Hi Chelsea. I think you would like the channel Early American. She cooks 18th century recipes over a fireplace in a cabin using period utensils and is dressed in clothes of the era. Very interesting. Best wishes for a great winter!
We have a wood burning stove. Never cooked in it cause truthfully we learned real quick to make modest fires in it. Our very first one after moving here we made this huge roaring fire. Within an hour my house was 98 degrees and we had to open windows. When we got snow about 16 years ago (we got 8 inches which is unheard of in south Louisiana) we lost power for 3 days. That stove saved our butts.
I really appreciate the fact that if you overcook something or make a little mistake, you embrace it and share it with us! You are so relatable to all of us. Also, your home is so beautiful.
We have a "HEARTLAND OVAL" wood cook stove with the 6 gallon water reservoir on the right side of the oven. It truly is the heart of our home in the colder months! Your "connection" to Martha is wholly understood !!!!
When I was a young girl, I used to work for an elderly lady in our community. She had me do all the cooking for her on her wood stove. I loved it. He stove was small, but it put out nice heat and good food.
I like that you feel that cooking on Martha grounds you and connects you to women of the past. I don’t have a wood stove, but I feel the same when I am milking my cow (by hand). I LOVE the companionship with my cow and feel like a true milkmaid… LOL
Another way of thickening a stew or soup is to mix flour with some butter till you get a manageable paste. Then using a whisk you form the paste into marble sized balls, adding them individually into the stew/soup and whisking til it melts. This not only thickens the stew but also adds flavour and a shine to the liquid. The French have a fancy name for it.
Chelsea, I very much enjoyed your video today. Thank you for sharing from your heart. I enjoy getting out for a walk, I live in a very picturesque small village in the Kootenays. Getting out and seeing the beauty around me really helps my mental health.
As I am up there in age,this stew recipe brings back as wonderful memories. My mom use to make her stew and chilli with ketchup. It was the best stew with carrots, celery, onions and potatos. Mom was not so lucky with her biscuits, most time came out like hockey pucks and we always ate them since they were made with love. I don't make a lot of chilli or stew since moving to warmer climate. Your videos are always awesome. Thank you. I can't wait to get your cookbook.
I don’t remember when my grandma had her wood stove but she heated her house with a wood/coal stove. I remember it being loaded up with coal and wood then they sat a tea kettle on top to heat water pr set pans of veggies or whatever to cook. Unfortunately I do remember the house before the indoor plumbing was installed in the new bathroom. Grandma was one tough cookie though. She still used the outhouse until about 5 years before she passed. Lol
Watching you and your videos gives me that feeling as well. Your canning, gardening, tending to your animals, working with the wool from your sheep, your log cabin, all your land and hills reminds me of how they would have lived back in the day. Love how you live and love your wonderful videos. I appreciate you and your videos! I also do love my leather and wool slippers like you are wearing in this video, they are warm and comfy! Thank you for sharing where you got them at Padraig Cottage.
Hi, I am a dedicated watcher of your blog. This one brought back memories of my childhood in Germany. Not only did my mother use that kind of a stove for cooking, it was our source of heat. We didn't have central heat. our stove had no thermostat and it was very tricky to bake cakes or cookies. My mom would sit in front of the stove on a little stool to keep an eye on the cookies as they were baking. A time consuming task. Thanks for the memories.
My mom always salt & peppered the meat then dredged it in flour before browning to help with thickening. Since mom did it, of course I do as well. I also add celery (1" pieces) & fresh mushrooms (at the end) & instead of water I use vegetable Better Than Bouillon. Sometimes I toss in some parsnips if I have them. Then of course I make a pan of cornbread & have even been known to make Navajo fry bread to go with it.
Oh Chelsea, you looked just like a happy little girl getting one of her favorite treats when you tasted your lemon bar. Made me smile. Thanks for that and this heartwarming homey, cozy video. Thank Martha too! :=) I agree also beef stew is definitely one of the staple foods for winter. YUM!!!!
I also have a collection of very old cookbooks that I absolutely love, some passed down from my Italian mother and others passed on to me by my German mother-in-law. My favorite part was finding handwritten notes, dried flowers, religious bookmarks and postcards amongst the pages. I felt transported back in time. As I watched your video my daughter came over and asked what I was watching, I told her you (you're lovingly referred to in our home as "the lady in BC with 40 acres") were cooking on your wood stove, she thought that was very cool.
In Ireland we all grew up with cook stoves or ranges as we call them ❤️ one of my fondest memories is whilst living with my grandparents while my mother was in hospital for a few months (my father worked full time) my grandfather would toast bread for my sister & I with tea in a china cup ☺️the toast was slightly Smokey it was the nicest toast Ud ever eat and we would be begging for more and he’d grumble light heartedly that he was going as fast as he could 😁☺️ we recently bought a 55 year old stove from my brothers in-laws and I cannot wait to install it in my kitchen soon ❤️
You my sweet friend always make me smile.My only stove growing up was an Enterprise wood cookstoveMy sweet Mom could make her sing...oh,the meals,pickles,jams...she was an amazing cook! xx
So relaxing hearing the crackling of the fire. We used to heat with just wood and I miss that sound. Your entire meal looked amazing! Your family is so blessed to have you and I’m sure your children learn so much from your skills!❤
No judgement on your jam biscuit and stew combo! A friend of mine from Nebraska recently taught me that it is a popular thing there to serve chili over cinnamon rolls. I thought that was nuts until I tried it and it was so good! Sweet, savory, a little spicy. YUM!
