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What type of beans Green beans may be because beans as we know them today are native to the americas also just like potatoes chocolate vanilla squash berries tomatoes avocados corn peppers sweet and hot(paprika) also you must have been importing foods from the Mediterranean why is no mention of this..... what are the species that they used to flavor their roast and where did they come you should have talk about this since the video is about food and not about making a bell..... There is no mention of butter cheese or dry meats this video was not very accurate.....
Also alot things we regard as superstitions or myths like springing the fields with bread today could be true, science has erase many of the old ancestral knowledge to understand this things specially in europe... decease is illness physical problems spirituality magic ghost have been completely regarded by science as a joke I dont agree with that.... The corn is growing flatten by storms again corn arrive with potatoes
As a home brewer the process of making ale is heartening. The process is so similar yet so different! The thing about the pre hop ales was they would go stale and bad pretty quick so it was made continuously and consumed quickly. Actually the introduction of hops to English ale and its longevity is what allowed the business of brewing and selling beer to a wide audience to occur which was also what caused the shift of brewing to become the man’s job from the tradition of women brewing.
Lol, there's s this obnoxious thing, historically, where if a task that is a vital but tedious daily grind that no one pays you for for (cooking food for the family, for example) it is traditionally a woman's job, But as soon as it becomes something you can turn into a paying career and possibly get some prestige (Baker, chef) It would become a job that was only and almost exclusively for men. So, to me, there's no surprise that when Ale making become easier and profitable, It stopped being a woman's job!
@@melissasaint3283 although I am in full agreement that sexism inexorably impacts division of labor (both in a domestic setting in a cisheteronormative family unit and in the public sphere), you need to remember that "history" encompasses more than western and European history. and also importantly, other types of marginalization change how things work. basically, history is more complicated and the world is more fucked up than you're giving it credit for lol
@@melissasaint3283however this also reminds me of a VERY interesting thing I learned about a few years ago - the way access to public bathrooms has been an extremely important tool for determining who can feasibly access public life. because if there's no public bathrooms, it's not like you can really go too far from home, right? my interaction with this was in the context of advocating for gender neutral multi stall bathrooms at my grad school, but historical study on this has mainly been focused on cis women, so it's a very interesting area that I definitely recommend looking into because I found it very interesting, both for its own sake and how it applies to discussions of equitable access to public life today now that I finished my comment, I realize it doesn't really have anything to do with the original topic. I don't exactly remember how my brain jumped to it, but it's still interesting history so I figure I'll leave it
It's originally a BBC documentary. While I haven't seen any new documentaries exactly like this one for decades, this same historical team has done a few other documentary series like this. If you want to see more, look up other work done by Ruth Goodman (she's the woman with red hair in this series). It will point you to more.
This is just one episode of the Tudor Monastery Farm series, made years ago. You'll have to search Tudor Monastery Farm to find other episodes, they're on TH-cam but scattered around. On the other hand, Tales From the Green Valley has recently been uploaded in one 5+ hr. group.
I absolutely adore that some many men and women continue to be the keepers of these ancient skills and tools. Be it making plates and bowls out of beech, training oxen to till the land, making bronze bells and beeswax candles... all these skills are so incredible and I wish we could still learn them.
4:15 - That's a myth, the alcohol content of "small beer" (which is what your historians apparently mean when they say beer or ale...) was about 0.75 - 1% ABV, weak enough to be legally considered non-alcoholic today. That's far below the 43% ABV percentage that is necessary to actually sterilize water. It's also how tradesmen and laborers were able to stay hydrated and competent despite drinking literally a gallon of the stuff a day. What ACTUALLY caused small beer to be sterile was much simpler - they had to boil it for the fermentation to work. Since Lister's germ theory wasn't accepted until the late 1800s, nobody had the slightest notion that boiling water made it sterile, they just knew that drinking from streams and ponds made you sick but small beer didn't.
I often think how amazed people from earlier times would be to see how we live today. Frankly, though, I myself am often amazed at how hard our ancestors worked, just so we could be here at all. Think of things we do every day, as a matter of routine, that people 500 yrs. from now will look back on & say, "Look at how hard they had to work, just to have a cup of tea or coffee!". All things are relative.
@@mortalclown3812 Perhaps Shakespeare saw the future, friend - "Tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts & frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound & fury, Signifying nothing." - "Macbeth". Thanks for your reply.
We stand on their shoulders as our descendants stand on ours. They worked hard so the future would have to work less hard, and we do the same in different ways
I absolutely adore all the shows I have seen thus far. I was an avid PBS nova and Ken burns doc fan as a kid. I really enjoy all of these and I also put them in my teaching newsletter and others to spread the word. Please keep making these wonderful experiences for all of us to share in. Thanks again.
