Corn Meal Mush (Victorian recipe), Fried corn meal, Dandelion greens

[@lauraabbott6235]

I have had pernicious anemia for all my life, 43 years, and while i can get iron infusions and B12 shots, eating a healthy diet is the best and easiest way for me to survive. I enjoy all your videos and thank you for sharing! May you both be well!

[@dianajames4717]

I love living in the past. It has always fascinated me I would love to go back to the 1960s. Wish I had a time machine. Love your channel. I just subscribed.

[@tracysteward604]

@@dianajames4717 I would go back to 1900-1910 era

[@tracysteward604]

I just love your videos and the history. And you have a sweet soul that comes across in your videos. Thank you

[@PyroLooney01]

I never would’ve guessed that you’d be older than 29, Mrs. Chrisman. I love your videos! Stay safe

[@horseenthusiast9903]

Thank you for sharing this recipe! I have Celiac disease (and thus can't eat wheat, rye, or barley), so it's always a real treat to find historical recipes I can cook without an equivalent flour! I think I'll cook some mush for breakfast and fry some for lunch tomorrow.

[@timefortea1931]

I have a problem with gluten so I understand the difficulty! I love millet flour as it has a nice nutty flavour and also has iron in it. I find it in Arabic supermarkets.

[@kristengabrielson6976]

I love how you put that....If I value life, I have to value my own too. Animals are life-givers and I value the gift they give us. Plants are also life-givers. I am thankful for both.

[@andyyeager8165]

I love your cooking videos! I would love to see how you clean and just everyday living. I love the Victorian era and would love to know how a person truly lived.

[@jacquec9768]

for people new to eating dandelion, soaking the greens in salted water over night and wrinsing before cooking will greatly reduce the bitterness. Also you can batter and fry the flowers and dry the root to roast as a coffee substitute!

[@ruthgoebel723]

Dandelion should only be picked when the greens are young. Bitterness is usually from mature greens.

[@cordiscoscorner]

My Italian grandmother would go out into the backyard and pick a bunch of dandelions, she would boil them down and add ham. Boil it for a while then add tiny macaroni, boil until macaroni is done, add grated cheese. WOW, pretty awesome.

[@sheep1ewe]

Awsome! I think lot of the prejudice we hawe against dandelions outside southern Europe and east asia is that people like me used to eat dandelion leaves a child and only remember the awful bitter taste of the adult leaves, but they certanly deserve another chance in the kitchen! I went out and picked some young frech leaves in the garden, they where in fact that good that i could even use a small amonth of them directly in the sallad bowl. I think lot of this has been forgotten in modern time and we hawe no idea what we are missing!

[@natashaa43]

You can also batter and fry the heads of them. I have had dandelion fritters before and they were delicious.

[@sheep1ewe]

@@natashaa43 I want to try that, does the bitterness go away when they are fried? (i hawe tried a few of the heads when i was a child but i did not fell for them so to speak, but i know they are popular raw as garnation in Japanese cooking, i actualy think a slight sting of bitterness will add to the taste of some types of food like roasted Endives but a bit stronger i can imagine.)

[@SuffertheFools]

It was interesting watching you make the cornmeal mush. As a Jamaican, I like having a bowl of cornmeal porridge now and again. It's basically this process, plus adding some cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar or condensed milk. There was one time when I suddenly thought to fry the porridge after it had cooled. I had never seen anyone do it or had it that way before, but I figured it would be good. So I cut it into squares, fried it in butter, and poured syrup over it. The crispness of the outside and soft cornmeal with the sweetness of the syrup was a great combination.

[@natashaa43]

The Caribbean section of the supermarket is where I get my cornmeal! I never could get into it as porridge but I have cut it into finger sized pieces and had them fried or baked in hot oil and they are crispy like chips (fries) delicious!!!

[@SuffertheFools]

@@natashaa43 That's a great idea. I might have to try it like that.

[@muayadalhariri4933]

You are amazing Mrs.Sarah you're I loved the breakfast corn meal it's wonderful and happy reading to you too

[@YountPower]

Nice video on one of my favorite dishes. My half-sister is a vegetarian, and I cannot imagine how she can do it. I'm more of an old-fashioned country boy, so meat was/is a common staple in my house. Anything from sausage, ham, beef, even venison! I do agree with you, bacon grease makes everything taste better. We have a Native American dish at my house from time to time, Cherokee Hominy, which is literally hominy cooked in bacon grease and little chunks of bacon in it. It is absolutely delicious! I recommend you try it sometime!

