Check out these other interesting Medieval recipes: Medieval Tournaments: th-cam.com/video/wxypUB5K0KE/w-d-xo.html Peasant Food: th-cam.com/video/zKa5GRu4LwE/w-d-xo.html Medieval Outlaws: th-cam.com/video/IfcQcAPt5vk/w-d-xo.html Medieval Saint Diet: th-cam.com/video/jBRVvMm3xv0/w-d-xo.html
I've heard the same saying, but King and Prince were switched (no one is wrong, though. They're gonna even out before dinner). Glad that someone else on Earth has heard this saying AT ALL! 🤩
@@hahmann Yeah like I eat more dishes than a lot of people but that's because I eat smaller meals to accomodate my illnesses. I can't imagine eating the equivalent of a Thanksgiving potluck dinner *every night*
See also the "Maultasche", a kind of dumpling, also known as "Herrgottsbescheißerle" (a cutified version of "God fooler"). Said to be invented by monks when they had surplus meat they shouldn't eat at the time. So they "hid" the meat inside dough before cooking, fooling god that way :-)
@@christophalexander4542 Heh. That reminds me of the Czech pučálka, which is a historical snack made of sprouted peas, roasted / fried (it can be both savoury and sweet). _Technically_ it's lenten food with no meat but the first written record of it comes (what else) from a 15th century priest complaining that people would stuff themselves with it like gluttons regardless of the _spirit_ of Lent. Also, it might be fried on lard.
No. It's just rules for Benedictine monks to foster good monastic life. Monastic life conducive to spiritual aims. Based on Saint Benedict's precepts which also include the idea of therapeutic bathing. 'Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other times silence is maintained as much as is practically possible. Social conversations tend to be limited to communal recreation times. But such details, like the many other details of the daily routine of a Benedictine house that the Rule of St Benedict leaves to the discretion of the superior, are set out in its 'customary'. A ' customary' is the code adopted by a particular Benedictine house, adapting the Rule to local conditions.' 'Benedictines' rules contained ritual purification, and inspired by Benedict of Nursia encouragement for the practice of therapeutic bathing; Benedictine monks played a role in the development and promotion of spas.'
Oh the crying for the next 3-6 months while the Bishop is forced to at least act like he is following the King's demand. Imagine going from Thanksgiving mode to Diet mode...
@@leechowning2712 it must have been insane for them during feast days when they'd gone weeks or months eating like a pauper and then gotten a feast day when you could eat 10,000 calories
@@leechowning2712 Not even diet mode. Just a more limited menu. They had their _choice_ of thirteen meals, and the king chose from three. Such practice of having multiple meals prepared for one's self and choosing one to eat was not unheard of among the aristocracy in those times; King Louis XIV of France famously chose from more than a dozen dinners himself. But such an arrangement was, again, aristocratic and extravagant, and certainly not befitting a monk.
Monastic sign language is fascinating and may have been the first sign language learned by deaf people outside of their family homes. As a Deaf person, I appreciate your mentioning it, in addition to putting captions/subtitles in all of your videos so far. :)
I am not deaf but I love his captions becasue he puts so many more side jokes in their that are not spoken in the videos. I generally always watch his videos with them on just for the extra entertainment value
@@lindacosta5688actually, Laurent Clerc was not a friar. He was a deaf teacher at a school for the Deaf in Paris. He was taught by Abbe de L'Épée, a priest dedicated to educating the deaf
if monks had phones you'd get some funny videos out of it. a monk records his friend across the hall and slowly zooms in, his friend notices and throws up a sign, the monk recording laughs. it gets 50,000 prayers on Christbook
A trick I learned from an Iranian friend: when making sweet recipes that use both sugar and saffron, add a little sugar to the saffron threads in a mortar, and grind the threads to a powder. Pour out and set aside, add a little more sugar and grind again just to clean out the mortar. Ise this ‘saffronised’ sugar in your preparation. You’ll get more flavour and won’t have to fish out the threads.
In Portugal, the nuns used egg whites to starch their robes. With all the leftover egg yolks, they came up with egg custard cups, pasteis de nata. An episode on these would be amazing ☺️
Also, an episode about the different types of sweets and pastries invented by nuns over the years, to sell to the public and raise money for their convent, would be really interesting. "Farts of Portingale" and things with puff pastry, were called "Nun's Sighs" in Spanish-speaking countries, for example. Convents and nunneries didn't seem to have as much success with being gifted with lots of land, unless a princess or other aristocratic girl joined the community and her parents agreed to give her dowry to the convent (since she was becoming a Bride of Christ).
In Belgium i know 2-3 places that make these, each time i passes by i cannot help myself to get 3-4 of them. They do not last long, its so freaking good...
In the philippines, it was said that when building a new church, the builders wouls use egg whites to strengthen the foundation and walls in place of cement. So what did they do with the yolks? They made it to leche flan.
St. Benedict: "Guys, don't eat meat. I didn't spend all this time coming up with this egg dish for nothing! C'mon St. Bartholomew, back me up here." St. Bartholomew: "Don't have a cow, man."
I wonder, would it count if an animal that is normally born with four legs is instead born with fewer or greater than four? So like: Cow: *is born with five legs* Monk: "𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘶"
@@jordinagel1184 the great majority of the time what would happen is "oh dear that cow is deformed. It must be killed. And since we're killing it we may as well eat some because God would not want us to waste food".
Here in my Brazil (at least my parents use it all the time) we have a saying that you say after eating really well and a lot: "Wow, I ate like a priest from a rich parish!" Now it makes sense to me.
I remember reading a letter written in Rennaissance times to a young lady recommending, rather than getting married, that she join a convent, where her "hands would not be roughened by housework, and her body would not be worn out by childbirth." Apparently, by then, a monastic life was regarded as a pretty good choice of lifestyle.
@Sanctus Paulus 1962 It's probably not that no housework would be done, but that she would be doing it with the help of other nuns rather than by herself like she most likely would (at least until the kiddos got big enough) in a marriage. (Many hands makes easy work after all)
@@Awimpyman69 I'd say that's a good thing that it's coming from someone who's experienced it themself rather than an outsider, especially assuming the writer and receiver have a similar background
@@majnsu the church will always tell you their lifestyle is better, which is not always true, especially in regards to Catholicism. They are biased because it’s literally part of their religion to convert. My point being that it is not universally a better life for everyone, however I’m sure it worked for many to be a person of the cloth
I lived in a Benedictine monastery for a year and we used to start every meal with a reading from the rule of St Benedict- I can confirm that the section on alcohol was always met with sniggers from everyone present
@@fiona2617 yeah, there are still tons of researchers and historians that go to old monasteries and churches because while secular schools may have records going back a few hundred years the monastery may have records going back to before the Magna Carta
"medieval monastic intermittent fasting" is just what happens to me on the weekends when I pick a game to play on Steam and forget to eat for 48 hours.
I might have misunderstood the threat, but if the monks actually "perished" their Bishop, then they get to keep their current number of dishes, right? sounds like a boon to me.
My marketing brain can’t help but think how cool it would be to partner with hello fresh further to create a meal kit featuring all the ingredients and recipe to make a Tasting History item! I know I’d love one.
You think that's bad? Think about those monks in the east who just use it to color _clothing_ ! Original Buddhist monk robes used saffron to get that rich orange color; imagine how much saffron you'd have to use just to get that much cloth to that level of color, per robe! Admittedly saffron in cooking is mostly for coloring anyway. It has a slight flavor, but mostly fades into the background when used with other stronger spices or flavorings. Which is probably just as well as it really isn't that nice, almost bitter and soapy. If you can taste it in your cooking you're doing it wrong.