This is the way that this really extremely very important history should be taught to high school students through videos! Far better than through written books which this age group is not inclined to learn!
I disagree! history should be taught through a variety of methods. learning through books is vitally important, both textbook style books and books that are primary sources themselves or are collections of primary sources, but as you rightfully allude to, they're not always the best method for teaching because there is no single "best" method for communicating anything. kids these days can and do read. if there's any defect in their ability to read or learn more generally, it's because the older generations have not provided sufficient, effective education. schools aren't adequately funded, after all, and that's not the fault of the kids. they're not the ones voting to slash school funding.
@@sethescope: First very clever Seth(sethescope)!!! Second I agree with your first paragraph! However not with your second. More funding for schools? Absolutely not!!! Not another dime!!! All they've gotten were huge sums for over 1/2 century and still dolts!!! No results!!! Deplorable SAT scores!!! Videos like this one are supreme but I don't deny there are some by the same one that are very biased and anti-West!
@@roberttelarket4934 every respectable expert on education will tell you that standardized testing is bullshit lol. as a matter of objective fact, standardized testing does not measure whether someone has learned something. there's a lot of research that has been done about this and about education in general that you should read for yourself so you will be better equipped to understand the issue. given that I'm not an expert, I'm just someone who has done some research of my own, that's really all I can say about it. I will leave you with my enthusiastic encouragement to learn more about this subject from scientists who study this area!
@@sethescope: To an extent standardized testing is bullshit but the SAT whether you want to believe it or not is more or less an IQ exam even though there is plenty of argument whether the IQ really measures intelligence a vague concept by many!
It's become difficult not to share my enthusiasm after each episode I watch. I thought I knew a lot about the medieval times, and I surely did, but it's nothing when compared to experimenting in the way our 3 hosts are doing it all along.
@6:15 In Europe they prayed for a good crop, while hundreds of years prior ancient people's of what is now the Americas had advanced knowledge of farming techniques that are being rediscovered and used today as sustainable farming methods. So much for Europeans being advanced!
While probably not the sole reason, I do think (please someone more knowledgeable correct me if I’m wrong) the lack of domesticated labor animals (besides for South American nations which is why I don’t think this is the sole reason) meant that the natives peoples that practiced agriculture (as not all did, like many Pacific Northwest cultures) got extremely creative with their farming technology and became more advanced than anywhere else in the world, possibly also due to similar world views of everything being related and working together, which meant they focused on ways for growing food to do the same via trial and error and observing nature over thousands of years
I cannot believe that farm wives did not keep yeast starter, aka sourdough, while you can get wonderful flavours with wild yeast, you can also end up with other species of yeast, like brettonamyaces. Which give a smell reminiscent of plastic toys fresh out of the bag. Certainly your brewer would have kept reliable strains available.
they mostly went to a brewer or kept their own starter (and there was a way to preserve the yeast in dried dough too, Townsends has a video on it) but it was necessary to restart it from wild yeast from time to time.
I've also heard that if you're making bread constantly, the yeast just sticks around in the air, so that you don't have to harvest it from a field, but from your own kitchen.
How many people said" Honey your bread smells like a plastic toy outta the bag" in 1490? Mabe most bread smelled like that. Pretty good chance you would eat a rat turd by accident at every meal.
absolutely love these documentaries. positive, educational, life-affirming, atmospheric. makes me wanna immediately start farming or go play stronghold also ronald hutton is always a bonus, just loved "the witch: a history of fear" many greetings from croatia!
I noticed in the segment from 11:02 to 11:29 the bowl being used to capture wild yeast changes. I would like to point out that the first bowl looks like a later 18th or 19th century iron heavy stoneware with an iron saturate glaze similar to a tenmoku, whereas the second bowl is the period proper unglazed low fire (probably shale heavy) unglazed bisque
My youngest children went to a parochial school run by Benedictine nuns and brothers. They memorized the Ten Commandments, went to a mass in Latin every morning before school, and went to confession before mass if needed. All in all it was very good for them. Catholics still believe in transubstantiation of the Host. The nuns where my kids went to school make their own hosts for the mass.
Jamon de Iberico or whatever it’s called is fed exclusively acorns and it makes their meat rich and butter so i can only imagine how delicious Tudor pork was !
