How To Make A Feast From The Elizabethan Era | Time Crashers | Absolute History
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- TV presenters Fern Britton and Louise Minchin, weight-lifter Zoe Smith, former rock chick Meg Matthews, actors Kirstie Alley, Keith Allen and Charlie Condou, comedian Chris Ramsey, ex-footballer Jermaine Jenas and long jumper Greg Rutherford sign up to be transported back to six periods of history, starting with the Elizabethan era where they are servants at a great hall preparing a banquet for the lord and his guests. Here they discover just how menial a menials life was.
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I came across Absolute History one day out of sheer curiosity, now I can't stop watching
This YT Channel can be addicting, and send you down a rabbit hole looking for missing episodes and more programs. Victorian farm, and others can be found via Roku, amazon prime & netflix.
@@glindathegood4007 It's on Netflix and Amazon Prime!? Thank you so much for telling me. You're a wonderful person, time to binge **EVERYTHING**
Haha same !!! I’m absolutely hooked and I learned lots. I can’t get enough 👍
Same and after I finish this I'm definitely going to look on Netflix
The best way is to type in "time crashers' or victorian farm, coal house into the YT search. Then go to the pay streaming sources like ROKU, Amazon Prime, with netflix last.
The way the people in the background as servants do their work as people who lived at the time impresses me on how they did it for real. They are, in my opinion, real professional actors!
Pahahahaha
I would want to be one of those people
@@Izzy_xx06 Me too! They only need to be there for filming and don't need to sleep on the floor. lol
*grabs popcorn* I was seriously just wondering what an Elizabethan feast would have looked like for a project I'm doing. Thanks for the upload!
Weow
That is amazing timing
It was really nice to come across this with Kirstie Alley , since she recently passed. 😞 rest in power
Who else has watched so many of these Time-Travel documentaries that they not only already knew it was pee in the wash bucket, but also knew why they used it?
I feel like somewhere there is an army of Absolute History fans ready to inherit the post-apocalyptic earth should our technology ever fail us. We'll just be like, "don't worry. I saw this on TH-cam."
You beat me to it. Couldn't agree more. I always tell anyone willing to listen, that when the sh*t hits the fan, they will want me by their side. "Yeah right' immediatly appears on their faces. They probably cannot imagine me as a post- apocalyptic MacGyver with an encyclopedia sized knowledge of life hacks from hundreds of years ago. Well they must just wait and see. My moment of glory, if not imminent, is at least a certainty at some future time.
@@stephanterblanche4597 I constantly joke that I'd have probably made a great prepper if I actually thought things would ever go *that* sideways. I just really enjoy doing things myself, preserving old knowledge and techniques, and being moderately self-sufficient. There's something both gratifying and wholesome about knowing you made, grew or otherwise provided for yourself, and being able to do something "the old fashioned way" means you can bypass a lot of our reliance on pre-made items.
I can hand-spin, and have both the knowledge and tools to go from a raw plant or an animal fiber to a garment. I have a massive organic garden, and once I buy property I'll start raising livestock again. I know how to make a surprising number of medicinal items. I do woodworking, and I work in construction so I know how to build a safe & sturdy structure. I understand how to process a lot of useful compounds. All for the love of learning and diy.
Still, my friends joke back with me that if the world does ever go to heck in a handbasket, they're coming to my house.
oh my goodness yes! But at least we know about toothbrushes and such now. We would definitely survive
Here we are. Have you found Ruth yet?
@@thebovineavenger If you mean Ruth from the Farm series, she is one of my heroes.
I love when that cockentrice makes an appearance. Tasting History with Max Miller did a great video (and made one) about that weird culinary abomination. I also like the fact that these nobles absolutely rotted out their teeth, and I find that to be a bit of poetic justice.
I laughed a full 60 seconds when I first saw the body with the goose legs. Lol I’m laughing again now, just thinking about it.
I just realised the lady of the manor is eve goodman, daughter of ruth from the tudor etc farm series.
I noticed it when they were washing her feet. The camera closed in on her face and my mind screamed, "OMG IS THAT EVE??? WHERE'S RUTH?" 😆
@@not.applicable. thank god ruth isn’t in this! She’d start laughing at nothing, talking over everyone and being overzealous and annoying. Good god I could go on. 🤢
@@not.applicable. lol same here, saw her instantly when they were washing her
Thank you for pointing this out! 💜
OH I missed that! I'll have to watch it yet again! I love this series, and I wish there'd been more of them.