@@Zzyzzyzzs that's not really fair. Although often used for coloring food, it also gives a distinct flavour and smell to dishes that isn't easily noticeable, until you try that dish without saffron. It really does take certain dishes to a new level if used properly.
@@Zzyzzyzzs It is true that everyone tastes things differently because to me saffron has a very clear and distinct taste not "a slight flavor" that "fades into the background".
@@piotr77669 saffron even today costs $1,800 per pound... And yes, it is often used mainly for color since the taste depends on a genetic mutation. Not it it, in us. About 10% of the population can enjoy the flavor, while to another 10% it literally tastes like dish soap.
Pope Urban II: "That's nothing, I asked them not to use crossbows and now look at them, they've got fully automatic fire crossbows with infinite range"
i would expect that the "fat monk" stereotype would stem from the fact that it was usual for problematic or otherwise spoiled nobles to be stuffed in convents-out of sight, out of mind, after all. the expectation was that monastic discipline would at least make them more decent, but of course you can't really get rid of a noble already exiled to your place, so a lot of the times they had to just silently bear with these brats in the cloister. add to that the fact that oftentimes secular powers would meddle in monastic affairs, appointing random people as abbots so as to get access to the monastery treasury. God knows what that would do to discipline in, say, an army batallion. all of this to create a funny mental image of a monk starving through the strict fasts of Lent, while the dickhead next door leaves to break into the larders or cellars.
The moment you said, "Hemina" I thought how can he say that without immediately repeating it several times quickly? And then you did. You're a gem, Max.
Slavic wake ceremony involves dinner and inviting all the church people (priest, quire, altar boys) to said dinner. And one of my relatives died during one of the stricter lents, as non in my family follows them dinner was arranged without any appropriate dishes. So the priest looked at all the assorted meats and proclaimed "Declaring it all fish" and dove in, just like that.
Speaking of Monasteries, you should look into Mt Athos. They have a lot of specific recipes attributed to their vegetarian diet and now and again monks write recipe books. It may show you some medieval byzantine dishes or atleast what monks in the non-Catholic part of Europe were eating. They eat a lot of sweets and schnapps today.
@@ashleejones1690 a pastry chef instructor implied to me that the correspondence meant more than simply the translation, but that the method itself had Turkic roots; but thank you for telling me about the word origins.
So I’ve been struggling with ed recovery for years and I can’t stand the mention food but I’m a massive history nerd and these type of videos really help me with my road to recovery. So thank you man
One example of an ascetic monk is St. David, who lived on a diet of bread, vegetables, herbs, and honey. In addition to his main claim to fame (as the patron saint of Wales, whose festival day is still celebrated here on the 1st of March) he's also the patron saint of vegetarians :)
My family doesn't celebrate St. David's day because my parents said "we have too many holidays where we eat a lot on" but that doesn't mean I'm not going to celebrate Welsh spirit when I get out the house.
plot twist: honey included high alcohol mead, turkish mad honey and honey-roasted ham. While bread includes meat buns, sweetbread, pigeon pies and cakes; similar to how beavers are fish :D
Note on the saffron. It seems to me that if you want more of the flavor and the deepest possible color, just do as you would with lussekatter and grind the saffron first and soak it for 12-24h in a small amount of rum, then just mix it into the cream. It basically makes saffron extract and has a wonderful flavor.
Good point, but the monks didn't have steam distillation back then. The closest one could get was a process similar to making applejack, freezing the alcoholic beverage and skimming off the top to gradually remove extra water. Well, I must asterisk this with the caveat that distillation was invented long ago but it appears to have been only by the 13th-14th century that the technology spread across Europe into the British isles.
Max, as a dude who tries to live by what those monks claimed to believe, I really, really appreciate how you went about this. You called them out on their BS, but you did it in a fair and funny way without resorting to mockery like so many do. Seriously, thank you for bringing us the accurate history in such a kind and entertaining way.
And metric measurements. I’m a US scientist and feel the best way to promote the metric system is thru cooking. It’s where we all learn first. This guys got it all! Thank you!!
@@nat2nathan2005 A cup has actually been standardised as a measurement. You can buy measuring cups in all good markets and stores. It's equivalent to roughly 236ml
Y'know, there's a level of hilarity here when you remember that aang from avatar loved egg custard tarts Glad to know that even airbender monks are similar to their real life western brethren
@@crystalwolcott4744 yes, most eastern monks aren't allowed eggs, though i think Tibetan monks only follow this rule sometimes. Of course that raises the awkward point that Tibetan monks aren't vegetarian.
I'm a simple man. I see Tasting History with Max Miller, I click like and I watch. Keep on being great, Max. Your content is some of the best on youtube.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought his reference to Jose and a "family of two", was the cat... when it showed them sharing a meal. xD hahaha I was like Aww, he has a cat named Jose. xD Glad to hear from the comments that he's engaged! Congrats my man, to love and all its wonderfulness! :)
Regarding whether or not to put the custard into the hot pastry or let it cool: If the pastry coffin is not meant to be eaten, I suspect a thin layer of overcooked custard on the bottom would be less of an issue.
Story time! Every community of nuns/monks interprets their Rule differently. Carmelite nuns are cloistered. Usually this means they stay in their cloister (female version of monastery) and are rarely seen or spoken to by regular people. Usually. I went to a talk hosted by Carmelite nuns in Louisiana. I’m mentally preparing myself for silent nuns behind a wall or fence. I walk into this big entrance hall. A short little nun runs in and says “Hello! Welcome!” And throws her arms around my neck. It was sweet. It was wholesome! And we were in her home, so technically she didn’t break any rules. 😂
I just wanna mention again hoow relatable and well rounded your channel presents itself. You have managed the sweet, sweet mixture of educated, neighborly. and passionate about history. I really love the show you cook up for us. Cheers.
My great aunt was a Salesian nun. She once got kicked out of a nunnery because she filed a report on them for over spending and wanting to do renovations to the rooms. lol
Man, you really inspire me, as a 16 yr old whos got some cooking skills, to widen my horizons. Out of every cooking show, I've ever seen, your youtube channel is my favorite by far lmao. Makes me feel like I'm sitting down with a friend and discussing fancy dishes 😂
Looking forward to watching that future episode on pastéis de nata. In Portugal, in Alcobaça's Monastery, there is a small door on the canteen. That door is only 32cm wide. It was built so that the monks couldn't enter the kitchen if they were too chubby. A curious way of restricting their food intake.
I googled the door, it's amazing to see. They must have spent quite some time trying to scoop out monks who were on the borderline and who got stuck - so claustrophobic!
I'd read that this was a myth, kinda like the honeymoon thing, that came later and it was really more like a serving hatch? Cuz it connected the kitchen to the eating area so it was just a way to quickly pass food through, like the takeout window. Then again who knows.
Does Max bring out this refined late-18th century gentleman/lady in anyone else? Like upon seeing his sponsorship, on someone else’s channel I might say “yessss king go get your coin” But oh no no I’d never dare for TastingHistory! Why, I’d only bedight this channel with the finest of comments!
How awesome would it be if they invited you on to guest host the great British bake off for a technical and you gave them all Middleville instructions.
My history teacher would tell us how, with time, every monastery became lax with St Benedict's Rule, and so the virtuous monks would create a new monastery that with time would also become fall from the rule and the cycle repeats. Guess thats why there are so many orders and monasteries...
