Cooking an Anglo-Saxon Meal

[@chrissythornhill]

Oh, my goodness! I found a grinding stone in my garden , beneath the soil ! How I wish I’d kept it . Perhaps it was much older than I imagined. Thank you for such a fascinating demonstration of the process.

[@roygrutchfield5715]

Interesting. Maybe you could do seasonal meals, autumn , spring, winter, summer. Thankyou

[@emmahardesty4330]

Such basic food produced strong and enduring people. That basic bread, beans, barley, leeks--makes me hungry. Thank you for these presentations.

[@UnclePutte]

The birdsong really makes the atmosphere. Food looks splendid, as does the setting. There's the makings of a long life in that food... with the help of modern medical services, that is.

[@rosiewilkin9117]

Wondeful Steph! Lovely to see you and to some see 'proper' Anglo-Saxoning being done online. Well done. And well done all involved.

[@patrickporter1864]

What is particularly Anglo saxon about this activity. Cooking is cooking world wide.

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Great video, but I think you will find they pushed the hot ashes to one side and baked on the hot stone. That is a prety universal method going back a couple of millennia at least. Thanks - You put a huge amount of work into this, it's appreciated.

[@ridethecurve55]

Grinding grain was time-consuming, but more importantly, it was rather hard on teeth, since some of the stone ground into powder along with the grain and when chewed, it wore down tooth enamel so by the time a person was in their 20s, their teeth were often not functional anymore. A rather gastly condition to suffer through until death.

[@temmy9]

One reason to eat porrige instead

[@fortheearth]

Wonderful knowledgable demonstrator! Thank you!

[@Jabberstax]

This lady is amazing.

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

The sheer amount of elbow-grease involved in making flour in pre-industrial eras is something I think we tend to forget in this time of easy accessibility! 😣 What a workout... Eventually wind & water driven mills would come into use of course & serviced whole communities, but even then I'd imagine many households probably would've kept a hand quern, so they could be independent in enough flour production for the household, if the Miller started charging too much or you couldn't afford their fees...?

[@ron.v]

Y'all are makin' me hungry. This reminds me of how Native Americans pounded their maize into meal on a large stone, added water, made cakes, then cooked it either over a flat stone, metal if they had it, or over hot coals like you did. They've been doing this for thousands of years. They call them tortillas. I ate one cooked by a lady living in a grass hut with a dirt floor in Tamazunchale, Mexico in 1961. Bean soup is also popular. Indigenous tribes in Western U.S. eat "3 Sisters Soup" made of beans, corn, and squash.

[@valentinoringo]

finally can catch a glimpse of anglo-saxon meal looks like. very interesting.

[@Rymontp]

Wow, definitely making some hearthcakes next. So far I've only made hardtack which is quite similar but definitely trying this the next time I light a fire. Thanks!

[@phillgreenland2390]

Honestly, that looks awfully good even with today's cooking standards! ❤

[@scottyrobot]

what type of beans would those be?

[@sagapoetic8990]

I just joined your channel - thank you for showing this. That had to be so satisfying at the end, not to mention - bread baked over the fire like that is wonderful. The hearth reminds me of the Japanese irori -- is there an ancient connection? Were there indoor hearths/fireplaces in this period in the homes of nobles?

[@hellofditties]

i love these videos!

[@pocketman5510]

Awesome

[@elineeugenie5224]

The smell of baking onions is as old as time itself 😊

[@sswan5271]

Successful hearth cakes, Alfred never got near them.

[@NSYresearch]

Poor Alfred had a lot on his mind at the time though....😊

[@rand503]

So how do they taste???

[@sagapoetic8990]

They are quiet -- who wants to talk when you are devouring a delicious meal.

[@thananightshade]

I didn't think beans were native to Brittania?

[@kikiwylde]

They've been eaten in Britain since the Bronze Age. Not sure when they arrived though.

[@emmaaustin123]

I wonder if they had a stone by the fire that they could cook their flatbreads on.

[@robertabray-enhus3198]

Everything was so labour intensive then..

[@NSYresearch]

This was how the traditional male/female roles evolved. Men would be out in the fields etc women in the home. Both working incredibly hard just to survive.

[@carloshenriquebins5113]

It would be perfect if spoken in Old English

[@yup9647]

More!

[@888jackflash]

Fascinating! I'm thinking there'd be quite a bit of carcinogens in those hearth cakes... plus the vast amounts of wood smoke in their environment.. couldn't have been the best. Thanks!

[@ajrwilde14]

they knew how to bake they knew how to bake bread in pots come on

[@clwest3538]

I was thinking the same - also, with butter, comes buttermilk ... flour, buttermilk, barm from the ale, butter, salt ... baked in a crockery pot .... sounds like a better bread than 'hoe cakes' (unless you're in a hurry) ... but enjoyed the video.

[@kaygee301]

I agree, it wouldn’t make sense they would be cooked directly on the fire unless they didn’t have a pot.

[@자시엘]

Pots weren’t cheap

[@ellaisplotting]

...there wasn't just one type of bread? This is just illustrating a convenient type to eat with a meal, not claiming this is the only bread the Anglo Saxons could and would ever make.