A Bakewell Tart from World War One

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[@vampiregirl337]

I love pictures of Rasputin when he's with other people. It's like European nobility and there's Rob Zombie in the middle of them.

[@kirbyculp3449]

I read that he smelled terrible.

[@andrewhawking7893]

@@kirbyculp3449 not so much. But he had his inner circle consisted mostly of women whom he had sexual relationship frequently with.

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

Rasputin: Hey, yeah, I'm the one that you wanted. Hey, yeah, I'm your superbeast!

[@katiewray1712]

@@kirbyculp3449 He sure looks like he would have smelled terrible lol!

[@bri_x_p9553]

Lmao 🤣 I'm gonna think of that every time I see him now

[@rollingthunder1043]

The story of Gavrillo Princip actually contains one more coincidence you missed: After the bombing of the motorcade, Archduke Franz Ferdinand decided to change all his plans in order to visit a hospital so he could speak with some of those injured in the attack. Either on the way there or the way back, the driver GOT LOST, which is how the car even came to be passing the deli in which Princip was sitting to eat his sadness sandwich.

[@Taolan8472]

Wow. The depth of coincidence to that moment. Truly had the Gods spoken and decreed "&*%$ this archduke in particular."

[@jonjohns8145]

Considering how devastatingly impactful WWI is to this day, it is so heart breaking to ponder what if. Forget about Killing Hitler, if you ever get a Time machine, you should go back and kill Princip.

[@furlizard]

@@jonjohns8145 or just get him to eat sadness at a different deli?

[@jonjohns8145]

@@furlizard It's too high stakes, better be safe than sorry. Take the bastard out!!

[@awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481]

@@jonjohns8145 Oh! Send him to a steakhouse in a tall building then!

[@xipietotec]

You left out another neat “if just one more thing hadn’t happened”: the archduke was actually wearing an early bullet proof vest made of many layers of silk, but he was shot in the head.

[@myu2k2]

actually he bleed to death. he was so worried about his wife that he told them to take care of her first and by the time someone was able to find scissors to cut past all of his buttons and embroidery on his own jacket he was done for.

[@Nikki-tx6kh]

I watched a documentary about weaponry evolution through history and they did an experiment to see if FF could have saved by the vest (he would have), it was fascinating stuff and the Lady conducting the experiment going all giddy about it working was actually cute.

[@chawk6201]

He actually owned it, but wasn't wearing it that day. Still an interesting what-if situation.

[@SonOfNone]

I've always thought it crazy that millions of lives were spoiled for the death of a single man. I know you can't quite reduce it to such a simplistic cause, but ultimately it is still true. Had that man lived, millions more would have as well (or perhaps I'm repeating a mistake of Neville Chamberlain and I'm in error for thinking 'Peace For Our Time')

[@smrtfasizmu7242]

@@SonOfNone even more ironic is that Princip and the black hand killed an ally in Austria. Franz, the heir to the throne, was a strong believer in a Triune empire with a Slavic kingdom as the third member to counterbalance the Hungarian kingdom. They killed the single most powerful advocate for slavic power in the entire Dual Monarchy

[@dragonboydelton909]

Currently sitting at a German restaurant in MI. Guy across from me is very happily, very enthusiastically talking about how great "Tasting History With Max Miller" is. He's managed to pull attention of a couple other patreons, and is promoting the channel. The whole corner of the restaurant is now talking about food and history. Made me smile, figured I'd let you know that your content is really getting out n' about. :)

[@TastingHistory]

Wow, that's so cool. Thanks for getting the word out

[@dragonboydelton909]

@@TastingHistory Absolutly! Keep up the great work! Hope you have a great holiday season!

[@kaesestink]

@@TastingHistory your growth rate is unprecedented tho, talking about food with random people suprsingly often results in one participant mentioning this (amazing) channel. greetings from germany aswell.

[@lyra2112]

"Like one of those transitional fossils in paleontology, but, with more sugar." This geologist was laughing so hard out loud! 🤣🤣🤣 Good one Max!!!

[@ra2376]

Things I didn't know I was missing out on: Max beastily chomping down on a Bakewell. I love it

[@gilbertotoledo1421]

It should be immortalized as a gif

[@annbrookens945]

I loved seeing Max tear into the tart , chomping down!

[@DonnaBarrHerself]

He began eating like a Japanese lady, always covering his mouth. Last week he shoved in a whole cookie, sans coverage. Now - power-nomming a sticky tart. How soon medieval Mukbang?

[@gilbertotoledo1421]

@@DonnaBarrHerself power-nomming! Ha! I'm gonna have to steal that term. Lol

[@salaltschul3604]

Ten points for the word "beastily". It's perfect.

[@jaspervanheycop9722]

Rasputin performed his "healings" with a "laying on of hands", which funnily enough, according to my father who's a doctor, is exactly the only thing that would've allowed you to stop the bleeding before modern medicine (i.e. holding the wound closed until the weak coagulation takes hold). Also when it comes to 19th century medicine, simply telling your colleagues to shove it and having them do nothing is probably better than whatever quakery they intended to put the poor boy through...

[@DragonKingZero]

Especially when said boy was most likely a hemophiliac, and one the more popular quackeries of the time was _bloodletting_ .

[@FlameDarkfire]

They likely were trying to treat the boy with the latest wonder drug... Aspirin. Which... has anti-coagulation properties (not really a blood thinner, more of making blood slipperier so it doesn't stick as well).

[@Jamie-kg8ig]

Thinking about the time the president James Garfield got shot, and then his doctors proceeded to mess around for weeks without washing their hands because in the 1870s, washing your hands was considered quackery.

