What I love about this series is they actually take a cook and a gardener who actually lived during World War II and share their experience of the kitchen and garden
@@sarahellison8487 You can watch Victorian Farm, Victorian Slum House (sounds bad but was interesting), Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm and Wartime Farm. I think there are a few other BBC series on TH-cam. Enjoy!
War was not only devastating to human life but also the ecosystem, fish, wildlife, and plantlife were also affected by war! It sometimes takes many, many years for nature to reverse the effects of war. I'm so thankful to all who served during this time. It has afforded me all the Freedoms that I have today! Many blessings from the hills of Tennessee, USA 🇺🇲
Jess brought me. I'm on my second time watching this series, & I believe I will watch many more times. I cannot express how valuable this is. & when my young daughter ( 4 yr) is a little older, she'll watch & we'll have a living history lesson.
Pesticides? In the old country, farmers planted hemp, every few rows, because bugs can't stand the smell of it. When my grandfather came to Canada, he did the same thing...until a fellow farmer warned him that the RCMP were visiting farms, looking for hemp plants, because hemp = marijuana. So, my grandfather had to use chemical pesticides, many of which have since been banned. He died of lung cancer.
Do you remember how for many many years after the war, returned ex-servicemen would wear their serge battledress jackets on the allotments etc until they simply wore through?
@@janaprocella8268 yep, although my grandpa was called grandpa. He was not german as my oma went to college here in america and that's when she met him. Her dad (my great grandpa) we called opa though 🙂
lucky. my grandmother use to get commisary dried eggs and gave them to me. I soo miss those. it was the best tasting eggs ever. I prefer them to fresh store bought anyday.
If they sold the cans still, I'd be in for having one of those can sealers even now. I saw them on another old WWII video on YT too; they really did work really well. My Grandmother made french toast out of that gray bread too, then it wasn't so bad, with a little butter & syrup on it. Annie worked long, hard days in the garden, but never complained; I think Harry was really glad to have her because she learned fast too.
J'adore la dame, elle est pleine de ressources, d'un calme absolue, et d'une politesse que l'on voit de moins en moins, j'apprends toujours en visionnant cette série. 😊
I love them too, anyway!! I've started cutting in half, salt & pepper, drizzle heavy cream, with shredded parmesan on top, bake for 30 or so minutes, delicious! Now, I'm venturing into old fashioned pressure canning, this should be a joy or explosion in the kitchen!
I remember my nan ,telling me things about the war years as I was growing up.One question I asked was "why were foods rationed severely ,when there was always an abundance available on the black market?'.Her reply was that many people questioned that among themselves.
Rationing was brought in at the beginning of the war to keep things fair for the rich and the poor - it wasn't about 'control' ( rationing came in towards the end of WWI and subsequently many people had struggled for food until rationing started). I don't think there was an 'abundance' of black market stuff but it was definitely available but a business somewhere else would have suffered as their stock would have been stolen by the racketeers. It was also highly priced which many people couldn't afford.
There is always a portion of any population who are greedy and selfish and prepared to be criminal with it. Because the rationing system was widely perceived as fair for all, most people resented those who tried to cheat by using the black market. People knew that lives of their loved ones were being lost to get enough food into the country. After the war when rationing continued so that we could help feed so many displaced people on the continent people were still willing to put up with the restrictions but as time wore on people were bored and fed up. And with the war years behind them attitudes started to change towards something that "fell off the back of a lorry" and the system started to break down until the government gave in to public feeling and abolished the last of rationing.
These gals ate pretty good I remember mom talking about during depression when they lived in city they only got meat once a week. After they moved to country they grew their food and meat...plus they hunted.
The only way to eat nasty bread, is to toast it. I remember as a kid, if there was mold on the bread you just picked it off and ate the bread. Today kids would be gagging if they saw someone do that. Lol
I might try French Toast to get it in my kids and husband. Dry bread makes for a decent bread pudding, if you have anything from the hedgerow and some eggs. I like them savory, too, so I sometimes make one with vegetables and chicken stock. The family look at me funny. I have the luxury of not needing to worry about food waste like those before us during harder times, so I give the moldy bread to my chickens, and they give me eggs in return. :)
This is such a great series. Gives a perspective that few realized and how daily life in England really was. For sure people today would do well with some belt tightening, the lack of desired food or even how to prepare food when there isn't much.
