader, personal family recipes are even more special. You can go back to a time when mother served you rice pudding when you were sick, leftover turkey casserole after thanksgiving, or a birthday cake you once had and never forgot. The smells and tastes can literally transport you back in time to old forgotten memories.
So while we enjoy Mrs Crocombes recipes, don’t forget to immortalize your own family favorites, don’t let them be lost to time.
Very well stated. Yes, to remember your family dishes you should write the recipes down.
@@westzed23 Sometimes the formula seems to change with time, and then it's a double mystery of which recipe was which.
I will forever regret not getting my Dad's recipe for giblet gravy.
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I can not agree with this enough. My mom use to make this soup. I can still taste it but I don't know how she made it. I remember it had a oniony tasting very light broth, she would just put potatoes, maybe carrots and little clumps of minced meat. I THINK that was it. I can't imagine that's all there is to it, but for the life of me I can't duplicate it. I just want it so bad when I have a cold. I think the onion broth would just settle so well in me. She passed away before things like recipes were important.
Townsends: Did someone say
N U T M E G
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I just came over to this channel from Townsends.....NUTMEG!!
I just came over to this channel from Townsends.....NUTMEG!!
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I laughed way too hard at this comment! 😂
6 minutes every couple of months is not enough Mrs. Crocombe.
You're right - time to start binge watching the old episodes....again....
Thank you. My mum really loved these videos. She passed away last year at the age of 88. They are so well done! I also enjoy them and find them very comforting.
Sending love! 💗 these videos are comforting to so many 😊
So sorry for your loss 😢 I also find these very comforting ❤
May her memory be a blessing!
Sorry for your loss.
❤️🙏
The "Nobody writes down the everyday" line hit me unexpectedly hard.
Only if one allows the everyday to stay the everyday. Making it the special thing for even one person makes it worth writing down.
Its strange watching a dish that the Victorians would consider old fashioned only to realise its basically a porridge
The novelty at that time was the cucumber ice cream.
Tbf porridge is nothing new
Porridge was once called pottage, and was basically made of oats (or stale bread) and any leftover edible food.
Basically that's what the name came from. In Latin, frumentum, "grain".
I’d consider it more like rice pudding than porridge which is a breakfast food.
I'd love to see an episode where the servants are eating Mrs. Crocombe's food and commenting on it. After all, Mrs. Warrick and Mr. Lincoln loved furmenty. The lower servants love amber pudding. Everyone loves Mrs. Crocombe's cooking.
@Windjammers1 - So Mrs Crocombe says....
Absolutely love these episodes featuring Mrs. Crocombe (Kathy Hipperson). Regardless of the recipe being prepared, she's the main dish. 👍❤
That’s right Mrs C. Get Annie to do the hard laborious jobs like removing every individual husk on tiny kernels.
Delegating to junior staff.. an age
old tradition. For every age.
I'm pretty sure she just rubbed them through a coarse sieve. I can see poor Annie sitting in the corner with a bowl between her knees peeling wheat grains. 😄
😂
the queen of Victorian cuisine has returned 🤩
I adore Mrs. Crocombe! She has such a sharp wit, and that raisin shade me laugh!
It was subtle but it was there!!
She's right, though
Ideal cook for Mrs. Crocombe:
Excellent ✅
Good ❌
The emphasis on excellent 😅
A sweet version of frumenty. I have always made it with chicken broth, onions and garlic and herbs and raisins, and yes i always soak my raisins before using them.
When I think of furmenty I automatically think of Michael Henchard getting drunk on several bowls of furmenty that had had alcohol added to it and then selling his wife and baby daughter in Thomas Hardy’s book “The Mayor of Casterbridge”.
Totally!! 😊
This really reminds me a lot of "coliva", which is also a grain and spice based dish that, in Romania at least, is served at funerals and memorial services at certain milestones after a person's passing, as well as All Saints' Day. This seems much heartier with so much cream and egg, and I would certainly like to try it! I often thought it was a pity coliva was reserved for the dead.
I didn't know you have it, we have koliva in Greece
The lighter mood from a recipe being a personal favorite, and the lack of pressure since it's not going to the table but to her own table as a surprise-
The acting is just so spot on, lovely recipe too. I bet it's the kind that warms you to your toes
My mama used to make this, minus the raisins. It was a real treat. I used to love the way the wheat berries squeaked when you ate it
A lovely sweet-fruit wheat porridge? Sounds like a delightful way to fill in the last nooks and crannies of hunger after a hearty meal.
I love that spice holder and I feel I must now soak my raisins before use.
That spice holder is excellent. I wonder if it's a new acquisition for the real life kitchen?
I’d love to hear more about that spice holder. The integrated nutmeg grinder is everything.
@@dictyranger I gasped when I saw that! How ingenious!
I mean, if you want to be excellent rather than good...
She didn't really soak them long enough - you want them to be fat and juicy
My favorite Victorian Lady is back! Missed you, Mrs. Crocombe!
OUR favorite Victorian lady!