[@Deatheater4444]

As someone above me noted, whenever the Tsarevitch injured himself and suffered a serious hemmorage, the royal physicians treated him with aspirin, which is an anticoagulant. Rasputin telling the Tsarina to send the doctors away undoubtedly saved Alexei's life. Further, whatever else Rasputin was, he was charismatic and extremely good with children, and being able to calm Alexei would have kept him from thrashing in pain and lowered his heart rate, both of which would have drastically improved the situation.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

I've never met any hemophiliacs, nor have I ever met any wandering starets/"holy man"... I wonder what our modern doctors would come up with to treat their diseases... Rasputin probably would be diagnosed as a psychopath/schizophrenic, and given the appropriate antipsychotic drugs, but I think Alexei would still be kinda fucked... Are there any hemophiliacs out there? Do people still have hemophilia?

[@AAD2698]

Here is a history tidbit about Herbert Kitchener. He was worried about the seam at the end of knitted socks, afraid that his soldiers would be blisters from it when marching. SO he invented the Kitchener stitch, a way to finish off the toe of a sock so that there is no seam. At least HE gets the credit with the stitch named after him. I'm thinking a knitter actually figured it out afer he asked for it! But knitters everywhere know about the Kitchener stitch!

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

Sounds like a stupid solution. If you’re so worried why not wear the sock inside out?

[@AAD2698]

@@BoxStudioExecutive guessing you have never worn a pair of Kitchener stitched socks? Believe me they are nice. And you have to finish the toe somehow.

[@lenabreijer1311]

That stitch can be documented to the mid 1800s via magazines. It was attributed to him by the red cross probably as a way to impress the knitters on the seriousness.

[@lenabreijer1311]

@@BoxStudioExecutive a seam is a seam whether it is on the inside or the outside of the sock when squashed into a cheap ill fitting boot filled with water.

[@margotmolander5083]

@@lenabreijer1311 I'd heard some talk among knitters to change the name to something like "grafting stitch" because it turns out Kitchener was a pretty awful person by WWI standards.

[@Lucius1958]

An amusing detail about Mata Hari: Her name, Margarethe, is related to the French _marguerite_ and the German _Margerite_ , which both mean "Daisy": her stage name means, in Malay, "Eye of Day" ("day's eye"= "daisy").

[@ruahoneybadger5828]

Or MataHari in malay/melayu/indonesia also means sun actually....but if you use Mata=Eye,Hari=Day yeah you can use that logic lol

[@Sarafimm2]

@Lucius1958 & @Rua Honey Badger Both of those bits of info is interesting. Thank you!

[@13gan]

Well, Eye of the Day is a good way to describe the Sun. That said, I never heard of anyone calling daisy as Mata Hari. In fact, in Malay, Bunga Matahari is sunflower ("bunga" meaning flower).

[@AbdullahQecibegCH]

@@ruahoneybadger5828 Interesting 🤔

[@MaxMustermann-go8xf]

Daisy is a darkened composite noun (unrecognizable as such today) from old English: daeges eage (day‘s eye)

[@dustinbesser4780]

I like how you rasputanically ate the other half of the tart!

[@kohashiguchi1454]

If Max ever manages to read this, when the food is *that* good, indulging in Rasputinmunch is definitely called for.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

This man, reached out to by a major studio. That’s an achievement.

[@citricbassist]

Coming from you that's saying something!

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Okay, but he was in the entertainment business for several years. He worked for Disney.

[@baltazarriosdelbarco4230]

@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 No company sponsors anyone for favors or because they were friends though. They chose him because they saw merit in his work and that it would help the movie's popularity. It's an achievement.

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

Ummmm i don't think Disney reached out more like his co-workers who still work at Disney whom he knew back in the day you know..

[@andrehill5902]

it's not necessarily about what you know, it's about who you know

[@Bobbnoxious]

Not so fun fact: Gavrilo Princip wasn't executed for the assassinations because he was one month shy of the legal age (20) eligible for the death penalty under Habsburg law. Instead he got the maximum "juvenile" sentence of 20 years. He was kept shackled in solitary confinement, contracted TB and died a pretty miserable death in 1918. To the end Princip insisted that WWI was inevitable and he was only a scapegoat for its beginning.

[@XMarkxyz]

To be honest i think he was kind of right: there was too much political tension in Europe which looked like to be impossible to resolve in a diplomatic fashion and something else, just a small incident, would've started the war anyway

[@goranstojanov1160]

Well he was right.The millitary buildup was alredy in full swing LONG BEFORE the asssasination.Alo A-H wanted war with Serbia ever since Serbia became independant from the Ottomans aka A-H wanted to SOLIDIFY its full reign onver Balkans and Balkan wars and extremely weakened and devastated.That wa sthe perfect opportunity to strike and many of the A-H military wanted war BUT problem was (probbaly imo) that A-H just recently annexed Bosnia and that alredy struck a nerve or raised an eyebrow in some of big powers.So to not be seen as agresive expansionings i thik imo that was one of multiple reasons why A-H didnt just declare war on Serbi but instead preffered to get some sort of an exuse.Alos its not like Germany didnt give a green light bcs A-H went to Germans to see if A-H declares war would Germany aprove/sorta be a cheerleader to A-H

[@firelunamoon]

Yes, if a world war can be started by the assassination of just one person, then clearly the situation was so volatile that war would have broken out sooner or later anyway. Princip really only triggered the war, he didn't cause it.