During and after the war, we kept chickens. Once a week they would be allowed to roam outside their chicken run while the nesting area was cleaned. Any droppings were thrown onto the garden and dug in for fertiliser. The run would be dug over and the chickens had a great time digging, scratching, and eating any worms and other insects they could get. Also, we kept rabbits when we returned to London which was another source of food and income. Still remember that when the milkman, baker, or whoever else was delivering any product by horse and cart, and that included the rag and bone man, stopped and the horse dropped its internal load, people would grab a bucket and small spade and rush out to try to get the droppings and save it for manure. Yes, those were the days, in some ways. 'nuf sed.
The best I can say for salt code is that if you soak it long enough you can get the salt out but even cooked it tastes like paper to me. Something was gone for good when it came to flavor on the other hand it was edible. I suppose smothering it in a good sauce helped.
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950's and early 1960's we had a favorite snack called "coddies". Take the salted cod and soak and rehydrate it then mix it with boiled potatoes, add some salt & pepper and sometimes chopped parsley. Roll it into balls about the size of a golf ball and deep fry it. Mash it down some and place on Saltines with good mustard. A really delicious snack.
@homesteader fifty w/ ricky & martha If they had them before, they are gone now. .unless I am just using the wrong search words. .if they still have them and you can find them, please share a link. .TIA
Is anyone else having the sound cut out and jumpy video quality around 3 minutes in, I can't tell if it is part of the video or just how the weather interferes with my signal.
Those mushrooms should have been picked sooner. They've mostly opened out. Most of them should have been picked while closed like the ones further out in the bucket, leaving a few to open out but not that huge clump.
My late mother cleaned for an older couple in the 50s and 60s and I remember there being a container of fried egg in their pantryall those years after the war
Well - people were dying by the hundred every day, being blown to pieces, being maimed for life - and that was just from the bombings - civilians. So in reality you would hopefully have different priorities.
Ruth seems to be the type that do the thanking after. Depends how much you mind differences of personality. These women were two strangers and a young boy in a small house. Older knowledgeable widow, visibly somewhat debilitated, living with healthy young city woman, lacking currently needed skills/promptness, and a young boy. I bet they were all annoyed quite often, if they stopped to think about it too much. lol
I thought they worked together quite well. I did not think Mrs Mott was the least bit cold or authoritarian. I could have gotten along very well with her.
And today, theyve done research that whole wheat with all the parts has more nutritional value and vitamins than the bleached and over processed white bread/flour
Don’t mean to be nitpicking, oh, wait, yes I do, I don’t know if it’s my connection or the upload, although I don’t think it’s my connection, the picture keeps jumping forward and the sound is dropping of at the same time, it spoils such an excellent programme, and yes I know it’s free. On a lighter note, I don’t think I would have survived the War, I can’t abide sea food, so that’s one avenue of sustenance gone, I drink tea but I can’t live without coffee. eggs, cheese, milk, bacon, and ham are my favourite ingredients in a meal, luckily I love vegetables, especially the ones that Great Britain can produce in abundance, maybe I would make it through, but I would be a lot thinner. It nice, in a sad way, to see what my grandparents and great grandparents went through on the home front so that our fighting men and women would be in the best physical condition to keep us free. A lot of what my family went through got lost in time, but all the things they taught me from their experiences has stood me in good stead all my years, a pity the current crop of youth won’t be able or not want to learn the same skill set. Thanks for sharing this interesting and nostalgic programme.
Another way to prevent botulism is to make sure you have sufficiently high salinity or a low enough Ph preferably all 3 should used to be insure against a mistake being made with any one of these techniques.
Not really. Mothers and other older women were accorded the respect due to their age and experience. My mother deferred somewhat to her elders and none the worse for it.
I didn't think so, if you really listen to her voice, there is a softness, kind of a resignation in the situation, along with the no nonsense approach to what needs to be done.
