What Is Medieval Peasant's Pottage?

[@ashenwalls3558]

I'm learning that I grew up cooking like a medieval peasant 😂 I never knew what to call it, it was just "stuff in a bowl"

[@chang1865]

Well, the medieval name is "stuff in a pot" so you're not far off.

[@claireseyeviewonredbubble]

I imagined pottage to have nettles, plantain leaves, dandelion leaves, wild garlic and field mushrooms in it, as well as possibly oats, barley and some veges, if they had them, because when you're poor and have no money and need something for the pot you go out and find free edibles to cook in it.

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Yep you put all sorts in it

[@claireseyeviewonredbubble]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy I read that often a pot over the fire never got washed out as it was always being filled up with more foods while cooking over the fire then it was eaten from, then filled up again, so whatever food was left in the bottom got added to!

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I haven't heard that, I have heard of roasting pots that don't get cleaned out so the taste richens over each roast

[@claireseyeviewonredbubble]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy I think the taste definitely would richen over time😶

[@lovelyskull3483]

Thank you. Fascinating.

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Much appreciated :)

[@museonfilm8919]

So, without the Romans, we'd pretty much just have turnips and peas!

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Hahaha well I'd assume they would find their way to Britain eventually but yes, the Roman empire certainly helped introduce a lot of new things en masse. The native Britons already had a lot of trade networks in place and a good understanding of the wider world by the Iron Age, but the blanket occupancy of a single ruling power will always help improve trade and imports.

[@carolescutt2257]

😂 we'd have slugs and snails and puppy dogs tails 😊

[@agoogleaccount2861]

​@@carolescutt2257 we'd have eel. As we still do in England. . Any guess where parsnips came from?

[@carolescutt2257]

@@agoogleaccount2861 go on.... ;0) x

[@kenken8765]

They didn't use garlic and herbs?

[@acmehorse]

Great video; love Max Miller!

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

He's a good lad

[@carolescutt2257]

Hey Alex 😊 great informative and interesting skit .❤ If only Baldric had been available for ❤a cameo 😮😅

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

A skit?? This was supposed to be a serious documentary about medieval food! 😆😆

[@carolescutt2257]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy sorry no offence meant Alex wrong choice of word 😔 xx

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Haha I get what you mean. Tony Robinson would be a very welcome guest on my channel 😆

[@carolescutt2257]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy he is a very engaging and funny history buff much like yourself Alex ☆☆

[@katherinek2709]

I got a Quaker oatmeal add before this 😂

[@VintageMillyBooks]

Very interesting. I always wondered what pottage is, now I know. May I ask where you filmed this please?

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

I aim to inform! Well there are over 30 locations in the video in total haha - what footage are you referring to? I made the meal in my home.

[@theoldways1549]

Put some water and vinegar in your waterboiler and boil, to get rid of lime.

[@valensigmund1957]

I'm glad for McDonald after seeing that pottage...

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

😢

[@larrywave]

I love gabbage

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Gabbage!!?

[@museonfilm8919]

@@AlexTheHistoryGuy Too much Gabbage can rot your spellchecker - it's a fact!

[@williamhiller3988]

No potatoes?

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Nope, potatoes were brought over from America post-1521. Sweet potatoes and swede as well.

[@williamhiller3988]

​@@AlexTheHistoryGuy good info thx

[@tatumergo3931]

Potatoes are from Peru, chungos is a soup made with foot crush over night left to freeze potatoes. Not until Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca empire, potatoes were not enjoyed by Europeans.

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

What did the romans ever did for us?

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

A lot! 😆

[@tatumergo3931]

You need a bigger pot!

[@Alex_Argent]

This deserves far more attention. Better than a Mark Felton video that's for damn sure!

[@AlexTheHistoryGuy]

Ayy thank you :)