[@DIEGhostfish]

SOME sort of war was inevitable, but he decided to spark it off in the worst possible way that would make certain it would be a matter of national honor that couldn't go unanswered.

[@miekekuppen9275]

@@firelunamoon This incident was literally the example my teacher used to explain the difference between cause and trigger.

[@EmeraldLance]

"I can't believe I just did that. It was kinda fun though." Words to live by.

[@lindafreeman7030]

This could also be the Czarina's comment after first meeting Rasputin.

[@ladyrazorsharp]

Reminds me of Walt Disney, who purportedly remarked, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” 🧚‍♂️✨

[@ladyrazorsharp]

@@lindafreeman7030 well to Moscow chicks, he was such a lovely dear…😏

[@icarusbinns3156]

@@ladyrazorsharp Russia’s greatest love machine

[@DonP_is_lostagain]

Max, the reason Mrs. Isabella Beeton gives you the cost of the dishes is because her book is titled as a "Household Management" book. Which means she's not only giving recipes, but also household finances, thus, costs of the dishes. And I always thought Mata Hari, much like Alfred Dreyfus before her, was basically a scapegoat for the absolute lack of competence of the French High Command. (Although to be fair, Dreyfus was basically antisemitism).

[@counterfeit1148]

I'm glad Mata Hari died after betraying Germany

[@feraldynasty]

As someone with Hemophilia I always enjoy the Rasputin twist of the healing just being no longer actively causing harm! Also a fun fact for anyone interested, in the "Once Upon A December" scene of the animated Anastasia movie you can see Alexei limping for the short amount of time he's on screen, it's just a very nice nod.

[@Sk0lzky]

Fun fact regarding fossils and sugar: tooth plaque is actually fossilised bacteria and recently scientists have discovered ways to assess... Well various things based on its layers and structure

[@rs8751]

PBS Eons just did a video on it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/imbceXuQgtNrodE

[@__Hanasei__Levinus__]

@@rs8751 thanks!

[@maryanneslater9675]

I think it was in the forensic anthropology Cold Case series that they brought that up and commented that modern dental hygiene is going to disappoint future archaeologists. :)

[@GamesDean21]

Two Tasting Historys in one week? It's a Christmas Miracle! edit: With this garnering any sort of attention, Y'all better be liking and subscribing to get to 1,000,000 before New Years!

[@williamsingleton7478]

*palpatine voice: A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

[@Zergash]

Maybe it is a "rasputanic" miracle? :D

[@nellgwenn]

God bless us everyone.

[@PhoenixAlaris93]

It's a miracle... IT'S AN AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS BLOODY MIRACLE!!!

[@snazzypazzy]

I honestly checked what day it was. Despite watching the other episode this week too!

[@mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299]

LOL Never thought I'd get to bring up this song on this channel but hey hey hey hey hey... ''...There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire...'' -Bony M, Rasputin

[@GiselleMFeuillet]

I came looking for this reference and was not disappointed... "RAH! RAH! RASPUTIN! Lover of the Russian Queen! There was a cat that really was gone!"

[@ryuusei1907]

I literally only clicked on this video because of that song.

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

And behold, we witness Max having a Cookie Monster moment :)

[@victoriaolson8985]

OMG! I used to eat this as a child (back in the late 1950s), but never knew the name. A bakery near my church made mini versions of them, and I would save a quarter to get one after mass. What a wonderful food memory. They are absolutely delicious. Go, Rasputin!

[@juliabaum8832]

Mata Hari more than likely did learn Indonesian dances somehow through her ex-husband's connections, as he was stationed in the Dutch West Indies (now Indonesia) at the time they met and lived with him in Java at one point. Not much is known about her contributions to dance, but Hari was a contemporary of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis and reportedly she did a Siva Samoan dance in her performances and used a lot of Indian music. She's also total costume goals for us bellydancers :)

[@ruahoneybadger5828]

As indonesian i do confused about that part because non of us have that kind bellydancer type dance but now you explain it....that is much more sense...

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@ruahoneybadger5828 they don't have the internet back then to check. If she insist it's Javanese and it looks exotic enough, they might as well go along with it, it's not like they can show a video and say "No, this is what an actual Javanese dance look".

[@RukoHanaji]

I don't know a lot about Mata Hari; I first heard of her in connection to Natalie Barney, an American lesbian who ran a salon in Paris. Given that Natalie pretty much had affairs with all of the women who performed at her salon, I need say no more. Also! She appears as a playable character in the PlayStation 2 RPG Shadow Hearts under her own name Margarethe Zelle, in which she is very much a Bond-esque character. It's a lot of fun.

[@YataTheFifteenth]

The West Indies are in the Americas though. Indonesia's the East Indies.

[@juliabaum8832]

@@YataTheFifteenth My error, she still lived in Java though

[@lambjalfrezi]

If you ever get the chance, try the older Bakewell pudding recipe. It has much the same ingredients but comes out quite differently. If you ever visit Bakewell, the tart is sneered at as a modern pastiche, while the pudding is what is sold in the local bakeries.

[@whyamidoingthis5236]

I've seen both for sale in Bakewell. The pudding is definitely my favourite though. I think it's protected status

[@Fidgottio]

I wonder what the local opinion is of Mr Kipling's cherry bakewells?

[@TheDutchSkully]

To be precise: Margaretha was born in Leeuwarden, where you can still find her old home (Kelders 33). There is also a statue of her in front of it and in 2017, Het Fries Museum had a whole exhibition about her.