"That old woman" was a remarkable link to the kitchens of the early 20th century. Her work was in the kitchens of many great houses, and her matter-of-fact attitude and overall sternness stems from the regimented life of the kitchens of her time. Those who worked with her speak of her very highly.
She's an efficient and experienced woman. She has a soft,kind voice. Just because she isn't gushing that everything is "awesome" does not in any way make her rude! There is such a thing as cultural differences you know? The young woman who has been sent to live with her has been made welcome in her home with her little boy and she naturally considers it a duty that she's obviously happy to fulfill to impart some of her accumulated knowledge and experience as they cook and work together. It's a motherly attitude and they're very lucky to have her. It means far more than all the shrieking, kissing and over the top meaningless compliments of today. Quiet,steady, honest friendship at a time when it's needed most.
She was being trained. She wasn't a guest, but a city girl who needed to be taught. There wasn't time for coddling and sweet talking. Civility was considered normal, but the concept of treating strangers as one of the family wasn't widespread then.
Are you rude or just dumb? This was not filmed during "real time" Mrs Mott was over 70 when his was filmed, she was born in 1917, so your reference to her weight is just rude. Maybe read a book or two, might help to educate yourself!
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What I love about this series is they actually take a cook and a gardener who actually lived during World War II and share their experience of the kitchen and garden
#G Boo do you know of any other tings i can watch about going back in the past do you?
@@sarahellison8487 You can watch Victorian Farm, Victorian Slum House (sounds bad but was interesting), Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm and Wartime Farm. I think there are a few other BBC series on TH-cam. Enjoy!
I'll be sad when the series is over
@@ellieeckhardt7620 Watch it again.. that's what I do. I bet i've seen this entire series at least 25 times over the past 3-4 years!
War was not only devastating to human life but also the ecosystem, fish, wildlife, and plantlife were also affected by war! It sometimes takes many, many years for nature to reverse the effects of war. I'm so thankful to all who served during this time. It has afforded me all the Freedoms that I have today! Many blessings from the hills of Tennessee, USA 🇺🇲
We need to go back to this system just to help people through these tough times.
I LOVE that they've included real radio broadcasts and PR ideas of the time period. Fascinating and entertaining. Thank you for sharing. LL
I don't want this series to end!!!
This video is a great tool people can use to be more self reliant. God bless
Amen 🙏❤
Jess brought me. I'm on my second time watching this series, & I believe I will watch many more times. I cannot express how valuable this is. & when my young daughter ( 4 yr) is a little older, she'll watch & we'll have a living history lesson.
Pesticides? In the old country, farmers planted hemp, every few rows, because bugs can't stand the smell of it.
When my grandfather came to Canada, he did the same thing...until a fellow farmer warned him that the RCMP were visiting farms, looking for hemp plants, because hemp = marijuana.
So, my grandfather had to use chemical pesticides, many of which have since been banned. He died of lung cancer.
They took pride in their dishes being served. They made such a pretty presentation…..
Been watching this series and just love that he gardens in a tie (and sometimes a jacket) reminds me of my dad :)
Do you remember how for many many years after the war, returned ex-servicemen would wear their serge battledress jackets on the allotments etc until they simply wore through?
My german grandparents who experienced Ww ii are long gone. But what they taught us stayed with me. Miss them .
My oma was a young girl in ww2 and she taught me so much about cooking and being grateful for what I have. It's been useful during quarentine.
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Oma n opa
@@janaprocella8268 yep, although my grandpa was called grandpa. He was not german as my oma went to college here in america and that's when she met him. Her dad (my great grandpa) we called opa though 🙂
I have some powdered eggs. If you put the egg powder into the dry ingredients first before adding the liquid they mix really well. No lumps.
lucky. my grandmother use to get commisary dried eggs and gave them to me. I soo miss those. it was the best tasting eggs ever. I prefer them to fresh store bought anyday.
If they sold the cans still, I'd be in for having one of those can sealers even now. I saw them on another old WWII video on YT too; they really did work really well. My Grandmother made french toast out of that gray bread too, then it wasn't so bad, with a little butter & syrup on it. Annie worked long, hard days in the garden, but never complained; I think Harry was really glad to have her because she learned fast too.