These documentaries shows us well what makes an English person a true English person. These laborious jobs, ingenuity and traditions were passed down generation after generation. Every culture had their way of living, and were adapted to their surroundings, including weather, language, beliefs and customs. I'm not English, but it irks me when people say there is no such thing as an English person, or that they don't have their own traditions or history. They were and are a unique people, unique even to surrounding Europeans, and much different from Africans, Middle Easterners, Latins etc. etc.
spreading pieces of bread all over your field to pray for a good harvest seems a bit counterintuitive considering its a great way to attract birds, especially if you do it regularly which will teach the birds to come back. and if the birds keep coming back during the crop season... well... there goes some of your crop. the only scenario where its a good idea to attract birds is if you got a locust problem.
Would be cool to set up like 100 acres like this and be limited to the tech of the time but try to “invent” “new” Tudor tech like an ac/heat system using the water wheel and bellows or a small fan turned by the water wheel
Charles II didn't have the greatest life himself, and he also had a pretty bad nickname: "El Hechizado" (The Bewitched). He never fathered any children and was the last of the Hapsburgs to reign in Spain. He left his kingdom to a grandson of Louis XIV, which touched off a war that lasted 13 years and turned John Churchill into the first Duke of Blenheim (You might have heard of his descendant Winston). The French duke became Philip V of Spain. Today the king of Spain is Philip VI. So far, no world war has broken out, at least over another king of Spain named Philip (or Felipe).
@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 So far. Actually he could reign under any name he wants. Both King George V and VI were actually known as "Albert" or "Bertie" to the family, and Edward VIII was "David". He could have gone with David I of England and David III of Scotland, but instead he took his grandfather's reign name, perhaps more appropriate because they both cuckolded a lot of husbands. I was hoping Charlie would reign as "Ralph I" not only because of the John Goodwin movie but because all the kings of England since William the Conqueror (aka William the Bastard) are supposed to be descended from the first Duke of Normandy, a viking named Hrolf.
I really appreciate the Farm Series, but I wish they would be more accurate in their explanations of theological and philosophical descriptions of "Christians." These were Catholics and to this day, they STILL believe in transubstantiation, whereas in the documentary they describe it simply as a "medieval Christian belief." The same goes for the blessing of fields, rogation days, etc. These are all Catholic traditions that are still practiced in Europe, not due to "myths" and "superstition," but because they still believe in the power of God to bless them and their communities.
true, I find no shame in being raised catholic. I also find no shame in learning what other belief systems are. I simply can not say there is no God. When I know better, this does not make me superstitious or weak minded.
@@winnerscreed6767 Agreed I was a little annoyed by this myself. We have held this as truth for two thousand years. If they don't believe as we do fine but at least describe it accurately.
The ale with the elder flower could the recipe of that, by word of mouth, come from the Anglo-Saxon Ellen Ealu? If so, can a source be given, since I plan on making some soon.
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Medieval life.. fantasized by nerds but in reality, life then was a very tough time period to live in those conditions. Unless it was a kingdom that was not at war that lasted 70 years and it all focused economic growth. Which was the fundamental goal of every kingdom of the time was to rather grow rather than go to war but some situations asked for that. Potentially squabbling houses or disputed power amongst royal familes. Middle ages, nonetheless, was a monumental period of success as it paved way for new inventions and also for science and medicine. I would not want to live in the middle ages back then.
But you dont know that both you and the nerd are speculating what life was really like yes ofcourse you have to the positives with the negative but more people comit suicide today with the conveniences of the modern world than in medieval life. Our current world is heading for a massive disaster because of all the massive enviromental destruction to create wealth and progress, now things are all fun at games but soon things will reset them selves.
or it was called by one of the many catch-all descriptions of digestive illnesses or 'bad humours' - such as dispepsia. Defining the condition with recent medicine doesn't mean it never occurred before that point.
I am of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Transubstantiation refers to the wafer and the wine becoming the flesh and blood of Christ during the Holy Communion. My religion calls it a Sacrament of bread and water. They represent or are emblematic of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, not a physical Catholic change. This explanation was given to me by a Catholic convert to Mormonism. If I still have it wrong, someone might be so kind to correct me. The tenants of all religions should be carefully respected. During the Tudor Period, the Church of England was created by King Henry VIII because he wanted a divorce, I think. Do I understand that correctly?
Transubstantiation is the Catholic belief that the wine and bread for the time of the communion actually *ARE* the blood and flesh of the Saviour. It's a miracle, given that power by the priest's prayer and blessing Every other Christian religions including LDS believe they are merely symbolic. Source..I was raised part Catholic, part Anglican. Went to nearly all of the factions a few times, still do, and was a late adult convert to LDS. I also read a great deal.
@@bilindalaw-morley161 Read a great deal but did not read this comment closely. OP clearly identified transubstantiation…and threw in a bit of the English motivation for becoming Protestant.
Thank you for this history Playland Recreation. Producers know what people like... Doing what people did! Because we don't have it right today, anymore. Thank God There Are Spiritual Masters account for this and help wake up the world Beyond technology and we go back to the roots on the way.