Why is it that monasteries have this reputation for fat, sassy, happy friars who drink lots of beer, bake bread, and get frisky, but convents have the reputation for cold cells and rigorous austerity?
@@astranix0198 Exactly! But the question is why? Were monks just ... I dunno, richer? Less able to follow rules? Was it pure misogyny? Did rich men's daughters either never enter convents or not feel entitled to demand good food once they got there? Is the whole perception mistaken and nuns actually did live a pretty sweet life in their own ways?
@@Marialla. So basically there were some pretty ambitious female orders who wanted to do a lot of the same things as more active men's orders (e.g. teaching in the community), but gradually over time they all got pressured into becoming closed off. The upside was, though, that because no men were allowed in, they could get up to basically whatever they wanted and the church higher ups couldn't find out!
I love imagining the king's thought process. They lost three dishes? They were eating as well as me and they.. what, lost all dishes? Did they have four? More??
Please watch the Ask a Mortician video about a "secret porpoise" found in a medieval monastery. It's another case of monastic rules-lawyering and it's a hoot. 😅
Years ago, one of our new priests was telling us about the time he spent with some monks while in seminary. He said that he did work very hard in the garden and vineyard; the products of which were sold to the public. He also said that breakfast was fairly meager, lunch was fast and meager, but his first supper, was amazing. He said something to one of the older monks, who said in return, "Just because we're monks doesn't mean we have to eat badly." Also, one of my uncles used to say that he prayed to Saint Swithin often, he was the Patron Saint of Opportunity...He's not actually the Patron Saint of Opportunity, but I tended to believe everything my uncle told, he was quite the character.
"Welcome to the monastery. Here you will practice prayer, meditation, and affliction. Your life will be one of strict devotion to God through fasting and copious labor. Now, here are your cream tarts."
Hi Max, I love your dedication. I am a medieval re-enactor (in Australia), and cook ( in normal years) feasts for up to 130 people. This recipe is a common dish served and if there is left overs they are served the following day at tournament. Another reason that monasteries changed, was returning soldiers from the crusades. A few of them had spent all their money returning home and needed somewhere to go, or others joined the holy orders whilst in Jerusalem. All the best x
Every time your show comes on it makes me so happy because your little theme song is so short. Some people just drag and drag at the beginning. You are quick and succinct.
I wonder why people think of monks as fat and lazy ,while some of them are, most of them aren't, they actually have alot of things to do (other than sleeping eating and praying) like singing, painting, carving, cleaning, writing, in larger monasteries they also have farming, brewing (wine not beer), sometimes they even have fishing, don't worry though, they don't do all of these in one day
@Zhianne S. Many were corrupt, for example look at the medieval papacy and apply it to monks also. I even know of an abbey or monastery with a tunnel to the town so they could smuggle brothels and food. True even the ones who were good and did their jobs would be fat, as their manual labour was minimal.
Man, I subbed back at the beginning of 2020. You've come so far in one year, congratulations! We honestly need more channels like you, I love food and all but it's so much fun seeing more than a dish put into the screen. Excited to see even more from ya!
I can never tell if the merch ideas for this show is for this show or the game Crusader Kings :P Between "Beaver is a fish" and "kill all the Karlings" we have something.
Having been watching you since about 10k subs it’s crazy to see how far you’ve gotten. 500k subs, excellent merch and paid advertisers. And your content keeps getting better and better. Super proud of you max, long may it continue.
So happy to have found your channel. I’ve got a small library on medieval cooking and I’ve been brewing mead mostly quick for years. Looking forward to backing through all of your videos.
During a trip to Faro Portugal, the tour guide mentioned why custard tarts (such as pastel de nata) were popular in ministries! As the monks and nuns were using egg whites to starch their habits they ended up with leftover egg yolks ... hence the popularity of custard based deserts !
I feel that on not allowing spouses/significant others in the kitchen during experiments. I need a little sign over the doorway that says NONE MAY ENTER HERE.
As a Portuguese native I have always been curious about the origins of the egg based regional sweets we have all over the country. The common story is that the nuns were left with egg yolks because the monks used the egg whites for creating inks and paints for their scribe work. With so many yolks available they came up with ways of using them in wonderful pastries. Maybe that could be an interesting video.
Honestly Disney doesn’t even deserve Max. They tried to screw him over (even though let’s face it-Disney could afford to pay their employees and then some during the pandemic-they’re full of BS) and he just proved he’s so much better than them. So proud that he decided not to go back. Let’s keep supporting him so he never has to!!
Many of Disney's employees need the help of "food stamps"/food banks for them and their families to survive (this is/was not only during the Pandemic/Lockdowns). I think it's a crying shame that Disney, who claims to be: "the happiest place in the world"...mistreats/abuses their hardworking employees in this way. 😔 Think about that the next time you & your family visit Disneyland/world✌🏻 .
Thank you very much for your thoroughly researched and wonderfully witty presentations of my favorite subjects, history, and recipes superb. You have helped to make the last year of isolation barrable. Please continue to post your most excellent culinary tales.
Wow. It always amazes me how much I learn about the etymology of many words from your videos. The Spanish word misericordia, mercy in English, comes from misericord, and itself is a compound of the Latin words misere (need or misery), cord (heart) and the suffix ia, which is used to refer to other people.
Bless you for the pasteis de nata reference and also, if you ever do that episode, you should look into our own history of coventual sweets! Our convents and monasteries were dedicated to making egg yolk and sugar into anything and everything. Pastel de nata is a part of this group, but probably what we least associate with conventual sweets, since pastel de nata kind of took off as its own thing and because it's not the eggiest we can do!
I'm a british Quaker and there's all sorts of modern/contemporary british food history that come from famous UK quakers if you ever wanted to do some recipes! Cadbury's and Roundtree are some of the more famous ones. Not the oat guy tho, he was just using the name as it was associated with wholesome food at the time iirc
@@TastingHistory I for one, am glad it was already taken... IMHO it's just a tad too inside baseball, so maybe it was fate. l found this site, which has become one of my favorites, because I love history & food history in particular... If "And Serve Them Forth" was the channel name, I doubt I'd have even given it a click...
I just realised that what you see of Max’s kitchen; is ALL there is! Respect you even more! I need more room than that to make coffee… 😂 Gracious man you are a cooking boss if you can function in that coat closet of a kitchen!
I'll never be able to watch another Tudor show again without thinking "Chunky Monkey!" every time Wolsey comes up! 😂😂😂 (Probably while pointing at the TV screen and laughing hysterically, to the great concern of my family. They worry. It's been a LONG quarantine. 😝)
I have only cooked one recipe for custard (pie). It came through my great grandmother and is not pre-cooked but is poured into the crust raw. I didn't even know that modern custards were pre-cooked. Her original recipe calls for a standard pie dough or a graham cracker crust. My mother was out of both and substituted crushed vanilla wafers. The crust "magically" disappears during the cooking being absorbed by the liquid. You are left with a sliceable custard pudding.
Check out these other interesting Medieval recipes:
Medieval Tournaments: th-cam.com/video/wxypUB5K0KE/w-d-xo.html
Peasant Food: th-cam.com/video/zKa5GRu4LwE/w-d-xo.html
Medieval Outlaws: th-cam.com/video/IfcQcAPt5vk/w-d-xo.html
Medieval Saint Diet: th-cam.com/video/jBRVvMm3xv0/w-d-xo.html
The saying: "take breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a beggar."