Thank you for sharing your mental health and little things you do to keep it healthier. Very helpful! And, if you want to wear a vintage gown, I am here for it. Love the passion!
I claim that I am solar powered and that I work best when the sun shines during any season. I am happiest outside. I grew up on a farm and I love being outside.
Brings back memories. My grandmother had a cook stove that she cooked on for years and a stove that set in their living room that used coal. I can still hear my grandfather adding coal and getting it heated up in the mornings. I think they also used coal in the cook stove. There were no special meals made for picky eaters. I can here my granny saying “put it on the back of the stove, they get hungry enough they will come back to it” 😂😂😂
It is so nice to see someone cooking on a wood stove, thank you. As a child we cooked on the English equivalent that was coal fired, and I learnt to bake and cook on it. As I got older we graduated to an electric stove, which was a real learning curve.
Eating beef stew with a jammy biscuit is intriguing. I've heard you mention that before. I'm doing a beef stew tomorrow; I'm going to have to try that; maybe my homemade apricot jam will work....
I use my heartland woodstove everyday for 27 years , i love it, fall and winter would never be the same without it . Beef stew and baking powder biscuits are one of my favorite meals to make on my stove.
I miss using a wood burning stove to cook with the ones that we had in the family home over the last 50 years had water tanks on the side for continuous boiling water they burn out after continuous use 365 days a year for 10 people most of the time and up to 30 for Easter and Christmas. The house only had electricity connected 20 years ago and town water about 15 years ago used rain water tanks so learned to save water not waste it especially in droughts. Loved doing stews and soups on the stove top.
Visit Gettysburg, PA. They do the dress up ALL the time. I was there a few weeks ago and a whole group came into this restaurant dressed beautifully in top hats/tails and hoop skirts with Abe Lincoln. What a sight.
I've had some of those jars for probably 40 years. They are my favorate! I like to use them to can my peaches. Just the right size and being they are wide mouth, very easy to use; You will enjoy using them for many things.
Thanks for demonstrating cooking and baking with your woodstove, it’s quite lovely. I don’t have a woodstove as of yet, but I would like to learn to use one in case I need to the future. I hope we see more of cooking with Martha over the winter time.
We had a wood cookstove that was in a similar place in our kitchen/dining room in the farmhouse I grew up in. My mom baked bread (learning from our next-door neighbour who had baked/cooked everything on her stove for years, and mom made many calls on the party line to Bernice when she had questions). Many a pot of soup/stew, and any other meal that could be cooked on the woodstove was, and the electric stove was only used as a backup or when baking something that needed to be more temperature specific than could be guaranteed with the woodstove, or of course during the non-heating seasons. We also boiled down maple syrup for our small batches (4-H club projects!) on that stove, after trapsing all over the property to our few select sugar maples to gather the sap. I spent many times with the oven door open and my feet propped up on a blanket on the oven door. Nothing like wood heat for the warmth and comfort. I remember we had a different woodstove, and my parents hunted all over (this was in the 80's) for a cookstove that was fully intact to replace the stove that was in place, and it was worth the hunt when they found one. When they sold the farm, the wood cookstove was one of the major selling features for the people from the city who bought it! I'm not sure what brand that old stove was, but Elmira Stove Works is not far from where we are, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was an older model of one of theirs. It's something I still miss. There is something just so warm and comfortable about wood heating & cooking. The closest we've gotten in the last several years was a pellet stove, but it wasn't something we could cook on. I comfort myself these days by having a gas stove, which is my other favourite cooking stove option, or cooking over a campfire when I have the option.
I have the same stove manufacturer in 1979. It actually has the Findlay logo as well as as Elmira… It was when they were cobranding because Elmira purchased from Findlay who were the inventors of the Oval.
Wonderful visit with you as you discussed what gives you joy; I’m grateful for your heartwarming talks, stories & fantastic cooking & baking. Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦🌻
We bought a LaNordica Milly a couple of years ago. I need to learn to cook on it more. I have baked in the oven and it's a dream! But so far I have not been able to get the stove top hot enough for cooking. There must be a trick to it! So I gravitate to posts like this one. It's been awhile since I watched you do anything but now that it's winter again here in Canada (I'm in Ontario) I'll watch you more often and see if you can teach this old dog what I need to know. :) Blessings!