Because they made observations they didn’t understand science, but understood cause and effect after thousands of years of collective knowledge like don’t drink from still water.
The ancient Egyptians had a type of pregnancy test where if a woman peed on a specific strain of barley and it sprouted, it could detect pregnancy with up to 85% accuracy. We know this because we've tested it with modern science. People were very crafty and capable way before we ever formalized the modern scientific method.
@@Reallydumbtakes well..... sort of. sometimes. we were pretty hit or miss, overall. the medical history podcast sawbones is awesome for learning about all the bonkers stuff we did for CENTURIES even though it didn't work and we had no basis to think it did lol I highly recommend it and our conclusions based on observations were not always good lol for example, humans spent a lot of time throughout history putting feces on open wounds because we thought it helped with healing. but we also put honey on wounds sometimes and that actually can help a little bit. so we're really a mixed bag of a species lol
well, we didn't know it would kill bacteria because we didn't know bacteria existed yet. but we knew people got sick more often when they drank water than when they drank ale. there's a big difference between those two things and the difference is critical.
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What type of beans Green beans may be because beans as we know them today are native to the americas also just like potatoes chocolate vanilla squash berries tomatoes avocados corn peppers sweet and hot(paprika) also you must have been importing foods from the Mediterranean why is no mention of this..... what are the species that they used to flavor their roast and where did they come you should have talk about this since the video is about food and not about making a bell..... There is no mention of butter cheese or dry meats this video was not very accurate.....
Also alot things we regard as superstitions or myths like springing the fields with bread today could be true, science has erase many of the old ancestral knowledge to understand this things specially in europe... decease is illness physical problems spirituality magic ghost have been completely regarded by science as a joke I dont agree with that.... The corn is growing flatten by storms again corn arrive with potatoes
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Ruth parties like it’s 1499 and I’m here for it. She is someone I genuinely wish I knew personally.
Same. She looks like she’d be such a good friend and fun to hang out with
i could listen to her talk for hours
Her enthusiasm is heartwarming and contagious!
Ruth and also Jason Kingsley from the Modern History channel
She likes a batch in the butt. Sounds like my kind of woman.
My wife and I tune in every time Ruth, Peter, and Tom show up!!
As a home brewer the process of making ale is heartening. The process is so similar yet so different! The thing about the pre hop ales was they would go stale and bad pretty quick so it was made continuously and consumed quickly. Actually the introduction of hops to English ale and its longevity is what allowed the business of brewing and selling beer to a wide audience to occur which was also what caused the shift of brewing to become the man’s job from the tradition of women brewing.
Lol, there's s this obnoxious thing, historically,
where if a task that is a vital but tedious daily grind that no one pays you for for (cooking food for the family, for example)
it is traditionally a woman's job,
But as soon as it becomes something you can turn into a paying career and possibly get some prestige (Baker, chef)
It would become a job that was only and almost exclusively for men.
So, to me, there's no surprise that when Ale making become easier and profitable,
It stopped being a woman's job!
@@melissasaint3283 although I am in full agreement that sexism inexorably impacts division of labor (both in a domestic setting in a cisheteronormative family unit and in the public sphere), you need to remember that "history" encompasses more than western and European history. and also importantly, other types of marginalization change how things work.
basically, history is more complicated and the world is more fucked up than you're giving it credit for lol
@@melissasaint3283however this also reminds me of a VERY interesting thing I learned about a few years ago - the way access to public bathrooms has been an extremely important tool for determining who can feasibly access public life. because if there's no public bathrooms, it's not like you can really go too far from home, right? my interaction with this was in the context of advocating for gender neutral multi stall bathrooms at my grad school, but historical study on this has mainly been focused on cis women, so it's a very interesting area that I definitely recommend looking into because I found it very interesting, both for its own sake and how it applies to discussions of equitable access to public life today
now that I finished my comment, I realize it doesn't really have anything to do with the original topic. I don't exactly remember how my brain jumped to it, but it's still interesting history so I figure I'll leave it
Probably because it became harder thus turned into mens work
@@williamdavis5451 as a man, the idea that harder work = men's work is very very funny.
These people are having the time of their lives. I’d pay to live like this for a year.
honestly medieval life without worrying about starvation or the Black Death? sign me up
They're basically larping
hahaha that was one of the worst times to be alife but i guess you can still expirence it by living in an indian slum
Same, but maybe with tap water and washing machines and I’m content
@@ryantrumble4582 what is larping, as you say?
Please consider making more in this series: totally love this!!!
