We now have FOUR glass windows. Using the money that Ron gathered from selling his horses we are now living like royals. I may or may not have nagged Ron for more glass windows. Thank you everyone for your support! Here are the receipts: Johnny Cakes (American Cookery, 1796) - "Scald 1 pint of milk and put to 3 pints of indian meal, and half pint of flower-bake before the fire. Or scald with milk two thirds of the Indian meal, or wet two thirds with boiling water, add salt, molasses and shortening, work up with cold water pretty stiff, and bake as above." Butter - churn or shake heavy whipping cream in a container until the liquid has separated from the butter solids. This can take half an hour. Toss the liquid (or keep it for baking) then wash your butter in cold water as you press it into your desired shape. Yeast free bread - there are no intact receipts for this as far as I'm aware because receipts for the poor were often not recorded. However, there are several mentions of working class people who baked bread without yeast in the autobiographies of travelers in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Because of this we know that it was a common practice. I used a local 18th century receipt passed down to me from a friend who says that this receipt has been in his family since the 1750s. I simply removed the addition of yeast from it. "3 cups of rye flour (a flour which was more affordable than white flour), 1-1.5 cups of warm water, 1-3 heaping tablespoons of honey or molasses (I used molasses). You can choose to let it rise for 2 hours in a warm place if you wish. The naturally occurring yeast that is on our hands and in the flour will get on the dough when we knead it. It will not however rise as much as if you had purposefully added yeast. Bake for half an hour at 350 degrees.
These are RECIPES, dear, NOT "receipts". Receipts are bits of paper you get after you pay for something. Goodness, I'm surprised at your English! Love the video all the same! ~Janet in Canada
@@mastersadvocate Wrong, in the old days recipes were called receipts. Edit to add in 1862 the cookbook called " Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt-Book, by Catharine Beecher" was published. This would be 40 years after the period that Ron and Justine would have been establishing their household.
People tend to romanticize the old days and I admit it looks so cozy and I love to see all the skills that were involved in just day to day living. It also looks like a tremendous amount of work, discomfort due to heat and cold and lets not forget lack of vaccines, antibiotics, pain killers and even an understanding of germ theory. I am both mesmerized with this time and also so glad I didn't live in it (if that makes sense). Beautiful video, I really enjoyed watching and will watch more ! (the bread looked delicious)
People call it the simple life, there was nothing simple about it. Backbreaking work, food insecurity, little social safely net, a lot of illness and premature death.
Our knowledge of herbal medicine back then was much greater, peppermint for the stomach, feverfew for headaches, poppy for pain relief and sleep etc., We have since the local chemist forgotten many of the uses both culinary and medicinal of the plants in our gardens. Culpeppers Herbal etc., has been around since the sixteen hundreds! The knowledge was common knowledge for all good Housewifes and religious orders. There are many herbals today new and secondhand...........
I agree. It’s always nice to see representation of what life was like before smartphones and the like. It is very serene and calming and it is almost like time just goes by slower and is felt more deeply
I used to play these videos for my mother who became bed fast after Alzheimer’s stole her ability to walk. I was her sole caregiver and was constantly looking for ways to keep her entertained and excited about the day ahead. See mom was raised like this. No electricity, running water or indoor plumbing. A spring house in front of the cabin was where they stored any perishable food they might have had. Since she had 7 brothers and sisters there wasn’t a whole lot of anything except hard work and of course love. My point is that these videos brought both mom and me such joy as it reminded her of the life she had up in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. They gave me a visual for all the stories she had shared with me as we were growing up. They also gave me a cherished memory of my mother enjoying the time we had even though our circumstances were dreadful. Even though she forgot who she was, who I was and pretty much everything else these images were still in her mind. I’d be in bed beside her holding her hand as we watched and she’d make these sweet little noises like a baby cooing. I’ll never forget the smile on her face and the twinkle in her eyes as she watched these videos. Your videos have touched our lives in ways you probably wasn’t expecting and for this I thank you. ❤
Wow Randy your comment completely changed my life I'm serious. I am nearly speechless. That is simply incredible that I could make a difference in your sweet mother's life. A mother's love is forever. She is up in the clouds still loving you, I promise.
This kind of stuff really makes you realize why so many people back then considered being a "homemaker" a full time job. We really take for granted some of out modern day tools, such a strange but fascinating thing
I particularly appreciate the lack of sound add-ons, it makes the whole thing feel way more authentic since I personally often have music on with fridge and street noises in the background when I'm home
I love it, too! But, that's not how it goes down in my house--I'm either singing, make weird noises, or the neighbor's dogs are barking, the gas guy is honking as he drives by, there's a mariachi coming through, aha...sigh...!
I think it would be cool to have wing-ding sounds like in Korean cat videos. Like he opens the door and it meows, or she uncovers the dutch oven and it goes DING. But maybe that would ruin the mood
I remember my great grand mother making butter. The churn was wooden and bigger. She milked the cows. And let the milk settle. The cream would float to top. She used the cream for butter, coffee,bread,and cooking. She even saved bacon grease to cook and fry. She even made her own salt from the ocean of Maine. No running water and a outhouse.and loved to garden. In a small house like that.
@Karl with a K the K must be for Karen! I was 14 years old when my great grandma died at 98 years of age. At the age of 6 my grandpa her son would take me fishing. I remember the bow full of salt. to preserve the cod and flounder, haddock. There was no microwave. There was a old fridge from 1930s with copper coils on top. She had no TV. A old radio and a piano. And a outhouse. Water came from a hand Doug well. My great grandma born 1891 till 1989 . The boat I remember is was donated to Augusta Maine museum. By Elmer Genthner. My grandpa .not everyone was rich to buy a microwave for 1,000 to 800 in 1980s. That money was used for property tax. And get by by day.
@Karl with a K no I learned a lot I still preserve food. Make sausage.and make ice cream with rocksalt and ice. I still speak English,German of my old tongue. And Cherokee. Tell me karl why would the old days be gone. And leave them in the past. When the past has thought you the old ways. When I can go in a Amish community and speak their dutch. and can trade my corn, or over abundance to help others. You never leave your past. You learn to move forward. An old Amish gentleman " told me common curticity costs nothing".
@Karl with a K yes it costs. But ask yourself the sausage you make! Is a lot better than store bought. No dyes, salt, smoke flavor,fake casings,msg in food and additives. To make ice cream cost little to nothing to make just time. The real truth is if you have no power. And to live off the land. I don't think you would be cut out for it. If you don't know how to. Being brought up teaches you the old ways. Watching this video reminds me when I was young. And cooking toasting on a open fire is the best. Not to mention the old Atlantic wood stoves.
Modern conveniences change over time. My parents grew up with an outhouse, hand pump, wood heating and radio entertainment from a battery. I got to see the invention of the microwave, cell phone, and computer. We must learn how to learn, and not forget the past.
For anyone wondering, baking bread and making butter wasn’t done daily. Instead it was done on a certain day of the week. Baking on Wednesday, churning on Thursday etc.
I was going to comment that about the butter, but is that true of the bread as well? I was under the understanding that bread was either bought from a baker in the cities, or made daily at home in the case of simple cakes (but I do see a large loaf lasting for multiple days.)
@@imstupid880 Johnny cakes (is that what you meant) were probably made everyday because they could be fried on a skillet. Bread, pies, cakes, cookies (I’ve also heard of other dishes like beans and stuff) etc. we’re cooked once a week since they required an oven and ovens took a lot of wood and time to heat up, so if it was done everyday for a average farmer it would take time away from other chores (in this case a Dutch oven was used and that’s fine, it’s just that it can’t be used for large quantities. Brick ovens were either outside near the house or built into the fireplace).
@@thetillerwiller4696 Hmmm I've heard the opposite, that fires were kept lit and tended to the whole day (although usually on a very low flame or coals), which allowed for heating and for cooking throughout the whole day, and was why a lot of recipes had long cook times (puddings, stews, roasts, etc)
@@imstupid880 yes that’s true, but that’s only for the main fire place in the house, the brick oven needed another fire in it to warm it up to optimal temperature
I grew up on a small ranch in the mountains and my mom used to make a heavy bread that was so good. I don't remember the recipe but she would add molasses and I loved it! So much so that I would have molasses mixed in with fresh milk. I haven't thought about that in 40 years, thanks for that! 😀
@terratrodder Was it a whole wheat molasses bread, or a rye bread with molasses do You remember by chance? I was just curious because my mom made both of those breads with molasses and I'll never forget they were so good! 🙏🙏🥰
There is great pride in making things from scratch…there’s more heart in it. My family is from Portugal and cooking in the fire was an every day thing. My grandmothers kitchen walls were black from the open fire 💜 how I miss her.
I lived in India from early 1960s to mid 70s, and many of these kitchen techniques were used then even in middle class homes. Now I am sure there are still people using them. I have had perfectly delicious cakes baked with putting it in a pot with coals on the top as well as underneath.
That's true. In Kerala (southern part of India) I remember seeing food cooked by burning wood , charcoal sometime in 2005 or so. Now most of them have turned to LPG.
I'm almost 60, I watch your videos and and it always makes me tear up to see how folks lived back then. We really have no business ever complaining about anything.