Me the whole quarantine: eating like a Monk.
I for one am embracing my inner chunky monky
@@AlishaHerbiederbie Now I want a t-shirt that says "Embrace you inner chunky monky!"
@@agimagi2158 yes
*Reject modernity embrace monke*
I've heard the same saying, but King and Prince were switched (no one is wrong, though. They're gonna even out before dinner). Glad that someone else on Earth has heard this saying AT ALL! 🤩
The part where the monks are complaining about how they have 'only' 10 dishes and the king is like, "bruh, what's going on here, control yourselves"
@@hahmann Yeah like I eat more dishes than a lot of people but that's because I eat smaller meals to accomodate my illnesses. I can't imagine eating the equivalent of a Thanksgiving potluck dinner *every night*
@Holden Mcgroine And not every night.
A had a good laugh at that one. I never thought that "eating like a king" could mean to get less fancy food.
@@somedragonbastard That is a substantial mental illness to want to eat that much.
@@enkidu9298 ...I have chronic nausea. I eat more small meals to avoid getting sick. It evens out. Take your judgemental ass elsewhere.
"God doesn't want us speaking at dinner!"
"What if we whistle and flip each other off?"
"That'll fool God. He'll never know it."
See also the "Maultasche", a kind of dumpling, also known as "Herrgottsbescheißerle" (a cutified version of "God fooler"). Said to be invented by monks when they had surplus meat they shouldn't eat at the time. So they "hid" the meat inside dough before cooking, fooling god that way :-)
@@christophalexander4542Hochosterwitz losst griaßn :D
@@christophalexander4542 Heh. That reminds me of the Czech pučálka, which is a historical snack made of sprouted peas, roasted / fried (it can be both savoury and sweet).
_Technically_ it's lenten food with no meat but the first written record of it comes (what else) from a 15th century priest complaining that people would stuff themselves with it like gluttons regardless of the _spirit_ of Lent. Also, it might be fried on lard.
I just don't want to choke. 😝
No. It's just rules for Benedictine monks to foster good monastic life. Monastic life conducive to spiritual aims. Based on Saint Benedict's precepts which also include the idea of therapeutic bathing.
'Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other times silence is maintained as much as is practically possible. Social conversations tend to be limited to communal recreation times. But such details, like the many other details of the daily routine of a Benedictine house that the Rule of St Benedict leaves to the discretion of the superior, are set out in its 'customary'. A ' customary' is the code adopted by a particular Benedictine house, adapting the Rule to local conditions.'
'Benedictines' rules contained ritual purification, and inspired by Benedict of Nursia encouragement for the practice of therapeutic bathing; Benedictine monks played a role in the development and promotion of spas.'
St. Benedict: "How about not drinking wine?"
-All monks across Europe: "BRUH"
I laughed WAY too hard at this
Eugheugheugh bruh eugheugheugh funni
Well, you can do mass in monastery everyday...
German & English Monks: "Fine, we'll switch to beer."
More like
All monks in Europe: *starts brewing beer*
Monks: "We're merely eating like kings!"
King: "you're eating better than this king >:v"
Oh the crying for the next 3-6 months while the Bishop is forced to at least act like he is following the King's demand. Imagine going from Thanksgiving mode to Diet mode...
@@leechowning2712 it must have been insane for them during feast days when they'd gone weeks or months eating like a pauper and then gotten a feast day when you could eat 10,000 calories
@@leechowning2712 Not even diet mode. Just a more limited menu. They had their _choice_ of thirteen meals, and the king chose from three. Such practice of having multiple meals prepared for one's self and choosing one to eat was not unheard of among the aristocracy in those times; King Louis XIV of France famously chose from more than a dozen dinners himself. But such an arrangement was, again, aristocratic and extravagant, and certainly not befitting a monk.
Monastic sign language is fascinating and may have been the first sign language learned by deaf people outside of their family homes. As a Deaf person, I appreciate your mentioning it, in addition to putting captions/subtitles in all of your videos so far. :)
I am not deaf but I love his captions becasue he puts so many more side jokes in their that are not spoken in the videos. I generally always watch his videos with them on just for the extra entertainment value
I believe that American Sign Language was brought over by a French Friar who shared this language with Thomas Gallaudet
@@lindacosta5688actually, Laurent Clerc was not a friar. He was a deaf teacher at a school for the Deaf in Paris. He was taught by Abbe de L'Épée, a priest dedicated to educating the deaf
@@farstrider3 That’s right! I forgot the Abbe’s name. It’s been awhile since my college years :)
@Deerheart Never was discussed when I received my degree in Deaf Ed. But I guess it’s plausible
I don't know why but the idea of monks whistling and doing gang signs at each other at dinner is really funny
Someone already made a short-cut of that.
Lmao right! Like mischievous little boys having fun at the table 😁
if monks had phones you'd get some funny videos out of it. a monk records his friend across the hall and slowly zooms in, his friend notices and throws up a sign, the monk recording laughs. it gets 50,000 prayers on Christbook
@@DangleBlampy Amazing. Clone high, but for medieval monks.
Lol rite
“...but since the monks of our day cannot be persuaded of this...”
The SHADE
Little Bear you look like a man
@@wotanami143 what does that have to do with the comment tho? :/
He absolutely murdered the bunch of them with that line. So good.
A trick I learned from an Iranian friend: when making sweet recipes that use both sugar and saffron, add a little sugar to the saffron threads in a mortar, and grind the threads to a powder. Pour out and set aside, add a little more sugar and grind again just to clean out the mortar. Ise this ‘saffronised’ sugar in your preparation. You’ll get more flavour and won’t have to fish out the threads.
Thank you.
In Portugal, the nuns used egg whites to starch their robes. With all the leftover egg yolks, they came up with egg custard cups, pasteis de nata. An episode on these would be amazing ☺️
Also, an episode about the different types of sweets and pastries invented by nuns over the years, to sell to the public and raise money for their convent, would be really interesting. "Farts of Portingale" and things with puff pastry, were called "Nun's Sighs" in Spanish-speaking countries, for example. Convents and nunneries didn't seem to have as much success with being gifted with lots of land, unless a princess or other aristocratic girl joined the community and her parents agreed to give her dowry to the convent (since she was becoming a Bride of Christ).
Same reason Canelés exist.
In Belgium i know 2-3 places that make these, each time i passes by i cannot help myself to get 3-4 of them.
They do not last long, its so freaking good...
In the philippines, it was said that when building a new church, the builders wouls use egg whites to strengthen the foundation and walls in place of cement. So what did they do with the yolks? They made it to leche flan.
I saw a program that included the egg tarts, if I remember correctly, they won't share the recipe.😩
St. Benedict: "Guys, don't eat meat. I didn't spend all this time coming up with this egg dish for nothing! C'mon St. Bartholomew, back me up here."
St. Bartholomew: "Don't have a cow, man."
🤣 I get that reference
Very clever! I liked it!
This comment section is amazing.
Clever! Pretty soon, I won't be able to keep up with thousands of comment, LOL.
Shouldn’t that be St. Bartholomoo?
“Clever girl”
Note that the raptor was not breaking the rules of St Benedict, as the human it dined on was a two-footed animal
I wonder, would it count if an animal that is normally born with four legs is instead born with fewer or greater than four?
So like:
Cow: *is born with five legs*
Monk: "𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘶"
@@learncat8771 well, rules are rules *pulls out meat cleaver*
@@jordinagel1184 what a *cleaver* solution!