[@pizzamozzerella8306]

my favorite rasputin-adjacent fact/figure is that there was a fairly prominent Russian Orthodox monk named Sergei Trufanov (also known as Iliodor) who haaaated Rasputin, and was ultimately so angry that he was allowed to just hang around the royal family and that the Russian Orthodox church was ok with it that he ended up renouncing the church, was defrocked, and kind of disappeared for a few years before showing back up, apparently with a plot to try and kill Rasputin that I guess didn't pan out (I don't think it was the one that actually killed him), and Trufanov fled to the U.S. afterwords. He would end up playing himself in a now lost silent film called "The Fall of the Romanoffs," before going back to Russia and offering to help Lenin and the communists, and then coing back to America in the 20's and ending up in New York. At the end of his life converted to Baptism and spent the rest of his life as a janitor at the MetLife insurance tower in New York until his death in 1952.

[@misstoril]

One of Iliodor's followers (a noseless madwoman) did end up stabbing Rasputain repeatedly, but all that really did was cause him extreme pain which made his alchoholism worse.

[@slwrabbits]

what - whaaaaaaat? That is such a wacky story, thank you for sharing!

[@AubriGryphon]

For what it's worth, Russia had a long tradition of divinely inspired peasant miracle workers, and at the time one could practically make a career of being an entertainingly outlandish guest for the idle rich. Transgressing social taboos was a feature, not a bug -- in a lot of ways it was a modern incarnation of the court jester. Raputin was in fact one of three supposed miracle workers in society at the time, but he was the most fun to have at parties.

[@McDonaldsCalifornia]

Which of course doesn't preclude people still believing in their powers

[@AubriGryphon]

@@McDonaldsCalifornia Certainly not. But the point is that the Tsarina's attachment to him would be more akin to her believing in a celebrity televangelist than joining a cult -- he was something of a known quantity in high society and not an outlandish intruder.

[@richardbeebe8398]

Two Tasting History episodes in one week?!?! Now that is a true holiday treat!

[@FPSfans]

Never been much of a cook, but as an aspiring historian this series has always kept my interest. Love your work and keep it up.

[@emmitstewart1921]

One version I read of Rasputin's death was that after the poison and the shooting and dumping in the river, when his body was recovered, the autopsy report said that the actual cause of death was drowning. They totally flubbed the murder and if the water hadn't been freezing, he could have climbed ashore and lived for many more years. PS. Rasputin's daughter reports that Rasputin opposed the war, but the Tsar's other advisers told him that a war would be good for the economy, so the Tsar went to war, and the economy tanked big time. Sometimes, the crazy-looking guy with the straggly beard is right.

[@pizzatigernt]

The only report/telling of the murder comes from the murder himself and goes like this "This devil who was dying of poison, who had a bullet in his heart, must have been raised from the dead by the powers of evil,There was something appalling and monstrous in his diabolical refusal to die". The autopsy never found water in his lungs and his daughter has claimed that her father never ate sweets so the cake part of the story is suspect. It is more likely that this noble simply executed rasputin with the pistol and then exaggerated the story to make it into one of good vs evil, with rasputin using satanic magic to keep himself alive

[@BC25citizen]

Buffy suggested that he must have been a vampire…

[@fionaclaphamhoward5876]

Cherry jam! So nice with almond-y flavours. There is such a beast as a cherry bakewell, with a thin white glaze frosting and finished with a glacé cherry on top, but I believe that's usually with raspberry jam like this one. Which confuses me. Why not go all-out on the cherry flavours if you're calling it a cherry bakewell? 🤔

[@stephrashid6513]

I've always wondered that as well. I totally agree with you on the cherry jam front though!

[@PennyWenny224]

Bc having different fruits helps to give more notes of flavour

[@rashkavar]

It's worth noting that the fall of the Tsar was even earlier, in the February Revolution. The October Revolution was the fall of the Provisional government, which existed because the February Revolution had forced the Tsar to abdicate - he did so and nominated his brother to succeed him, but his brother declined in favour of a democratic process (realizing that anything else would result in a reign to compete with Lady Jane Grey for the title of "shortest time as head of state in history"). Within a week, both he and the rest of his immediate family were confined to the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo (a town a bit south of Petrograd, the capital) under protective custody. They were then exiled to Yekaterinburg after the October Revolution, and were all killed in July 1918.

[@XMarkxyz]

Just to add a detail to the story. it was the head of the soviet of Yekaterinburg to decide to assassinate the Romanov family in an attempt to gain notoriety and political power but this was frowned upon by the rest of the bolsheviks, including Lenin, who wanted a regular trial just for Nicholas and other political figures but clearly didn't want to murder the children and see the family regarded as martyrs as they ended up being

[@rashkavar]

@@XMarkxyz "Regular trial" sounds like a generous way to put it, considering Lenin's tactics....show trial is more like his style.

[@blackore64]

@@rashkavar Well, I mean it's not like Nicholas II was exactly innocent after 1905...

[@rashkavar]

@@blackore64 Not saying he was. Just saying that it seems doubtful that, of all the people to be denied due process in the formation of the Soviet Union, that Nicholas II would be the one Lenin actually gave a fair trial.

[@sarahgray430]

My grandmother compared my late husband (whose family was from the border between Finland and Russia) to Rasputin, and he treated it as a compliment. There's nothing wrong with being a strange, hairy person with a high libido and an fondness for vodka and good food!

[@markusfreund6961]

Well, if you put it that way... anyway, sorry for your loss.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Sounds like the perfect husband.