@tropophyte The fact you mentioned just the musical genre hip-hop.. has a racial undertone. FYI, Hip-Hop wasn’t always about violence, drugs, and gangs.
this made me emotional - in a way, we're not so different, are we? we still come in and talk to our spouses about work. we still smile and say the bread smells good. we still have toast with butter. these things seem trivial, but in the end, humans have always loved each other and bread. every culture has its own love and its own bread. all this food made with love. just like my frozen eggo waffles were 😌
I live in South Korea and this channel is truly a gem. I love how you reenact how earlier people lived in America. There is something quite home about how you live. It hits me deep and hard every time I watch your video. You deserve my sub. Thank you.
This cabin is so quaint and cozy. I actually like this over the Stephenson house. You’ve done an amazing job making it a lovely home. Thank you for the recipes.
As someone who cooks at home, just watching this video makes me feel tired. It's as if I feel the woman's fatigue after all that effort and work just to have a butter and bread for breakfast. Huge respect for all the women in the old days that managed to survive despite the discomfort due to the lack of advance materials.
realize that yes they had chores but they had a whole less to do. Yes making food and such was the daily norm but they didn't have jobs to go to, houses that needed to be spotless- like yes it needed to be tidied up and some things wiped off but when you have dirt floors you don't need to vacuum.
@@amberstewart2521 Also, they didn't think "Man, we have it so tough compared to people in the 21st century!" They were doing what people for thousands of years had to do - cook food on an open fire. I'm sure they didn't feel that they had particularly hard lives compared people in the past - it was just a given that you had to do most things by hand, including making your own clothes and growing much of your own food. And, like you said, they didn't have to vacuum, drive to a job, ferry kids around to different activities and so on. You can see why large families were an asset rather than a money drain - you taught the kids how to help you out with things like cooking, churning, sewing and field work.
I like this cabin much more than the grand house you used to reside in! This cabin is by far cozier, more cheerful and all your own! You and Ron don't have to answer to anyone but yourselves! Bravo!
I have a feeling it's all staged for this channel... I don't think they are living anywhere but a nice cozy normal home we all reside in. It's not a problem that they do this, just don't get caught up in fantasy land and forget TV lies to us all the time :)
Cooking is a labor of love and skill. I learned how to cook meals from scratch because it's economical and healthier ( I have a big family). I enjoy watching videos such as these. Thanks for sharing.
You guys did so well with the resources made available to you. My goodness, this cabin has that rustic homey-cozy feel and I must say, the aesthetic is just lovely.
Justine, I have so much respect for the women and men from this era. They worked so very hard. I can’t even imagine young children while you’re trying to get chores done! ♥️👍
I love the quaint home you have. It looks like you're more at ease than you have been, and it makes me happy you got away from all of that. Can't wait to see more!
Fresh-made butter is wonderful! I used to make it at least once a year with my students, along with ice cream. The kids appreciate things so much more that they have made with their own hands.
It's not that hard and you don't even need a butter churner. I've used a simple container with a tight-fitting lid to get the same results. Your hand and forearm gets a good workout and you get something tasty to spread on your toast😊!
@@tdsims1963 I’ve just used my kitchen aid mixer and let it do its thing for about 10 minutes. Kids love doing butter that way. (Not to mention, it was a great skill to have during this pandemic food shortage thing when butter would be gone for weeks.)
@whutzat You're fantastic! One of my favorite memories from school is when one of my teachers had us bring in a pint of heavy cream, and we had to shake it and shake it until we had butter. Not only did it take nearly the entire 40-minute class, but it gave me a serious appreciation for having to make things by hand. Also, I learned how butter was made! You did a great thing using this project with your students, and I'm sure you gave at least some of them lifelong memories like my teacher did for me. ❤️
I love this! my husband & i homestead on our farm, built in 1800, & i always wonder about the daily lives of the original family who lived here! this is so cool!
My parents used to take the broth from pork roasts, or you could use water, and boil it then add enough cornmeal to make a thick mush and stir until the spoon stands up. They then pt it in a bowl to cool, turned it out, sliced it then fried it. most yummy. I have no idea how old the recipe is but my father grew up on a farm and his mother who had an Irish grandfather, used to make it as well. I still make it when I cook a pork roast it tastes like fretos to me. I serve it with salt but syrup can be used as well.
Rea, I grew up eating cornmeal mush for breakfast one day and the next day breakfast was leftover mush made into pancakes with "Log Cabin" syrup. I grew up in Kentucky.
That is actually an recipe Native Americans have made for centuries but it's called frybread. There are different types of frybread and this is just one of them.
It's called scrapple. It can be made using most any sort of meat bits boiled in a broth with cornmeal added and then allowed to cool and chill, just as you say. (Any seasonings such as salt, pepper, sage, sausage type seasonings may also be added to the boiling mush.) My family has also made this throughout many generations. We tend to slice it thinly and dust the strips lightly with flour before frying in a medium-hot cast iron skillet in melted bacon grease or lard. We also loved to eat it accompanied with syrup, molasses or apple butter. Delicious
All this so quick! It would be much longer showing starting the fire, milking the cow, priming the pump ( breaking the ice off if it where winter), getting more wood, and if it was Sunday collecting eggs, the wringing the neck of a chicken, plucking feathers & boiling for Sunday dinner later. My grandmother's both did all this. Very thankful for many conveniences today❤️
I keep thinking she started breakfast way too late in the morning. I would have thought people needed to wake up before dawn to prepare breakfast. Just making butter takes about 2 plus hours.
@@iheartscaryclowns Waking up before dawn to start breakfast would most certainly be the norm. However, for the sake of filming, I can see why it would be filmed later.
Breakfast back then took skill as well as patience, and you could take pride in your culinary work. I subscribe to a number of history channels and have my fav ones; Early American has taken first place!
All that work and it tasted like shit. Sad but true. Everything was plan or tasted nasty, overcooked or undercooked. We really take modern life for granted
Its looks wonderful and charming, but living like this is very challenging for modern folks. I've done long term living history and reenacting for many years, this is glorious to see, but hard work, but also very satisfying. My home and lands now, as seen in my tea related videos is considerably more elegant but I long for such a cabin in my woods, a perfect escape.
This was this first video I ever saw of Ron and Justine and their Early American adventures. I had Covid November 2021. I had nothing better to do but scour YT for whatever crossed my mind. I was curious how people in the Colonial days ate breakfast in particular. Became hooked for life and the rest is history! This will forever be my favorite video!
I know it sounds terrible, but while I enjoyed watching this, I was reminded how great it is Not to have to do things this way. I remember some years back, I was watching part of The Color Purple with someone, and even the scene where the main character is cleaning the kitchen and then cooking gave me a fit of the gratefuls. And that was the early 1900s or so
Fair comment, but imagine having to light a fire each night just to toast some bread or have a warm meal. Modern conveniences like ovens, toasters use such little electricity their impact is negligible compared to burning trees. If only we could have the best of both worlds.
Not really so slow paced. What they don't show is the chores before breakfast, i.e. emptying chamber pots, feeding the animals, gathering eggs, stoking up the fireplace from embers. Then during the day there's tending the garden, slaughtering, castrating, canning, hauling water, heating water for washing clothes, and a hundred other things just to prepare for winter and hard times. All that had to get done before dark.
This is really very interesting, and the lack of sound or narrative definitely adds something. As a history teacher, this is like gold and will certainly expose this to my students next school year. We may even have to try some of these recipes. Thank you.
Watching you cook is so relaxing, even cathartic. I could watch it for hours - like gazing into a fire on a cold winter's night. Love your cabin and love your vids. 👍
I could watch this episode over and over. Never gets old. Its true! It’s pure and it’s EXACTLY how they would done it way back then. No electricity! So cool! And best part she is absolutely quiet during the video which makes it wholesome
I loved this. My house was built around this time, a log cabin in what I suppose was then a frontier town. It's fascinating to imagine the people who built it and how they lived, dressed, and ate.
Let’s not forget that many homes if not most made their own leavening agent with a sourdough starter. Basically they would just take a little bit of the leftover though from their last batch add water and flour and let it rise and create starter for the bread for the next day
Some of us still do that. I just keep my starter in the fridge and take it out when I want to bake because it takes me a while to go through a loaf of bread.
I suppose I just romanticize the times when the woman folk were so strong and the men folk so brave. I do like being around those who appear to be able to successfully live like this if they needed too. Thank you for helping to keep my fantasy alive!
@SIMPSON Bart it's very easy to make a basic sourdough starter. Once you have that going, you just leave a bit leftover for the next batch of dough, or in some cases just use a little dough instead of starter.
@SIMPSON Bart peel a medium sized potatoe. Cut it into 4 and boil it in 500ml of filtered water till the potatoe becomes soft. Drain the potatoe water into a clean mason jar. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 cup of bakers flour. cover jar with a breathable cloth and store in a warm place out of direct sunlight. 24-72 hrs bubbles will form, feed the jar 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 tablespoon of flour. After a couple days of growth you can add this starter to any bread recipie which generally is flour water and salt. Follow a basic bread recipie and you'll always have fresh home-made bread. Truth is it's not that easy and you will make rocks instead of fluffy bread but practise makes perfect. A skill worth your learning.