@@learncat8771 definitely sounds like something someone would come up with
@@jordinagel1184 the great majority of the time what would happen is "oh dear that cow is deformed. It must be killed. And since we're killing it we may as well eat some because God would not want us to waste food".
Here in my Brazil (at least my parents use it all the time) we have a saying that you say after eating really well and a lot: "Wow, I ate like a priest from a rich parish!" Now it makes sense to me.
De onde você é? Nunca ouvi uma expressão desse tipo! e como é a versão original desse ditado?
@@fravs22 eu tbm não, inclusive, a gente pode apreciar a pronúncia dele de "pastéis de nata"?
@@d4rkgriff1n3 Simmm a partir de hoje vou cobrá-lo do vídeo sobre o pastel de nata jasiahanjsdk
I'm a simple guy. I hear Max Miller call a monk a "Chunky Monkey", I reach for the like button.
🤣 and I thank you
@@TastingHistory It's a good thing I'm already getting a new keyboard, as this one has just been introduced to coffee.
That's precisely when I hit the like button, at the point of "chunky monkey" 😀
I absolutely lost it!
I remember reading a letter written in Rennaissance times to a young lady recommending, rather than getting married, that she join a convent, where her "hands would not be roughened by housework, and her body would not be worn out by childbirth." Apparently, by then, a monastic life was regarded as a pretty good choice of lifestyle.
@Sanctus Paulus 1962 It's probably not that no housework would be done, but that she would be doing it with the help of other nuns rather than by herself like she most likely would (at least until the kiddos got big enough) in a marriage. (Many hands makes easy work after all)
But this is a very biased perspective coming from someone already living the monastic lifestyle.
@@Awimpyman69 I'd say that's a good thing that it's coming from someone who's experienced it themself rather than an outsider, especially assuming the writer and receiver have a similar background
@@majnsu the church will always tell you their lifestyle is better, which is not always true, especially in regards to Catholicism. They are biased because it’s literally part of their religion to convert. My point being that it is not universally a better life for everyone, however I’m sure it worked for many to be a person of the cloth
@@Awimpyman69 True true
I lived in a Benedictine monastery for a year and we used to start every meal with a reading from the rule of St Benedict- I can confirm that the section on alcohol was always met with sniggers from everyone present
I have to ask. How did you end up living in a monastery? Were you considering joining?
@@ZedF86 I was studying there, Monasteries have historically been key centers of learning and some of them still are. It was a very unique experience!
@@fiona2617 it sounds like it! Unique ways of life are fascinating to me, so I had to ask. 🙂
@Dr. Buster Cheeks, Vaccinologist Stanford I thought they were just jogging
@@fiona2617 yeah, there are still tons of researchers and historians that go to old monasteries and churches because while secular schools may have records going back a few hundred years the monastery may have records going back to before the Magna Carta
"medieval monastic intermittent fasting" is just what happens to me on the weekends when I pick a game to play on Steam and forget to eat for 48 hours.
Skyrim
That’s me when the vyvanse kicks in
@@mtnman8783 i’ve spent probably 2k hours in that game and when i first got it i didn’t eat until dinner. for three days.
@@mtnman8783 mordhau
15:42 - I love that King Henry II's response to these monks was basically the medieval equivalent of 'BOY IF YOU DON'T GET-'
I might have misunderstood the threat, but if the monks actually "perished" their Bishop, then they get to keep their current number of dishes, right? sounds like a boon to me.
@@w415800 I interpreted it as "May your bishop die if he does not reduce the number of your dishes to 3."
@@w415800 you misunderstood it.
The grammar was different in those times.
Henry is saying "I'll perish your Bishop if he doesn't reduce your meals".
"And the fat and happy monk. Or... chunky monkey"
*I'm literally dying of laughter, Max why are you doing this to me?!*
The second he said it I snorted with laughter and started scrolling to see how far down I’d have to get for someone else to have commented on it!
If you’re "literally dying," I hope someone is making funeral arrangements for you. RIP.
He does it because he's a sassy boi. And he's the sassy boi we need.
chunky monk-ey took me out. not even a minute in.
In a good way?
@@TastingHistory yes. i love your humor!
Yeah, hilarious!
Me too!!!! I totally cracked up!!
Ditto. Absolutely lost it.
“King we lost three dishes”
“How many do you have left tho”
“Ten”
“....ungrateful little bi-“
My marketing brain can’t help but think how cool it would be to partner with hello fresh further to create a meal kit featuring all the ingredients and recipe to make a Tasting History item! I know I’d
love one.
That'd be so cool!
Garum to go!
Oh yes, please!
Awesome idea!
Great idea! Makes the recipes more accessible to folks having trouble accessing ingredients.
Shout out to Jose who probably has to put in an hour of extra cardio a day just to power through all the delicious food Max foists on him.
I think they get the cardio in the bedroom :)
@@dmka12 yikes
@@inundertow5638 They probably thought Jose was a boyfriend/husband and not a cat. Still a little weird though.
@@Genevieve1023 he is his husband. Which is what makes it weird.
He can just whip up some Melas Zomos and that'll give him some proper protein
Monks just casually throwing Saffron on "for coloring."
You think that's bad? Think about those monks in the east who just use it to color _clothing_ ! Original Buddhist monk robes used saffron to get that rich orange color; imagine how much saffron you'd have to use just to get that much cloth to that level of color, per robe!
Admittedly saffron in cooking is mostly for coloring anyway. It has a slight flavor, but mostly fades into the background when used with other stronger spices or flavorings. Which is probably just as well as it really isn't that nice, almost bitter and soapy. If you can taste it in your cooking you're doing it wrong.
@@Zzyzzyzzs that's not really fair. Although often used for coloring food, it also gives a distinct flavour and smell to dishes that isn't easily noticeable, until you try that dish without saffron. It really does take certain dishes to a new level if used properly.
@@Zzyzzyzzs It is true that everyone tastes things differently because to me saffron has a very clear and distinct taste not "a slight flavor" that "fades into the background".
@@piotr77669 saffron even today costs $1,800 per pound... And yes, it is often used mainly for color since the taste depends on a genetic mutation. Not it it, in us. About 10% of the population can enjoy the flavor, while to another 10% it literally tastes like dish soap.
@@Zzyzzyzzs Saffron is a wonderful ingredient and tastes great, you have no clue what you are talking about.
Meanwhile, St. Benedict in heaven: "Are you fucking kidding me guys?"
Pope Urban II: "That's nothing, I asked them not to use crossbows and now look at them, they've got fully automatic fire crossbows with infinite range"
i would expect that the "fat monk" stereotype would stem from the fact that it was usual for problematic or otherwise spoiled nobles to be stuffed in convents-out of sight, out of mind, after all. the expectation was that monastic discipline would at least make them more decent, but of course you can't really get rid of a noble already exiled to your place, so a lot of the times they had to just silently bear with these brats in the cloister. add to that the fact that oftentimes secular powers would meddle in monastic affairs, appointing random people as abbots so as to get access to the monastery treasury. God knows what that would do to discipline in, say, an army batallion.
all of this to create a funny mental image of a monk starving through the strict fasts of Lent, while the dickhead next door leaves to break into the larders or cellars.
St Benedict: “Am I joke to you?!?!”
I know it's a joke but I don't think Pope Benedict would be like that
St. Francis legit had to put dirt on his bread so he wouldn't feel the pleasure of tasting his food.
i feel like im cheating on townsends
Me too, I can't watch this :(
Lol 🤣
Yo same...