Hi Chelsea I always enjoy your videos but I especially enjoyed this one. I think it’s because you shared something personal. Talking about our mental health is important. Finding joy in the little things in life is so important…..cheery paper in your tea cupboard 😊….. to help my mental health I like to go for a walk. I live in a very picturesque small village in the Kootenays in BC. Seeing Gods beauty around me makes smile 😊…..I’m going to use some of your tips for making stew. I find my meat isn’t as tender as it should be…… thank you
May I just say you would be Stunning in a 1890's vintage gown cooking on your wood stove, what a lovely thing and connection to the women of the past! Love you and your channel, thank you for sharing.
I think they call Larping “Civil War Reenactment “ in the US😅. Being so cool this month in Ohio, I made a veggie soup. So proud it was home canned hamburger, potatoes, carrots, kidney beans, tomatoes, and frozen corn we put up. Did do a can of peas from the store. It was delicious! I think the canned hamburger adds a lot of beef flavor from the broth it creates when canning. Much appreciation for your videos ❤️
Funny enough, our wood cookstove is on the same wall between our living room and our dining room. It is our main heat source for our cabin. We have been cooking on our wood cookstove for at least 14 years and I love it. If there was any appliance ranked as favourites it is my stove and my vitamix don't know what I'd do without either. Our first wood cookstove was a flame view and it was our sole heat source for our home as well I cooked all winter on it and it also heated our hot water over the winters, it was my favourite way to heat our water, especially being off-grid. I absolutely love those jars, I've been using them for years for our homemade chicken seasoning and my home made mayo, I love the size and the look of them.
Increasing the fun and joy in your everyday by doing things such as decorating the inside of cupboards, or putting on clothing that you enjoy for more than just the practicality value of them are sooo god things to do when you have the energy to do so - and for me even adds a bit of extra energy at times :)
I love wearing a prairie skirt in the summer! Remember Paige from Farmhouse Vernacular (she shut down her channel) but she did a little bit of the dress up and it was super fun!
The pint and a half is my very favorite of all canning jars. Ball has discontinued them, but Azure has gotten into jar manufacturing and has these beautiful jars and I love them. During our huge jar challenge a few years back, I also ordered Bernardin from Canada (talk about pricey!) since I live in mid central US. Love your YT channel and all that you do. 😊 Thank you, Dianne
Oh I cannot tell you just how much I enjoyed this video. Love all the extras you added to cooking video. Your voice is so calming. I listened more than I watched as I was making browned butter banana bread
Martha is a beautiful cook stove! ❤ I picked up some 750 ml mason jars at Dollarama of all places. I wouldn't trust them for canning, but have used them for storage of dry goods.
This was the perfect video to watch on a chilly, dark winter evening. Beef stew is the best comfort food and although I don't follow a recipe, I make mine in a very similar way. However, I always add beef stock and a big dollop of marmite as it gives a great savoury depth to any beef dish. I serve it with cheesy dumplings or top it with puff pastry and it is just delicious every time.
A quick note to you - I loved your explanation of using a wood cook stove. I was raised with only wood heat and my grandparents had it too. We only have a pellet stove in my home. At first I thought it would be perfect because of less mess and working getting and storing wood. However I really miss all the aspects of the wood stove. Mostly the nostalgia and being in touch with my growing up years. I’m 57 now and I guess we get that way. Thanks for sharing 😊
There is nothing like wood heat! Our families only heat was from a wood stove. Even to this day my father still uses it at 86! He has electric heat, but says it just isn't warm.He is right! So each summer & fall is spent getting wood piled up for the winter. My mom used to make soups on the stove even though it didn't have any burners. It was hot enough it would cook anything you put on it.
My mother used to cook on a wood stove. My dad had a chopping block and he would cut the wood and kindling for the stove and our fireplace in the living room. I grew up in the hills of southwest Virginia.
Hi from Australia. We don't tend to eat biscuits with our stew however I always add about a tablespoon of plum jam to my stew when cooking towards the end. It gives that sweetness.
I bought myself and my daughter a sun light off of Amazon because we have a really hard time with thus time of year as well and I have tried finding little thing to bring me joy through out my day as well to help us put as well
No stove cooks like one of these. I’d walk a mile to bake my bread in one 😄. You’re like me with the old cook books. Mine are really the only ones I use, too many times now, channels do a step by step description while cooking , - I’m quite sure most were cooking when some were still in diapers ( as my Aunt says ) She LOVES you, Jess, Meg and Jessica Drives her crazy that it has do look pretty 😂 plate it up- …. here it’s dish it up and it’s just good ole old fashion cooking to fill the belly- always served with home made bread - or fresh biscuits if the bread is a couple days old … you remind her of herself back in the day ( she’s 87 now ) and she will not watch the channels that act like it’s a cooking show (…..set in her ways…😄). Her stove didn’t have the warming oven like yours.
My family and I have always loved beef stew. But I don't use tomato products in mine. My family and I prefer ours with a brown gravy instead. But this video gives me another option to try. So thank you for that. The biscuits look really good, maybe I'll try that some time. The lemon bars look like a good dessert, but my family doesn't care to much for lemon. So maybe I'll try it using a different kind of fruit. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas with all of us . Looks good.