Let me get this straight. These people spent 10k on a feast but they only have one needle in the entire manor capable of crafting the centerpiece dish for this bloated meal?
That was the most shocking part, to be honest. If Tudors had suddenly gotten an ikea, it would have been mayhem
Also they didn't feed the kitchen staff any meat because its too expensive to waste it on them even tho they hold these eleborate feast angers me
@@carolinpurayidom4570 It would be much too difficult for me not to pocket a scrap of meat for myself if I ever made something that wasn't supposed to look untouched essentially. Yes, I'm aware it's a fireable offense. I think I'm with Kirsty on the when in doubt, tits out, mantra, though.
@@TheShauNanigans Actually, I think you could be executed for that. Lol
“Put down that apple!”
*yeets it into the stratosphere over shoulder*
This is the most fantastic series I've seen in ages. Well done. I laughed, got angry, horrified and was totally in awe of the celebs. They were just amazing. My absolute favourite part was definitely the Edwardian jelly. I could just see myself in that situation. The whole series really makes me grateful for my lot. At least to have a presence and a voice. Thank you so much. Would love to see another series in different eras.
Omg I love Kirstie! Watched her growing up!!! She was always such an amazing actor!
I know! I thought I recognized her and was like of course not and then she started speaking and I was so confused as to why!
I'd forgotten about this show. It's an upload from 2015 but it's still awesome.
Was uploaded 5 hours ago? You might have meant the show was filmed in 2015?
@@DenethordeSade.90 filmed 2015
LOL when she tossed the apple away!!
Not to be dramatic, but I would die for Fern. She seems so kind!
There definitely were bed warmer pans in the 16th century, and even before them people would just put a brick or a stone heated in the fire to warm the beds. Nobody would put their servant in a bed to warm it.
There were a lot of moments like that. Plenty of accuracies, and then weird little inaccuracies that only seemed thrown in for shock value.
@@Arianrhod9 poitot
Yeah expecially since they wouldve been dirty
“I think we should get the horses and leave” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is a really cool social experiment!! Life has sure changed from way back then! 👩🏻🍳🙂
After watching all of the Ruth Goodman series I just realized the “Lady in the house” is her daughter Eve!!! This series was great but I love the Farm series I literally watch them every night to sleep. Weird I know but it works
Try Time Team with Tony Robinson.
I thought it was Ruth’s daughter too! So excited 😊
I swear, this channel keeps getting better and better!!! Seeing Kirstie Alley in this documentary reminds me of her in the movie "For Richer or Poorer".
My daughter found out that we had a relative that was choir/music teacher for Elizabeth I. This is very cool to watch!!
As a nurse who’s working during the Covid pandemic 70 to 90 hours a week… I can relate to this. When people think 40 hours a week is “working hard“ I resist the urge to laugh😂
As you should because 40 hours a week is much of a persons waking hours to do Everything else. Working over that for a period during a world wide crisis is commendable, but still part of what you signed up for so there really isn't any reason to try and get more attention or sympathy. You've all gotten extra treatment and benefits besides the overtime. We all went through it.
As a trucker, now retired, we referred to the 40 hour work week as a part time job.
I'm really enjoying this series and loving Kirstie Alley.
I love watching Tony Robinson present, but I can't help but think of his role as Baldrick every episode I watch. XD
20 years of Time Team, countless historical documentaries, truly a lifetime of service to the education of the country and all everyone can think of is Baldrick.
@@gasfiltered to be fair, I also think of Baldrick every time one of my elected official speaks, at least Tony Robinson was acting a part...
Lol ...I have a cunning plan my lord
Well, I can relate with eating the leftovers. I worked in Hotels and restaurants before, and leftovers untouched by the guests from banquets goes to us.
Yesss!!! Love this. Upload all the Time Crashers episodes!!! Pretty please. 🙏🥺☺️
I'll second that!
Oh YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had the honor of visiting Haddon Hall in 2019. Simply breathtaking!