[@comradewindowsill4253]

man, now I have to ask my dad if he ever got called Rasputin in his college days... the photos from that time are really something lol

[@nunyabiznes33]

Did he also used to seduce you, and then reject you when you advance? 😁 Anyway RIP, he seem to be a cool guy.

[@comradewindowsill4253]

@FlyingMonkies325 You can turn anything into a cult though, it's not limited to whatever you feel isn't socially acceptable. I mean, look at Mormons, or Scientology, for example.

[@pyrosauria7444]

Bit of a historic correction, it was actually the February Revolution that put an end of Imperial Russia and the Tsardom’s control with the establishment of the provisional government from the combined support of multiple groups. The October Revolution was the deposing of the provisional government by the Bolshevik. I know it’s a bit of a nitpick given how the February Revolution isn’t as well known as the October Revolution but it’s a pretty common misconception. On a side note, I’m kinda curious if you’ve checked out the Timeghost channels such as The Great War channel, between two wars, and the WW2 channel they’re focused on now?

[@erraticonteuse]

I'd love to see Max do an "On the Homefront" collab with Anna!

[@CossackGene]

It's not a nitpick, this is basic history. Unfortunately most Americans never learn it though.

[@katiehettinger7857]

Americans woul be well serve if there was a nuanced series about the political evolution of Russia from monarchy to the Soviet Union on through to the dictatorship of Putin.

[@reijek990]

Kerensky's Provisional Government was so short-lived (lasting less than a year) they are starting to get forgotten.

[@swapertxking]

You forgot the most important part! The February revolution was in March and the October revolution was in November because Russia used a different calendar than the rest of Europe at the time that was shifted by a month.

[@alliancecompliance9901]

Congrats on the sponsor! Our boy is moving up in the world and I couldn’t be more proud!! 😭

[@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight]

15:49 *wipes shame* This, my friends, is why I love KZbin channels that care about their subtitles. The deaf and hard of hearing can rejoice in extra attention to detail.

[@stevenej9894]

Bakewell tart was a fovourite of my grandmother's. She would use whatever jam was open- but often apricot (wonderful with almond, by the way), plum, quince, strawberry, or mulberry, all of which were home-made. She would also stretch the almond meal by adding dessicated coconut, which was much cheaper- and more like the frangipane used today. Assembly is easier if you chill the jam layer for 15 min or so- as long as it takes to make the egg/almond mixture. I haven't had Bakewell tart in decades- I might have to give this a try!

[@MotoHikes]

I live not too far from the town of Bakewell in the Peak District of Derbyshire, and a few weeks ago visited the very shop that made the bakewell tart famous. It was absolutely phenomenal. Expensive but totally worth it!

[@stephrashid6513]

Wow! The Peak District is beautiful. I've been tempted to move there or nearby.

[@MotoHikes]

@@stephrashid6513 It really is. I don't live in the Peak District itself, but i'm lucky enough to live close enough to go for half a day out for a hike (though I move to North Wales next month which is arguably just as beautiful)

[@stephrashid6513]

@@MotoHikes sounds amazing!

[@Mmjk_12]

Something interesting to point out is that the Franz Ferdinand's chauffer actually took a wrong turn that wasn't meant to go past Princip in the sandwich shop.

[@IruTheday]

You and Rasputin eating the tart is what my fiance reminds me I looked like eating a chocolate pie walking on the way to the car once cuz I was impatient. I only ever did like that a few times and I was alone. Big mistake on letting him see that. Now I will never hear the end of it but luckily I didn't scare him away lol.

[@JessHull]

As someone who has Hemophilia and grew up in extravagant pain, I always heard stories of Rasputin and was given books about him and Alexei.

[@snideaugustine2143]

You know Max truly loves something when he does his little happy dance with his shoulders! 😂

[@DianeGraft]

Right after Thanksgiving I made a modern bakewell tart, using my leftover homemade cranberry sauce for the jam. And it was great! Definitely worth doing again.

[@karenryder6317]

That sounds great.

[@Razmatini]

i wish more recipes included how much the dish should cost!

[@beth12svist]

That's nice but also I've seen that change so much just during my own life I think it's something that ages VERY quickly so I totally get why recipes don't usually do it.

[@TheMrsBeej]

Giallo zafferano, an Italian recipe site, does this for their recipes ranging from low to high.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

@@EresirThe1st Not just inflation but how different ingredients' availability changes. Transportation costs mattered more than they do now, for example.

[@cam4636]

@@beth12svist True, but from a historical perspective it gives a sense of the cost of living of the times

[@ohrats731]

Rasputin was such a troll lol but he was so good at what he did. Really one of the wildest characters in history that I’ve learned about

[@LaundryFaerie]

Well, Max, your Rasputanic consumption of half a Bakewell tart should earn this particular episode the epithet of "Devouring History." Also, I'm thinking: apricot jam? Apricots and almonds are already related (both are in the genus Prunus), and it seems like a culinary match made in heaven.

[@terryt.1643]

Yes, that seems more appetizing to me,too, as I am not a raspberry fan.

[@lucasdomingue9319]

3:45 I gotta say, these shots are wonderful. Descriptions of texture are always an iffy way of conveying details from a recipe, so seeing the actual stuff in the mixing bowl would be a huge help if I were to try and replicate this.

[@Srearis1]

I'm amazed Max is getting sponorship of this level. that's so cool! I wonder if the theatre would let me bring in this tart if I said it was a costume accessory?

[@kimmoxie2160]

I’d vote for Max as the most likeable person on the internet. 💜

[@dawne6419]

There was a list recently (Buzzfeed?) that listed the nicest people on KZbin. It included Jon Townsend, Emmy made in Japan, and our own Max, here. Can't find right now, but it was fairly recent.