J'adore la dame, elle est pleine de ressources, d'un calme absolue, et d'une politesse que l'on voit de moins en moins, j'apprends toujours en visionnant cette série. 😊
Love Brussels sprouts !
I had sprouts for supper tonight!
I hate them!
@@momstermom2939 me too😀
They're the one vegetable I don't like. They're awfully cute, though!
I love them too, anyway!! I've started cutting in half, salt & pepper, drizzle heavy cream, with shredded parmesan on top, bake for 30 or so minutes, delicious! Now, I'm venturing into old fashioned pressure canning, this should be a joy or explosion in the kitchen!
I never tire of watching this series. Thank you for sharing.
I've watched this series numerous times, so interesting, and I've actually started cooking from WW2 cook books.. . Thank you xx
I remember my nan ,telling me things about the war years as I was growing up.One question I asked was "why were foods rationed severely ,when there was always an abundance available on the black market?'.Her reply was that many people questioned that among themselves.
Control over the population.
Rationing was brought in at the beginning of the war to keep things fair for the rich and the poor - it wasn't about 'control' ( rationing came in towards the end of WWI and subsequently many people had struggled for food until rationing started). I don't think there was an 'abundance' of black market stuff but it was definitely available but a business somewhere else would have suffered as their stock would have been stolen by the racketeers. It was also highly priced which many people couldn't afford.
There is always a portion of any population who are greedy and selfish and prepared to be criminal with it. Because the rationing system was widely perceived as fair for all, most people resented those who tried to cheat by using the black market. People knew that lives of their loved ones were being lost to get enough food into the country. After the war when rationing continued so that we could help feed so many displaced people on the continent people were still willing to put up with the restrictions but as time wore on people were bored and fed up. And with the war years behind them attitudes started to change towards something that "fell off the back of a lorry" and the system started to break down until the government gave in to public feeling and abolished the last of rationing.
These gals ate pretty good
I remember mom talking about during depression when they lived in city they only got meat once a week. After they moved to country they grew their food and meat...plus they hunted.
The only way to eat nasty bread, is to toast it. I remember as a kid, if there was mold on the bread you just picked it off and ate the bread. Today kids would be gagging if they saw someone do that. Lol
Heidi we had to do the same thing.
yes!!!!!! thats all true.
I will still cut off the occasional moldy spot. Waste not want not.
I might try French Toast to get it in my kids and husband.
Dry bread makes for a decent bread pudding, if you have anything from the hedgerow and some eggs. I like them savory, too, so I sometimes make one with vegetables and chicken stock. The family look at me funny.
I have the luxury of not needing to worry about food waste like those before us during harder times, so I give the moldy bread to my chickens, and they give me eggs in return. :)
@@homesteadtotable2921 Bread pudding is delicious. Please don't even give moldy bread to the chickens, it's highly toxic. (Gordon's wife)
Really brings back memories especially of watching my Nan in her kitchen she used to save eggs in water glass
This is such a great series. Gives a perspective that few realized and how daily life in England really was. For sure people today would do well with some belt tightening, the lack of desired food or even how to prepare food when there isn't much.
As we have had glimpses of during all this...
Coming to you a year later... food shortages!
@@dimpletoadfoot8631 No kidding. Keep the basics on hand for sure.
Love this series and love the intro song!!!!!!!!
During and after the war, we kept chickens. Once a week they would be allowed to roam outside their chicken run while the nesting area was cleaned. Any droppings were thrown onto the garden and dug in for fertiliser. The run would be dug over and the chickens had a great time digging, scratching, and eating any worms and other insects they could get. Also, we kept rabbits when we returned to London which was another source of food and income. Still remember that when the milkman, baker, or whoever else was delivering any product by horse and cart, and that included the rag and bone man, stopped and the horse dropped its internal load, people would grab a bucket and small spade and rush out to try to get the droppings and save it for manure. Yes, those were the days, in some ways.
'nuf sed.
I love these.