We have a 1947 Rayburn range stove which is a lifesaver in our cottage kitchen during the long winter months. We get a fair few power outages here and I always embrace them by lighting the stove immediately and getting the kettle on it! Love hanging out at your place Chelsea, thanks for always making us feel so welcome 😅
Love the canning jars story and folks using the internet/social media to connect and do good things. 🥰 I need to try your recipe for lemon bars -- they look tasty and perfect for tea treats. Beef stew with jammy biscuits isn't that far-fetched; Swedish meatballs served with lingonberry jam are heavenly so why not stew with some sweet/tart berry jam.
They have that size of canning jar at azure standard. I have purchased them more than once. Also, I love that you cook on a wood cook stove. I recently was gifted a wood cookstove that used to be my great grandmothers and I am going to try to fix it up and learn to cook on it.
I think Martha brings out a past life where you did cook on a woodstove! I do love when you two ( you and Martha) cook . ❤ I wonder if Dan could build you a countertop workstation between the wall and slider . Something larger than the cart?
A cook stove I think ,,slows us down,n allows food to simmer n meld together, its like a food meditation,it’s unlike any other way to cook, n from the oven, omg. Mmmmm
I’m happy to see someone appreciate the old cookbooks. Fo me, they’re too wordy and old-fashioned “proper”. Reminds me of when women were expected to stay at home, rear children, be a hostess and much, much more. Although I have nostalgia moments remembering my Granny and Aunts still Living in that era (I have no living relatives now), I am personally too independent and new age. Just give me the ingredients! Lol
Chelsea!!! You crazy girl!!! When you said you added ketchup I about died!!! lol. Then when you said butter and jam, well that did me in!!! 😂😂😂 Sounds bizarre but I’m glad you like it!!! Loving you from Ontario!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I’m in TN and I saw some of those size jars at a Amish Country store near me. I loved that they were wide mouth. I’m glad you mentioned these because I want to go get me some. I believe they were $19.00 but I will pay that for this size. Blessings from TN❤
I remember having thick slices of homemade bread toasted on the wood stove burner and hot cocoa many times as a child! Yum! Also my in laws had a big woodstove in their cabin in Ontario for many years. By the way I just cut my biscuits in squares with my pizza cutter. Yours looked scrumptious!
Stew, catsup, jam...not any more crazy than peanut butter and honey on rolls with chili. Or bread with mayo and El Pato hot sauce with a coke after school! Or a granddaughter that drowns a filet minon with ketchup! It's only weird if you don't like it!😉 Blessings Jan
Chelsey - I Love All of Your Videos & look forward to them. This one was extra special Thank You🥰 I name my vehicles😁 but if I had a wood cookstove I’d so name it also❤
I have a couple dozen Ball pint and a half that I've had for years, I use them for dilly beans and pickled carrot sticks. My favorite is biscuits with butter and creamed honey...yum!
I love my 750 ml Bernardin canning jars! I actually bought mine at our local coop. But the came in packs of 9 jars. Not 12. I have found many uses for that size of jar. You will love them! Great video Chelsea 💛
oh, they come in dozens???? I wish we had that. We have the 9 pack boxes which hubby keeps mixing up with quart jars while I'm trying to be a purist and put only the 750 ml jars in them...
Hi Chelsea. I think you would like the channel Early American. She cooks 18th century recipes over a fireplace in a cabin using period utensils and is dressed in clothes of the era. Very interesting. Best wishes for a great winter!
Early American also have a second channel where they taste the food she makes. Love both channels.
We have a wood burning stove. Never cooked in it cause truthfully we learned real quick to make modest fires in it. Our very first one after moving here we made this huge roaring fire. Within an hour my house was 98 degrees and we had to open windows. When we got snow about 16 years ago (we got 8 inches which is unheard of in south Louisiana) we lost power for 3 days. That stove saved our butts.
I really appreciate the fact that if you overcook something or make a little mistake, you embrace it and share it with us! You are so relatable to all of us. Also, your home is so beautiful.
We have a "HEARTLAND OVAL" wood cook stove with the 6 gallon water reservoir on the right side of the oven. It truly is the heart of our home in the colder months! Your "connection" to Martha is wholly understood !!!!
When I was a young girl, I used to work for an elderly lady in our community. She had me do all the cooking for her on her wood stove. I loved it. He stove was small, but it put out nice heat and good food.
My sister always used wet measuring cups. EVERYTHING she made was delicious. Oh, everyone takes Martha Stewart too seriously. I like your Martha!
I like that you feel that cooking on Martha grounds you and connects you to women of the past. I don’t have a wood stove, but I feel the same when I am milking my cow (by hand). I LOVE the companionship with my cow and feel like a true milkmaid… LOL
Another way of thickening a stew or soup is to mix flour with some butter till you get a manageable paste. Then using a whisk you form the paste into marble sized balls, adding them individually into the stew/soup and whisking til it melts. This not only thickens the stew but also adds flavour and a shine to the liquid. The French have a fancy name for it.
It’s a beurre manié!