Reminds me of a dish that Greeks and Middle Eastern Christians eat year round. Sweetened wholegrain or barley, with raisins and other dried fruits and cinnamon
Also add nuts, honey and poppy seeds. No milk. For Xmas, wakes in Eastern Europe. It's called Kootya. Lovely.
I've MISSED YOU SO MUCH Mrs. Crocombe, so informative about the dishes and their histories not to mention no one can do the verbal side eye like you can with such precision.
I've found a Crocombe in my family tree from around Devon ❤it was quite a bit earlier, but it made my year
that's actually really cool, did you inherit Audley End House? (joking)
@@trashirattien2 I have Brooks but no Braybrooks yet 😁
FINALLY my "The Mayor of Casterbridge" wish come true! IYKYK!
1:45 THE SHADE IS BACK👏
It was subtle but it was there!
I’m a simple man with simple pleasures. I see any video with Mrs. Crocombe, and I watch it
What a delight to see you today Mrs. Crocombe! It's been to long.
This feels like a gentler Mrs. Crocombe. No shade given.
Really? So you're comfortable being simply a "good" cook? Because I felt like I have to somehow step it up from being simply good.
Maybe she's given major shade up for Church of England Lent 😊
@@spacewolfcub😂Bawahahaha.
I love these videos way too much. There is a ritual to watching them. Put on the kettle, parse the tea out, slice a couple of pieces of banana bread (or whatever tea treat you have in the cupboard), pour your boiling water over your tea, then steep. Now take your tea and treat and settle in for Mrs. Crocombe instructions. ❤❤. Heaven. TeresaSue
Unless you are too poor to have a fire...
Jon Townsends bemoans the lack of everyday receipt also.
Thanks for sharing one you have with us.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🌹
My grandma made the most delicious fruitcake. Sadly, when she passed we found there was no written recipe left behind. She did everything with "a pinch of this" and a "handful of that". ☹
Frumenty might only be eaten on Mothering Sunday but Mrs Crocombe is mothering and it's only Wednesday!!!
Hooray for the Victorian Way! Especially on a day where it'cloudy and rainy and damp. Time for a cuppa!
Mrs. Crocombe!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!!!!! So wonderful to see you again! You have been missed!
Welcome back Mrs Crocombe! ❤
My Mum used to make us Frumenty, she got the recipe from a 1970s Look and Learn magazine. I think it may have had flour as a thickener, it was more pudding consistency. We had it for breakfast quite often.
Glad to visit Mrs. Crocomb again! My son (3yrs) says you're cooking is adorable 😁 Thank you to everyone for producing these videos!
This is one of those recipes that, sans the spices and sugar, probably has been made for thousands of years in one way or another. A simple meal of filling boiled grains and dairy. I'm sure other cultures that've had wheat grain as a staple has something very similar.
I was just thinking about this for my Easter cooking, because my family is Italian; in Naples there is a traditional Easter dish called Pastiera, which is a pie that is essentially filled with frumenty! Of course, they call it "grano cotto" or "cooked grain", but it is whole wheat grains, cooked with milk, butter, and flavorings, mixed with ricotta cheese, milk or cream, eggs, sugar, and more flavorings, and baked in a pastry-lined dish.
Minus the sugar, milk/cream, eggs, and flavorings, it is definitely just porridge or pottage, one of the simplest and oldest dishes.
This minus the milk reminds me a lot of a dish eaten in Slavic countries on Christmas Eve (and another couple feast days) called kutia
My day was starting out bad, but then a New Victorian way popped up & my day brightened 😊
Welcome back Mrs Crocombe! We have misse you
Wake up, everyone! We got a new Victorian Way video!
I made this many long times ago. Boiled the bulgar in beer and saffron, stirred in a bit of shredded meat, raisins, sugar, and almond milk. That recipe had a unique taste. I prefer it make like oatmeal without the beer, meat and saffron.
this makes me think of how I like my sweet oatmeal or cream of wheat.
But it also reminds me of tapioca pudding, but with wheat berries instead of cassava pearls.
SHE IS BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEN WE NEEDED HER MOST!!!!!!!!!
I have never heard of furmenty before. Thank you for teaching us Mrs. Crocombe.
Mrs. Crocombe is back - life is beautiful!!
I'm gonna make myself an excellent cook, not only a good cook by soaking raisins in hot water. Thank you for the tip and secret, Mrs. Crocombe!
Also delicious soaked in orange juice or rum
Soaked in tea is nice
i love the spice container! this seems interesting
How nice of Mrs Crocombe, to make a dish suitable for her humble viewers as well 😉
I thought from the name that this would be some kind of horrible fermented dish, but this actually sounds quite nice, especially served warm and with sugar!
That presentation with the violets looks so cheerful and lovely!
"Isn't it nice to see spring has arrived at last?" IT'S STILL SNOWING HERE
It’s always a good day when Mrs. Crocombe makes an appearance 😊
Her spice container is simply wonderful! 🖤✨
Oh how I miss this!! 😌
Perfect for our 1wk holiday here!!
Up 13 minutes. Never been so early to a Mrs C video before. And lovely as always only spring hasn’t arrived for me. It’s autumn!