Talking to the chicken😂
The best I can say for salt code is that if you soak it long enough you can get the salt out but even cooked it tastes like paper to me. Something was gone for good when it came to flavor on the other hand it was edible. I suppose smothering it in a good sauce helped.
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950's and early 1960's we had a favorite snack called "coddies". Take the salted cod and soak and rehydrate it then mix it with boiled potatoes, add some salt & pepper and sometimes chopped parsley. Roll it into balls about the size of a golf ball and deep fry it. Mash it down some and place on Saltines with good mustard. A really delicious snack.
Baccalao is Croatian or Portuguese salt cod dish. It’s a stew. It rescues the bland flavor of the salt cod.
I would love one of those canning machines.
@homesteader fifty w/ ricky & martha If they had them before, they are gone now. .unless I am just using the wrong search words. .if they still have them and you can find them, please share a link. .TIA
Is anyone else having the sound cut out and jumpy video quality around 3 minutes in, I can't tell if it is part of the video or just how the weather interferes with my signal.
If it's the war section, it's all wacky
Those mushrooms should have been picked sooner. They've mostly opened out. Most of them should have been picked while closed like the ones further out in the bucket, leaving a few to open out but not that huge clump.
Might be portobello mushrooms with the open cap.
My late mother cleaned for an older couple in the 50s and 60s and I remember there being a container of fried egg in their pantryall those years after the war
oh linda! dried egg! i wondered wat you meant, lol.
Collin Hunter I wondered too! I was thinking the fried egg must have molded and been hard as a rock and why would anyone keep old fried eggs?!
Love Anne Sheldons voice ,reminds me of my grandad who used to sing some of her songs
Thanks....love it😀
Why can't Ruth ever say 'please'? I would be so annoyed if I were billeted there LOL
Well - people were dying by the hundred every day, being blown to pieces, being maimed for life - and that was just from the bombings - civilians.
So in reality you would hopefully have different priorities.
Ruth seems to be the type that do the thanking after. Depends how much you mind differences of personality. These women were two strangers and a young boy in a small house. Older knowledgeable widow, visibly somewhat debilitated, living with healthy young city woman, lacking currently needed skills/promptness, and a young boy. I bet they were all annoyed quite often, if they stopped to think about it too much. lol
I feel guilty as I have just pulled up a wheel barrow full of nettles including the roots.
Birdy
Mrs. Mott surely is bossy to Joyce!
Yes, that's what I think, she was very cold and authoritarian.
Bearing in mind Joyce wad meant to be an evacuee,Mrs Mott treats her like a servant .
Remember, Mrs Mott was professional domestic, cook and housekeeper used to having staff working under her.
I thought they worked together quite well. I did not think Mrs Mott was the least bit cold or authoritarian. I could have gotten along very well with her.
And today, theyve done research that whole wheat with all the parts has more nutritional value and vitamins than the bleached and over processed white bread/flour
This is a wonderful series and quite fascinating but the food is uniformly revolting.
maybe so, about the food, but, when one is facing starvation or eating revolting food, guess which one 99.99999% of people would choose.........
Well 2020 person was revolted.
theres a war on dammit
What beautiful glowing women.
Oh! Yes! Carp !,,
Cod
Lives was so simple then but everything they did it had pround in, not like now 😢so sad
What is that dish, Mrs. Mott ?
If you open your ears, it is salt cod and stinging nettles.
'nuf sed. plamuk aka travellingchef.
@@Wotdermatter GOM
I'm trying to find that black and white movie, "The Great Jay/Jane" anyone have any information about it? Even Google is failing me on this websurf.
The movie is "Great Day"
What is the name of the plant he is popping the tops of in the piece about pests?
Runner beans check out later in video around 18.50
Broad beans. He's going after broad bean blackflies. At 19:01, you can see the blonde woman harvesting them.
Thank you! I've grown all kinds of beans here in the US but never seen a bean plant like that. It has lovely foliage.
@Sheila T. Tend ya biscuits! :)
@Sheila T. I was quoting the captain when he told gus to tend his biscuits.
what was the landgirl movie please?
I've not been able to find it. I hope someone answers.
Someone further down answered. It's called "Great Day" from 1945.