@@martyhammer481 I just started last month making my own bread, I have my own sourdough starter. So are you saying with with rye flour you need more than sourdough starter? And that's why that bread looked denser than a brick?
I love the cabin, so cheery, bright and cozy. It's so clear you both are smitten with one another. xxoo from Philly! Love your videos. Thank you for the upload today.
That bread is similar to the first step of making a sourdough starter, and I'd bet that a lot of frontier families ate sourdough more often than this wild-yeast bread. Sourdough starts with equal volume of flour and water -- just that, stirred together and kept in a warm place. Each day one adds about as much new flour and water as what you already have (so you can start with just a couple tablespoons). After three to five days, it should be bubbly, runny like a batter, and smell sour and faintly alcoholic; then you take half of it and work it into that bread recipe, and feed the rest for the next day's baking. Kept in a warm place, it can be used every day, or it can be starved in a cold place (spring house, where you'd keep your butter or milk, perhaps) and will hold well for a couple weeks (for instance, if you're going traveling). Sourdough will rise higher and faster than this bread, and you still don't have to have access to actual yeast -- you've just captured and domesticated what this bread uses, and start from equivalent of five days of rising instead of nothing. Works with wheat, barley, or rye flour, whatever your use for your bread (bread made from mainly barley doesn't rise well, though, because it lacks gluten; you can add an egg white or two to help if you have the eggs to spare).
So glad you are back. I've looked for every day!!!!! I don't know what's evolved in making the films. But I love you both so much. I missed you. It's a pleasure to watch. Thanks for something decent to watch
Life was very hard for women then. I feel blessed whenever I watch these kind of videos. My aunt tells me that she and my grandmother were working so hard that she learned how to cook as early as 10 years old. My grandfather was unemployed and had alcohol issues, it was possible to get divorced legally but they were living in a small town and she didn’t get divorced. Dad tells me the days he was picking up my grandfather from different different places, he was all drunk. They were carrying water from outside of house, aunt tells me water was so cold they didn’t feel their hands. Houses were made of wood and they were hard to clean, grandmother was working while my aunt left the school to take care of 2 younger siblings. She had eye sight problem and was crying every night, until one of our relatives bought her glasses. Dad always tells that he gave the money he made first to my grandmother and how she cried. Life in small towns of Turkey only 60-70 years ago was still hard. Especially for women, especially those who were not fortunate enough to make a good marriage.
These stories are important for all families. I’m really saddened that the next generation of my family will not know of how we were raised, our morals or manners cause their side of the family dropped the ball. I guess TH-cam videos could close some of the gaps but they will never get the full picture. Thanks for sharing your stories of real life.
@@Zincink Thank you. We should know what other generations been through. I never take women’s rights and comfortable lives we have for granted. Many people tend to overly romanticize “old times” but they were also tough times. Especially for women.
@A J Working like a man to bring home money and raising 4 kids and having to look after an alcoholic husband and cooking must be very hard! Do you carry a cold stone in the place that you should be carrying a heart?
I love how here the husband is back in time for breakfast. They eat together. Had a little conversation about his morning work related stuff. I could watch these videos all day. Wow just wow. I want to transport back even if for a day.
Different naturally occurring "yeasts" were highly prized and frequently brought over from the mother country. I read about this in historical journals where I grew up. The best strains were shared and kept growing for many years, even traveling across the US with various groups migrating west. Sourdough. Fascinating history.
My grand-aunt has a 300+ year old starter in the old country, but mine is just 8 years old. I started it with the help of soaking bread with the flavor profile I wanted with the water and flour mixture to get something similar. You can also speed up the process with a grated apple in your initial starter to encourage the fermentation to get going. The reason people in the past used wooden dough troughs, was because the wood grain retained some of the starter culture. In my old country, one of the folk tales talks of a useless new daughter-in-law in a house, who tried to be helpful, and scrubbed the dough trough, and in the process, ruined the heirloom bread starter.
Same with yoghurt cultures i had one before I moved overseas that had been carried on & shared literally for over a 1000 years & recordd as to whom & where it went. Sooooo good, I can see why : )
@Gail Hitson Lots of claptrap told about sourdough starter. If the sourdough starter was lost in a wagon train during the pioneer days, the momma would simply knead some dough and slap it to her young daughter's bare back for a minute. Sourdough yeast is a mundane product.
For those of us who strive to live a more natural, seasonal, sustainable and healthier lifestyle free from processed foods, preservatives, chemicals and other additives, and with less reliance on modern supply chains that don’t always work, these historic reenactment videos are a gem. Our ancestors got by quite well without all of that, and even though it’s a lot of work to do things from scratch, it’s well worth it! Thanks!
@@weaponson3-158 Well, generally there are ways to save up, or you could slowly go through the process of becoming more self sustainable. Just look into it, really.
I don’t know why but these videos calm me down, they also make me very appreciative to cook with the modern appliances we have now making things so much easier…..it’s a shame all our foods are so processed and modified though 😕 Imagine how different the fruits and veggies tasted just 30 years ago and longer!
Our food is much healthier than the food back then. Without proper refrigeration or an understanding of food storage and hygiene, fruit and veges would start to rot the second they were picked. Processing and modifying food is not necessarily bad. For example, people back then would kill to have their flour fortified with the vitamins and minerals we take for granted in our wheat products, to prevent many diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies.
@@HSFY2012 the soil of today is lacking so many nutrients due to mono cropping. The soil from ancestral times was way more packed full of nutrients. Using animals to work the land was part of the process of adding minerals back into the soil. The tractors of today, not to mention what is sprayed on crops, is most certainly not helping with their quality nor nutrition. That is why flour needs fortification. Nothing to be proud of.
Food was not safer or cleaner. No plumbing, readily available water & lack of refrigeration ment food, preparation & storage could be risky. People ate foods that today we would probably toss. Foods were scraped out, scraped off or broken off to discard mold, mildew, spoilage, or rodent bites.. Tastes were not as refined as today. Rancid or soured foods were disguised with spices. Food.& the total preparation of foods plus the availability guaranteed nothing went to waste unless absolutely necessary.
@@HSFY2012 Not so - in fact the complete opposite of what you have written is the truth. "without proper refrigeration or understanding of food storage and hygiene" implies 1) that an invention not invented is missed and 2) women were not taught all those things by their elders from the moment they were old enough to help around the house. Untrue. Homesteading was an art that was passed down generationally, indeed it was often practiced that way with several generations under one roof. Skills and learning on those very subjects were so ingrained into daily life that it wasn't presented as an extra, a special lesson, it just was. Processed food and modified food, as in modified at the genetic level in irresponsible ways, is always a bad thing. Modifying foods as in preserving, canning and drying have nothing to do with what is considered "modified". Having to fortify foods that require no fortifying if left alone in its natural state is due to manufacture of food rather than the growing of food. Mass production, the greatest evil of the modern times, leads to practices that lower nutritional value of food and to the addition of chemicals. Today's foodstuffs found at grocers is much, much less nutritionally dense and are "grown" in soils, if their roots ever do see soil, that are increasingly deprived of necessary microbes and are, in many cases, genetically mutated to the point that our bodies either cannot digest or recognize it as "poison" as is true for most of the wheat flour we encounter - the dwarf wheat.
How is Ron going to farm or deliver chopped wood without his horses? How will Ron make a living? The cabin looks great though. Not as fancy or elegant as the home Justine used to work in, but much better to be queen in a cabin than a maid in a mansion. I'm rooting for you both.
Oh wow! I said it before and I will say it again! I'd love to be a reenactor as you both do it! The clothes would fit me very well, and just... I love cooking so much and cooking everything from scratch! To know how the good folks back then cooked and survived the way they did! I love it. I've always have been so fond of going to places like Williamsburg, and visiting the old museums with actors portraying the lives from back then. I always loved it!!!
Agree. Don't mind talking because sometimes I watch/listen to TH-cam videos while doing my own chores. But I hate background music or any musical intro. ESPECIALLY when people are talking and I'm trying to listen to what they're saying over that annoying music.
I adore the newer videos more then anything. Your videos are the perfect start and end to my day, they're so creative and inspiring. Thank you so much for continuing to make these amazing videos like this. Also, you both look absolutely wonderful. Much love, joy and encouragement from Australia ❤️
Found your channel last night and I’m absolutely enchanted. It’s helping me through the anxiety of a detox from opiate medications (started by my doctor due to terminal illness and got me reliant on them), and it seriously feels like it brings back flashes and memories from a past life where I lived in this era. Wonder if anyone else here is getting those past life familiarity vibes here, any other reincarnation believers getting warm familiar flashes from this?
I’m so glad I had the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder as a child! Naturally, she lived as a child 100 years or so later than the time reconstructed here, but her father moved them to a few places where there were no other white people, and he had to walk for days to go to the nearest to the nearest town to get supplies. I loved reading about Ma cooking and preparing food, making butter and cheese, and imagining what it must have been like. I loved that she grated a carrot, cooked it with milk, and used it to make her butter a pretty yellow and then she gave the cooked carrot to the little girls to eat, which was a great treat....very different from “treats” today!