It's originally a BBC documentary. While I haven't seen any new documentaries exactly like this one for decades, this same historical team has done a few other documentary series like this. If you want to see more, look up other work done by Ruth Goodman (she's the woman with red hair in this series). It will point you to more.
This is just one episode of the Tudor Monastery Farm series, made years ago. You'll have to search Tudor Monastery Farm to find other episodes, they're on TH-cam but scattered around. On the other hand, Tales From the Green Valley has recently been uploaded in one 5+ hr. group.
I absolutely adore that some many men and women continue to be the keepers of these ancient skills and tools. Be it making plates and bowls out of beech, training oxen to till the land, making bronze bells and beeswax candles... all these skills are so incredible and I wish we could still learn them.
The expression keep your nose to the grindstone comes literally from the miller’s nose near the grindstone to check for burning.
4:15 - That's a myth, the alcohol content of "small beer" (which is what your historians apparently mean when they say beer or ale...) was about 0.75 - 1% ABV, weak enough to be legally considered non-alcoholic today. That's far below the 43% ABV percentage that is necessary to actually sterilize water. It's also how tradesmen and laborers were able to stay hydrated and competent despite drinking literally a gallon of the stuff a day.
What ACTUALLY caused small beer to be sterile was much simpler - they had to boil it for the fermentation to work. Since Lister's germ theory wasn't accepted until the late 1800s, nobody had the slightest notion that boiling water made it sterile, they just knew that drinking from streams and ponds made you sick but small beer didn't.
I often think how amazed people from earlier times would be to see how we live today. Frankly, though, I myself am often amazed at how hard our ancestors worked, just so we could be here at all. Think of things we do every day, as a matter of routine, that people 500 yrs. from now will look back on & say, "Look at how hard they had to work, just to have a cup of tea or coffee!". All things are relative.
Hoping there will be humans here in 500 years. It's looking grim, friend.
@@mortalclown3812 Perhaps Shakespeare saw the future, friend - "Tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts & frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound & fury, Signifying nothing." - "Macbeth". Thanks for your reply.
We stand on their shoulders as our descendants stand on ours. They worked hard so the future would have to work less hard, and we do the same in different ways
These shows are awesome, I love how the team get right into it and the knowledge they carry is amazing
Ohhhh she looks like a beautiful witch making ale in that incredible room
The brick and stonework is all so gorgeous
If I didn't have a back injury I would join them if I could. What a fascinating way to live, electronics free.
I absolutely adore all the shows I have seen thus far. I was an avid PBS nova and Ken burns doc fan as a kid. I really enjoy all of these and I also put them in my teaching newsletter and others to spread the word. Please keep making these wonderful experiences for all of us to share in. Thanks again.
I loved the bread making lesson, “if it fights back, Peter, show it who’s boss”
This is the way that this really extremely very important history should be taught to high school students through videos! Far better than through written books which this age group is not inclined to learn!
I disagree! history should be taught through a variety of methods. learning through books is vitally important, both textbook style books and books that are primary sources themselves or are collections of primary sources, but as you rightfully allude to, they're not always the best method for teaching because there is no single "best" method for communicating anything.
kids these days can and do read. if there's any defect in their ability to read or learn more generally, it's because the older generations have not provided sufficient, effective education. schools aren't adequately funded, after all, and that's not the fault of the kids. they're not the ones voting to slash school funding.
@@sethescope: First very clever Seth(sethescope)!!!
Second I agree with your first paragraph! However not with your second. More funding for schools? Absolutely not!!! Not another dime!!! All they've gotten were huge sums for over 1/2 century and still dolts!!! No results!!! Deplorable SAT scores!!!
Videos like this one are supreme but I don't deny there are some by the same one that are very biased and anti-West!
@@roberttelarket4934 every respectable expert on education will tell you that standardized testing is bullshit lol. as a matter of objective fact, standardized testing does not measure whether someone has learned something. there's a lot of research that has been done about this and about education in general that you should read for yourself so you will be better equipped to understand the issue. given that I'm not an expert, I'm just someone who has done some research of my own, that's really all I can say about it. I will leave you with my enthusiastic encouragement to learn more about this subject from scientists who study this area!
@@sethescope: To an extent standardized testing is bullshit but the SAT whether you want to believe it or not is more or less an IQ exam even though there is plenty of argument whether the IQ really measures intelligence a vague concept by many!
Thank you so much, I love this channel, I've waited so much for quality history content on TH-cam
It's become difficult not to share my enthusiasm after each episode I watch.
I thought I knew a lot about the medieval times, and I surely did, but it's nothing when compared to experimenting in the way our 3 hosts are doing it all along.
