My grandmother passed down Depression era recipes and continued to be extremely frugal until she passed in her late 90s. The Depression was it's own source of PTSD for a generation around nutrition and budget.
All these foods are Scottish. Sheep’s head stew was eaten in Scotland long before William Wallace. It was always an anti English food but not American.
My ancestor, probably the brother of my direct ancestor, was Ephraim Blaine, Commissary to the Continental Army from August 1777 through most of 1781. He and his assistant John Chaloner worked really hard in Pennsylvania and several other colonies to keep the troops well supplied with beef in the form of herds of living cattle or salted beef in barrels, wheat flour, sometimes herds of hogs or barrels of pork, corn meal, rye flour, or dried peas, liquor (whiskey, rum, and brandy), and rock salt needed for cooking, flavoring, and meat preservation. Sometimes they also acquired soap and candles or tallow to make those items. They kept a record of the details of their work and the many difficulties and sometimes dangers they went through in their letterbook -- copies of their handwritten correspondence with people involved in buying, requisitioning, transporting, storing, and delivery of goods to the Army. I got this information from a 2001 book with the letterbook letters from 1777-1778. History books say very little if anything about these unsung heroes of the Revolution. .
That's so awesome, thank you for sharing. Any particular stories or incidents stick out, to you? I'd love to hear more about it, that must have been a daunting, difficult, and ultimately very rewarding endeavor : )
4 gallons of rum per person, per year? Based on how you said it, I felt like you were trying to emphasize what an enormous amount of rum this was. But this actually comes out to less than a can of Coke worth of rum (about 350ml in most places) over the course of an entire week. It’s actually less than one shot glass of rum every night. I mean, that’s something... but it’s not really all that crazy. Especially when most of us have grandparents or great-grandparents who followed the old “two fingers of Scotch every night” rule.
You have to consider though that the 4 gallons number is for all Americans, including those who didn't drink or didn't have access/could afford Rum. This means if you could get rum and you drank...your number was well above the 4 gallon average
You have to understand that not everyone would drink rum. So that stat is made up of only rum drinkers and so how many people’s shares did the rum drinkers consume? Consider it like that and you have a different perspective.
Especially when u consider that many monks used to be paid in beer...like 350 barrels a year n shit like that. And before ppl say "yeah but it wasn't as strong"..meh🤷🏼 i wouldn't be so sure. They liked thier drink is my point
@Kritagya Thapa, your at "Weird History." Events which occurred five years ago do not belong on a history channel. We do not have the perspective of time to access the long term impact. A world events channel should cover 2015 Nepalese earthquakes.
When I was a kid, my friends father, who was off the boat from Ireland made us breakfast one time and there were these delicious disks of fried meat. I loved it. I asked what it was and he said blood pudding.
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He was literally starving. He wrote of his experiences in the Revolutionary War when he was much older. He still remembered vividly how hungry he was, at least until he was detailed to go off foraging. It's a great book.
Having been through SERE training, I say "Amen brother!" After only 3 days without food, a random rattlesnake you come across is in for a bad day. Barnacles off the rocks, armadillo, a scrawny-ass rabbit that wasn't fast enough; it all fills a gut.
Scrapple was popular in my father's family for generations. Growing up in NE Ohio, Grandma used to prepare it for breakfast. It was my dad's favorite food. And yes, it was prepared exactly as it is described in the video.
Scrapple is one of my favorite breakfast foods. When I was stationed in Japan with the USAF the commissary sold it canned. I wish that was still available.
@@MrReganomics1 It's not not entirely true that slaves did all the work. Despite keeping slaves, those old school elites kept themselves far busier than the elites of today. They actually worked hard by today's comparison. The slaves maintained the farming and basic aspects of housekeeping and animal husbandry, but the amount of slaves in service within the homes was small -- usually only two if any at all. Well-to-do people like Jefferson often hunted and fished for their own food, gone for days in muck and mire, but they saw that as "sporting". They built barns and homes with their own hands, but they saw those things as "craftsmanship'. Unlike the British, they didn't do silly things to entertain themselves. They rarely partied or did anything simply for the sake of fun. Enamored by the food they would encounter abroad, - and very few people ever went abroad - they came back to America with grandiose ideas that they too could be great chefs and wine makers. They worked at learning these things. This is what we call the PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC. It's very hard for us, in our modern times, to understand the frame of reference inherent to men like the Founding Fathers. They didn't know they were racist. They thought they were virtuous and good. We shouldn't judge them by the gauges of today. Five hundred years from now, even the most progressive people of our time might be viewed as having been savages who "ate animals" and "killed insects" and who knows what else we do every day that will seen a brutal in the not-so-distant future.
I love the idea of the cranberry tarts, in general, it’s so amazing how American cranberry juice and anything cranberry really is, if you go outside the United States they don’t really do cranberry stuff even on flights cranberry juice is only on American bound flights
Yeah I visited a bar in Marmaris, Turkey when I was in the Navy. I thought it was strange when I ordered a cranberry juice and vodka that he told me they don't have that in Turkey, but would substitute cherry juice
If you think that was weird, wait until 2070 then remember 2020. The Revolutionary War period was boring and lame compared to what we're going through.