While her books were published in the 1920's, Wilder's childhood was only 4-5 decades past this time period, and out on the frontier. I recall it wasn't that much different actually.
I started watching this because I was curious and I continue to watch to be grateful for what we have and for the struggles those before us went through. This episode showed me a little glimpse of the partnership a couple would share. They both needed one another and were trying to survive together. Beautiful.
Wow first cooking video in your new home, I love everything, the beautiful hearth, the sounds of mixing, pouring, the crackling of the fire and the toaster is sooo cool. Thank you for making my day with another great video x
Love the channel!!! I grew up with my greatgrandma and grandparents so all these concepts are not so foreign to me! Its wonderful to actually see it in action rather than hear about them!
I d’ had my great grandmother that were born in the 1900”s & great grandfather's I wish 🙏 I could have known my paternal great grandfather more. & wish could my paternal great grandmother to be honest I was rather jealous of my nieces & younger cousins. I told both of one day at least u girls got to see ur great grandmothers alive all three died before I was born.
I noticed that in this episode you called Ron your husband. So I wandered if y'all were really married or just playing at being married? I love the idea that you all are married because it's the epitome of Old World values. So if ya haven't married do you think you two shall ever commit? Just a romantic hopeful♥️ I loved your all's cabin. Great place to film.😀
One can also use the buttermilk for baking. Pour it over the flour when making bread. Same with whey from making cheese. Did that today and it is so tasty!
Your videos are just wonderful! You truly bring history to life and what a tremendous resource for children and students and teachers!! Thank you so much!
Just discovered your channel. I would love to spend two weeks holiday living like this just to experience the way people lived and the food of 100 years ago. I most certainly couldn't hack living like that for very long. Miss the modern comforts of home too much. Admire you for doing so. It must be a healthy lifestyle.
In Italy, and since ancient times Egypt, sour dough is common. I know bread makers in Italy save a scrape of the day's bread dough for the next day's bread to make it rise. I've made starter with rye flour and buttermilk. Sourdough was popular on the West Coast USA in the 1800's so I wonder if all people just hadn't heard of it yet?
I think they likely knew about it, but the English culture that was dominant in the East seemed to have some serious snobbishness when it came to food flavors. As I get older I do find that sourdough messes with my stomach, so I guess I shouldn't be too harsh....
@@UtahSustainGardening I can see if they aren't used to the flavor of sourness they wouldn't be drawn to it. Guess that's why they came up with active yeast from beer. :)
so happy for you guys! I feel like her handwork and kitchen skills are improving out of character too, which helps with the immersion! now just for a higher quality footage... your work is good enough it deserves it
wow such improvement in the cabin. I wonder if you're making the other room into a bedroom now or soon. It looks lovely and warm. hope you can find some money to have a sweet ceremony soon, too. I would like to see it happening, crowning your love for each other. (if this is a saying in your country, also) :)
My great grandmother burned to death cooking in front of an open stove, and that was in 1920 - it seems even more dangerous a 100 years earlier. Plus, they had to milk the cows and gather eggs BEFORE doing all this work for one meal to start the day. I'll take my microwave Jimmy Deans please!
Not to mention no electricity, no central heating, no indoor plumbing. Then if you get sick, no antibiotics and no vaccines against childhood killers like small pox, whooping cough, measles and god knows what else. I don't think doctors are washing their hands yet, so he could make infection worse (so even if your great grandmother had survived the initial injury, she would have died of sepsis). If you had a poor crop that year, likely you'd have to sell all that nice stuff she has in her kitchen and stave famine from the door because there is no welfare state. Getting your neighbours to help you might not be possible because they also had a shitty crop that year and are also desperate to unload stuff so THEY can survive. Sorry for the information dump. My main point was that I totally agree with you that living in the past would suck.
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We now have FOUR glass windows. Using the money that Ron gathered from selling his horses we are now living like royals. I may or may not have nagged Ron for more glass windows. Thank you everyone for your support!
Here are the receipts:
Johnny Cakes (American Cookery, 1796) - "Scald 1 pint of milk and put to 3 pints of indian meal, and half pint of flower-bake before the fire. Or scald with milk two thirds of the Indian meal, or wet two thirds with boiling water, add salt, molasses and shortening, work up with cold water pretty stiff, and bake as above."
Butter - churn or shake heavy whipping cream in a container until the liquid has separated from the butter solids. This can take half an hour. Toss the liquid (or keep it for baking) then wash your butter in cold water as you press it into your desired shape.
Yeast free bread - there are no intact receipts for this as far as I'm aware because receipts for the poor were often not recorded. However, there are several mentions of working class people who baked bread without yeast in the autobiographies of travelers in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Because of this we know that it was a common practice. I used a local 18th century receipt passed down to me from a friend who says that this receipt has been in his family since the 1750s. I simply removed the addition of yeast from it. "3 cups of rye flour (a flour which was more affordable than white flour), 1-1.5 cups of warm water, 1-3 heaping tablespoons of honey or molasses (I used molasses). You can choose to let it rise for 2 hours in a warm place if you wish. The naturally occurring yeast that is on our hands and in the flour will get on the dough when we knead it. It will not however rise as much as if you had purposefully added yeast. Bake for half an hour at 350 degrees.
The bread must have been pretty dense!
Everything you made look delicious I Remember when I was a kid my mom would have us shaking the jar and we was excited to have butter.
These are RECIPES, dear, NOT "receipts". Receipts are bits of paper you get after you pay for something. Goodness, I'm surprised at your English! Love the video all the same! ~Janet in Canada
@@mastersadvocate Not in 1820s America :)
"Receipt" is an old form of the word recipe.
@@mastersadvocate Wrong, in the old days recipes were called receipts. Edit to add in 1862 the cookbook called " Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt-Book, by Catharine Beecher" was published. This would be 40 years after the period that Ron and Justine would have been establishing their household.
People tend to romanticize the old days and I admit it looks so cozy and I love to see all the skills that were involved in just day to day living. It also looks like a tremendous amount of work, discomfort due to heat and cold and lets not forget lack of vaccines, antibiotics, pain killers and even an understanding of germ theory. I am both mesmerized with this time and also so glad I didn't live in it (if that makes sense). Beautiful video, I really enjoyed watching and will watch more ! (the bread looked delicious)
People call it the simple life, there was nothing simple about it. Backbreaking work, food insecurity, little social safely net, a lot of illness and premature death.
Totally agree
Makes me wonder if people in the past play pretend to be in their past. If that makes sense
@@kiramman4874 people in the present playing playhouse of the past. The past was brutal.
Our knowledge of herbal medicine back then was much greater, peppermint for the stomach, feverfew for headaches, poppy for pain relief and sleep etc., We have since the local chemist forgotten many of the uses both culinary and medicinal of the plants in our gardens. Culpeppers Herbal etc., has been around since the sixteen hundreds! The knowledge was common knowledge for all good Housewifes and religious orders. There are many herbals today new and secondhand...........
I love that there's still this side of TH-cam. It's so interesting and calm compared to some of the crazy drama on the other side.
I try to stay on this side...
I agree! I love these and the English Heritage ones
Agreed whole heartedly. With all this political lunacy of Left and Right and everything is racist, its refreshing to have some calm.
I agree. It’s always nice to see representation of what life was like before smartphones and the like. It is very serene and calming and it is almost like time just goes by slower and is felt more deeply
Recently discovered this side and I’m here to stay😌
I used to play these videos for my mother who became bed fast after Alzheimer’s stole her ability to walk. I was her sole caregiver and was constantly looking for ways to keep her entertained and excited about the day ahead. See mom was raised like this. No electricity, running water or indoor plumbing. A spring house in front of the cabin was where they stored any perishable food they might have had. Since she had 7 brothers and sisters there wasn’t a whole lot of anything except hard work and of course love.
My point is that these videos brought both mom and me such joy as it reminded her of the life she had up in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. They gave me a visual for all the stories she had shared with me as we were growing up. They also gave me a cherished memory of my mother enjoying the time we had even though our circumstances were dreadful.
Even though she forgot who she was, who I was and pretty much everything else these images were still in her mind. I’d be in bed beside her holding her hand as we watched and she’d make these sweet little noises like a baby cooing. I’ll never forget the smile on her face and the twinkle in her eyes as she watched these videos.
Your videos have touched our lives in ways you probably wasn’t expecting and for this I thank you. ❤
Wow Randy your comment completely changed my life I'm serious. I am nearly speechless. That is simply incredible that I could make a difference in your sweet mother's life. A mother's love is forever. She is up in the clouds still loving you, I promise.
@@EarlyAmerican Your efforts have not gone unnoticed. You have touched more lives with these videos than you may realize.
RIP to your mother
@@danisabeh9771 Thank you 🙏🏻
Wow, not going to lie, this made me tear up... beautiful of you to do that for your mom
This kind of stuff really makes you realize why so many people back then considered being a "homemaker" a full time job. We really take for granted some of out modern day tools, such a strange but fascinating thing
Damn, this looks really good for being filmed in 1820.
It’s recreation breakfast of 1820 in 2021.