I absolutely love this channel and those British documentaries they upload, especially this kind of documentaries. Be it this, be it Victorian Pharmacy, Victorian, Edwardian farm. Or be it this series which seem to be interesting as well. There is something in British documentaries that makes them interesting even for foreigners. Maybe it is because they are able to recreate places and times in such believable way that they almost seem like the footage was shot in that given period.
“Elizabethan feasts were all about showing off” no different than Edwardian feasts then
This channel is one of my favorites on youtube. Loving the series!
The architecture of Haddon Hall is truly incredible! Love this series.
OMG, this is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!! I can’t stop watching it! I’ve been rolling on the floor laughing!! More episodes please!!
I keep inserting Black Adder references whenever Sir Tony Robinson speaks.
I’ve watched these all in the wrong order and I’ve grown to expect Zoe to wimp out of every challenge! She didn’t even make it 5 minutes on this show! Who ever cast her should be fired! Love everyone else!💕❤️
She doesn't participate fully and her entitled attitude ruins pieces of the show. Someone with humility and open to experiencing different things in life would have made it so much better.
please upload more episodes of this! I really enjoyed it!
love these historical dramas but can't help scoffing at the fact that all the actors see this as a kind of radical alternate universe from today, when really it is more like they are getting a quick peek into class consciousness
I also love this series, but completely agree. Especially the socialite (can't recall her name) who has a personal chef and dogwalker! Class division really isn't so different today-- it's just masked more effectively.
I feel like there are folks that are perceived to be upper class who work tremendously hard...it's not just the "lower classes." In my country, medical professionals, for example, would often times not be considered to be "lower class." No one would deny how hard they work, though...That being said, I'm a blue collar worker myself. I can totally relate to the servant's experience, even as a middle class mechanic in America.
@@z_ed Definitely agree. thats the difference i suppose between the "old money" and "new money," those that merely inherit wealth and those that work hard to make it.
@@xXMeepzXx I'm trying to figure out how this person could even be considered famous. Even Paris Hilton started creating her own companies, acted, and recorded an album many moons ago to where if she did a show like this, she would be called more than just a socialite. This woman seems to be old enough to where she could have done something with her life by now other than simply being called "socialite". At least everyone else was famous for actually doing something.
I can't believe I haven't seen this until now!! I usually love this kind of thing
I love seeing Ruth's daughter in so many of these shows, she's good on camera
BRING BACK TIME CRASHERS!!!!
I love how one table just had a pile of pies and the other had every type of meat known to man… Love that for the guests. And they just sat in silence as this catastrophe unfolded. 😂
This is so cool! I'd kill to be able to do this 😂 this seems terrible but in the best ways 😂
I don't know if Zoe formally thanked Fern for taking on the boar's head all by herself or not, maybe that clip didn't make it to the video. But if she wasn't going to help, she could at least just sit there and not look, as opposed to continuously glancing over and whimpering as if she were the one doing the skinning.
I've skinned a few animals (part of my biology degree), and eventually found it very fascinating and rewarding once I'd succeeded, just like Fern felt at the end. But yes it's pretty intense at first, before you get the hang of it. For me the stomach-to-throat nausea wasn't even the worst part (though it was there for sure); it was the full-body tension of forcing myself to do continue doing something carefully and methodically, when I wanted to just rush through to get it over with, or stop completely. You must look closely rather than look away, grip firmly rather than let go. Incidentally one of the grossest aspects was how the cold flesh felt through latex gloves, so on that first animal (an otter) I took the gloves off about midway through the skinning, touched the squishy moist flesh directly, and it was actually much better, also easier in the practical sense, no more slipping around.
But I still started off with severe "ickies" with each subsequent animal (mink, opossum, field rat, bat). And I tell you, if there had been someone there making it worse with little noises erupting out of them repeatedly, I would have blown up at them and told them to get the F away, if this was so "hard" for THEM. Fern has my utmost respect now.
I would like to see them work in a fast food job although that’s not the premise here. They can’t imagine someone working that hard nowadays but there are people who do. Working in fast food 17 years ago was the most difficult, exhausting, humiliating, and least rewarding job ever and for less than $60 a day.
That is true. Fast food, in fact all restaurant work, is very hard work. My son has a well-paid job as a welder now, but he trained up with 2.5 years working in a fast food restaurant, with good results. He turned down multiple offers to become a manager, and instead worked on getting into a more satisfying job.