Slavery did not end in the United States until 1865. Only White male property owners were allowed to vote until 1828; it took until 1965 for all US citizens to have the right to vote. You call slavery and not being allowed to vote freedom and democracy?
@@dchenkin02 oh shut up the founders tried to end slavery had they not caved to the Souths demands there would be no United States. Wanna complain go cry to the Brazilians who didn't end slavery until the 1890s or the African and Arab countries that still allow slavery today.
@@rc59191 The majority of founders owned slaves. The US government was not a majority anti-slavery until the 1850s. Second, none of the founders supported allowing women and non-white skinned people to vote.
I had a little bit for breakfast when I visited my family in Philadelphia in the late seventies! When I say a little bit I mean one bite was enough! ✋😖
I'm from DC and theres scrapple in my fridge right now lol. For those who are wondering, Scrapple tates like a loosely packed breakfast sausage. You can fry it hard and crispy through out by slicing it really thin. But mostly it's crispy on the outside and kind of soft and mushy on the inside.
Sheep's head is a traditional dish here in Norway, it's called smalahove. I don't eat that, though, because one of my guiding philosophies in life is "Don't eat things that are still staring back at you".
To expand upon the scarcity of military rations, in 1777 the Thanksgiving dinner of the average Continental Army soldier was 1/2 cup of rice and a tablespoon of vinegar.
Look 👀 up “the Expulsion of the Loyalists.” Most moved to colonies in Florida, back to England 🏴 (lost all their wealth), or founded New Foundland/ Labrador Canada. The Crown granted many of them lands In British Canada.
Grew up just outside Philly, uhm, scrapple, ”we’re familiar with it”. 🤮 Now living in CT, it doesn't surprise me that they would have just eaten anything during the rev war. But it does surprise me that 100+ years earlier, Thanksgiving tradition started and we celebrate food as a result. I mean I know, war is hell but, damn.
Growing up in maryland snd living here most of my life I absolutely love scrapple. We ate 2-3 times a week for breakfast and I still do on the weekends. It’s amazing
Interesting side note: Washington so loved his Maidera wine, he became quite fastidious about checking the weight of each cask when it was ordered. This led to some particularly harsh words for the guy in charge of ordering it, whom Washington at one time believed was skimming some for himself.
In the Netherlands we have 'balkenbrij' which sounds a lot like scrapple! And... I love it 😋 It's good as is, thin slice (or thiccc) made crispy in the pan with oil 👌🏻 or served with bread.
I see a lot of complaints and accusations of "Ewww.. That's gross!" Clearly, none of these people have spent any time on a farm or they seem to be eating cheeseburgers all the time. As to Scrapple: It's sausage by any other name.. Good food on the go.
At valley forge the roads were often blocked by snow which complicated delivering rations. I live near valley forge and I can attest that the roads there take a while to be plowed and are in very poor condition.
@@Dennis-nc3vw or to snowed in troops, as the Continental Army found out the hard way at Valley Forge. I live near Valley Forge and some of the roads are largely impassable and I have a Jeep
When I was a kid and we ran out off food toward the end of the month, I would mix flour and water with a bit of salt and then deep fry it up as little balls and serve them to my little brothers and sisters. I was young and named them Crusty Crustaceans because when I was young I really liked the Simosons. Fried flour is a good go to when you have nothing to use with it or have no idea of the more "technical" side of cooking. I never burnt myself too badly or even the trailer but while I was learning what cooking was, I found out that too much cinnamon and sugar used as the primary ingredients for a cookie will make a green colored cookie that tastes just as shockingly bad as they look. I used a lot of baking soda and powder too and an egg and a milk as the liquid. That travesty killed more than on little white counter top cookie machine because they also turn into rocks that will not come off of whatever surface they had been cooked on. You can't find the cookie machines these days except at times in Good Wills and the like. I don't know when they started or stopped making them... Maybe they still do but I want to track down this "They" I speak of and ask who they originally sold them too. I want to say "Grandmas" but these where before my time by some years, I think so they could have been part of a cooking fad back in the 80s maybe? Whatever, I vote for "Fire cake" as the most appetizing food because if you did it right, you could, I think, get people to eat deepfried cat turds so the bugs in the cakes were likely just fine.
No, these things are more like the George Foreman countertop grills in that they were not 100w powered thumb burners. This is the hard part if you're too young to have lived throughout the "heyday" of the countertop cooking things fad. I was thinking on this and at some point in the 90s there was an episode of "The Fresh Prince" where Will's uncle buys one of the countertop cookery things to make "Chilli pie pockets" and gets mocked. Just think of a George Foreman grill but before they existed as we know them and you would get the idea. Essentially I think I was playing with a QVC fad years after the fad stopped. I mean if references had been made on a very special episode of the Fresh Prince about these countertop contraptions than I think they where part of a fad from late 80s or early 90s? I don't know but Easy bake they were not.