@@maryjanesbaby9392 I think he was kidding.....
@@Gamble661 I knew it!😂
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@@maryjanesbaby9392 bruh rly?
Watching this made me feel so grateful that I can make my tea and toast in less than 5 minutes!
Love tea and toast.
But these days you are eating junk which is fast to prepare. Food was much organic and healthier back then.
While sitting and working remotely instead of tending to the fire
You all probably make nasty 1min meals in comparison to the 1820s
That why you have the hight level of illeness and cancer in US
I particularly appreciate the lack of sound add-ons, it makes the whole thing feel way more authentic since I personally often have music on with fridge and street noises in the background when I'm home
I love it, too! But, that's not how it goes down in my house--I'm either singing, make weird noises, or the neighbor's dogs are barking, the gas guy is honking as he drives by, there's a mariachi coming through, aha...sigh...!
That’s what I noticed the most in this video- it’s so quiet!!! 😂
I think it would be cool to have wing-ding sounds like in Korean cat videos. Like he opens the door and it meows, or she uncovers the dutch oven and it goes DING. But maybe that would ruin the mood
Foley Artists do have fun. lol
Oh yes. Videos were much different back then.
I remember my great grand mother making butter. The churn was wooden and bigger. She milked the cows. And let the milk settle. The cream would float to top. She used the cream for butter, coffee,bread,and cooking. She even saved bacon grease to cook and fry. She even made her own salt from the ocean of Maine. No running water and a outhouse.and loved to garden. In a small house like that.
WOW! A nice memory and great learning experience for you. You're very lucky.
@Karl with a K Huh? I'm not even 50 yet and microwaves were fairly new when I was a kid, similar to VCR's. A lot of people still didn't have one.
@Karl with a K the K must be for Karen! I was 14 years old when my great grandma died at 98 years of age. At the age of 6 my grandpa her son would take me fishing. I remember the bow full of salt. to preserve the cod and flounder, haddock. There was no microwave. There was a old fridge from 1930s with copper coils on top. She had no TV. A old radio and a piano. And a outhouse. Water came from a hand Doug well. My great grandma born 1891 till 1989 . The boat I remember is was donated to Augusta Maine museum. By Elmer Genthner. My grandpa .not everyone was rich to buy a microwave for 1,000 to 800 in 1980s. That money was used for property tax. And get by by day.
@Karl with a K no I learned a lot I still preserve food. Make sausage.and make ice cream with rocksalt and ice. I still speak English,German of my old tongue. And Cherokee. Tell me karl why would the old days be gone. And leave them in the past. When the past has thought you the old ways. When I can go in a Amish community and speak their dutch. and can trade my corn, or over abundance to help others. You never leave your past. You learn to move forward. An old Amish gentleman " told me common curticity costs nothing".
@Karl with a K yes it costs. But ask yourself the sausage you make! Is a lot better than store bought. No dyes, salt, smoke flavor,fake casings,msg in food and additives. To make ice cream cost little to nothing to make just time. The real truth is if you have no power. And to live off the land. I don't think you would be cut out for it. If you don't know how to. Being brought up teaches you the old ways. Watching this video reminds me when I was young. And cooking toasting on a open fire is the best. Not to mention the old Atlantic wood stoves.
These videos seriously make me appreciate all of the modern gadgets and conveniences I have today.
Not everyone
@@brisa3767 yes, thank you for correcting me. All of the gadgets and conveniences I have today.
I promise you will want this if they shut down the power and there is not more oil and gas soon
@@luluparl1245 yup! Never know when times may get tough.
Modern conveniences change over time. My parents grew up with an outhouse, hand pump, wood heating and radio entertainment from a battery. I got to see the invention of the microwave, cell phone, and computer. We must learn how to learn, and not forget the past.
For anyone wondering, baking bread and making butter wasn’t done daily. Instead it was done on a certain day of the week. Baking on Wednesday, churning on Thursday etc.
K kewl
I was going to comment that about the butter, but is that true of the bread as well? I was under the understanding that bread was either bought from a baker in the cities, or made daily at home in the case of simple cakes (but I do see a large loaf lasting for multiple days.)
@@imstupid880 Johnny cakes (is that what you meant) were probably made everyday because they could be fried on a skillet. Bread, pies, cakes, cookies (I’ve also heard of other dishes like beans and stuff) etc. we’re cooked once a week since they required an oven and ovens took a lot of wood and time to heat up, so if it was done everyday for a average farmer it would take time away from other chores (in this case a Dutch oven was used and that’s fine, it’s just that it can’t be used for large quantities. Brick ovens were either outside near the house or built into the fireplace).
@@thetillerwiller4696 Hmmm I've heard the opposite, that fires were kept lit and tended to the whole day (although usually on a very low flame or coals), which allowed for heating and for cooking throughout the whole day, and was why a lot of recipes had long cook times (puddings, stews, roasts, etc)
@@imstupid880 yes that’s true, but that’s only for the main fire place in the house, the brick oven needed another fire in it to warm it up to optimal temperature
I grew up on a small ranch in the mountains and my mom used to make a heavy bread that was so good. I don't remember the recipe but she would add molasses and I loved it! So much so that I would have molasses mixed in with fresh milk. I haven't thought about that in 40 years, thanks for that! 😀
@terratrodder Was it a whole wheat molasses bread, or a rye bread with molasses do You remember by chance? I was just curious because my mom made both of those breads with molasses and I'll never forget they were so good! 🙏🙏🥰
Yes. Molasses mixed into milk was delicious. We called it Tiger Milk. I forgot all about it until you mentioned it.
@@jgriffin282 we called it goat milk with molasses. Lol
There is great pride in making things from scratch…there’s more heart in it. My family is from Portugal and cooking in the fire was an every day thing. My grandmothers kitchen walls were black from the open fire 💜 how I miss her.
My microwave has been broke for a week and I’m devastated. I cannot fathom that lifestyle.
If the power goes off I feel death is only a few hours away.
@Don Nash LOL yes
@@donnash5813 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@@donnash5813 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I lived in India from early 1960s to mid 70s, and many of these kitchen techniques were used then even in middle class homes. Now I am sure there are still people using them. I have had perfectly delicious cakes baked with putting it in a pot with coals on the top as well as underneath.
That's true. In Kerala (southern part of India) I remember seeing food cooked by burning wood , charcoal sometime in 2005 or so. Now most of them have turned to LPG.
Nothing beats food made from scratch even if it’s a pain to make it all the time.
@@xxxxSOSEXYxxxx And you know what it is in it.
My mother in law still uses one where she lives in Africa. It is still pretty common, and really neat to see people using them on TH-cam!
There are I contacted tribes who haven’t yet reached the Iron Age, so I would say this video is pretty advanced relatively speaking.
I'm almost 60, I watch your videos and and it always makes me tear up to see how folks lived back then. We really have no business ever complaining about anything.
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Indeed, we live blessed lives, better than Kings & Queens of past.
Problems are relative man. If my oven stops working, you're damn right I'm gonna complain about it.
@tropophyte And I bet the food was healthy as could be, no pesticides and chemical fertilizers!!!!!!
@tropophyte The fact you mentioned just the musical genre hip-hop.. has a racial undertone. FYI, Hip-Hop wasn’t always about violence, drugs, and gangs.
this made me emotional - in a way, we're not so different, are we? we still come in and talk to our spouses about work. we still smile and say the bread smells good. we still have toast with butter.
these things seem trivial, but in the end, humans have always loved each other and bread. every culture has its own love and its own bread.
all this food made with love. just like my frozen eggo waffles were 😌
Love those Eggo waffles!
Lol frozen eggo waffles 🧇😂😂
I love this comment
rice-based societies have entered the chat
And now we tell our spouses that McDonalds didn't get our order right again. Yep... we are identically different from back then.
I live in South Korea and this channel is truly a gem. I love how you reenact how earlier people lived in America. There is something quite home about how you live. It hits me deep and hard every time I watch your video. You deserve my sub. Thank you.
Earlier white people. Please understand the rest of folks didn’t eat this.
Love from Maine USA❤
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This cabin is so quaint and cozy. I actually like this over the Stephenson house. You’ve done an amazing job making it a lovely home. Thank you for the recipes.
thank you very much, it was a fun yet challenging project!!
I agree! So cozy!
@@ronrayfield8177 It's a really beautiful place to film and everything in there just works well. A slice of heaven for sure.
I agree!
I agree.
As someone who cooks at home, just watching this video makes me feel tired. It's as if I feel the woman's fatigue after all that effort and work just to have a butter and bread for breakfast. Huge respect for all the women in the old days that managed to survive despite the discomfort due to the lack of advance materials.
realize that yes they had chores but they had a whole less to do. Yes making food and such was the daily norm but they didn't have jobs to go to, houses that needed to be spotless- like yes it needed to be tidied up and some things wiped off but when you have dirt floors you don't need to vacuum.
