The Townsends - 18th Century Food - Or how you can cook like a pre-industrial peasant on rocks

[Adamska]

Courtesy of the trashfire that is the Jack Scalfani thread, a user posted a particular video on how to make a Journey Cake. What's a Journey Cake? Well, it's a simple unleavened bread you can pan fry:

I thought this was kind of cool; some guy was able to casually outcook Fat Jack in a hobo shack with old recipes from that time. I also saw a few more cool recipes this guy came out with which includes the following:

Here's how to make pocket soup, basically a cheap way to make instant-stock if you want to store some:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fE5KzvOZRk

Want to both wake up and eat something? Have some Coffee Eggs!

Jon Is Disgusted... Coffee Eggs From 1769

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Need to make an oven because something something apocalypse?

How to Build an Earthen Oven

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Feel free to make some salted meat fit for the Continental Army:

Preparing Salt Pork - 18th Century Cooking Series S1E5

Salt pork was a very popular meat in the 18th century. In this video we explain how to prepare you own. #townsendssaltpork Help support the channel with Patr...

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Stale bread? Fuck that turn it into pudding:

Stale Bread? Don't Waste It! - 1773 Bread Pudding

This 1773 recipe for "Beggar's Pudding" is another delicious pudding that uses stale bread as it's base. Scotch Collops and Yellow Peas ▶ http://bit.ly/2ysDQ...

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Wanna make an old fashioned beer? Here you go:

Early American Ginger Beer - 18th Century Cooking

New Instagram - @18thcenturycooking In this episode we make a simple and delicious, 18th century Ginger Beer. #townsendsgingerbeer Our suggested books on bre...

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Ran out of ketchup for your fries? Worry not, dig up some mushrooms bro:

Making Mushroom Ketchup, 18th Century Cooking Series at Jas. Townsend and Son - Townsends

Make this yummy and popular 18th century sauce. It might sound a little weird but it is very tasty. It is no wonder cooks would put in just about anything. #...

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And to top it all off... part one on how to make the ULTIMATE NUTRILOAF:

Pemmican - The Ultimate Survival Food

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I actually love this guy's work; he just wants to show off his passion for the late colonial and revolutionary period in the US and Europe with his kid. I also love all the weird recipes and ideas that were lost as we continued to advance as a society. Lastly, you're welcome Doomers, here's some how-to foods for your apocalypse. Feel free to show off more old timey recipes too, because that shit gets weird or cool.

 

[LullerDerbyRollin]

I love this guy's work. He doesn't seem like a bloody cow and he's real passionate. I love that, his love in for his hobby and his family, that he can make some money out of. Money well earned for how useful some of this stuff is.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

Comfiest channel on Youtube. Him and MRESteve are my favorites.

 

[Rice Is Ready]

Very disappointed he didn't actually use pidgeon in the one video.

 

[Idonttrustlikethat]

This thread lacks a little something...ah i know it needs a bit of nutmeg!

 

[Eryngium]

The whole boomer “orange fool” drama was pretty amusing tbh.

He seems like a genuinely kind person

 

[Prince Lotor]

This dude got me on to making whole baked onions from this video. Delicious and super simple, they loose all their vegetal bite and pungent aroma and just become sweet. If you modernize it it's even better, just slice off the top, wrap it in tin foil, dump whatever spices you want and put a pat of butter on top, then close the wrap and bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Recipe: https://thecookful.com/baked-vidalia-onion/ The juice at the bottom when you unwrap it is awesome too. You can do all kinds of things with it like make your own onion dip or something.

Also this video from last winter is like the comfiest video ever. In the log cabin he built he makes a hot spiced ale-creamed egg-rum drink by his fireplace.

ETA: Oh, yeah, his Mushroom Ketchup recipe is amazingly delicious. That video is a must watch.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

'If you're not an 18th century reenactor yet"
I like this guy and his enormous fireplace.

 

[Dyn]

Very disappointed he didn't actually use pidgeon in the one video.

Passenger pigeons have been extinct for like a century, what do you expect from him?

 

[Rice Is Ready]

Passenger pigeons have been extinct for like a century, what do you expect from him?

Literally any other kind of pidgeon.

https://youtu.be/YTT_RocBz48

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Literally any other kind of pidgeon.

https://youtu.be/YTT_RocBz48

For people who doesn't know, the regular city pigeons are flying rats, you shouldn't to eat them.

 

[Orion Balls]

For people who doesn't know, the regular city pigeons are flying rats, you shouldn't to eat them.

Pigeons are just city doves. And squab is delicious.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

I had this guy pop up in my recommendations on YouTube with his recipe for cheese soup and I stored it for later viewing.

 

[AnOminous]

Pigeons are just city doves. And squab is delicious.

Probably no substitute for passenger pigeons, which were delicious enough we ate them all.

 

[TheRedChair]

I love the show but this is nothing new. In every country in this world and even to this day, you have to make due with what you have.. I not bashing this show, I'm actually praising this as this concept of cooking was carried all the way to my grandparents. Before refrigeration and even before the use of the light bulb. I saw those types of pots and pans. So I remember this style of cooking. I've learn a lot from that generation.

This is how I got myself out of a miserable existence. By listening to my past generations who made it out of theirs.
I saved a lot of money by cooking myself and some of the recipes are here on site.

This is an outstanding show as it shows what you can do with left overs.

 

[DocHoliday1977]

I did his 18th century fried chicken. It was good.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Really dig this guys work. It's actually really fascinating to see the origins of so many of our modern day dishes. It's also important for skills like these to be remembered too. We rely so much on high technology to do things, to the point without remembering stuff like this we leave ourselves open to a big fall if we lose it for any length of time.

 

[Harvey Danger]

The guy does a lot of work to give you the historical context of why foods were made that way, which is a big part of the appeal. Nothing but good stuff to say about him.

I also purchased some of that mushroom ketchup from them, they sell it in bottles. Good stuff.

My personal favorite:

Plus an in-depth, comfy exploration on how to roast beef simply:

 

[Stasi]

Oh hey that was me that posted in Jack's thread. I've watched Townsends videos for a while now, pretty comfy and informative viewing like everyone says well worth checking out. I like the little series of videos that talk about foods of the enslaved

 

[FatalTater]

The whole boomer “orange fool” drama was pretty amusing tbh.

He seems like a genuinely kind person

I liked this channel despite the guy looking like someone I know and do not get along with, until the "orange fool" thing. I think it would have been okay if he had ignored it, but doing a video to Address The Issue and scold everyone left a bad taste in my mouth (so to speak.)