@@cdldriver2348 Mac is Macaroni Macaroni without chese is just disappointing. However if you said "damn I want some mac right now" nobody would give you just plain noodles 🤣😂🤣 But no its not an acronym to my knowledge
Can you do a video on what the revolutionary soilders or civil war soilders foraged for to supplement their rations....ie minors lettuce or paw paw fruits. That would be fascinating to learn more the stuff the foragded for. And how they used it.... Like if you 👍 agree.
A lot of people who didn't grow up with pumpkin pie aren't super fond of it. Pumpkin is more the filler and binding agent for all of the sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg added to it. It's especially good when served with a dollop of whipped cream.
Christopher Ludwick is a super interesting guy! The dude served in for 4 different nations militaries throughout his life. Was a devout Patriot and a massive philanthropist.
@@maplesyrup6052 well sorry but he commented not even a minute goes by but apparently he found the video to be cool and weird without even watching the fucking video
Can you please make a video about Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and how he discovered Philippines, I want to learn more about it. I absolutely love your videos! Very entertaining.
Some of us still eat blood pudding fried crisp with a full English breakfast and it's delicious! From the rooter to the tooter! Sheepshead is now a delicacy. Scrabble is still enjoyed today and I love it. Just don't ask too many questions it is delicious. My grandfather ate pig trotters. I eat pumpkin often and when I lived in Morocco they eat pumpkin once a week. It's delicious in a stew over couscous or roasted like sweet potatoes with maple syrup. Coffee and Madeira will keep you alive for months and months! :-)
Today's version of the "firecake " here in India is called "chapatti " or "naan"...it is made in a number of delicious ways , but without the inclusion of flour bugs ...,& served with veggies, lentils & non veg dishes.
Scrapple because I've been eating it since before I can remember. My favorite is with Elk meat but we didn't use the lower intestines. Slice it thin and fry it crisp like it was Spam.
I still remember reading a story about Jefferson giving a room of founding fathers panic attacks by eating a tomato. They all thought they were poisonous!
I also love how the pumpkin pie recipe has rosewater in it, but the super fascinating because, rosewater is seen today as very much only a Middle Eastern/south Asian flavor but I have heard of rosewater here and there in some French and other western traditional dishes so that is really cool how the world goes round
What sounds the tastiest that I would eat? that would be scrapple. My heritage is Pennsy Dutch and I was born and raised in Delaware. My Grandparents and mom were from Pennsylvania. Scrapple is the one thing I know that’s awesome. Has to be cooked crispy and tastes even better with two dippy eggs. My grandmother could always make it the best, probably because she cooked it in bacon grease. Makes me miss my grandparents even more.
Fire Cake sounds like a something that's soaked in rum then set on fire. 🔥🎂 Coffee Riot sounds like what would happen if Starbucks discontinued pumpkin spice lattes.☕☕☕☕☕
Back in 99 I us to deliver campers all over the states. While going through Delaware I pulled over at a truck stop for the night. Just before the restaurant closed the chef told me to stop in in the morning before I was to leave and he’ll fix me something to eat. It was a scrapple sandwich. It was actually good, and I didn’t have to pay for it. I’m thinking he wanted to get my reaction to eating it.
We’re from Wilkes Barre and only people my age still eat scrapple now I’m in my 50s I live in Missouri and some of the butcher shops and Amish markets sell it and these people out here love it! I’ve been eating it my whole life!
Nothing like a fried scrapple sandwich with mustard or just a slight touch of ketchup for non-mustard fans, . Add some scrambled egg and optional cheese to it, you have a staple to eat 3 times a week. My grandfather sold one of his local recipes to Paul and Ralphs Adams (RAPA) Brand scrapple in Bridgeville, DE. in the early 1900's. They still celebrate the Apple Scrapple Festival every year...and yes, we were living on an orchard farm when I was born.
I discovered Scrapple when I was stationed in DC. It's pretty good if fried to a crisp. A similar version is the liver pudding you can get in North Carolina with the only difference being that liver pudding tastes just a little gamier (IMHO).
Scrapple is amazing!!! It sounds gross but I'm super picky and I like it. It's like if you treated corned beef hash like spam but you flour it after slicing and before frying.
My grandmother passed down Depression era recipes and continued to be extremely frugal until she passed in her late 90s. The Depression was it's own source of PTSD for a generation around nutrition and budget.
I’m not surprised that the era induced unfortunate and unnecessary PTSD, it was an extremely difficult time. I’m glad she survived
"They refused to eat British Food"
*Literally starts with the Most British Food I can think of*
@Ben W if you are lazy like me, you look at the title lol
Right
@@mrmacguff1n that is how propaganda get you to believe their slop
All these foods are Scottish. Sheep’s head stew was eaten in Scotland long before William Wallace. It was always an anti English food but not American.
@Ben W all the ingredients are used in Britain long before the revolution. And are still used.
You guys should do the foods that people ate during the great depression!
Yes!!