@@amberstewart2521 Also, they didn't think "Man, we have it so tough compared to people in the 21st century!" They were doing what people for thousands of years had to do - cook food on an open fire. I'm sure they didn't feel that they had particularly hard lives compared people in the past - it was just a given that you had to do most things by hand, including making your own clothes and growing much of your own food. And, like you said, they didn't have to vacuum, drive to a job, ferry kids around to different activities and so on. You can see why large families were an asset rather than a money drain - you taught the kids how to help you out with things like cooking, churning, sewing and field work.
@@amberstewart2521 I love how arrogantly wrong you are.
that’s why women were home all the time there was so much to do lol
Yeah, women back then were stuck at home cooking and cleaning all day, plus raising like 10 children. It couldn't have been easy.
I like listening to the sounds of the chopping /fire burning etc. Kind of like the joy of painting with its brush strokes and Bobs calm voice.
I like this cabin much more than the grand house you used to reside in! This cabin is by far cozier, more cheerful and all your own! You and Ron don't have to answer to anyone but yourselves! Bravo!
thankyou!
I agree!
I agree.
love that cabin...!! wish I could create that look.....
I have a feeling it's all staged for this channel... I don't think they are living anywhere but a nice cozy normal home we all reside in. It's not a problem that they do this, just don't get caught up in fantasy land and forget TV lies to us all the time :)
Cooking is a labor of love and skill. I learned how to cook meals from scratch because it's economical and healthier ( I have a big family). I enjoy watching videos such as these. Thanks for sharing.
My auntie would use the whey from the butter add added to make bread, to make milk go further.
I have severe anxiety and panic attacks. Your videos have helped me so much when I’m feeling overwhelmed !!
fr, I watch these before work to calm me down!!
Smoke some weed
I had them also and found out I was very deficient in B1...panic attacks disappeared...talk to your doctor...hope it helps...
@@ssoma151 Sure that'll help with anxiety in the long run
Use lavender balm
You guys did so well with the resources made available to you. My goodness, this cabin has that rustic homey-cozy feel and I must say, the aesthetic is just lovely.
Justine, I have so much respect for the women and men from this era. They worked so very hard. I can’t even imagine young children while you’re trying to get chores done! ♥️👍
I love the quaint home you have. It looks like you're more at ease than you have been, and it makes me happy you got away from all of that.
Can't wait to see more!
great to see such imagery so lovingly restored
Fresh-made butter is wonderful! I used to make it at least once a year with my students, along with ice cream. The kids appreciate things so much more that they have made with their own hands.
It's not that hard and you don't even need a butter churner. I've used a simple container with a tight-fitting lid to get the same results. Your hand and forearm gets a good workout and you get something tasty to spread on your toast😊!
@@tdsims1963 Nice!
@@tdsims1963 I’ve just used my kitchen aid mixer and let it do its thing for about 10 minutes. Kids love doing butter that way. (Not to mention, it was a great skill to have during this pandemic food shortage thing when butter would be gone for weeks.)
@whutzat You're fantastic! One of my favorite memories from school is when one of my teachers had us bring in a pint of heavy cream, and we had to shake it and shake it until we had butter. Not only did it take nearly the entire 40-minute class, but it gave me a serious appreciation for having to make things by hand. Also, I learned how butter was made!
You did a great thing using this project with your students, and I'm sure you gave at least some of them lifelong memories like my teacher did for me. ❤️
I love this! my husband & i homestead on our farm, built in 1800, & i always wonder about the daily lives of the original family who lived here! this is so cool!
My parents used to take the broth from pork roasts, or you could use water, and boil it then add enough cornmeal to make a thick mush and stir until the spoon stands up. They then pt it in a bowl to cool, turned it out, sliced it then fried it. most yummy. I have no idea how old the recipe is but my father grew up on a farm and his mother who had an Irish grandfather, used to make it as well. I still make it when I cook a pork roast it tastes like fretos to me. I serve it with salt but syrup can be used as well.
Rea, I grew up eating cornmeal mush for breakfast one day and the next day breakfast was leftover mush made into pancakes with "Log Cabin" syrup. I grew up in Kentucky.
I love old timey recipes, thank you. This is excellent, may I ask what country, region, decades, your people hail from?
That is actually an recipe Native Americans have made for centuries but it's called frybread. There are different types of frybread and this is just one of them.
It's called scrapple. It can be made using most any sort of meat bits boiled in a broth with cornmeal added and then allowed to cool and chill, just as you say. (Any seasonings such as salt, pepper, sage, sausage type seasonings may also be added to the boiling mush.) My family has also made this throughout many generations. We tend to slice it thinly and dust the strips lightly with flour before frying in a medium-hot cast iron skillet in melted bacon grease or lard. We also loved to eat it accompanied with syrup, molasses or apple butter. Delicious
Butter and karo syrup
Justine, I find this style of living very interesting yet most difficult. I appreciate all you do to encourage this lifestyle and way of living.
Everything is labour intensive but the results so satisfying. I love how the fireplace is, in reality, the heart of the home.
All this so quick! It would be much longer showing starting the fire, milking the cow, priming the pump ( breaking the ice off if it where winter), getting more wood, and if it was Sunday collecting eggs, the wringing the neck of a chicken, plucking feathers & boiling for Sunday dinner later.
My grandmother's both did all this.
Very thankful for many conveniences today❤️
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The fire never went out.
I keep thinking she started breakfast way too late in the morning.
I would have thought people needed to wake up before dawn to prepare breakfast.
Just making butter takes about 2 plus hours.
even my dad did this as a child in Brazil, many many people still live sort of like we did in the 1820s
@@iheartscaryclowns Waking up before dawn to start breakfast would most certainly be the norm. However, for the sake of filming, I can see why it would be filmed later.
Your cabin is so cozy. Love the bread toaster and fresh made butter...delicious!
Enjoy...just relaxing..taking a glimpse into another time...
Breakfast back then took skill as well as patience, and you could take pride in your culinary work. I subscribe to a number of history channels and have my fav ones; Early American has taken first place!
Do you have any other recommended ones to watch?just stumbling upon this now
Hai would you please suggest few other channels too?
@@ProdigiousReturn Townsends is most excellent.
All that work and it tasted like shit. Sad but true. Everything was plan or tasted nasty, overcooked or undercooked. We really take modern life for granted
@@sirsir9665 even then, the only important factor was that you had enough to eat to survive working another day
Its looks wonderful and charming, but living like this is very challenging for modern folks. I've done long term living history and reenacting for many years, this is glorious to see, but hard work, but also very satisfying.
My home and lands now, as seen in my tea related videos is considerably more elegant but I long for such a cabin in my woods, a perfect escape.
Love how warm and cozy the cabin is! You are a natural, the bread ,butter and cakes look delicious!😊
This was this first video I ever saw of Ron and Justine and their Early American adventures. I had Covid November 2021. I had nothing better to do but scour YT for whatever crossed my mind. I was curious how people in the Colonial days ate breakfast in particular. Became hooked for life and the rest is history! This will forever be my favorite video!
Mine too !!!!!!
I love history.....
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I only started watching her this year, and I’d seen several videos before this one. But somehow I agree that it’s a favorite.
About the four minute mark broke my heart. I didn't realize how much I missed food with someones fingerprints in it since my mother died.
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God bless you ease and blessings. Ameen
You’re lucky you’re mother cooked for you
I always enjoy watching you prepare meals and I’m reminded of how much we waste (paper products, etc.). Great episode!
I know it sounds terrible, but while I enjoyed watching this, I was reminded how great it is Not to have to do things this way. I remember some years back, I was watching part of The Color Purple with someone, and even the scene where the main character is cleaning the kitchen and then cooking gave me a fit of the gratefuls. And that was the early 1900s or so
Fair comment, but imagine having to light a fire each night just to toast some bread or have a warm meal. Modern conveniences like ovens, toasters use such little electricity their impact is negligible compared to burning trees. If only we could have the best of both worlds.
Life was so much more slow-paced back then compared to the hustle and bustle of the 21st century! Very relaxing watching videos like this!
It wasn't slow paced it was hell
I was just thinking the same how slow it is, I’d be so bored
Not really so slow paced. What they don't show is the chores before breakfast, i.e. emptying chamber pots, feeding the animals, gathering eggs, stoking up the fireplace from embers. Then during the day there's tending the garden, slaughtering, castrating, canning, hauling water, heating water for washing clothes, and a hundred other things just to prepare for winter and hard times. All that had to get done before dark.
People back then went through a lot more than we do now actually we live in the more simple times than they did.
@@chelledegrasse2787 Thank You!
This is really very interesting, and the lack of sound or narrative definitely adds something. As a history teacher, this is like gold and will certainly expose this to my students next school year. We may even have to try some of these recipes. Thank you.
Watching you cook is so relaxing, even cathartic. I could watch it for hours - like gazing into a fire on a cold winter's night. Love your cabin and love your vids. 👍
Your new home looks warm and cozy. So happy to see all is going well. Looking forward to many more videos. 😀
I could watch this episode over and over. Never gets old. Its true! It’s pure and it’s EXACTLY how they would done it way back then. No electricity! So cool! And best part she is absolutely quiet during the video which makes it wholesome
I loved this. My house was built around this time, a log cabin in what I suppose was then a frontier town. It's fascinating to imagine the people who built it and how they lived, dressed, and ate.