I wonder who was whistling at 5:30 . I love how the technology progresses through out the episodes as though we are visiting at different parts of the Victorian Era.
Perfect timing. At a home from work not feeling well this is just what the Dr. ordered
So excited! Mrs Crocombe is back along with the crocuses! Sunny springtime but Mrs Crocombe is bringing the shade!
It’s lovely to see you Mrs. Crocombe!
I will be visiting there in June. I cannot wait!!
I immediately stopped what I'm doing just for Mrs. Crocombe ❤️❤️❤️
Mrs. Crocombe makes me smile yet again. Yet another cracking video from Audley End House
Yes!!!!!!! She is back!!
yay- starting the day with Mrs C!
You know its gonna be a good day when mrs crocombe posts lets goooo
Spring is back and so is the shade.
Mrs. Crocombe is back. YYYEAAAAAAAAAAA. I have really missed you.
You know it’s a great day when our favorite Victorian chef is back
Even though she doesn’t know it, Mrs. Crocombe is my bff. If Maryann ever quits I call dibs on her job. 😊❤
Always a pleasure to discover Mrs Crocombe's recipes! Hi from France.
So happy to see Mrs. Crocombe again. We missed you!
Hello Mrs. Crombie, lovely to see you once again.
It sounds like “cream of wheat”, but looks much coarser in texture.
I wondered about the final heating as a raw egg was added at the end. I expected the final result to be a light custard throughout the grain.
every of these episodes are very therapeutic 🙂, Thank You!
I googled "Mothering Day" just to make sure that it was, in fact, another expression for "Mother's Day." I had never heard it before this video, perhaps because we don't use the expression in the US. It has a lovely ring to it. :)
It is also on a different day from north American mother's day
We call it 'Mothering Sunday' 😊
Fun facts: it actually is on a different day (in March!) from US Mother's Day (May) and also has a religious origin compared to the US holiday.
Mothering Sunday is a church based celebration in the Churh of England, it originated before the American mothers day
Yeah it’s normally Mothering Sunday but the term is still around
She’s back!!!! Woot woot!
An antique Oatmeal? That's what it reminded me of anyway...lol.
Looks comforting and delicious
All hail Mrs Crocombe! I love these videos
Yay! A new Mrs. Crocombe!
On another note, when will ever see how to make hare soup? It's been mentioned a few times, but never shown.
omg i have been trying to find this channel im so glad ive finally stumbled upon it i love these old ways also the narrators voice is fantastic and calming
I love these mini history lessons!
"Nobody writes down the everyday, do they?" I love that line. It's like something out of Sherlock Holmes.
Thank you for releasing us another interesting vid in time for Easter ! Have a great peaceful joyful one, all the people of English Heritage !
Finally got around to making this recipe, and it was quite nice. Can absolutely see this being a comfort food back in the day. It's a bit similar to rice pudding, but the wheat grain makes it a bit chewier (and probably a bit more nutritious).
Used dried black currants soaked in warm sherry, mace, and 3 parts cinnamon to 1 part allspice for the 'sweet spices.' Hard red wheat berries soaked overnight for the wheat grain.
Happy Easter, happy spring!
i didnt expect to learn the etymology of modern day hawker stall food courts today but im happy i did
Mmmmm! That looks unexpectedly tasty. Happy spring, everyone!
Yay! Mrs. Crocombe is back!
Question: is the three day soak of the wheat berries required, or can it be replaced with a longer boil?
I have always made it with cracked wheat, aka bulgur. Then you just boil it.
With that long a soak, I'd think the berries will begin to sprout, adding a malted flavor.
Definitely don't lengthen the boiling time, as you're liable to blanch the wheatberries doing that (I have done this when attempting a different porridge, the result is quite tasteless). The soaking time is needed for the wheatberries to ferment: hence "Furmenty". The boiling stops the fermentation and gets rid of the alcohol produced, leaving only the sourness. A three day soak will likely give a flavor similar to sourdough bread, though your results may vary. Yeast is more active in warm environments and sluggish in cold ones, so you can use this to adjust the fermentation time. If you don't like the sourdough bread flavor, an overnight soak plus the boil would be sufficient to break down the wheat proteins so they will absorb the milk and eggs.
It depends. In Chile (I guess other places in South America) you can buy hulled wheat, raw or cooked. It's called "mote," and is used in traditional dishes and a famous drink/dessert (mote con huesillos).
The raw wheat can be cooked like rice is, in boiling water; it takes about 20 min. If you start with regular wheat with hulls - things will take way longer.
If you have any Chileans nearby, ask them whether there's any "mote" available in town. Good luck. ✌
This dish will always make me think of The Mayor of Casterbridge
There's Mrs. C. And another lovely dish to try.
Just want to let you know I discovered this from the Novympia parody, and honestly Mrs. Crocombe is just fun to watch!
Southern Italians eat something similar on the feast of Santa Lucia, December 13: boiled grain with ricotta and sweets, called cuccià. Frumentum is the Latin word for grain. (Btw, All this stuff about "shade" feels kinda creepy to me.)
So basically I can watch her cook all day.
Mrs Crocombe is back, it's going to be a good month
Delight to see Crocombe back