Broth
check out the channel Great Depression Cooking
Beans
Introducing -
Nothing
8:11 "He had no desire to grow richer from a conflict" LEGEND 👏
My ancestor, probably the brother of my direct ancestor, was Ephraim Blaine, Commissary to the Continental Army from August 1777 through most of 1781. He and his assistant John Chaloner worked really hard in Pennsylvania and several other colonies to keep the troops well supplied with beef in the form of herds of living cattle or salted beef in barrels, wheat flour, sometimes herds of hogs or barrels of pork, corn meal, rye flour, or dried peas, liquor (whiskey, rum, and brandy), and rock salt needed for cooking, flavoring, and meat preservation. Sometimes they also acquired soap and candles or tallow to make those items. They kept a record of the details of their work and the many difficulties and sometimes dangers they went through in their letterbook -- copies of their handwritten correspondence with people involved in buying, requisitioning, transporting, storing, and delivery of goods to the Army. I got this information from a 2001 book with the letterbook letters from 1777-1778. History books say very little if anything about these unsung heroes of the Revolution.
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A much overdue thanks to Ephraim Bline and Mr. Chaloner.
Very cool.
That's so awesome, thank you for sharing. Any particular stories or incidents stick out, to you? I'd love to hear more about it, that must have been a daunting, difficult, and ultimately very rewarding endeavor : )
Have you joined the Daughters of the Revolution? I have a couple of direct ancestors too and am joining as soon as I can.
I agree 💯👍
Ice cream, coffee, rum...I would revolt in support of these!
Far out, man!
Not to mention cured pork
@Sue Taft Stop being a KillJoy
Should've done a Townsends crossover for this one
I love the townsends!!
I see you're a fellow man of culture
More nutmeg!
Townsends, and Chef Walter Staib from A Taste of History.
That would be awesome
"Boston Tea Party"
"Coffee Riots"
"Whiskey Rebellion"
"Cola Wars"
Americans and our beverage-based conflicts.
😂😂😂😂
Don't forget the West Point Eggnog Riot
And let’s not forget prohibition
@@rokkfel4999 i think thats covered under whiskey rebellion
@@Black-Sun_Kaiser would since it happened around a hundred of so years later
As a Pennsylvania boy who has had scrapple for breakfast often, don't knock it till you've tried it!
same here
I'm a Delawarean and I love scrapple! Rapa scrapple is made here
Is that the same as souse meat?
No. Scrapple isn't pickled like souse. Its ground up pig bits with spices and cornmeal, shaped into a loaf. And then you cut it and fry the slices
@@NaturallyMeeee That actually sounds good
More people should be like the bread maker or baker, he was a real hero for having integrity.
4 gallons of rum per person, per year? Based on how you said it, I felt like you were trying to emphasize what an enormous amount of rum this was. But this actually comes out to less than a can of Coke worth of rum (about 350ml in most places) over the course of an entire week. It’s actually less than one shot glass of rum every night.
I mean, that’s something... but it’s not really all that crazy. Especially when most of us have grandparents or great-grandparents who followed the old “two fingers of Scotch every night” rule.
Exactly what I thought
Back then it wasn't that available though... You have to take that into account....
You have to consider though that the 4 gallons number is for all Americans, including those who didn't drink or didn't have access/could afford Rum. This means if you could get rum and you drank...your number was well above the 4 gallon average
You have to understand that not everyone would drink rum. So that stat is made up of only rum drinkers and so how many people’s shares did the rum drinkers consume? Consider it like that and you have a different perspective.
Especially when u consider that many monks used to be paid in beer...like 350 barrels a year n shit like that. And before ppl say "yeah but it wasn't as strong"..meh🤷🏼 i wouldn't be so sure. They liked thier drink is my point
Do a video about the Lisbon 1755 Earthquake its a very interesting topic that changed Europe
Povoas_ do a video about earthquakes in Nepal in 2015
@Kritagya Thapa, your at "Weird History." Events which occurred five years ago do not belong on a history channel. We do not have the perspective of time to access the long term impact.
A world events channel should cover 2015 Nepalese earthquakes.
Ooooo yes! I'd love an episode on it.👍🏻
I’m vaguely aware of the earthquake, but how did it change Europe?
Yes!!!!!!!
As a chef who loves history, I absolutely love this content! Keep up the great work!
i love it too. I just burn water but I love this stuff.
Me too. Love it.
"They refused to eat British food.."
One minute in: BLOOD PUDDING!
When I was a kid, my friends father, who was off the boat from Ireland made us breakfast one time and there were these delicious disks of fried meat. I loved it. I asked what it was and he said blood pudding.
Good man yourself...
I’m used to blood sausages at Christmas and blood “steak”
that was just white bread cowered with blood.
Yes!!! The revolutionary war videos rock! Love waking up to see the notification that you uploaded! Thank you so much, people like me really appreciate and enjoy it
"How many parts of the animal do you want to eat?"
Martin: Yes.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
scrotum stew with peanuts sauce
😂😂
He was literally starving. He wrote of his experiences in the Revolutionary War when he was much older. He still remembered vividly how hungry he was, at least until he was detailed to go off foraging. It's a great book.
