The Pagan Traditions of May Day & Morris Dancing

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  • Jan Leeming show us what Morris dancers ate.
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  • @Angelus9015
    @Angelus9015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "You really have big teaspoon."
    I love that the host called out the chef for being way more generous in using the ingredients than she described.

  • @MrDremorus
    @MrDremorus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Jan Leeming is queen. So elegant and outrageously posh.
    Her 80s hairstyle is more luscious than my life

  • @MrOHjerry
    @MrOHjerry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "so we're just going to put a little drop of uhm...(glug glug glug glug)...wine on that" 15:09

    • @Abid0
      @Abid0 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol I was just about to comment that! She did it twice too!

    • @lindsayhayman902
      @lindsayhayman902 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      if thats just a drop I'd love to see her other measurements.

    • @PaperParade
      @PaperParade 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      “Just a drop of sherry”
      *continues pouring for 20 minutes*

  • @turb00o
    @turb00o 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    When ever I see these obscure festivals I have to remind my self they
    aren't showing all the people getting smashed off camera.

  • @mz.6109
    @mz.6109 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Beautiful! There are many of us that celebrate "May Day" too💜

  • @SAnn-rf3oz
    @SAnn-rf3oz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Guess the Queen isn't eating any of it.........garlic!!😂🍀

  • @danq.5140
    @danq.5140 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think I'll have a go at baking that restoration pie ☺

  • @janesmith1398
    @janesmith1398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Merry Beltane!

  • @nomegustaperonoquieredecir3514
    @nomegustaperonoquieredecir3514 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Did they really have all those spices and fruits back then?

    • @valfletcher9285
      @valfletcher9285 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why would they not? They grew in the same way they do today!

    • @spinozareader
      @spinozareader 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      (And fish sauce?....)

    • @SAnn-rf3oz
      @SAnn-rf3oz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ships.......

    • @feloniousbutterfly
      @feloniousbutterfly 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spinozareader Garum.

    • @yvonneemmert904
      @yvonneemmert904 ปีที่แล้ว

      Currants, chestnuts, English walnuts, cinnamon, sugar, salt, nutmeg, milk, butter, meat, for mince pies, and all the ingredients for plum pudding -
      Plus teas, chocolate and coffee, all imported from Africa and India . . .

  • @donnyboon2896
    @donnyboon2896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes

  • @pinkgoth6
    @pinkgoth6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:08 a 'little' drop

  • @SAnn-rf3oz
    @SAnn-rf3oz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Host likes to eat fowl....
    She doesn't want to prepare it though.....😂😂😂🍀

  • @98Zai
    @98Zai 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:40 Appearance of the handsome man in the thumbnail.

  • @YorkyOne
    @YorkyOne 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whatever the Jack-in-the-Green may look like, it has no 'pagan overtones' - its first appearance being in late 1700's London.

  • @islandblind
    @islandblind 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sing a song of sixpence
    A pocket full of rye
    Four and Twenty black birds
    Backed in a pie....

  • @Righteous1ist
    @Righteous1ist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But it's September

  • @Thunor93
    @Thunor93 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Almonds in meatballs....
    Me a italian who lives in rome: excuse me?.... O.e

  • @flickingbollocks5542
    @flickingbollocks5542 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is mainly about cooking and very little history.
    And I must have missed the pagan connection.

    • @Wotsitorlabart
      @Wotsitorlabart ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is no pagan connection.

  • @lilliansmall4093
    @lilliansmall4093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thai fish sauce? I thought they were making historically accurate dishes. This reminds me of the chef who made Pomme D’or with pork instead of apple. Pomme means apple.

    • @OcarinaSapphr-
      @OcarinaSapphr- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Making 'disguised' foods *was* historically accurate, & very common- disguising minced meat as fruit was popular, & making marzipan/ sugar look like things like bacon, or flowers was another trend...

    • @angelapiccolella1491
      @angelapiccolella1491 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thai fish sauce is the closest thing we have to roman Garum.

    • @feloniousbutterfly
      @feloniousbutterfly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, Garum is quite similar to fish sauce anyway, and making it from scratch is... not advisable.

  • @redtrummy
    @redtrummy ปีที่แล้ว

    Olive oil not lard?

  • @JSkyGemini
    @JSkyGemini 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ....And the crawly bug makes it's appearance at 4:22. Ew. I guess he didn't like the garlic.

  • @dalecouch1995
    @dalecouch1995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bogie man is from bogs. Leathery mummies were found from early times and they were the "bog men" hence "bogie man". So I thought. Green men are confused with that, I suppose. Or maybe I am confused! I do know that the idea of the Bogie Man thrives in America even yet.

    • @PaperParade
      @PaperParade 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Growing up I was never told of “the” boogie man, but rather usually heard it used as an idea. Some sort of scary trope.

  • @ivanj.conway9919
    @ivanj.conway9919 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    It seems as though the ancient Romans ate quite well. The wealthier ones anyway.
    My Best. Out.

  • @chrisrogers6950
    @chrisrogers6950 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did they have fish sauce during the Roman times? Really?

  • @gabriellakadar
    @gabriellakadar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Professional? Nail Polish, rings.............um, no. Working chefs don't wear either, sorry. Disgusting. Dirt gets under long
    nails and can't be seen. Dirt gets under rings too.
    So they made a little bit of food. Did they actually feed all the Morris dancers?

    • @JSkyGemini
      @JSkyGemini 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, they should've been wearing gloves, especially a guest ...and gotten rid of the bug that crawled out right after she'd added the garlic.

  • @richkellett2418
    @richkellett2418 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is too Hwhite, waa waa waysis 👶 waa.

  • @tonytrott6318
    @tonytrott6318 ปีที่แล้ว

    Women are not supposed to morris dance because traditionally morris dancing is a fertility rite to ensure good crops.

    • @Wotsitorlabart
      @Wotsitorlabart ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Morris dancing has absolutely nothing to do with 'fertility rites'.

    • @tonytrott6318
      @tonytrott6318 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Wotsitorlabart you know nothing about the history and tradition of morris dancing

    • @Wotsitorlabart
      @Wotsitorlabart ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​​​​@@tonytrott6318
      The earliest references to Morris dancing are from the mid 1400's and it was a dance performed for entertainment at the Royal court (eg in Henry VIII's court) and the upper echelons of society. Later town guilds and parishes sponsored teams and by the 1600's it had spread into the smaller towns and villages with local teams dancing for money.
      And there were women dancers - in the 19th century they were dancing at Spelsbury in Oxfordshire and Blackwell in Worcestershire plus at least three further instances in the South Midlands.
      Talk of Morris dancing having pagan origins or being an ancient fertility rite is fanciful nonsense.

    • @Bella-fz9fy
      @Bella-fz9fy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It relates to guise dancing,which is pagan,and it was only documented in the Royal courts,not invented;a similar dance was performed ‘the devils daunce’,and a similar dance going back to the 12th century the ‘Routs and Reyes’ dance!

    • @nigelpilgrim4232
      @nigelpilgrim4232 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Wotsitorlabart It is an English folk dance that has different origins & different types of morris dancers.. It was originally used to dance & celebrate the summer harvest to celebrate the warmth & fertility of summer & to bring autumns golden harvest . There are different types of Morris dancers all over the country !! It can go back many centuries .

  • @Mutiny960
    @Mutiny960 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Annnnnnnd her sticks burned anyway, because putting water on sticks that thin does NOTHING. This lady doesn't know a damn thing about grilling lmao.