[@bonniesiegel9024]

Glen and his spouse Julie, on Glen & Friends from Toronto, Canada are really nice, smart and funny :)

[@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight]

I’d add Joerg Sprave of the Slingshot Channel to the list of nicest KZbinrs, alongside Max :)

[@Azaghal1988]

I think i would use sour cherry. I love the combination of sour cherry and marzipan, and really imagine it works well with almonds too.

[@beth12svist]

Ha! I'm not the only one who thought sour cherry! :D

[@violetskies14]

It's my favourite version of a bakewell! It has to be topped with almonds too not icing like you see sometimes

[@stephrashid6513]

Yes yes yes! 😍

[@turtlellamacow]

I must point out that "Princip was coincidentally outside Schiller's delicatessen because he had stopped for a snack (usually a sandwich)" is a modern myth! It only appears in the last twenty years and contemporary sources don't even mention Princip going inside the building -- and sandwiches would not have been a common convenience food in Sarajevo in 1914 (or even today). He positioned himself outside the deli simply because it was along the Archduke's expected route (which the chauffeur accidentally turned onto when trying to get to the hospital). Smithsonian has an article on it for more detail.

[@jayski9410]

Max, I always learn from your recipes but this time I learned something new from your history. The Arch Duke assassination triggering WWI is common knowledge but the initial failure followed by a chance meeting outside a deli was brand new to me. Imagine, any other restaurant or a trip to the bathroom and the whole course of history would have been changed.

[@Levacque]

I'd encourage you to read a quick overview of that day, and then watch this movie. They did a really entertaining job of twisting and dramatizing all of the crucial moments in the motorcade.

[@annew8365]

I come for the history, I stay for the humour. “Like a fossil, but with more sugar.” 😆 So close to 1 million subscribers! Max, I wish you about 4,000 more subscribers for Christmas. 🎁🎄

[@ryanahr2267]

The "*wipes shame*" bit in the captioning was pure gold.

[@nrgltwrkr2225]

For those of you who don't yet, ya gotta watch with the Closed Captioning turned ON. "Wipes Shame" comment was too funny! LOL! Another culinary triumph Max! Happy Holidays everyone!

[@katseyeview9354]

love it! wrote it down so I can try it after the holidays. My adoptive fathers family was related to Czar N.II. They came to the usa in 1917. I was lucky enough to spend time with "Pa Pa" and learn about Russia before WWI.

[@mattpearse2707]

Hi Max, I just wanted to thank you for helping to keep me going this year. We have all suffered over this coronavirus period, but damn Sir, you make all the difference. Easily my favourite channel and easily my favourite host. Stay you, my friend. Stay genuine. Keep going as you are because as we English would say: you are absolutely smashing it Thanks so much for the effort you put in, it’s literally saved my life.

[@nackedgrils9302]

We've been making a similar almond pie recipe in my family over the last few years. It's become a Christmas classic and we've experimented with various jams (always homemade) and the best pairings, I've found, were: Raspberry jam, Apricot jam and Ground Cherry jam. Give these a try and don't forget to add a bit of lemon juice in your jam to brighten its taste!

[@audreypartridge9953]

I would think apricot would be lovely.

[@stephrashid6513]

I'm 100% with you on that! Apricot and cherry jam is so good in a Bakewell!

[@KetchupwithMaxandJose]

Ra-ra-Rasputin! Can confirm it was a delicious tart 😚

[@lairdcummings9092]

The real Rasputin was a *very* hard man to kill. Perhaps if instead they'd lured him to complacency with a tart, he'd have been easier to put down...

[@marcogenovesi8570]

something something, loved by the ladies, something something

[@iwontliveinfear]

Rasputin survived drinking poisoned wine, was subsequently shot, thrown into a frozen river, climbed out of said river and shot some more before finally embracing death.

[@julilla1]

A tart with a tart would have probably finished him off easily. 😄

[@olenickel6013]

@@iwontliveinfear These are likely myths and embellishments designed to paint Rasputin as an unnatural, devillish figure. The exact details of the murder are unknown, the testimonies of his murderers changed repeatedly. The autopsy report suggests he didn't ingest any poison, suffered three bullet wounds and he was already dead when dumped into the water.

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

@@olenickel6013 Personally, I like the mythologizing of the man Russian spooks codenamed "The Dark One..." though I'd take a different tack with the mythologizing. My version is definitely the dark wizard of legend... but actually a friend of both Czar Nicholas and Czarina Alexandra who wanted the Russian Crown to actually give a sh*t about the peasants out in the Siberian sticks. And my version is both a lech AND a Friend To All Children... which is why he was able to "heal" Alexei. Ya know, by simply being a friendly, calming presence in his life while Mom and Dad were off taking care of affairs of state. "Dark Is Not Evil," is the idea. I want a version of Rasputin that's less villain (because that's been done to death) and more misunderstood "dark hero." Hell, I'd do the same thing with Mata Hari. Love those words from her own mouth. "A harlot? Yes. A traitor? Never."

[@MattBeckley]

I made this and used Marrionbery from here in the PNW , it was amazing. Love your videos , thanks for keeping the world smiling and teaching us about our past.

[@meganwatson7146]

I have a vintage copy of one of Mrs Beeton's cookbooks/guides for housewives from 1923, I will have have send you some photos of the recipes in it. It was gifted to a young lady in 1924 on the occasion of her marriage and still has newspaper cuttings and her notes in it, it's so lovely.