But still better than this is
One of the best channels on YT .. :) so interesting.
This is what life feels like. Being thrown in somewhere in time, having no idea, trying to survive while someone out there creating troubles for you to make your life more "entertaining". I mean I feel that, it's bad.
*existential crisis intensifies*
Did they think meat comes from styrofoam packets in the supermarket? It comes from animals. The first time I butchered animals it was a problem. But you get used to it pretty quickly. Very nice to see the other women help out when one of them was having a traumatic moment.
I mean to be fair the younger lass was saying that she has a panic attack even taking chicken breast out of the packet so I think in her case it's just something overall she can't handle and fair enough as she was saying she might go vegetarian
@@Melonlordrinrei Absolutely. It wouldn't have been fair to push her that hard, and good on her fellow participants for helping her out. For me it would have been heights.
@@Melonlordrinrei I'm sorry, but I laughed at that. She's a weight lifter, how is that going to work I wonder.
@@Sirah1981 The secret twist is the Roman gladiators were often vegetarian but would have a porridge with deer antler in (calcium) for strong bones. A lot of weight lifters don't eat much meat, myself included.
@@Melonlordrinrei Hmm, I suppose then she can turn veg, with some supplements. Seems from her face she might.
I am addicted to this channel!!
Me 3
I just discovered this series and I love it !!
It takes thousands of people living in poverty to support each wealthy person-even more, tens/hundreds of thousands, to support each million/billionaire. And yet, the average person still idolizes/worships them. Who should be more ashamed: the worshiped or the worshiper? That's the best thing these videos show, is the truth behind the false glamour of the rich.
This was fantastic!!
I absolutely love this show
It's not a show. It's a series of unrelated like licenses purchased by this company.
The Lady of the manor is Ruth’s daughter! Y’all documentary’oholics saw that, right?
I love history.History with Kirstie and food from thst time is Great
Zoe may be a weight lifter 🏋️♀️ but for this stuff she is a snowflake. I love how Kirstie jus dives right in and helps
In modern days we have forgot were our food comes from; hunting, doing a lot of thing in our own; but something still prevail; the need of social classes and the inequality in paid.
Be kind and reward the ones that provide a service to you. We're not in that era. Each one deserve dignity
I agree.
Also, impressive kind of "run on" sentence, in the first sentence; one semicolon will always suffice...
Edit:
In modern days, we have forgotten where our food comes from, i.e. hunting and doing alot of things on our own. Something still prevails: the existence of social classes and the inequality in pay.
The best example for the use of a semicolon that I learned as a kid was something like, "He regretted leaving her; she regretted meeting him." The tonality of the punctuation is 🔥.
@@z_ed Well, thank you for not only the lesson, but for also the demonstration!
@@nessamillikan6247 Thanks to you, as well. Gotta love linguistics 😅
A truly wholesome comment section.
I absolutely love these videos, so addictive!
Great video. Natural gas is used to make ammonia via the Haber Process. Ammonia is also the basis for nitrogen fertilizer. Which along with potash, phosphate fertilizer. Help make today's farms so productive. Some can throw food on paintings. For most of history, people would have fought over the wasted food.
The head kitchen guy reminds me of an Elizabethan Gordon Ramsey
Answers to questions I never asked. Will I still watch? Of course
It would be great to see all of these, absolutely fantastic!
That’s Ruth’s daughter playing the fancy lady isn’t it!
yes.. that's Eve..
Loved it!! Can't wait for the next one.
12:10 Saskia, the 17 years old from the other series , would have done any job, she is a doer with a can do attitude always very positive and therefore successful. She was not a moaner unlike this one, this bad attitude and the fact that she is not even a team player ... is hard to watch, why did she bother doing this adventure then and the worse is that she describes herself as a doer at the beginning, lol 😂
I love how we all watch the same videos and understand what you mean😂
I don't. Which one?
@@Katharina-rp7iq turn back time: family on the same channel
Lmaoo yes I watched these out of order, and after watching Zoe crack it and give up twice, I actually laughed out loud when she said she wasn’t a quitter
@@georgiagrace1014 I just posted nearly the same comment! Definitely not a Zoe fan!
That was amazing, thank you.
Loool "the Loud Fellow"
Naturally the comedian is the one who earns that title..