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Chelsea, I very much enjoyed your video today. Thank you for sharing from your heart. I enjoy getting out for a walk, I live in a very picturesque small village in the Kootenays. Getting out and seeing the beauty around me really helps my mental health.
As I am up there in age,this stew recipe brings back as wonderful memories. My mom use to make her stew and chilli with ketchup. It was the best stew with carrots, celery, onions and potatos. Mom was not so lucky with her biscuits, most time came out like hockey pucks and we always ate them since they were made with love. I don't make a lot of chilli or stew since moving to warmer climate. Your videos are always awesome. Thank you. I can't wait to get your cookbook.
I don’t remember when my grandma had her wood stove but she heated her house with a wood/coal stove. I remember it being loaded up with coal and wood then they sat a tea kettle on top to heat water pr set pans of veggies or whatever to cook. Unfortunately I do remember the house before the indoor plumbing was installed in the new bathroom. Grandma was one tough cookie though. She still used the outhouse until about 5 years before she passed. Lol
Watching you and your videos gives me that feeling as well. Your canning, gardening, tending to your animals, working with the wool from your sheep, your log cabin, all your land and hills reminds me of how they would have lived back in the day. Love how you live and love your wonderful videos. I appreciate you and your videos! I also do love my leather and wool slippers like you are wearing in this video, they are warm and comfy! Thank you for sharing where you got them at Padraig Cottage.
Hi, I am a dedicated watcher of your blog. This one brought back memories of my childhood in Germany. Not only did my mother use that kind of a stove for cooking, it was our source of heat. We didn't have central heat. our stove had no thermostat and it was very tricky to bake cakes or cookies. My mom would sit in front of the stove on a little stool to keep an eye on the cookies as they were baking. A time consuming task. Thanks for the memories.
My mom always salt & peppered the meat then dredged it in flour before browning to help with thickening. Since mom did it, of course I do as well. I also add celery (1" pieces) & fresh mushrooms (at the end) & instead of water I use vegetable Better Than Bouillon. Sometimes I toss in some parsnips if I have them. Then of course I make a pan of cornbread & have even been known to make Navajo fry bread to go with it.
Oh Chelsea, you looked just like a happy little girl getting one of her favorite treats when you tasted your lemon bar. Made me smile. Thanks for that and this heartwarming homey, cozy video. Thank Martha too! :=) I agree also beef stew is definitely one of the staple foods for winter. YUM!!!!
I also have a collection of very old cookbooks that I absolutely love, some passed down from my Italian mother and others passed on to me by my German mother-in-law. My favorite part was finding handwritten notes, dried flowers, religious bookmarks and postcards amongst the pages. I felt transported back in time. As I watched your video my daughter came over and asked what I was watching, I told her you (you're lovingly referred to in our home as "the lady in BC with 40 acres") were cooking on your wood stove, she thought that was very cool.
In Ireland we all grew up with cook stoves or ranges as we call them ❤️ one of my fondest memories is whilst living with my grandparents while my mother was in hospital for a few months (my father worked full time) my grandfather would toast bread for my sister & I with tea in a china cup ☺️the toast was slightly Smokey it was the nicest toast Ud ever eat and we would be begging for more and he’d grumble light heartedly that he was going as fast as he could 😁☺️ we recently bought a 55 year old stove from my brothers in-laws and I cannot wait to install it in my kitchen soon ❤️
You my sweet friend always make me smile.My only stove growing up was an Enterprise wood cookstoveMy sweet Mom could make her sing...oh,the meals,pickles,jams...she was an amazing cook! xx
I used to use a wood cook stove in the early 1980's. I just haven't found a place to put it in my other homes. We still have it in storage.
So relaxing hearing the crackling of the fire. We used to heat with just wood and I miss that sound. Your entire meal looked amazing! Your family is so blessed to have you and I’m sure your children learn so much from your skills!❤
Yay, a real vintage meal on a real vintage wood cookstove! Thank you :)
Those canning jars are also perfect for pickle spears, pickled beans, pickled asparagus..my favorite jar! 😊
Love Martha, she’s a beauty! You never cease to amaze me with your skills. 😮
No judgement on your jam biscuit and stew combo! A friend of mine from Nebraska recently taught me that it is a popular thing there to serve chili over cinnamon rolls. I thought that was nuts until I tried it and it was so good! Sweet, savory, a little spicy. YUM!
Thank you for sharing your mental health and little things you do to keep it healthier. Very helpful! And, if you want to wear a vintage gown, I am here for it. Love the passion!
I'm so excited for this. I have been looking for wood stove videos. Teach me please and thank you. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I claim that I am solar powered and that I work best when the sun shines during any season. I am happiest outside. I grew up on a farm and I love being outside.
I bet that stove makes for many comforting warm and tasty winter days. Thanks for sharing your day with us, Chelsea.
Brings back memories. My grandmother had a cook stove that she cooked on for years and a stove that set in their living room that used coal. I can still hear my grandfather adding coal and getting it heated up in the mornings. I think they also used coal in the cook stove. There were no special meals made for picky eaters. I can here my granny saying “put it on the back of the stove, they get hungry enough they will come back to it” 😂😂😂
It is so nice to see someone cooking on a wood stove, thank you. As a child we cooked on the English equivalent that was coal fired, and I learnt to bake and cook on it. As I got older we graduated to an electric stove, which was a real learning curve.