[@horseenthusiast9903]

That sounds so good! And now mentioning venison, you've got me craving my dad's old venison stew...

[@YountPower]

@@horseenthusiast9903 I absolutely love venison! Being a country boy, myself, I grew up eating that type of stuff. It's so good. However, my favorite meat is bison. Just my Native American heritage, I guess, but it's so delicious.

[@neo-victorianmom7451]

please post more cooking videos....victorian and Edwardian recipes are hard to find.

[@1minigrem]

I love your videos, I always learn something new. It must have been a very hard decision to go back to meat, thank you for sharing that story with us.

[@lesliebrickey8357]

I just happened onto your channel. Very enjoyable!

[@joannastergiou145]

Hi Sarah, That looks yummy.I am going to try it.😊

[@ruthgoebel723]

We ate both these things growing up. We ate dandelion greens with a hot and bacon egg dressing....yummmmmmm!

[@tamagoyyakii]

In Italy, this dish is called Polenta 😊

[@cordiscoscorner]

I'm on book three of your series. Enjoy it VERY much !!!! Keep making great content you are almost to 6,000 subs, soon 10,000. Say hi to Gabriel.

[@yaelrar.4460]

I also went back to meat after 20 years. I buy organic, grass fed meat and its delicious. Got my strength back. And got my memory back. I feel good again.👍

[@lcr5910]

Mmm i love the cooking videos ☺️

[@shiraleemcintosh1486]

The corn meal mush puts me in mind of fried scones. They only use flour, pinch of salt , water, and fried up in fat. Especially good hot with golden syrup. Very informative as always.

[@tarnishedliving1570]

Yea!!!!! A new video!!!!!

[@muayadalhariri4933]

Thank you so much for teaching me about dandelion greens you've gave me facts that I actually never knew about this now I'm going to make the meal thank you so much I think it was very delicious and Miss Sarah if see this comment please respond to me I'm a big fan of your channel I have been subscribed to you for 2 years now

[@karen4you]

I enjoyed your video about how to cook this meal. I appreciate your honesty. I had a stove like that but when my husband died someone must have taken it as I haven't seen it since. The place was swarming with relatives for a few days and I was in no mood to defend my property. I really like old-time things. Was that a Revereware pan? The older ones were very thick metal. My Mom had a set from 1954 when she married. I wish I still had them. I have some modern ones and a few toy ones. I spent a lot of time polishing the copper bottom of them when I was a child.

[@tiffanywilliams5568]

Eating meat for your health is wise. Because i have a friend who had to do the same thing and just like u she felt better and stop having some issues because of meat so i do understand why u and her did it for yall can function in life and i dont blame u. Plus I enjoy eating meat as well with vegetables and other things.

[@ladycroftbayonetta7908]

such a good cook Gabriel is so lucky. I would like to ask you where did you got this stove you using

[@mastersadvocate]

Dear Sarah: I remember my grandmother using dandelion greens in a salad. Mom said that her mother used to dry the dandelion roots, and make coffee from them during the Great Depression. I enjoyed your video, and learnt a lot from you about cooking and frying cornmeal mush. Mom sometimes makes cornmeal bread. Have you ever had it? It tastes very nice with jam or butter on it! ~Janet in Canada

[@SamuelRodrigues-mn2ww]

Brazil 🇧🇷

[@sheep1ewe]

My grandparents used to make fried up porridge with chinamon and a small pinch of sugar, prefearbly friedin a bit of pork fat or mildly salted butter if one hawe it at home. Yes, my grandfather went vegetarian and he died from cancer shortly after he started he's new supposed helthy life with only vegetarian food, fresh sea air, daily exercise and the whole kit... It begun with subtle signs like brooken bones with a bicycle incident wich made him spend several days in hospital from several brooken ribs, but he just taught it was related to high age and that he craced extremly hard into the trees with the bicycle, later he was diagnosed with cancer and he died from the complication caused by that. So i don't think a monoton one side only diet is what we humans are ment for, apes ate a lot of non vegetable proteins as well, like small animals they catch, so i think we are supposed to live from similar omnivore food.