[@guilhermearanha5676]

May I say... It is pretty darn cool that you're pairing up with the studio formerly known as Fox to create your videos. And you deserve it! You rockstar you...

[@TastingHistory]

It was so cool when they asked!

[@guilhermearanha5676]

Seriously... You're the coolest.

[@guilhermearanha5676]

​@@TastingHistory I can imagine! And you deserve it! Hope everything is alright with you. It is a pretty big challenge to give up your job at disney to try your hand at youtube! I mean I am VERY happy that you did. I hope you're as happy as me. Because your videos are gold, man. By the way... Sorry if I sound a little sarcastic on my comments. I mean really mean the, but my first language is portuguese. I'm a little bad at english. But I am a real big fan of yours! Love what you're doing.

[@tgbluewolf]

@@guilhermearanha5676 I guess the tone depends on the person reading it, but it didn't seem sarcastic to me; your English is great!

[@terryt.1643]

⁠​⁠@@guilhermearanha5676I didn’t pick up any sarcasm, your English seems very good to me and it’s my first language. 👍

[@myu2k2]

"Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs" - Douglas Smith. I would recommend it if you are looking for a rather comprehensive biography on the man that debunks a lot of the propaganda.

[@karenryder6317]

He is considered the best authority on the topic of the fall of the Romanovs

[@BTScriviner]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm going to check it out. 👍

[@rennegaukroger686]

No Pokémon!!. Fingers crossed you reach 1 million before year’s end! Have a lovely Holiday.

[@KellyOuburg]

I get such a kick out of watching you taste the food at the end. When you do little dance in your seat like in this video, I want to try that food!

[@deepbluejeer]

13:48 I'm sure this was massively oversimplified for the sake of brevity, but it wasn't the October revolution that overthrew the Russian monarchy; it was the February revolution earlier in 1917. The October revolution overthrew the provisional government that came into power after the February revolution as the provisional government became massively unpopular after the botched June offensive and an attempted military coup.

[@poisonjjivy]

Ra Ra Rasputin lover of the Russian Queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra Ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on 🎶

[@IAOIceland1984]

love that song, especially the Turias version

[@AmericanBeautyCorset]

Bakewell Tart! Yummy I would have to make several. I used an old recipe from a English cookery book. My Father would eat a whole tart! My brother another...Oh and I used Strawberry jam...It's just as good.. Thanks for video... 😋

[@NotContinuum]

First, an extra serving of Tasting History! There's always room for that. Second, how he ate the tart was hilarious. I actually laughed out loud. I think we all wish we could do that at some point.

[@toddellner5283]

December 31 1999 NPR had a call in show where they asked what single person had the greatest influence on 20th century history. After a couple kind of lame callers they stopped taking calls because one said "Gavrilo Princip", and the host had to admit nobody was going to top that.

[@MooMoo-fw3kh]

You are so hysterical! I love that you said when rasputin looks at you He makes you feel dirty😂😂

[@Corve]

I think if you make your Rasputin Bakewell tart with your Nostradamus cherry jelly it is you who will be advisor to the tsars.

[@manuelmanterola7070]

hell yeah get those film bucks king

[@medenadrakorus9542]

Oh this looks tasty, I may have to try it. Bet you cherry jam or ginger preserves would taste really good with this.

[@beth12svist]

My mind immediately went to my father's stacks of sour cherry jam from the sour cherry tree in the garden. I'll have to try this over Christmas when I'll be staying with him, I think...

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

@@beth12svist like Nostradamus' cherry jam? OK, that would be nice.

[@beth12svist]

@@carloshenriquezimmer7543 Not really, but yes, that would also be nice. :-)

[@mellorahall5522]

In closed captioning when you wipe your mouth with a napkin after nomming like Rasputin - it says *wipes shame* LOL

[@lornahuddleston1453]

😂 That was funny Max. Chomping on a Bakewell Tart like Rasputin.😺

[@ailierobertson4543]

"Pudding" can sometimes just be interchanged with "dessert" where I'm from in the UK.

[@kathleenjoyce4472]

You mentioned Rasputin's eyes. They were much like Charlie Manson's. Congratulations on the recognition from the Kingsman franchise

[@ladyrazorsharp]

Okay I have ALWAYS thought when looking at either of them “who does this guy remind me of” …and now I know why! Got the crazy 👀

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@ladyrazorsharp Those eyes at rest/when agitated but not actively TRYING to make them are a warning sign. Like, if someone is deliberately Gowroning that's fine, that's acting. But if they get like that naturally, give them a wide berth.

[@JadenNeko]

Blessed with 2 episodes of tasting history. Also, the way how you ate the pie at the end was priceless!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@danceswithmetroids162]

I just want to bring up that it wasn't solely the assassination that brought about the Great War. Europe was a powdered keg of tension for a while thanks to different empires expanding their borders, and countries scrambling to form their own empires so they wouldn't get left behind and swallowed up. The War was inevitable, but it just so happened that The Black Hand provided that spark to help accelerate tensions and kick off the conflict. Also, if you'd like a more in-depth and entertaining look at Rasputin, I recommend Count Dankula's Absolute Mad Lads episode on him. Cheers!

[@sandtats]

Bakewell tart is very similar to my (and my Swedish dad's) favorite Swedish baked item: mazariner. Same short crust as blackwell tart, but pressed into small, individual aluminum tartlet molds. The bottoms then lined with a generous layer raspberry jam and topped with almond paste. Once cooled, tartlets iced with confectioners sugar icing. Yum!

[@BarbaraSwanson]

You are getting the BEST sponsorships! You are rocking it.