I love this series. 👍
Ditto
Beer, meat and cheese are what a man needs
@6:15 In Europe they prayed for a good crop, while hundreds of years prior ancient people's of what is now the Americas had advanced knowledge of farming techniques that are being rediscovered and used today as sustainable farming methods. So much for Europeans being advanced!
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While probably not the sole reason, I do think (please someone more knowledgeable correct me if I’m wrong) the lack of domesticated labor animals (besides for South American nations which is why I don’t think this is the sole reason) meant that the natives peoples that practiced agriculture (as not all did, like many Pacific Northwest cultures) got extremely creative with their farming technology and became more advanced than anywhere else in the world, possibly also due to similar world views of everything being related and working together, which meant they focused on ways for growing food to do the same via trial and error and observing nature over thousands of years
I love this series and the team. Watched in 3 times, but you have high resolution. +_+
Yeast is a fungus not a bacteria.
I cannot believe that farm wives did not keep yeast starter, aka sourdough, while you can get wonderful flavours with wild yeast, you can also end up with other species of yeast, like brettonamyaces. Which give a smell reminiscent of plastic toys fresh out of the bag. Certainly your brewer would have kept reliable strains available.
Eww
they mostly went to a brewer or kept their own starter (and there was a way to preserve the yeast in dried dough too, Townsends has a video on it) but it was necessary to restart it from wild yeast from time to time.
@@platedlizard John Townsends makes content about the 18th century.
I've also heard that if you're making bread constantly, the yeast just sticks around in the air, so that you don't have to harvest it from a field, but from your own kitchen.
How many people said" Honey your bread smells like a plastic toy outta the bag" in 1490? Mabe most bread smelled like that. Pretty good chance you would eat a rat turd by accident at every meal.
Absolutely fascinating video!
The clock stuff needs its own documentary.
I throughly enjoy learning new things about Tudor times. Thank you for these videos.
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Love your show , as a chef beyond impressed by y’all’s attention to historical relevance and detail. Thanks
Life sure is great through rose coloured glasses.
absolutely love these documentaries. positive, educational, life-affirming, atmospheric.
makes me wanna immediately start farming or go play stronghold
also ronald hutton is always a bonus, just loved "the witch: a history of fear"
many greetings from croatia!
This was amazing. I was so enraptured for the full hour. Absolutely fascinating.
My most popular quiche at my market booth is the Medieval pie. Sweet carmelized onions with Swiss. It’s so popular!!!!
I could not enjoy this series more.
This is so much fun to watch. I'm a simple person, I see the word 'Tudor' and I click right away LOL
I'd love to be a nobleman in those times. Riding through the village shouting "Quadruple the production of piglets! I'm getting married!"
A rather light and very entertaining documentary. Good stuff.
I learned that ale is completely hopless ... and yet is the ale for what cures you.
Literally made and ran a farm using Norman tech at the time to study the history... This is so cool...
My first time watching this channel. I enjoyed and learned.
I noticed in the segment from 11:02 to 11:29 the bowl being used to capture wild yeast changes. I would like to point out that the first bowl looks like a later 18th or 19th century iron heavy stoneware with an iron saturate glaze similar to a tenmoku, whereas the second bowl is the period proper unglazed low fire (probably shale heavy) unglazed bisque
That's hardcore, man!
these are the most respectable of people. thruout the ages.
The relationships were not so pleasant and gleeful. Playing a role for a bit isn’t the same despite the fantastic voice over!
Just brilliant! Such excellent films! Thank you so very much indeed!❤💛🧡👍😍
Beer is liquid bread.
Wheat soda
Love the moment at 52:20 when he is letting him in on the secret of warding off the critters by a little sprinkling of panis benedictus 😜😜😜
Transubstantiation isn't a medieval belief. It was around long before Tudors. It's still a belief of the Catholic Church.
Yer right, pilgrim. It's an established fact, a stark reality that goes all the way back to A.D. 33
@@69Jackjones69 NOWHERE in Scripture will you find this nonsense. It's just one more heretical teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
Bread and ale? Yes please, where do I sign up?
My youngest children went to a parochial school run by Benedictine nuns and brothers. They memorized the Ten Commandments, went to a mass in Latin every morning before school, and went to confession before mass if needed. All in all it was very good for them. Catholics still believe in transubstantiation of the Host. The nuns where my kids went to school make their own hosts for the mass.
Jamon de Iberico or whatever it’s called is fed exclusively acorns and it makes their meat rich and butter so i can only imagine how delicious Tudor pork was !
This is good ..I’m still watching whilst eating your grace ..