I feel like he’s going to kick down my door and take my kneecaps
And all my nutmeg
Forfeit all your nutmeg and he might forgive you
nerd boi
The moment you said, "Hemina" I thought how can he say that without immediately repeating it several times quickly? And then you did. You're a gem, Max.
*The Monks of St. Swithin:* We've only had 10 dishes at our supper today!
*King Henry II:* _bruh_
"Chunky Monk-y" I cant even deal. I'm cleaning coffee off my mirror and walls now.🤣🤣🤣
Oh my gosh, I just got the joke 🤦🏻♀️
LMAO 😆
I too also get the irresistible urge to chuck coffee on my mirrors and walls when the word Chunky Monk-y is said
@@Kolonsker she means she accidentally spit out what she was drinking because she was laughing, you detuned twelve string guitar
@@Ohiogobli don't insult someone when you can't pick up obvious sarcasm, ya dense ding dong
I love how the pokemon he chose for this episode is an egg bearing pokemon, thus thematically appropriate for the custard.
Slavic wake ceremony involves dinner and inviting all the church people (priest, quire, altar boys) to said dinner. And one of my relatives died during one of the stricter lents, as non in my family follows them dinner was arranged without any appropriate dishes. So the priest looked at all the assorted meats and proclaimed "Declaring it all fish" and dove in, just like that.
That’s amazing lol
😂
By means of economy, I guess.
Fond memory of a Buddhist monk, "I don't know why Buddha made all these delicious foods forbidden" as he stuffed beef in his mouth.
The miracle of lent wake?
Speaking of Monasteries, you should look into Mt Athos. They have a lot of specific recipes attributed to their vegetarian diet and now and again monks write recipe books. It may show you some medieval byzantine dishes or atleast what monks in the non-Catholic part of Europe were eating. They eat a lot of sweets and schnapps today.
I’ll check it out!
@@TastingHistory could you please look into the relationship between the words crescent and croissant? Thank you for what you have made.💗
Also, I like the apron.
@@mattrhodes3982 "Croissant" is simply the French word for "crescent."
@@ashleejones1690 a pastry chef instructor implied to me that the correspondence meant more than simply the translation, but that the method itself had Turkic roots; but thank you for telling me about the word origins.
So I’ve been struggling with ed recovery for years and I can’t stand the mention food but I’m a massive history nerd and these type of videos really help me with my road to recovery. So thank you man
Good luck man, hope you recover!
I have been in that dark place myself, and am grateful I've turned the corner. I hope you're better too. Take care, you're worth recovery.
Ed? Like especial needs?
@@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon eating disorder
It's benny worm!!!!
I can’t help but think of aang drooling over the egg custard tart in atla and wonder if his love for the tart was a nod to how being raised by monks
It would be a rather weird reference considering that the monks in Asia and monks in medieval Europe were completely unrelated.
Monks in Asia don't eat meat/eag or dairy products though.
@@003thezg3 that actually depends, Tibetan monks actually do eat meat, though often not eggs oddly enough.
@@yamiyomizuki that makes no sense. What’s their reasoning for no eggs
@@SymphonyZach I don't know and neither did the monk who told me about it.
One example of an ascetic monk is St. David, who lived on a diet of bread, vegetables, herbs, and honey. In addition to his main claim to fame (as the patron saint of Wales, whose festival day is still celebrated here on the 1st of March) he's also the patron saint of vegetarians :)
I didn’t know that St David was patron Saint of vegetarians, thank you.
My family doesn't celebrate St. David's day because my parents said "we have too many holidays where we eat a lot on" but that doesn't mean I'm not going to celebrate Welsh spirit when I get out the house.
plot twist: honey included high alcohol mead, turkish mad honey and honey-roasted ham. While bread includes meat buns, sweetbread, pigeon pies and cakes; similar to how beavers are fish :D
Note on the saffron. It seems to me that if you want more of the flavor and the deepest possible color, just do as you would with lussekatter and grind the saffron first and soak it for 12-24h in a small amount of rum, then just mix it into the cream. It basically makes saffron extract and has a wonderful flavor.
Good point, but the monks didn't have steam distillation back then. The closest one could get was a process similar to making applejack, freezing the alcoholic beverage and skimming off the top to gradually remove extra water. Well, I must asterisk this with the caveat that distillation was invented long ago but it appears to have been only by the 13th-14th century that the technology spread across Europe into the British isles.
I need to know what you used to dye your hair that amazing color! 💙
Max, as a dude who tries to live by what those monks claimed to believe, I really, really appreciate how you went about this. You called them out on their BS, but you did it in a fair and funny way without resorting to mockery like so many do. Seriously, thank you for bringing us the accurate history in such a kind and entertaining way.
@@abba9881 no u
@@abba9881 no u
@@abba9881 tard.
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood Larb.
This is our society now, where expressing genuine appreciation for fun and educational content is cringeworthy
Can all my fellow European viewers take a moment to appreciate that Max includes temperatures in Celsius.
And metric measurements. I’m a US scientist and feel the best way to promote the metric system is thru cooking. It’s where we all learn first. This guys got it all! Thank you!!
I'm from South America and I find that wonderful too
That's probably because that's what a logical and well studied person would do 🤷🏽♀️
@@Zeverinsen Sooooo many recipes just have American measures though "One cup of X"... HOW BIG IS THE CUP?! Are we talking teacup or cappuccino cup?
@@nat2nathan2005
A cup has actually been standardised as a measurement. You can buy measuring cups in all good markets and stores. It's equivalent to roughly 236ml
DM: wait… why does your cleric knows Sign Language?
Me: to no break the Rule of St. Benedict while eating.
Y'know, there's a level of hilarity here when you remember that aang from avatar loved egg custard tarts
Glad to know that even airbender monks are similar to their real life western brethren
It's actually weird because airbender monks are a fusion of Tibetan and xiaolin monks, who were of a very different stripe from monks in the west.
@@yamiyomizuki lol where is the rule saying eastern monks don't like egg custard tarts. they have those in asia as well?
@@crystalwolcott4744 it's implied in the rule saying that they can't eat eggs period.
@@yamiyomizuki is there literaly a rule for eastern monks? its probably not a rule for Airbender monks tho lol
@@crystalwolcott4744 yes, most eastern monks aren't allowed eggs, though i think Tibetan monks only follow this rule sometimes. Of course that raises the awkward point that Tibetan monks aren't vegetarian.
I'm a simple man. I see Tasting History with Max Miller, I click like and I watch. Keep on being great, Max. Your content is some of the best on youtube.
Awww thank you, Will!
Where Alton Brown brings Science to Cooking, you bring History. Absolutely incredible content. Thank you.
“Our family of two”
Me: *sees a cat* Oh, how cute 🤣
I love his videos but that is when I punched the like button. Hahahaha
Pretty sure the second person is Max's fiancé, not the cat, but that's a funny interpretation.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought his reference to Jose and a "family of two", was the cat... when it showed them sharing a meal. xD hahaha I was like Aww, he has a cat named Jose. xD Glad to hear from the comments that he's engaged! Congrats my man, to love and all its wonderfulness! :)
Regarding whether or not to put the custard into the hot pastry or let it cool: If the pastry coffin is not meant to be eaten, I suspect a thin layer of overcooked custard on the bottom would be less of an issue.
Heck, it might act as a sealant!