[@myrnaescamilla5527]

Max, I would watch you 7 times a week! You are a blessing!

[@Tomahawkist_]

you seriously just got a sponsorship from 20th century studios. that is so freaking cool, you are quickly becoming *the* authority on historical food here on youtube (which is damn well deserved, good sourcing, a lot of effort with languages and other research, and good cooking skills ^^) so that even big studios want to collab with you. but food *is* also something where a lot of things fit as a sponsor

[@RossOriginals]

Strawberry jam and cherry jam both go very well in a Bakewell tart, but blackcurrant is a little too strong and overpowers the almond, and things like grape or apricot get lost to the almond, so I'd suggest sticking with red fruits. Regarding how you find modern frangipan gritty: I usually cut the sugar in half when I make frangipan, and use as fine an almond flour as I can, that helps make it not gritty, then make it more or less like a sponge cake: cream the butter and sugar, then whip in the eggs, and finally the almond flour and almond essence.

[@МиланКалаковић]

Great video Max, as always. But you have made one mistake : Archduke Franz Ferdinand was visited and killed in Sarajevo on 28th June, not 28th July. On 28th July was declaration of war on Kingdom of Serbia from Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[@taekwongurl]

Rasputin is one of history's most elusive assassination victims ever lol.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Right up there with Castro.

[@devilslamp7306]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 and Joshua Graham.

[@ppppppqqqppp]

Nah, the guy who told the "this is how hard he was to kill" story was the guy who killed him. His death was massively embellished so that the killer could gain even more clout and post-facto justify the need to kill him. Odds are he was literally just shot and he died from that.

[@roseblite6449]

I simply love the 'Kingsman" series, can't wait to see 'The King's Man' when it comes out. So glad that they sponsored your video. That tart looks wonderful. Loved the history part, most people now a days don't know anything about WW1 and all the shenanigans that happened back then.

[@Nikki-tx6kh]

I am into Royal History, so WWI is up my alley, as I love the family connections and politics between the SCG/ Windsor, Hohenzollern and Romanov

[@a_karch]

Not sure about Imperial Russia being ended by October Revolution, because February Revolution in the same year pretty much left the Russian throne empty after Nicholas 2 resigned, and Provisional Government didnt really make any attempts to restore it

[@thomasatkin477]

I actually live about 20 minutes away from Bakewell. It's a lovely village in the Peak District National Park. Its beautiful, I even have a painting of the Bakewell Bridge my Grandad painted in my room

[@heatherinparis]

Cherry jam is particularly spectacular with almonds! My English grandmother used to make this for my family when I was a small child....never had anything BUT cherry until I was well into my adult years and visiting my husband's relatives in England. They made strawberry or raspberry jam Bakewell tart sized pies.

[@kalebriell2731]

I adore the Kingsman franchise and I love that they reached out to sponsor you! Everything about this is already great!

[@joemorganeatmyshortschannel]

Interesting side note Franz was wearing body armor when he was shot he was shot in the throat and Sophie was shot center chest moral of the story a pocket pistol in 32 acp changed the world this is why cooking and firearms as well as history excite me every gun used to end leadership has been a cheap gun under 25 dollars

[@jontimmerman3386]

The podcast unobscured just did a 10 episode deep dive into Rasputin that was really well done and really interesting.

[@arey502]

Came here to say this! 👍

[@ellingtongriffin5521]

Great tip! Just found this podcast on your recommendation 🙌

[@PersistenciaMemoria]

OMG SO CLOSE TO 1 MILLION!! *Edit* That "Here we go" was everything I needed to make this week less stressful lol.

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

Congratulations on the sponsorship! And I love seeing you do a Mrs Beeton recipe. It's such a fascinating book, like stepping back in time.

[@thomassturgess6800]

Mrs Beeton's is a cookbook that deserves a lot more attention than it gets from foodies. My Mum still has a copy that has been her ultimate culinary reference for decades.

[@carbine7457]

15:46 "I'm Commander Shepherd and THIS is my favourite shop on the Citadel." I love this video and what it has done to improve the quality of my life. Best. Channel. Ever.

[@victorconway444]

13:47 Bit of a nitpick, but I think you're referring to the February Revolution which overthrew the Tsar. Lenin was still in exile in Switzerland at that point, and had difficulty returning to Russia due to the war. The October Revolution overthrew the provisional government.

[@hydro4198]

Just an observation, I believe in older english, pudding referred to dessert basically. So it very well be a tart, but something they ate for ‘pudding’ which was basically dessert. And then later on, pudding referred to specific desserts, more than the time of dessert. At least from what I remember

[@JWRogersPS]

Yes. Many British still refer to desserts as "pudding".

[@rs8751]

This is true generally, but there are 2 different specific desserts, "Bakewell Pudding" and "Bakewell Tart."

[@FlybyStardancer]

Even before “pudding” meant dessert, it meant something more like “sausage” (black pudding being an example). The transition of it to meaning a sweet dish seems to be similar, if not connected, to the change in mincemeat.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Not to mention batter pudding, suet pudding, Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, hog's pudding, pudding club . . . . 😉

[@violetskies14]

We use the word pudding for lots of things lol

[@quicksilver356]

This is the most enjoyable ad I've ever watched.

[@susannam3923]

I think to be fair Princip wasn't the only reason ww1 happened, it was more the last straw. The response to the assassination showed a clear enthusiasm to go to war on many sides

[@Rachel-fi4sc]

Your li'l dimpled grin while you Rasputined the tart was the most adorable expression I've ever seen!