Eating beef stew with a jammy biscuit is intriguing. I've heard you mention that before. I'm doing a beef stew tomorrow; I'm going to have to try that; maybe my homemade apricot jam will work....
I use my heartland woodstove everyday for 27 years
, i love it, fall and winter would never be the same without it . Beef stew and baking powder biscuits are one of my favorite meals to make on my stove.
My husband LARPed in CT for 20+ yrs, it’s definitely in USA, probably Canada too
Those jars are fantastic for pickled asparagus. Love standing them up perfect in the jar. Dinner looked great.
I miss using a wood burning stove to cook with the ones that we had in the family home over the last 50 years had water tanks on the side for continuous boiling water they burn out after continuous use 365 days a year for 10 people most of the time and up to 30 for Easter and Christmas. The house only had electricity connected 20 years ago and town water about 15 years ago used rain water tanks so learned to save water not waste it especially in droughts. Loved doing stews and soups on the stove top.
Visit Gettysburg, PA. They do the dress up ALL the time. I was there a few weeks ago and a whole group came into this restaurant dressed beautifully in top hats/tails and hoop skirts with Abe Lincoln. What a sight.
Same in Williamsburg, Virginia
I've had some of those jars for probably 40 years. They are my favorate! I like to use them to can my peaches. Just the right size and being they are wide mouth, very easy to use; You will enjoy using them for many things.
Talking about joy - you and your videos bring me so much joy ❤
Thanks for demonstrating cooking and baking with your woodstove, it’s quite lovely. I don’t have a woodstove as of yet, but I would like to learn to use one in case I need to the future. I hope we see more of cooking with Martha over the winter time.
We had a wood cookstove that was in a similar place in our kitchen/dining room in the farmhouse I grew up in. My mom baked bread (learning from our next-door neighbour who had baked/cooked everything on her stove for years, and mom made many calls on the party line to Bernice when she had questions). Many a pot of soup/stew, and any other meal that could be cooked on the woodstove was, and the electric stove was only used as a backup or when baking something that needed to be more temperature specific than could be guaranteed with the woodstove, or of course during the non-heating seasons. We also boiled down maple syrup for our small batches (4-H club projects!) on that stove, after trapsing all over the property to our few select sugar maples to gather the sap.
I spent many times with the oven door open and my feet propped up on a blanket on the oven door. Nothing like wood heat for the warmth and comfort. I remember we had a different woodstove, and my parents hunted all over (this was in the 80's) for a cookstove that was fully intact to replace the stove that was in place, and it was worth the hunt when they found one.
When they sold the farm, the wood cookstove was one of the major selling features for the people from the city who bought it! I'm not sure what brand that old stove was, but Elmira Stove Works is not far from where we are, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was an older model of one of theirs.
It's something I still miss. There is something just so warm and comfortable about wood heating & cooking. The closest we've gotten in the last several years was a pellet stove, but it wasn't something we could cook on. I comfort myself these days by having a gas stove, which is my other favourite cooking stove option, or cooking over a campfire when I have the option.
Always love seeing Martha in action. Thanks for sharing
I always flour my meat, before browning it. It helps thicken the stew.
That’s what I do too. My mother taught me that.
LARP = live action role play. Many folks do it for varies hobbies, primarily gaming, but also period/vintage activities and ren fairs. :)
Loved your little personal talk. I feel the same way - mostly I live in the future and I am always planning on changing that, but it's so hard! 😅😂
I have the same stove manufacturer in 1979. It actually has the Findlay logo as well as as Elmira… It was when they were cobranding because Elmira purchased from Findlay who were the inventors of the Oval.
Our hot water was heated behind the cook stove . It was very precious indeed
Wonderful visit with you as you discussed what gives you joy; I’m grateful for your heartwarming talks, stories & fantastic cooking & baking. Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦🌻
Your family is so blessed to have you and all that you do❤
We bought a LaNordica Milly a couple of years ago. I need to learn to cook on it more. I have baked in the oven and it's a dream! But so far I have not been able to get the stove top hot enough for cooking. There must be a trick to it! So I gravitate to posts like this one. It's been awhile since I watched you do anything but now that it's winter again here in Canada (I'm in Ontario) I'll watch you more often and see if you can teach this old dog what I need to know. :) Blessings!
Maybe start your LARP experience by wearing a vintage apron. Like the kind that would cover a gown. Kind of put you into the mindset of that time.😊
Hi Chelsea I always enjoy your videos but I especially enjoyed this one. I think it’s because you shared something personal. Talking about our mental health is important. Finding joy in the little things in life is so important…..cheery paper in your tea cupboard 😊….. to help my mental health I like to go for a walk. I live in a very picturesque small village in the Kootenays in BC. Seeing Gods beauty around me makes smile 😊…..I’m going to use some of your tips for making stew. I find my meat isn’t as tender as it should be…… thank you
I love old cook books 📚 also. I love the way your kitchen is set up also. I would love to have a old fashioned stove also.