Eeeeyyyyy.
I’m a very big fan of this channel. I a huge history buff so this channel feeds my mind and soul 👍🏾
I’m from Philippines and this stuff is like Normal food here 🤣 I’ve eaten blood soup, sheep head, pig feet, and maggots (etag)
Yo wil why are u here 😀
Well I wouldn’t say it with pride but whatever man 😂
Pinoy lang malakas!! 😅
@@Letizia2810 LOL! That burn.
@wil dasovich don’t mind the other replies. goes to show how exposure or lack there of color people’s opinions. You do you =]
Sounds gross as all get out....But it's better than starving! You would be amazed at what you would eat yourself if you went hungry long enough.
Having been through SERE training, I say "Amen brother!" After only 3 days without food, a random rattlesnake you come across is in for a bad day. Barnacles off the rocks, armadillo, a scrawny-ass rabbit that wasn't fast enough; it all fills a gut.
@@mikearmstrong8483 Damm did you eat anymore wierd shit in sere training?
Man I feel bad for this boys cold hungry and the only thing they eat is maggot bread through the winter
Yes
yes
We ain't had nothin but maggoty bread for three stinkin days!
@@retroking59 Minutemen: Yeah when can we have some meat
Check what the Marines had to eat while fighting on Guadalcanal
Scrapple was popular in my father's family for generations. Growing up in NE Ohio, Grandma used to prepare it for breakfast. It was my dad's favorite food. And yes, it was prepared exactly as it is described in the video.
Scrapple is one of my favorite breakfast foods. When I was stationed in Japan with the USAF the commissary sold it canned. I wish that was still available.
For anyone who doesn't know, Hannah Glasse was an English (London) cookery writer. Her first book was published in 1747.
So erotic and sensual
As anyone who saw “Hamilton” can tell you, when the Revolution ended Jefferson CAME BACK from France and sang “What did I miss?”
Lol
I love the idea that he came up with a recipe... Completely ignoring the fact that he kept so many slaves the only thing he did on his own was walk
@@MrReganomics1 It's not not entirely true that slaves did all the work. Despite keeping slaves, those old school elites kept themselves far busier than the elites of today. They actually worked hard by today's comparison. The slaves maintained the farming and basic aspects of housekeeping and animal husbandry, but the amount of slaves in service within the homes was small -- usually only two if any at all. Well-to-do people like Jefferson often hunted and fished for their own food, gone for days in muck and mire, but they saw that as "sporting". They built barns and homes with their own hands, but they saw those things as "craftsmanship'. Unlike the British, they didn't do silly things to entertain themselves. They rarely partied or did anything simply for the sake of fun. Enamored by the food they would encounter abroad, - and very few people ever went abroad - they came back to America with grandiose ideas that they too could be great chefs and wine makers. They worked at learning these things. This is what we call the PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC. It's very hard for us, in our modern times, to understand the frame of reference inherent to men like the Founding Fathers. They didn't know they were racist. They thought they were virtuous and good. We shouldn't judge them by the gauges of today. Five hundred years from now, even the most progressive people of our time might be viewed as having been savages who "ate animals" and "killed insects" and who knows what else we do every day that will seen a brutal in the not-so-distant future.
@@davemattia Wholeheartedly disagree
@@davemattia We can and should view them from the gauge to today’s lens
I love the idea of the cranberry tarts, in general, it’s so amazing how American cranberry juice and anything cranberry really is, if you go outside the United States they don’t really do cranberry stuff even on flights cranberry juice is only on American bound flights
Oh wow I learned something new !
Yeah I visited a bar in Marmaris, Turkey when I was in the Navy. I thought it was strange when I ordered a cranberry juice and vodka that he told me they don't have that in Turkey, but would substitute cherry juice
"Strange and gross old historical foods"
Me: *laughs nervously in Northern English*... Liver and onions is actually delicious though.
I agree
Add bacon and brown gravy. With mashed potatoes.
Add apples and it is called Berlin style
Spleen is good too! And slow-cooked udders.
Mmmm yes liver and onion is very delicious
Damn history is weird
More fascinating than weird, but still weird...
Wait til you see the future
If you think that was weird, wait until 2070 then remember 2020. The Revolutionary War period was boring and lame compared to what we're going through.
By our standards
Hence its name
They ate FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.
Slavery did not end in the United States until 1865. Only White male property owners were allowed to vote until 1828; it took until 1965 for all US citizens to have the right to vote. You call slavery and not being allowed to vote freedom and democracy?
@@dchenkin02 Yes
@@dchenkin02 oh shut up the founders tried to end slavery had they not caved to the Souths demands there would be no United States. Wanna complain go cry to the Brazilians who didn't end slavery until the 1890s or the African and Arab countries that still allow slavery today.
*They ate freedom and SHIT democracy!
@@rc59191 The majority of founders owned slaves. The US government was not a majority anti-slavery until the 1850s. Second, none of the founders supported allowing women and non-white skinned people to vote.