Let’s not forget that many homes if not most made their own leavening agent with a sourdough starter. Basically they would just take a little bit of the leftover though from their last batch add water and flour and let it rise and create starter for the bread for the next day
Some of us still do that. I just keep my starter in the fridge and take it out when I want to bake because it takes me a while to go through a loaf of bread.
I suppose I just romanticize the times when the woman folk were so strong and the men folk so brave. I do like being around those who appear to be able to successfully live like this if they needed too. Thank you for helping to keep my fantasy alive!
@SIMPSON Bart it's very easy to make a basic sourdough starter. Once you have that going, you just leave a bit leftover for the next batch of dough, or in some cases just use a little dough instead of starter.
@SIMPSON Bart peel a medium sized potatoe. Cut it into 4 and boil it in 500ml of filtered water till the potatoe becomes soft. Drain the potatoe water into a clean mason jar. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 cup of bakers flour. cover jar with a breathable cloth and store in a warm place out of direct sunlight. 24-72 hrs bubbles will form, feed the jar 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 tablespoon of flour. After a couple days of growth you can add this starter to any bread recipie which generally is flour water and salt. Follow a basic bread recipie and you'll always have fresh home-made bread. Truth is it's not that easy and you will make rocks instead of fluffy bread but practise makes perfect. A skill worth your learning.
@@martyhammer481 I just started last month making my own bread, I have my own sourdough starter. So are you saying with with rye flour you need more than sourdough starter? And that's why that bread looked denser than a brick?
I love the cabin, so cheery, bright and cozy. It's so clear you both are smitten with one another. xxoo from Philly! Love your videos. Thank you for the upload today.
I can remember watching my grandmother make butter in a large churn more than 50 yrs ago those women worked very hard
That bread is similar to the first step of making a sourdough starter, and I'd bet that a lot of frontier families ate sourdough more often than this wild-yeast bread. Sourdough starts with equal volume of flour and water -- just that, stirred together and kept in a warm place. Each day one adds about as much new flour and water as what you already have (so you can start with just a couple tablespoons). After three to five days, it should be bubbly, runny like a batter, and smell sour and faintly alcoholic; then you take half of it and work it into that bread recipe, and feed the rest for the next day's baking. Kept in a warm place, it can be used every day, or it can be starved in a cold place (spring house, where you'd keep your butter or milk, perhaps) and will hold well for a couple weeks (for instance, if you're going traveling).
Sourdough will rise higher and faster than this bread, and you still don't have to have access to actual yeast -- you've just captured and domesticated what this bread uses, and start from equivalent of five days of rising instead of nothing. Works with wheat, barley, or rye flour, whatever your use for your bread (bread made from mainly barley doesn't rise well, though, because it lacks gluten; you can add an egg white or two to help if you have the eggs to spare).
So glad you are back. I've looked for every day!!!!! I don't know what's evolved in making the films. But I love you both so much. I missed you. It's a pleasure to watch. Thanks for something decent to watch
Life was very hard for women then. I feel blessed whenever I watch these kind of videos.
My aunt tells me that she and my grandmother were working so hard that she learned how to cook as early as 10 years old. My grandfather was unemployed and had alcohol issues, it was possible to get divorced legally but they were living in a small town and she didn’t get divorced. Dad tells me the days he was picking up my grandfather from different different places, he was all drunk. They were carrying water from outside of house, aunt tells me water was so cold they didn’t feel their hands. Houses were made of wood and they were hard to clean, grandmother was working while my aunt left the school to take care of 2 younger siblings. She had eye sight problem and was crying every night, until one of our relatives bought her glasses. Dad always tells that he gave the money he made first to my grandmother and how she cried. Life in small towns of Turkey only 60-70 years ago was still hard. Especially for women, especially those who were not fortunate enough to make a good marriage.
Thanks for sharing this.
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These stories are important for all families. I’m really saddened that the next generation of my family will not know of how we were raised, our morals or manners cause their side of the family dropped the ball. I guess TH-cam videos could close some of the gaps but they will never get the full picture. Thanks for sharing your stories of real life.
@@Zincink Thank you. We should know what other generations been through. I never take women’s rights and comfortable lives we have for granted. Many people tend to overly romanticize “old times” but they were also tough times. Especially for women.
@A J Working like a man to bring home money and raising 4 kids and having to look after an alcoholic husband and cooking must be very hard! Do you carry a cold stone in the place that you should be carrying a heart?
I love how here the husband is back in time for breakfast. They eat together. Had a little conversation about his morning work related stuff.
I could watch these videos all day. Wow just wow. I want to transport back even if for a day.
Different naturally occurring "yeasts" were highly prized and frequently brought over from the mother country. I read about this in historical journals where I grew up. The best strains were shared and kept growing for many years, even traveling across the US with various groups migrating west. Sourdough. Fascinating history.
My grand-aunt has a 300+ year old starter in the old country, but mine is just 8 years old. I started it with the help of soaking bread with the flavor profile I wanted with the water and flour mixture to get something similar. You can also speed up the process with a grated apple in your initial starter to encourage the fermentation to get going.
The reason people in the past used wooden dough troughs, was because the wood grain retained some of the starter culture. In my old country, one of the folk tales talks of a useless new daughter-in-law in a house, who tried to be helpful, and scrubbed the dough trough, and in the process, ruined the heirloom bread starter.
@UCW9hhwGrP8pca9cDjNql7RQ oh my God shut up
Same with yoghurt cultures i had one before I moved overseas that had been carried on & shared literally for over a 1000 years & recordd as to whom & where it went. Sooooo good, I can see why : )
@Gail Hitson Lots of claptrap told about sourdough starter. If the sourdough starter was lost in a wagon train during the pioneer days, the momma would simply knead some dough and slap it to her young daughter's bare back for a minute. Sourdough yeast is a mundane product.
Looks like Justine and Ron got a gift certificate to Townsend for their "Marriage". 😆 The cabin looks very cozy.😊
For those of us who strive to live a more natural, seasonal, sustainable and healthier lifestyle free from processed foods, preservatives, chemicals and other additives, and with less reliance on modern supply chains that don’t always work, these historic reenactment videos are a gem. Our ancestors got by quite well without all of that, and even though it’s a lot of work to do things from scratch, it’s well worth it! Thanks!
hai karen how are u
So say you work in the modern supply chain 12 hours a day. How do you have the time to do all this?
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Well, generally there are ways to save up, or you could slowly go through the process of becoming more self sustainable. Just look into it, really.
@@nikn7934 How does wanting to live their own life like that, without harming anyone might I add, make them a Karen?
@@nikn7934 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 IM CRINE!!!
Nothing like watching your videos on a heavy raining day. Very relaxing.
I don’t know why but these videos calm me down, they also make me very appreciative to cook with the modern appliances we have now making things so much easier…..it’s a shame all our foods are so processed and modified though 😕
Imagine how different the fruits and veggies tasted just 30 years ago and longer!
Our food is much healthier than the food back then. Without proper refrigeration or an understanding of food storage and hygiene, fruit and veges would start to rot the second they were picked. Processing and modifying food is not necessarily bad. For example, people back then would kill to have their flour fortified with the vitamins and minerals we take for granted in our wheat products, to prevent many diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies.
Feel free to make your butter and bread from scratch. No one is stopping you
@@HSFY2012 the soil of today is lacking so many nutrients due to mono cropping. The soil from ancestral times was way more packed full of nutrients. Using animals to work the land was part of the process of adding minerals back into the soil. The tractors of today, not to mention what is sprayed on crops, is most certainly not helping with their quality nor nutrition. That is why flour needs fortification. Nothing to be proud of.
Food was not safer or cleaner. No plumbing, readily available water & lack of refrigeration ment food, preparation & storage could be risky. People ate foods that today we would probably toss. Foods were scraped out, scraped off or broken off to discard mold, mildew, spoilage, or rodent bites.. Tastes were not as refined as today. Rancid or soured foods were disguised with spices. Food.& the total preparation of foods plus the availability guaranteed nothing went to waste unless absolutely necessary.
@@HSFY2012 Not so - in fact the complete opposite of what you have written is the truth. "without proper refrigeration or understanding of food storage and hygiene" implies 1) that an invention not invented is missed and 2) women were not taught all those things by their elders from the moment they were old enough to help around the house. Untrue. Homesteading was an art that was passed down generationally, indeed it was often practiced that way with several generations under one roof. Skills and learning on those very subjects were so ingrained into daily life that it wasn't presented as an extra, a special lesson, it just was.
Processed food and modified food, as in modified at the genetic level in irresponsible ways, is always a bad thing. Modifying foods as in preserving, canning and drying have nothing to do with what is considered "modified". Having to fortify foods that require no fortifying if left alone in its natural state is due to manufacture of food rather than the growing of food. Mass production, the greatest evil of the modern times, leads to practices that lower nutritional value of food and to the addition of chemicals. Today's foodstuffs found at grocers is much, much less nutritionally dense and are "grown" in soils, if their roots ever do see soil, that are increasingly deprived of necessary microbes and are, in many cases, genetically mutated to the point that our bodies either cannot digest or recognize it as "poison" as is true for most of the wheat flour we encounter - the dwarf wheat.