The bell casting expert's outfit is an absolute drip. How do I get a fit like that for real
These documentaries shows us well what makes an English person a true English person. These laborious jobs, ingenuity and traditions were passed down generation after generation. Every culture had their way of living, and were adapted to their surroundings, including weather, language, beliefs and customs. I'm not English, but it irks me when people say there is no such thing as an English person, or that they don't have their own traditions or history. They were and are a unique people, unique even to surrounding Europeans, and much different from Africans, Middle Easterners, Latins etc. etc.
Extremely informative and entertaining to watch. I love the little humorous quips:)
I never heard or knew of English peas until this video!
“Another generation sorted” 🤣
Excellent new information!
The pigs were just too cute. Were I a medieval farmer, my family would have to starve.
Enjoyed this. TY
37:24 I'm sure they had some real pride in beer festivals
I have learned. A fanominal quantity of information. From this show.
spreading pieces of bread all over your field to pray for a good harvest seems a bit counterintuitive considering its a great way to attract birds, especially if you do it regularly which will teach the birds to come back.
and if the birds keep coming back during the crop season... well... there goes some of your crop.
the only scenario where its a good idea to attract birds is if you got a locust problem.
Would be cool to set up like 100 acres like this and be limited to the tech of the time but try to “invent” “new” Tudor tech like an ac/heat system using the water wheel and bellows or a small fan turned by the water wheel
Fascinating.
It made me happy to see that young boy say yummy to fruit cake. Most kids I have met do not appreciate fruit cake
42:35 i guess all those bathhouses in medieval cities were founded for decoration then 😒
Thank you very much for pointing this out 🙏
Charles II didn't have the greatest life himself, and he also had a pretty bad nickname: "El Hechizado" (The Bewitched). He never fathered any children and was the last of the Hapsburgs to reign in Spain. He left his kingdom to a grandson of Louis XIV, which touched off a war that lasted 13 years and turned John Churchill into the first Duke of Blenheim (You might have heard of his descendant Winston). The French duke became Philip V of Spain. Today the king of Spain is Philip VI. So far, no world war has broken out, at least over another king of Spain named Philip (or Felipe).
Well now there's Charles III of England 🤣
@@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 So far. Actually he could reign under any name he wants. Both King George V and VI were actually known as "Albert" or "Bertie" to the family, and Edward VIII was "David". He could have gone with David I of England and David III of Scotland, but instead he took his grandfather's reign name, perhaps more appropriate because they both cuckolded a lot of husbands. I was hoping Charlie would reign as "Ralph I" not only because of the John Goodwin movie but because all the kings of England since William the Conqueror (aka William the Bastard) are supposed to be descended from the first Duke of Normandy, a viking named Hrolf.
That mutton looks good !!
so great, more more !!!
Fantastic.. really .. fantastic!
Ale. Malted barley. No hops. Wish I could find something like that.
Look for "gruit ales"
I really appreciate the Farm Series, but I wish they would be more accurate in their explanations of theological and philosophical descriptions of "Christians." These were Catholics and to this day, they STILL believe in transubstantiation, whereas in the documentary they describe it simply as a "medieval Christian belief." The same goes for the blessing of fields, rogation days, etc. These are all Catholic traditions that are still practiced in Europe, not due to "myths" and "superstition," but because they still believe in the power of God to bless them and their communities.
true, I find no shame in being raised catholic. I also find no shame in learning what other belief systems are. I simply can not say there is no God. When I know better, this does not make me superstitious or weak minded.
I'm catholic and no idea what the hell transubstantiation is. I'm sure nobody of that era did either
@@woodspirit98 the medieval peasants likely couldnt read, so of course not. It was a very contentious topic between theologians though.
@@bustedkeaton ohh I see, they're obviously referring to all manufacturers of dairy products.
@@winnerscreed6767 Agreed I was a little annoyed by this myself. We have held this as truth for two thousand years. If they don't believe as we do fine but at least describe it accurately.
I believe Baldrick liked a turnip
The ale with the elder flower could the recipe of that, by word of mouth, come from the Anglo-Saxon Ellen Ealu? If so, can a source be given, since I plan on making some soon.
We need new episodes not re runs
Reruns apon reruns presented as something new, great stuff, might as well start looking at Erol Flynn movies again
What people fail to understand is that water was dangerous for most of human history.
I thought this was supposed to be about food. Why am I watching them making a bell?
why is there multiple copies of the same video but with different names and thumbnails?
The amount of ads I received watching this literally ruined the whole documentary
You've never heard of ad-blocking software/apps? How sad for you.
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Nice, you have an extensive comment history on this video just bitching at other comments lmao. Sad. Unfortunate bot? Perhaps…
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Medieval life.. fantasized by nerds but in reality, life then was a very tough time period to live in those conditions. Unless it was a kingdom that was not at war that lasted 70 years and it all focused economic growth. Which was the fundamental goal of every kingdom of the time was to rather grow rather than go to war but some situations asked for that. Potentially squabbling houses or disputed power amongst royal familes. Middle ages, nonetheless, was a monumental period of success as it paved way for new inventions and also for science and medicine. I would not want to live in the middle ages back then.