I cannot get enough of these videos and thankfully there are so many of them! 🙏🏻☺️👍🏻
get back to me
"As high as four gallons per person..."
WTF!
"...per year."
Oh
🤣😁 don't get happy too fast.
Right! Lol
My fishing buddies can do that by 10am.
Ok
I went to a tavern in Philadelphia that’s been around for centuries and still uses colonial era recipes. They had this really delicious roast duck! 🦆
This restaurant is in Olde Coty Philadelphia... i worked across the street from it.
That “Scrapple” add killed me! I have relatives in Philadelphia. 🤣
I had a little bit for breakfast when I visited my family in Philadelphia in the late seventies! When I say a little bit I mean one bite was enough! ✋😖
I'm from DC and theres scrapple in my fridge right now lol.
For those who are wondering, Scrapple tates like a loosely packed breakfast sausage. You can fry it hard and crispy through out by slicing it really thin. But mostly it's crispy on the outside and kind of soft and mushy on the inside.
Sheep's head is a traditional dish here in Norway, it's called smalahove. I don't eat that, though, because one of my guiding philosophies in life is "Don't eat things that are still staring back at you".
Well said!
That kind of doesn’t make sense. You can get head meat that’s already minced and most people would not notice that it’s from the head.
To expand upon the scarcity of military rations, in 1777 the Thanksgiving dinner of the average Continental Army soldier was 1/2 cup of rice and a tablespoon of vinegar.
Blood / Black pudding is still very popular in UK
Suggestion: What was it like to be a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War?
A loser
Dan O'Boyle 😂
Look 👀 up “the Expulsion of the Loyalists.” Most moved to colonies in Florida, back to England 🏴 (lost all their wealth), or founded New Foundland/ Labrador Canada. The Crown granted many of them lands In British Canada.
In GA those who opposed the revolution were tar and feathered and dragged through the town oof
Large percentage of Loyalists were slave owners.
Grew up just outside Philly, uhm, scrapple, ”we’re familiar with it”. 🤮
Now living in CT, it doesn't surprise me that they would have just eaten anything during the rev war. But it does surprise me that 100+ years earlier, Thanksgiving tradition started and we celebrate food as a result. I mean I know, war is hell but, damn.
Growing up in maryland snd living here most of my life I absolutely love scrapple. We ate 2-3 times a week for breakfast and I still do on the weekends. It’s amazing
Interesting side note: Washington so loved his Maidera wine, he became quite fastidious about checking the weight of each cask when it was ordered. This led to some particularly harsh words for the guy in charge of ordering it, whom Washington at one time believed was skimming some for himself.
Scrapple is so good man, but I haven't had it in a long time. (Philly born and raised)
PA native myself! People don’t know what they’re missing!
In the south we call it souse meat or head cheese
Grew up in South Jersey. Avoided scrapple like the plague. Until I tried it. Good stuff! Gotta fry it until it’s nice and crispy on the outside.
@@tiffanygattis1980 Scrapple is not the same as head cheese, or souse. Head cheese and souse are not even the same thing.
I had no idea this was a PA specialty. I assumed everyone ate it.
Eric Cartman is responsible for free ice cream day when he helped the declaration of independence to be signed.
Nice!
“Like Grapeshot from a field piece.” 🤣
That part legitimately made me laugh out loud
Scrapple is at the top of my breakfast list, and has been for nearly 80 years! And I make a killer pumpkin pie!
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@@davidmark5142 Sorry, David. This one got by me. Still hangin' around.
Could you do the culinary history on Sumer or Egypt, like for the common (nonroyal) people? I would love to see something like that.
Could you do foods of the wealthy during the Victorian era
In the Netherlands we have 'balkenbrij' which sounds a lot like scrapple! And... I love it 😋
It's good as is, thin slice (or thiccc) made crispy in the pan with oil 👌🏻 or served with bread.
I see a lot of complaints and accusations of "Ewww.. That's gross!" Clearly, none of these people have spent any time on a farm or they seem to be eating cheeseburgers all the time.
As to Scrapple: It's sausage by any other name.. Good food on the go.
I always heard “if you like politics or sausage, don’t watch how it’s made” and that is the truth!!!.
I've never understood why people starve their own soldiers in the midst of a war
Because its hard to get rations to moving troops.
At valley forge the roads were often blocked by snow which complicated delivering rations. I live near valley forge and I can attest that the roads there take a while to be plowed and are in very poor condition.
@@Dennis-nc3vw or to snowed in troops, as the Continental Army found out the hard way at Valley Forge. I live near Valley Forge and some of the roads are largely impassable and I have a Jeep
Sometimes it was the other way around.
Pumpkin Pie, Coffee, and Rum....sounds like a good Saturday Night
Me: Sees these foods
Also me: *Silent McDonald Noises*
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What?
I Love Scrapple, every time I went to Philly as a kid, my grandma would make for breakfast, now I can get in California
Waiting for Townsend and Sons response, that is his channel's specialty.
These videos really make you appreciate the food you eat more
When I was a kid and we ran out off food toward the end of the month, I would mix flour and water with a bit of salt and then deep fry it up as little balls and serve them to my little brothers and sisters.