I so enjoy your smile and joy with the simple things! Thanks for being you!
Thank you for sharing this awesome video. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us.
Larping is short for Live Action Roll Play. I have done it a time or two. It’s a lot of fun.
24 oz or 1 1/2 pint jars. They are great. I have a ton but we also use them as drink cups.
May I just say you would be Stunning in a 1890's vintage gown cooking on your wood stove, what a lovely thing and connection to the women of the past! Love you and your channel, thank you for sharing.
Your videos are my burst of joy. 😅
I think they call Larping “Civil War Reenactment “ in the US😅. Being so cool this month in Ohio, I made a veggie soup. So proud it was home canned hamburger, potatoes, carrots, kidney beans, tomatoes, and frozen corn we put up. Did do a can of peas from the store. It was delicious! I think the canned hamburger adds a lot of beef flavor from the broth it creates when canning. Much appreciation for your videos ❤️
Reinactment is different than Larping. It stands some live action roll play.
Funny enough, our wood cookstove is on the same wall between our living room and our dining room. It is our main heat source for our cabin. We have been cooking on our wood cookstove for at least 14 years and I love it. If there was any appliance ranked as favourites it is my stove and my vitamix don't know what I'd do without either. Our first wood cookstove was a flame view and it was our sole heat source for our home as well I cooked all winter on it and it also heated our hot water over the winters, it was my favourite way to heat our water, especially being off-grid. I absolutely love those jars, I've been using them for years for our homemade chicken seasoning and my home made mayo, I love the size and the look of them.
Increasing the fun and joy in your everyday by doing things such as decorating the inside of cupboards, or putting on clothing that you enjoy for more than just the practicality value of them are sooo god things to do when you have the energy to do so - and for me even adds a bit of extra energy at times :)
You are so lucky ! I wish my old wood cook stove would be installed.
I love wearing a prairie skirt in the summer! Remember Paige from Farmhouse Vernacular (she shut down her channel) but she did a little bit of the dress up and it was super fun!
The pint and a half is my very favorite of all canning jars. Ball has discontinued them, but Azure has gotten into jar manufacturing and has these beautiful jars and I love them. During our huge jar challenge a few years back, I also ordered Bernardin from Canada (talk about pricey!) since I live in mid central US. Love your YT channel and all that you do. 😊 Thank you, Dianne
I grew up in a remote town in Northern Ontario and my Grandmother did all of her cooking and baking on/in a wood stove. The best food ever!
Love your wood cookstove. Beautiful Martha. All the food looks wonderful!
Oh I cannot tell you just how much I enjoyed this video. Love all the extras you added to cooking video. Your voice is so calming. I listened more than I watched as I was making browned butter banana bread
Martha is a beautiful cook stove! ❤ I picked up some 750 ml mason jars at Dollarama of all places. I wouldn't trust them for canning, but have used them for storage of dry goods.
This was the perfect video to watch on a chilly, dark winter evening. Beef stew is the best comfort food and although I don't follow a recipe, I make mine in a very similar way. However, I always add beef stock and a big dollop of marmite as it gives a great savoury depth to any beef dish. I serve it with cheesy dumplings or top it with puff pastry and it is just delicious every time.
Martha is beautiful! It's wonderful to see you are feeling better, too. Thanks for the great recipe. Love from Arkansas to you and yours!
A quick note to you - I loved your explanation of using a wood cook stove. I was raised with only wood heat and my grandparents had it too. We only have a pellet stove in my home. At first I thought it would be perfect because of less mess and working getting and storing wood. However I really miss all the aspects of the wood stove. Mostly the nostalgia and being in touch with my growing up years. I’m 57 now and I guess we get that way. Thanks for sharing 😊
There is nothing like wood heat! Our families only heat was from a wood stove. Even to this day my father still uses it at 86! He has electric heat, but says it just isn't warm.He is right! So each summer & fall is spent getting wood piled up for the winter. My mom used to make soups on the stove even though it didn't have any burners. It was hot enough it would cook anything you put on it.
My mother used to cook on a wood stove. My dad had a chopping block and he would cut the wood and kindling for the stove and our fireplace in the living room. I grew up in the hills of southwest Virginia.
I just love Martha! Thanks for keeping it real. ❤
Hi from Australia. We don't tend to eat biscuits with our stew however I always add about a tablespoon of plum jam to my stew when cooking towards the end. It gives that sweetness.
Wow! What a feast! Beef stew and cheese biscuits with jam ! ! ! Sounds absolutely heavenly!
I bought myself and my daughter a sun light off of Amazon because we have a really hard time with thus time of year as well and I have tried finding little thing to bring me joy through out my day as well to help us put as well
No stove cooks like one of these. I’d walk a mile to bake my bread in one 😄.