But you dont know that both you and the nerd are speculating what life was really like yes ofcourse you have to the positives with the negative but more people comit suicide today with the conveniences of the modern world than in medieval life. Our current world is heading for a massive disaster because of all the massive enviromental destruction to create wealth and progress, now things are all fun at games but soon things will reset them selves.
@@RM360CR It's depressing af but you're not wrong.
Yeasts are not bacteria. They are fungi.
What is it that Ruth CANNOT do? I watch the woman with my mouth open in wonder. P.lus, she's delightful!
I don't think "normal" is the right word, here. What did the average person eat...
39:36 ...Oh my...
Beer and bread eh? No wonder people only lived to 30.
They didn't have anything else
Good thing that gluten intolerance hadn't been invented yet.
😂
Haha, yes. I was just thinking that after reading the title and then I see that you shared that thought three hours ago.
Great minds and all that 😉
Pesticides and gmo seeds hadn’t been perfected to screw up mucosal linings yet.
Plus there's some evidence that gluten intolerance was an issue, but caused slower decline.
or it was called by one of the many catch-all descriptions of digestive illnesses or 'bad humours' - such as dispepsia. Defining the condition with recent medicine doesn't mean it never occurred before that point.
Good God! 1 in every 4 crops failed? No wonder!
If I'd been living back then I'd definitely be drinking a lot to boot out the hellhole.
I think it was the brewing process that killed bacteria.
This was very educational. Return to the Catholic Church.
"... in a single word: 'God is good.'"
Love it...but yeast are not bacteria.
Stand 5:00
"whole meal! As we say, mice and all!"
Two medieval dudes: heheheh
Modern people: 😱🤢
I am of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Transubstantiation refers to the wafer and the wine becoming the flesh and blood of Christ during the Holy Communion.
My religion calls it a Sacrament of bread and water. They represent or are emblematic of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, not a physical Catholic change. This explanation was given to me by a Catholic convert to Mormonism. If I still have it wrong, someone might be so kind to correct me.
The tenants of all religions should be carefully respected. During the Tudor Period, the Church of England was created by King Henry VIII because he wanted a divorce, I think. Do I understand that correctly?
Transubstantiation is the Catholic belief that the wine and bread for the time of the communion actually *ARE* the blood and flesh of the Saviour. It's a miracle, given that power by the priest's prayer and blessing Every other Christian religions including LDS believe they are merely symbolic.
Source..I was raised part Catholic, part Anglican. Went to nearly all of the factions a few times, still do, and was a late adult convert to LDS. I also read a great deal.
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Read a great deal but did not read this comment closely. OP clearly identified transubstantiation…and threw in a bit of the English motivation for becoming Protestant.
In further examination that segment actually contained two bowls 🤣 my bad
Thank you for this history Playland Recreation. Producers know what people like... Doing what people did! Because we don't have it right today, anymore. Thank God There Are Spiritual Masters account for this and help wake up the world Beyond technology and we go back to the roots on the way.
imagine living in a world without McDonalds! 😱
Literally the worst burgers in the world, how you eat that shit?
I can
Do that every day... you can to....
Wonder how many people had diabetes?
Really low actually, sugar was very I mean very expensive at that time
How the hell did they know in a
non-scientific age that ale would kill bacteria?!
Because they made observations they didn’t understand science, but understood cause and effect after thousands of years of collective knowledge like don’t drink from still water.
Drink water --- (maybe) get sick.
Drink ale --- don't get sick.
The ancient Egyptians had a type of pregnancy test where if a woman peed on a specific strain of barley and it sprouted, it could detect pregnancy with up to 85% accuracy. We know this because we've tested it with modern science. People were very crafty and capable way before we ever formalized the modern scientific method.
@@Reallydumbtakes well..... sort of. sometimes. we were pretty hit or miss, overall. the medical history podcast sawbones is awesome for learning about all the bonkers stuff we did for CENTURIES even though it didn't work and we had no basis to think it did lol I highly recommend it
and our conclusions based on observations were not always good lol
for example, humans spent a lot of time throughout history putting feces on open wounds because we thought it helped with healing. but we also put honey on wounds sometimes and that actually can help a little bit.
so we're really a mixed bag of a species lol
well, we didn't know it would kill bacteria because we didn't know bacteria existed yet. but we knew people got sick more often when they drank water than when they drank ale. there's a big difference between those two things and the difference is critical.