Story time! Every community of nuns/monks interprets their Rule differently. Carmelite nuns are cloistered. Usually this means they stay in their cloister (female version of monastery) and are rarely seen or spoken to by regular people. Usually.
I went to a talk hosted by Carmelite nuns in Louisiana. I’m mentally preparing myself for silent nuns behind a wall or fence. I walk into this big entrance hall. A short little nun runs in and says “Hello! Welcome!” And throws her arms around my neck.
It was sweet. It was wholesome! And we were in her home, so technically she didn’t break any rules. 😂
I just wanna mention again hoow relatable and well rounded your channel presents itself. You have managed the sweet, sweet mixture of educated, neighborly. and passionate about history. I really love the show you cook up for us. Cheers.
Yay perfect rounder to a positive day. Do gentlemen of an order tend to boil everything or do they use a friar?
😆
I did not want to laugh at that, but I did. 😁 👍
Well, a Benedictine chip shop would have had a chip monk and a fish friar...
They do as one does to make holy water...
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I have you all know that my dad disowned me for that joke. He said he'll send me to an order. I'm having nun of it.
My great aunt was a Salesian nun. She once got kicked out of a nunnery because she filed a report on them for over spending and wanting to do renovations to the rooms. lol
Man, you really inspire me, as a 16 yr old whos got some cooking skills, to widen my horizons. Out of every cooking show, I've ever seen, your youtube channel is my favorite by far lmao. Makes me feel like I'm sitting down with a friend and discussing fancy dishes 😂
That's awesome to hear! Thank you so much.
"Potherbs" sounds like a contraction of "Pots of herbs". It makes me think of a sunny window shelf full of small plant pots of herbs.
Looking forward to watching that future episode on pastéis de nata. In Portugal, in Alcobaça's Monastery, there is a small door on the canteen. That door is only 32cm wide. It was built so that the monks couldn't enter the kitchen if they were too chubby. A curious way of restricting their food intake.
I googled the door, it's amazing to see. They must have spent quite some time trying to scoop out monks who were on the borderline and who got stuck - so claustrophobic!
I'd read that this was a myth, kinda like the honeymoon thing, that came later and it was really more like a serving hatch? Cuz it connected the kitchen to the eating area so it was just a way to quickly pass food through, like the takeout window. Then again who knows.
@vacafuega And now I'm reminded of that one Pooh story, and need to see a drawing of Winnie the Pooh in a monk robe stuck in a doorway.
Does Max bring out this refined late-18th century gentleman/lady in anyone else?
Like upon seeing his sponsorship, on someone else’s channel I might say “yessss king go get your coin”
But oh no no I’d never dare for TastingHistory! Why, I’d only bedight this channel with the finest of comments!
Toss a coin to your Miller oh comment thread of plenty! Plentyyyyyy!
@@rachaelmariecollins9277 oh god, now that song is stuck in my head. Again. And yet... Your comment is *chef's kiss*
More in the region of 6-14th centuries on this occasion
How awesome would it be if they invited you on to guest host the great British bake off for a technical and you gave them all Middleville instructions.
I. Would. DIE!! In a good way.
LOL
as a Brazilian whose grandparents were Portuguese immigrants, I must say Kudos on your pronunciation of Pastéis de Nata. God bless you
Sometimes the TH-cam algorithm blesses you with a gem. This channel is a diamond. Keep up the great work!
My history teacher would tell us how, with time, every monastery became lax with St Benedict's Rule, and so the virtuous monks would create a new monastery that with time would also become fall from the rule and the cycle repeats. Guess thats why there are so many orders and monasteries...
Why is it that monasteries have this reputation for fat, sassy, happy friars who drink lots of beer, bake bread, and get frisky, but convents have the reputation for cold cells and rigorous austerity?
@@Marialla. Convents are stricter
@@astranix0198 Exactly! But the question is why? Were monks just ... I dunno, richer? Less able to follow rules? Was it pure misogyny? Did rich men's daughters either never enter convents or not feel entitled to demand good food once they got there? Is the whole perception mistaken and nuns actually did live a pretty sweet life in their own ways?
@@Marialla. So basically there were some pretty ambitious female orders who wanted to do a lot of the same things as more active men's orders (e.g. teaching in the community), but gradually over time they all got pressured into becoming closed off. The upside was, though, that because no men were allowed in, they could get up to basically whatever they wanted and the church higher ups couldn't find out!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelines
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_nuns
This channel, baumgartner restoration and Townsend are my favorite channels. I love that you guys bring history alive!
If I look out my window I can see Canterbury Cathedral, so it's kinda amusing to hear about them bending the rules all those years ago
Then there's me, trying to figure out if Jose is his SO or his cat.
Same lol
Jose is his SO :)
@@dyld921 Do you know the name of the cat? its a real good cat.
@@alexbergin7390 Check his Instagram. They have 2 cats. I don't know which one is in the video.
@@dyld921 I need video just introducing the cats.
love that the monks basically just went ''oh yeah we're devoted as heck'' then proceed to find ways to sin as gluttons
This is making me second guess Friar Tuck from Disney's Robin Hood, maybe he did follow the rules but had an underactive thyroid :)
The "Serve it Forth" apron finally exists!!! I'll have you know, I have kept my word, and I just bought it. Love your work Max.
I love imagining the king's thought process. They lost three dishes? They were eating as well as me and they.. what, lost all dishes? Did they have four? More??
Please watch the Ask a Mortician video about a "secret porpoise" found in a medieval monastery. It's another case of monastic rules-lawyering and it's a hoot. 😅
This was literally the first thing I thought when I saw the episode title.
Oh yes!
I LOVE her
"The Middle Ages Were Magic"🐬🎶
@@beth8775 🤣 i sang that as I read it lol
Am glad I'm not the only one who has the cat trying to steal dinner :)
We usually have to lock him up he’s so persistent.
@@TastingHistory our fur girl has to check our food too. But gets insulted when she sees it's not tuna. She's like - peasants take away this swill!!!
Can totally agree. You will never play a more intense version of keep away than with a cat trying to get your food.
When you said "family of two" I first thought you were talking about you and the cat! Sorry Jose!
Years ago, one of our new priests was telling us about the time he spent with some monks while in seminary. He said that he did work very hard in the garden and vineyard; the products of which were sold to the public. He also said that breakfast was fairly meager, lunch was fast and meager, but his first supper, was amazing. He said something to one of the older monks, who said in return, "Just because we're monks doesn't mean we have to eat badly." Also, one of my uncles used to say that he prayed to Saint Swithin often, he was the Patron Saint of Opportunity...He's not actually the Patron Saint of Opportunity, but I tended to believe everything my uncle told, he was quite the character.
"Welcome to the monastery. Here you will practice prayer, meditation, and affliction. Your life will be one of strict devotion to God through fasting and copious labor. Now, here are your cream tarts."
Hi Max, I love your dedication. I am a medieval re-enactor (in Australia), and cook ( in normal years) feasts for up to 130 people. This recipe is a common dish served and if there is left overs they are served the following day at tournament. Another reason that monasteries changed, was returning soldiers from the crusades. A few of them had spent all their money returning home and needed somewhere to go, or others joined the holy orders whilst in Jerusalem.
All the best x
Every time your show comes on it makes me so happy because your little theme song is so short. Some people just drag and drag at the beginning. You are quick and succinct.
Where I’m from in England we have an insult called “abbey lubber” and it’s used to call someone lazy as it means a fat and lazy monk.