I used to rather fancy Annie. 🙂
The 'dry bread' is just as gluten free bread is today, yuk
I agree 100%... YUK!
Don’t mean to be nitpicking, oh, wait, yes I do, I don’t know if it’s my connection or the upload, although I don’t think it’s my connection, the picture keeps jumping forward and the sound is dropping of at the same time, it spoils such an excellent programme, and yes I know it’s free.
On a lighter note, I don’t think I would have survived the War, I can’t abide sea food, so that’s one avenue of sustenance gone, I drink tea but I can’t live without coffee. eggs, cheese, milk, bacon, and ham are my favourite ingredients in a meal, luckily I love vegetables, especially the ones that Great Britain can produce in abundance, maybe I would make it through, but I would be a lot thinner. It nice, in a sad way, to see what my grandparents and great grandparents went through on the home front so that our fighting men and women would be in the best physical condition to keep us free. A lot of what my family went through got lost in time, but all the things they taught me from their experiences has stood me in good stead all my years, a pity the current crop of youth won’t be able or not want to learn the same skill set.
Thanks for sharing this interesting and nostalgic programme.
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Ruth never says please or thank you to Joyce. How rude this woman is! Ruth just gives orders!
Watch the ENTIRE series about Ruth before you say "never"...
@milliebanks7209 are you going to be ok? 😢
What drug were they on to think of talking hens? wonder if that was on ration too!
Young farmer? He was middle aged!
Come along Joyce, you so slow dear! 😂
Poor Joyce. I don't know how she stood the nagging.
Unsafe canning meat wothout pressure canner, you need that to get high enough temperature (botulism is a real kiler)
Another way to prevent botulism is to make sure you have sufficiently high salinity or a low enough Ph preferably all 3 should used to be insure against a mistake being made with any one of these techniques.
also the tomato canning scene got me. I mean you still have to water bath those jars to make sure everything is safe and sound.
No one said anything about canning meat.
They didn't have pressure canners back then. I have heard they had to water bath all foods including meats , they just water bath them for a few days.
Why does that lady keep spitting in the egg factory?
She's examining and smelling the egg for shells and spoilage. No spitting anywhere.
That old woman comes across as miserable kill joy. Im sure its just her script
was wat i was thinking,,lol,very dictatorial,,hurry up with this,hurry up with that,,come along joyce,,blah blah blah,,lol,,
Not really. Mothers and other older women were accorded the respect due to their age and experience. My mother deferred somewhat to her elders and none the worse for it.
I didn't think so, if you really listen to her voice, there is a softness, kind of a resignation in the situation, along with the no nonsense approach to what needs to be done.
"That old woman" was a remarkable link to the kitchens of the early 20th century. Her work was in the kitchens of many great houses, and her matter-of-fact attitude and overall sternness stems from the regimented life of the kitchens of her time. Those who worked with her speak of her very highly.
She's an efficient and experienced woman. She has a soft,kind voice. Just because she isn't gushing that everything is "awesome" does not in any way make her rude! There is such a thing as cultural differences you know? The young woman who has been sent to live with her has been made welcome in her home with her little boy and she naturally considers it a duty that she's obviously happy to fulfill to impart some of her accumulated knowledge and experience as they cook and work together. It's a motherly attitude and they're very lucky to have her. It means far more than all the shrieking, kissing and over the top meaningless compliments of today. Quiet,steady, honest friendship at a time when it's needed most.
You weren't suppose to make scraps. Then scraps were for compost, chicken and pig swill! Talk about making something out of nothing. Crazy
Mrs moo or whatever treats Joyce like her personal slave
She was being trained. She wasn't a guest, but a city girl who needed to be taught. There wasn't time for coddling and sweet talking. Civility was considered normal, but the concept of treating strangers as one of the family wasn't widespread then.
Looks as if Ruth didn't miss any meals.
Never trust a skinny cook!
This lady is really heavy.so much for fruit and veggies and wheat.
Are you rude or just dumb? This was not filmed during "real time" Mrs Mott was over 70 when his was filmed, she was born in 1917, so your reference to her weight is just rude. Maybe read a book or two, might help to educate yourself!