I absolutely enjoy the cooking part of this show she does a wonderful job
yeah, that fresh made butter..
How is Ron going to farm or deliver chopped wood without his horses? How will Ron make a living? The cabin looks great though. Not as fancy or elegant as the home Justine used to work in, but much better to be queen in a cabin than a maid in a mansion. I'm rooting for you both.
I'm so addicted to this channel! I can't imagine my life without it! ❤️🥰
I grew up going to historic villiages, so your videos are a taste of home for me, while also teaching me new things. Thank you for being here 🙂
Oh wow! I said it before and I will say it again! I'd love to be a reenactor as you both do it! The clothes would fit me very well, and just... I love cooking so much and cooking everything from scratch! To know how the good folks back then cooked and survived the way they did! I love it. I've always have been so fond of going to places like Williamsburg, and visiting the old museums with actors portraying the lives from back then. I always loved it!!!
Look for groups in your local area. You might find a wonderful new hobby and batch of friends!
To most reenactors, this is their preferred way of life. The 21st century just pays the bills.
@@healinggrounds19 Haha! Oh my goodness! I'm just seeing these comments now! I apologize!!! How funny! I believe it! :D
@@boomeracres4813 I'm just seeing these comments now, I apologize for the long awaited response! That's a great idea! I will have to look into it!
I love these videos , no music and actually hearing the sounds without commentary makes it even better , thank you !
Agree. Don't mind talking because sometimes I watch/listen to TH-cam videos while doing my own chores. But I hate background music or any musical intro. ESPECIALLY when people are talking and I'm trying to listen to what they're saying over that annoying music.
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I feel great respect for those peole. They were hardworking, generous, and hospitable. I have read several books portraying them.
I adore the newer videos more then anything. Your videos are the perfect start and end to my day, they're so creative and inspiring. Thank you so much for continuing to make these amazing videos like this. Also, you both look absolutely wonderful.
Much love, joy and encouragement from Australia ❤️
This cabin is so sweet and cozy! Reminds me of Little House in the Big Woods. Amazing job you guys!❤
Bellísima cabaña , adoró está serie ... gracias 🙏.
I honestly didn't know they were called receipts and ignorantly thought she was spelling it wrong. I learned something new today!
Always look forward to watch your videos and see how you both are doing .Your are a very good cook .Ron is a lucky man . Can't wait for the next one !
This video makes me feel like im actually watching a footage of the 18s. This is just so perfect and charming that i can watch this the whole day
Found your channel last night and I’m absolutely enchanted. It’s helping me through the anxiety of a detox from opiate medications (started by my doctor due to terminal illness and got me reliant on them), and it seriously feels like it brings back flashes and memories from a past life where I lived in this era. Wonder if anyone else here is getting those past life familiarity vibes here, any other reincarnation believers getting warm familiar flashes from this?
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Good luck for your health!
Yes, me too!
This is like a painting coming to life!!! Possibly Vermeer⚒
I’m so glad I had the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder as a child! Naturally, she lived as a child 100 years or so later than the time reconstructed here, but her father moved them to a few places where there were no other white people, and he had to walk for days to go to the nearest to the nearest town to get supplies. I loved reading about Ma cooking and preparing food, making butter and cheese, and imagining what it must have been like. I loved that she grated a carrot, cooked it with milk, and used it to make her butter a pretty yellow and then she gave the cooked carrot to the little girls to eat, which was a great treat....very different from “treats” today!
Such good times reading!
Only 50 years later. 🙂
While her books were published in the 1920's, Wilder's childhood was only 4-5 decades past this time period, and out on the frontier. I recall it wasn't that much different actually.
What do white people have to do with it?lol I'm not trying to start anything I'm just curious
@@jadonfigueroa1415 What do white people have to do with what?
I would love a small home like that in the woods. Cozy.
Mmmm. Smells delish! The Cabin is looking very homey. Nice job !
thankyou!
I started watching this because I was curious and I continue to watch to be grateful for what we have and for the struggles those before us went through. This episode showed me a little glimpse of the partnership a couple would share. They both needed one another and were trying to survive together. Beautiful.
Wow first cooking video in your new home, I love everything, the beautiful hearth, the sounds of mixing, pouring, the crackling of the fire and the toaster is sooo cool. Thank you for making my day with another great video x
I love the ASMR vibe you’ve got in so many of your videos. The sound quality is so good, and it’s relaxing!
Love the channel!!! I grew up with my greatgrandma and grandparents so all these concepts are not so foreign to me! Its wonderful to actually see it in action rather than hear about them!
I d’ had my great grandmother that were born in the 1900”s & great grandfather's I wish 🙏 I could have known my paternal great grandfather more. & wish could my paternal great grandmother to be honest I was rather jealous of my nieces & younger cousins. I told both of one day at least u girls got to see ur great grandmothers alive all three died before I was born.
Such a pleasure to watch. The serenity takes me back. Very skilled shots and editing. Bravo !!!
I noticed that in this episode you called Ron your husband. So I wandered if y'all were really married or just playing at being married? I love the idea that you all are married because it's the epitome of Old World values. So if ya haven't married do you think you two shall ever commit? Just a romantic hopeful♥️ I loved your all's cabin. Great place to film.😀
Thank you for making this video. I am very interested in the yeast free bread! The cabin looks very cozy!
I occasionally make yeast free bread, but it is flatbread. Thanks for letting us see how nicely your loaf came out.
I'm just loveing your videos they just amazing and thank you for sharing I look forward to more xx
Ah, the simple life! What a delightful episode! (the cabin looks awesome too)
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Enjoying my bowl of cereal while watching this 😂 I would not be a breakfast person if it involved all of that! Lol great video
I wouldn’t be a good person period lol. Every meal is so much work !
One can also use the buttermilk for baking. Pour it over the flour when making bread. Same with whey from making cheese. Did that today and it is so tasty!
Your videos are just wonderful! You truly bring history to life and what a tremendous resource for children and students and teachers!! Thank you so much!
Just discovered your channel. I would love to spend two weeks holiday living like this just to experience the way people lived and the food of 100 years ago. I most certainly couldn't hack living like that for very long. Miss the modern comforts of home too much. Admire you for doing so. It must be a healthy lifestyle.
Now that bread is filling….not only for the stomach but also holes in the wall!! Loved the toaster!
In Italy, and since ancient times Egypt, sour dough is common. I know bread makers in Italy save a scrape of the day's bread dough for the next day's bread to make it rise. I've made starter with rye flour and buttermilk. Sourdough was popular on the West Coast USA in the 1800's so I wonder if all people just hadn't heard of it yet?
I think they likely knew about it, but the English culture that was dominant in the East seemed to have some serious snobbishness when it came to food flavors.
As I get older I do find that sourdough messes with my stomach, so I guess I shouldn't be too harsh....
@@UtahSustainGardening I can see if they aren't used to the flavor of sourness they wouldn't be drawn to it. Guess that's why they came up with active yeast from beer. :)
Wasn’t beer bread common in ancient Egypt as well? I remember learning how they made bread back then, which involved adding beer to the mixture.
@@wendyhart134 The Gold Rush was in the 1800's.
@@cynthiachengmintz672 I hadn't heard that...on to go study and find out how they made it and try it. Thank you.
That "thump" sound the first piece of bread made when it hit the cutting board!
so happy for you guys! I feel like her handwork and kitchen skills are improving out of character too, which helps with the immersion! now just for a higher quality footage... your work is good enough it deserves it
Nokte da sredi, u to vrijeme nije bila moda duge nokte imati
wow such improvement in the cabin. I wonder if you're making the other room into a bedroom now or soon. It looks lovely and warm. hope you can find some money to have a sweet ceremony soon, too. I would like to see it happening, crowning your love for each other. (if this is a saying in your country, also) :)
My great grandmother burned to death cooking in front of an open stove, and that was in 1920 - it seems even more dangerous a 100 years earlier. Plus, they had to milk the cows and gather eggs BEFORE doing all this work for one meal to start the day. I'll take my microwave Jimmy Deans please!
Not to mention no electricity, no central heating, no indoor plumbing. Then if you get sick, no antibiotics and no vaccines against childhood killers like small pox, whooping cough, measles and god knows what else. I don't think doctors are washing their hands yet, so he could make infection worse (so even if your great grandmother had survived the initial injury, she would have died of sepsis). If you had a poor crop that year, likely you'd have to sell all that nice stuff she has in her kitchen and stave famine from the door because there is no welfare state. Getting your neighbours to help you might not be possible because they also had a shitty crop that year and are also desperate to unload stuff so THEY can survive. Sorry for the information dump. My main point was that I totally agree with you that living in the past would suck.
atleast that food is whole and natural and super nutrient dense. microwave jimmy deans dude that is not a flex
@@milkchan202 LOL...Not a flex - just a sardonic reply.
Now it's another 100 years later and there's still the occasional fire breaking out. Not kidding
tinha o cuidado com a horta, limpeza da casa, pátio, roupa, e se tivesse filho dobrava o trabalho.
Fascinating. Thank you for the peek into 1820 frontier life. You had to be tough with a strong back!