I was young and named them Crusty Crustaceans because when I was young I really liked the Simosons. Fried flour is a good go to when you have nothing to use with it or have no idea of the more "technical" side of cooking.
I never burnt myself too badly or even the trailer but while I was learning what cooking was, I found out that too much cinnamon and sugar used as the primary ingredients for a cookie will make a green colored cookie that tastes just as shockingly bad as they look. I used a lot of baking soda and powder too and an egg and a milk as the liquid. That travesty killed more than on little white counter top cookie machine because they also turn into rocks that will not come off of whatever surface they had been cooked on.
You can't find the cookie machines these days except at times in Good Wills and the like. I don't know when they started or stopped making them... Maybe they still do but I want to track down this "They" I speak of and ask who they originally sold them too.
I want to say "Grandmas" but these where before my time by some years, I think so they could have been part of a cooking fad back in the 80s maybe?
Whatever, I vote for "Fire cake" as the most appetizing food because if you did it right, you could, I think, get people to eat deepfried cat turds so the bugs in the cakes were likely just fine.
"Little white cookie machines.." Do you mean _Easy Bake Ovens_ ? 🙂
No, these things are more like the George Foreman countertop grills in that they were not 100w powered thumb burners.
This is the hard part if you're too young to have lived throughout the "heyday" of the countertop cooking things fad.
I was thinking on this and at some point in the 90s there was an episode of "The Fresh Prince" where Will's uncle buys one of the countertop cookery things to make "Chilli pie pockets" and gets mocked.
Just think of a George Foreman grill but before they existed as we know them and you would get the idea.
Essentially I think I was playing with a QVC fad years after the fad stopped. I mean if references had been made on a very special episode of the Fresh Prince about these countertop contraptions than I think they where part of a fad from late 80s or early 90s?
I don't know but Easy bake they were not.
History of the Calendar year would be great to see how and who made the First Calendar.
Alexander Hamilton: WE HAVE RESORTED TO EATING OUR HORSES
*Hercules crying noises*
I kid you not, they had Mac and Cheese during the American Revolution
I like your profile picture
Is MAC for Mac and Cheese short for MAC in the Mac and Cheese or is it an acronym for:
Mac
And
Cheese?
@Christopher Kupst are you a fellow German watching Townsends?
If yes, I salute you or dare I say Prost!
@@cdldriver2348 Mac is Macaroni Macaroni without chese is just disappointing. However if you said "damn I want some mac right now" nobody would give you just plain noodles 🤣😂🤣 But no its not an acronym to my knowledge
why are you everywhere
Excellent video. Keep up the great work.
This is my my 4th “what foods did..” video in a row, I love these
Can you do a video on what the revolutionary soilders or civil war soilders foraged for to supplement their rations....ie minors lettuce or paw paw fruits. That would be fascinating to learn more the stuff the foragded for. And how they used it....
Like if you 👍 agree.
As a european I’ve never had pumpkin pie. I keep wondering if it would be nice.
Depends on the spices but pumpkin pie has its moments. You should have one this fall it's a fall dessert
Much love
A lot of people who didn't grow up with pumpkin pie aren't super fond of it. Pumpkin is more the filler and binding agent for all of the sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg added to it. It's especially good when served with a dollop of whipped cream.
I’ve mostly ate it during holidays it’s not something that’s made daily but it taste amazing if you got whipped cream
@@agentofashcroft wow I really need to get pumpkin pie today
100 Karens rioted on July 24th 1777 for coffee.
It seems, that they weren't keen for some Liber-Tea.
They weren't really Karens. That fucker wanted to drive up the price of coffee, he got what he deserved.
I would riot for coffee, too! LOL I love coffee!
@@paysmenot2624 Is there such a thing as a righteous Karen? Maybe they were righteous Karens.
@john thonig 🤔 Sweet and Strong?
Im a native from Philippines too, from island of mindanao and americans are so lucky to have that food, its special here in the Philippines.
Christopher Ludwick is a super interesting guy! The dude served in for 4 different nations militaries throughout his life. Was a devout Patriot and a massive philanthropist.
this so weird and cool at the same time
You haven’t even watched it yet
@@lungtoo1525 shutup
@@maplesyrup6052 well sorry but he commented not even a minute goes by but apparently he found the video to be cool and weird without even watching the fucking video
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The 1777 coffee riot! LOL! Oh man, that's hilarious! 😆
That is DELICIOUS!!! LOL!🤣
Imagine having a History teacher with this voice and cadence. Straight A's I tell ya!
Can you please make a video about Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and how he discovered Philippines, I want to learn more about it. I absolutely love your videos! Very entertaining.