Hey! Now I know where "none of your beeswax" comes from! And on to another episode. I'm so hooked!
Well, new favourite series
R.I.P. Kirstie 🙏🏽
Good job Greg !
"they'll be stripped of their celebrity status..." For Kirsty Alley this will NOT be a new experience!
Anyone else recognize Ruth Goodman's daughter as the lady whose feet got washed??
Yes! It is always fun to spot her in these documentaries.
Would have enjoyed it so much more without Kirstie Alley. Other than that: awesome idea and really well done.
I would love to find the other ones. I would love to see those too.
Incredible ❤️✨
This had some hilarious moments. Love!
Man! Zoe is useless everywhere. She screws up everywhere and in every time period.
It's a real shame. She acts like a prototype of generation spoiled by modern comforts who couldn't survive a day without phones and packed lunches. Waste of space in this project.
i love these sm!!!! we need more
More Tony Robinson please, I couldn't stop laughing 😆
what an amazing display. kudos to the time crashers
Kirstie Alley cracks me up. 20:38 That’s Ruth’s daughter!
OMG, the food preparation was 100% disgusting! I almost barfed my brain out!
33:44... "Scullions"...I just picked up a new debasing insult
Scullery Maid...lol
rolled my eyes when she said she can barely take chicken breast out of the package at home.
After watching every Ruth Goodman video I had a great idea how to do all of these tasks. Lol If you knew you where going to be in history reenactment wouldn't you research some basics like laundry?
They have a disadvantage in here because these time crashers were thrown in to a time they had no experience with and expected to do the job instantly. The real live servents already knew the jobs and experiences.
I still hear Baldrick :)
The focus on the urine for the laundry kinda bothers me, because in this era they absolutely would have used soap for laundry, made of potash and/or lye. A big house like this might even have had the fancy sort made with olive oil, for washing the lady's garments! Soap was in fact, originally, *solely* a laundry thing, because the ingredients were too caustic to use on skin for personal hygiene. I'm not saying the urine thing was untrue, but i do think that having it be the only component of the laundry process is more than a bit sensationalist.
The only other interpretation I can think of is that the caustic ingredients might be too dangerous for people unused to them to handle - but urine doesn't exactly score highly in health and safety either, so...
I enjoyed this 😊damn i just love history
Obviously filmed before Kirstie Alley turned into a lunatic.
Kirstie Alley is the second most disgusting human in history behind Tom Cruise
Right
@@ztuzar163 Excuse my ignorance, But why are these 2 persons the most disgusting humans in history?
@@anita83music they joined a cult
@@anita83music i will tell you if you tell me where is shelly miscavige is !
Great series!
imagine what a feast was like at a castle of a royal, and not just a house of a noble. also, all that meat was definitely out at room temp for longer than 4 hours. lol
39:25 when they can't help but laugh at how ridiculous the amount of food was, coming out from the kitchen.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That is so funny :) It is easier to learn English history. Thanks all!
Ohhhh a new addiction
Just imagine all young life not being able to be healthy and eating adequately and then you made it to company that throws meat and all makes your body to live well back in your face....you'd think you made it and work so hard in being the best in your job.....the mentality is not demeaning, just wanting to work hard and best and not get fired.....just like working for big companies like Walmart or target or Costco you name it.....WE HAVEN'T CHANGED
Sir Tony Robinson is my favourite host/ narrator. ❤
I wish that they would label these series better. Can someone tell me, is this the first one?
I'm curious to know what peacock taste's like? It's amazing to see what we eat today could only be eaten by the rich 500 years ago. We are spoiled today.
As far as I know
Peacocks or peahens
were the birds to eat before Turkey was popular!
@@glenndamckinnis9445 Makes since since turkey's are native to North America and being the New World at the time that was very much unexplored. It's such a big myth that they ate turkey in Tudor times.
@@1matsg They did have access to Turkey during the Tudor era thanks to Spain; who brought them back to Europe in 1519 (England has a record of Turkey consumption from 1524 onwards - during the reign of King Henry VIII).
@@tamaracarter1836 Digging into more research, looks like I am wrong.
@@1matsg Happens to us all.
I don't think he like me face best line ever
😆 seriously
Excellent video
So the mistress of the manor was Ruth Goodman’s daughter 😊
I thought to see Ruth too