You’re like me with the old cook books. Mine are really the only ones I use, too many times now, channels do a step by step description while cooking , - I’m quite sure most were cooking when some were still in diapers ( as my Aunt says ) She LOVES you, Jess, Meg and Jessica
Drives her crazy that it has do look pretty 😂 plate it up- …. here it’s dish it up and it’s just good ole old fashion cooking to fill the belly- always served with home made bread - or fresh biscuits if the bread is a couple days old … you remind her of herself back in the day ( she’s 87 now ) and she will not watch the channels that act like it’s a cooking show (…..set in her ways…😄). Her stove didn’t have the warming oven like yours.
My family and I have always loved beef stew. But I don't use tomato products in mine. My family and I prefer ours with a brown gravy instead. But this video gives me another option to try. So thank you for that. The biscuits look really good, maybe I'll try that some time. The lemon bars look like a good dessert, but my family doesn't care to much for lemon. So maybe I'll try it using a different kind of fruit. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas with all of us . Looks good.
You made me smile when you were blushing about strange flavors but I love sour cream on pancakes so you enjoy your biscuits jam and stew!!😊
We have a 1947 Rayburn range stove which is a lifesaver in our cottage kitchen during the long winter months. We get a fair few power outages here and I always embrace them by lighting the stove immediately and getting the kettle on it! Love hanging out at your place Chelsea, thanks for always making us feel so welcome 😅
I also cook beef stew every couple of weeks. Help use the garden veggies:)
Love the canning jars story and folks using the internet/social media to connect and do good things. 🥰 I need to try your recipe for lemon bars -- they look tasty and perfect for tea treats. Beef stew with jammy biscuits isn't that far-fetched; Swedish meatballs served with lingonberry jam are heavenly so why not stew with some sweet/tart berry jam.
I bought a box of them too. I use for storing extra pasta and things
Chelsea, I would love to dress up in by gone era cloths! It isj fascinating to me! So go for it! Love that Martha wood stove! Blessings!
Southern ontario here. And my brothers family LARP 😂. It's totally a thing here
They have that size of canning jar at azure standard. I have purchased them more than once.
Also, I love that you cook on a wood cook stove. I recently was gifted a wood cookstove that used to be my great grandmothers and I am going to try to fix it up and learn to cook on it.
I think Martha brings out a past life where you did cook on a woodstove!
I do love when you two ( you and Martha) cook . ❤
I wonder if Dan could build you a countertop workstation between the wall and slider . Something larger than the cart?
Absolutely love old cookbooks! So happy to hear someone else is interested in them! Great meal!
A cook stove I think ,,slows us down,n allows food to simmer n meld together, its like a food meditation,it’s unlike any other way to cook, n from the oven, omg. Mmmmm
I’m happy to see someone appreciate the old cookbooks. Fo me, they’re too wordy and old-fashioned “proper”. Reminds me of when women were expected to stay at home, rear children, be a hostess and much, much more. Although I have nostalgia moments remembering my Granny and Aunts still
Living in that era (I have no living relatives now), I am personally too independent and new age. Just give me the ingredients! Lol
Chelsea!!! You crazy girl!!! When you said you added ketchup I about died!!! lol. Then when you said butter and jam, well that did me in!!! 😂😂😂 Sounds bizarre but I’m glad you like it!!! Loving you from Ontario!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I’m in TN and I saw some of those size jars at a Amish Country store near me. I loved that they were wide mouth. I’m glad you mentioned these because I want to go get me some. I believe they were $19.00 but I will pay that for this size.
Blessings from TN❤
My grandmother cooked on a stove just like that in an old farmhouse in Pennsylvania. Great memories and I thank you for sharing.
I remember having thick slices of homemade bread toasted on the wood stove burner and hot cocoa many times as a child! Yum! Also my in laws had a big woodstove in their cabin in Ontario for many years. By the way I just cut my biscuits in squares with my pizza cutter. Yours looked scrumptious!
Stew, catsup, jam...not any more crazy than peanut butter and honey on rolls with chili. Or bread with mayo and El Pato hot sauce with a coke after school! Or a granddaughter that drowns a filet minon with ketchup! It's only weird if you don't like it!😉
Blessings
Jan
Chelsey - I Love All of Your Videos & look forward to them. This one was extra special Thank You🥰 I name my vehicles😁 but if I had a wood cookstove I’d so name it also❤
I have a couple dozen Ball pint and a half that I've had for years, I use them for dilly beans and pickled carrot sticks. My favorite is biscuits with butter and creamed honey...yum!
I love my 750 ml Bernardin canning jars! I actually bought mine at our local coop. But the came in packs of 9 jars. Not 12. I have found many uses for that size of jar. You will love them! Great video Chelsea 💛
oh, they come in dozens???? I wish we had that. We have the 9 pack boxes which hubby keeps mixing up with quart jars while I'm trying to be a purist and put only the 750 ml jars in them...
Beef stew sounds amazing! Kitty in the background is adorable you always seem to have a photo bomber.
My mother in law cooked on one just like that! And put wood into it take the chill off.
In Australia we pay $29 for 6 pack of canning jars. Love your videos, thanks for the education you share.