Some of us still eat blood pudding fried crisp with a full English breakfast and it's delicious! From the rooter to the tooter! Sheepshead is now a delicacy. Scrabble is still enjoyed today and I love it. Just don't ask too many questions it is delicious. My grandfather ate pig trotters. I eat pumpkin often and when I lived in Morocco they eat pumpkin once a week. It's delicious in a stew over couscous or roasted like sweet potatoes with maple syrup. Coffee and Madeira will keep you alive for months and months! :-)
I don’t care, I still love scrapple
It's basically breakfast sausage and grains right? I'm gonna look it up lol
Me too
Scrapple is one of the best things ever. It's really popular in Maryland as well, but we're also neighbors with PA so it makes sense.
Sounds offel! The narator is funny and doesnt even know it
Di- did you have a stroke typing this?
See what you did there.....lol!
I almost corrected you.....
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They say you see past lives through your eyes sometimes, if that's the case my wife was definitely at that coffee riot.
Today's version of the "firecake " here in India is called "chapatti " or "naan"...it is made in a number of delicious ways , but without the inclusion of flour bugs ...,& served with veggies, lentils & non veg dishes.
Indian naan is far tastier. As an American, I know the soldiers who are forecastle wished it were naan without having tasted naan.
My almost daily history lesson
Scrapple because I've been eating it since before I can remember. My favorite is with Elk meat but we didn't use the lower intestines. Slice it thin and fry it crisp like it was Spam.
I'm from South Louisiana and their's nothing better than Blood Boudin (blood sausage) and Hogs Head Cheese (scraple).
Blood sausage (black pudding) is still popular in England too
Pumpkins are a very underrated food, so many ways to make these yummy from soups to pies to candies, so good!
I still remember reading a story about Jefferson giving a room of founding fathers panic attacks by eating a tomato. They all thought they were poisonous!
Huh...well I'll be darned
imma be honest some of these seem like they would slap and as someone born in philly i love scrapple
Please do any video about the Philippines. 😅
As a Filipino, we just love anything that wod mention us or our country...
I also love how the pumpkin pie recipe has rosewater in it, but the super fascinating because, rosewater is seen today as very much only a Middle Eastern/south Asian flavor but I have heard of rosewater here and there in some French and other western traditional dishes so that is really cool how the world goes round
I LOVE Scrapple...I grew up eating it and even now will have it a couple times a month!
What sounds the tastiest that I would eat? that would be scrapple. My heritage is Pennsy Dutch and I was born and raised in Delaware. My Grandparents and mom were from Pennsylvania. Scrapple is the one thing I know that’s awesome. Has to be cooked crispy and tastes even better with two dippy eggs. My grandmother could always make it the best, probably because she cooked it in bacon grease. Makes me miss my grandparents even more.
Aren't gramas the best cooks? Mine made the best fried okra.
Fire Cake sounds like a something that's soaked in rum then set on fire. 🔥🎂
Coffee Riot sounds like what would happen if Starbucks discontinued pumpkin spice lattes.☕☕☕☕☕
Controversial opinion but Starbucks coffee is not that good.
@@GrandCorsair And the CEO got pissed that he has to pay the workers a living wage.
Back in 99 I us to deliver campers all over the states. While going through Delaware I pulled over at a truck stop for the night. Just before the restaurant closed the chef told me to stop in in the morning before I was to leave and he’ll fix me something to eat. It was a scrapple sandwich. It was actually good, and I didn’t have to pay for it. I’m thinking he wanted to get my reaction to eating it.
Surprisingly, the most appealing dish I heard was fresh ox meat on bread
We’re from Wilkes Barre and only people my age still eat scrapple now I’m in my 50s I live in Missouri and some of the butcher shops and Amish markets sell it and these people out here love it! I’ve been eating it my whole life!
Back in the 60s me and my great aunt used to eat fire cake for every supper, except we usually used the microwave instead of a fire
I cannot be the only who saw this and thought *WE HAVE RESORTED TO EATING OUR HORSES*
I was like "their horses"
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Im a general wheee
I'd love to hear about Ancient Persian cuisine
"What Foods Did Americans Eat During The Revolutionary War?"
John Townsends: "Allow me to introduce myself!"
Nothing like a fried scrapple sandwich with mustard or just a slight touch of ketchup for non-mustard fans, . Add some scrambled egg and optional cheese to it, you have a staple to eat 3 times a week. My grandfather sold one of his local recipes to Paul and Ralphs Adams (RAPA) Brand scrapple in Bridgeville, DE. in the early 1900's. They still celebrate the Apple Scrapple Festival every year...and yes, we were living on an orchard farm when I was born.
I really enjoyed your sense of humor! You made a less than stellar topic into a fine video! Blood pudding, ox heads...oh boy, I would have starved.
Right? My OCD is not loving all the puddings and sweetbreads of the past.
I discovered Scrapple when I was stationed in DC. It's pretty good if fried to a crisp. A similar version is the liver pudding you can get in North Carolina with the only difference being that liver pudding tastes just a little gamier (IMHO).
I think people got hopped up on coffee even back then!
Scrapple is amazing!!! It sounds gross but I'm super picky and I like it. It's like if you treated corned beef hash like spam but you flour it after slicing and before frying.
Thanks for keeping history alive in America since they don't show anything on the History Channel related to history!
Thank you for another fascinating episode.