I wonder why people think of monks as fat and lazy ,while some of them are, most of them aren't, they actually have alot of things to do (other than sleeping eating and praying) like singing, painting, carving, cleaning, writing, in larger monasteries they also have farming, brewing (wine not beer), sometimes they even have fishing, don't worry though, they don't do all of these in one day
I just love the little things. 😍 Regional slang is fascinating.
@Zhianne S. Many were corrupt, for example look at the medieval papacy and apply it to monks also. I even know of an abbey or monastery with a tunnel to the town so they could smuggle brothels and food. True even the ones who were good and did their jobs would be fat, as their manual labour was minimal.
@@cromabu5090 there still not lazy
@@James-en1ob well I have just provided many examples contradicting that, but alright.
Man, I subbed back at the beginning of 2020. You've come so far in one year, congratulations! We honestly need more channels like you, I love food and all but it's so much fun seeing more than a dish put into the screen. Excited to see even more from ya!
17:55 "he was a lord ful fat and in good poynt."
i need this on a tshirt
Bread... cheese... hippocras... I do believe there is an afternoon of reading and snacks in my near future
"Beaver is a fish" should be the next piece of merch.
i must admit, i do like beaver!
@@ckvonpickles3751 😏
So is rabbit fetus
I can never tell if the merch ideas for this show is for this show or the game Crusader Kings :P Between "Beaver is a fish" and "kill all the Karlings" we have something.
you bring two of my passions together! Food and History, and most importantly historic food! Just cant get enough of this channel!!!
Having been watching you since about 10k subs it’s crazy to see how far you’ve gotten. 500k subs, excellent merch and paid advertisers. And your content keeps getting better and better. Super proud of you max, long may it continue.
Yesss, monks! I've been waiting for this since you covered how monks had the monopoly on cheesemaking!
Ahhh that’s episode 1 haha
Blesséd are the Cheesemakers...
TFW he says “hey siri” and everything stops because he just activated your phone from across the country.
I have no reason to believe I'll ever start a winery, but I do now know it should be called "Hemina".
Trademark that 🤣
“Hemina, hemina, hemina!” For some reason that really got me laughing. Thanks Max!
😁
I love how each episode has a different pokemon plush in the background ❤ keep it up!
So happy to have found your channel. I’ve got a small library on medieval cooking and I’ve been brewing mead mostly quick for years. Looking forward to backing through all of your videos.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy.
Can’t tell if he’s getting funnier or I’m learning to appreciate his jokes
During a trip to Faro Portugal, the tour guide mentioned why custard tarts (such as pastel de nata) were popular in ministries! As the monks and nuns were using egg whites to starch their habits they ended up with leftover egg yolks ... hence the popularity of custard based deserts !
I feel that on not allowing spouses/significant others in the kitchen during experiments. I need a little sign over the doorway that says NONE MAY ENTER HERE.
"Medieval Monastic Intermittent Fasting"
The original Cross Fit!
*rimshot* 😉
Actual *cross* fit: do as Jesus and hike with a heavy cross on your back or die trying
@@shockingheaven Jesus was the swolest of the gods
As a Portuguese native I have always been curious about the origins of the egg based regional sweets we have all over the country. The common story is that the nuns were left with egg yolks because the monks used the egg whites for creating inks and paints for their scribe work. With so many yolks available they came up with ways of using them in wonderful pastries. Maybe that could be an interesting video.
What does a monk eat?
Monkaroons.
Sounds like one of my puns 🤣
What do you call an overweight monk going scuba diving?
A deep fat friar.
Oh, Brother!
What's a monks favourite fish?
Duck
Hahaha
Max Miller: "I decided to make doucetes, or egg custard tarts."
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Honestly Disney doesn’t even deserve Max. They tried to screw him over (even though let’s face it-Disney could afford to pay their employees and then some during the pandemic-they’re full of BS) and he just proved he’s so much better than them. So proud that he decided not to go back. Let’s keep supporting him so he never has to!!
What's the story here? I didn't know Max had a link to Disney.
@@jamesnomos8472
He mentions in one of his episodes that he used to play 'Prince Charming' (presumably in Disney world) prior to a career change.
Many of Disney's employees need the help of "food stamps"/food banks for them and their families to survive (this is/was not only during the Pandemic/Lockdowns). I think it's a crying shame that Disney, who claims to be: "the happiest place in the world"...mistreats/abuses their hardworking employees in this way. 😔
Think about that the next time you & your family visit Disneyland/world✌🏻 .
@@stoker1931janeat this point you gotta be willfully ignorant to not know how terrible Disney is.
@@JonCheadlenot everyone is chronically online 😭
Thank you very much for your thoroughly researched and wonderfully witty presentations of my favorite subjects, history, and recipes superb. You have helped to make the last year of isolation barrable. Please continue to post your most excellent culinary tales.
Wow. It always amazes me how much I learn about the etymology of many words from your videos. The Spanish word misericordia, mercy in English, comes from misericord, and itself is a compound of the Latin words misere (need or misery), cord (heart) and the suffix ia, which is used to refer to other people.
Bless you for the pasteis de nata reference and also, if you ever do that episode, you should look into our own history of coventual sweets! Our convents and monasteries were dedicated to making egg yolk and sugar into anything and everything. Pastel de nata is a part of this group, but probably what we least associate with conventual sweets, since pastel de nata kind of took off as its own thing and because it's not the eggiest we can do!
I'm a british Quaker and there's all sorts of modern/contemporary british food history that come from famous UK quakers if you ever wanted to do some recipes! Cadbury's and Roundtree are some of the more famous ones. Not the oat guy tho, he was just using the name as it was associated with wholesome food at the time iirc
I feel like this channel could have easily been called, "And Serve them Forth"
Made this comments seconds before the T-Shirt reveal, I feel justified.
It would have been if the name hadn’t been taken.
@@TastingHistory
I for one, am glad it was already taken...
IMHO it's just a tad too inside baseball, so maybe it was fate.
l found this site, which has become one of my favorites, because I love history & food history in particular... If "And Serve Them Forth" was the channel name, I doubt I'd have even given it a click...
@@TastingHistory Perhaps we should be glad "To Serve Man" was also already taken. Ahem.
MFK Fisher "Serve It Forth"
I just realised that what you see of Max’s kitchen; is ALL there is!
Respect you even more! I need more room than that to make coffee… 😂
Gracious man you are a cooking boss if you can function in that coat closet of a kitchen!
Blissey aka Happinas in Japan to wish you all happiness in the new year 🥳
Pokemon watch: blissey gives its egg away to those who need help. It's said to be delicious and healing.
@@crickett3536 that's very merciful of her.
I need help...I need to eat eggs..
@@crickett3536 "Having a problem? Here, eat my child!"
Sweet! Wishing you both happiness in the new year, as well! 🥳🤗
I'll never be able to watch another Tudor show again without thinking "Chunky Monkey!" every time Wolsey comes up! 😂😂😂 (Probably while pointing at the TV screen and laughing hysterically, to the great concern of my family. They worry. It's been a LONG quarantine. 😝)
thank you for this vision, it will remain with me for years
I have only cooked one recipe for custard (pie). It came through my great grandmother and is not pre-cooked but is poured into the crust raw. I didn't even know that modern custards were pre-cooked. Her original recipe calls for a standard pie dough or a graham cracker crust. My mother was out of both and substituted crushed vanilla wafers. The crust "magically" disappears during the cooking being absorbed by the liquid. You are left with a sliceable custard pudding.