Fried Chicken From 1736 - Comfort Food Origins - 18th Century Cooking

Jon should be an example of healthy food in America where unhealthy living is all too common

I shouted with laughter when you said, "Nutmeg."

This looks very exquisite.

Batter? What batter? Fried chicken (real, Southern fried chicken) is just dredged in dry, seasoned flour. No batter.

This guy is great

My grandmother batter dipped her chicken too. It was so crisp on the outside but tender inside.

Chicken, fried, roasted. Chicken is so good. One of my favorate foods.

I'm thinking fried chicken from 1736 might be a bit rancid...

You didn’t put it in a pyramid

Kentucky fried chicken is going to sue this one, i mean, for copyrights and stuff.

How about using wild onions instead of cultivated scallions? We always called them scallions and not green onions in SE PA.

Gross loud chewing noises.

Majority of Seed oils and vegetable oils are for running machinery and engines not eating 🤣

It makes me proud to know that Americans have been deep frying foods for almost 3 centuries.

You have a great choice of both recipe and music :)

Frying in animal fat is a lot healthier than seed oils

Definitely not ENGLISH BEAT IT

I'd like to take a moment to appreciate these flavors lost to modern cooking. "Verjuice", was the acidic juice of unripened grapes, crab apples maybe tomatoes, etc whatever they had on hand. Today, we use vinegar, maybe apple cider vinegar or a fancier infused vinegar if you're lucky. However, nothing's gonna match the taste of crab apple marinated chicken mmmm

do you think they would have deep fried the chicken in 1736? I was thinking more like a dutch oven partially submerged fry

Yes, the term "chibols" was used in my country, now outdated and only used by older people. We spell it "cibuliai". It's a burrowed word from French dictionary apparently.

Nutmeg jokes aside, this is a very tasty recipe

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This makes me wonder how common grease fires were back then. Were people burning their houses down deep frying turkeys in the 18th century?

Eating a chicken was a luxury back then.

I think chibles might be referring to ciboulette

huh.,,,, fried chicken from 1736,,,,,must be awful darn stale by now.😁🙄

Fine I'll admit it. The English created excatly one good meal

Oil temp kinda high………….

Love this recipe! I've been making this regularly since I first saw the original video because my kids love it.

american recipes dont origiante here, they just perfect, like pizza is like Italian Pizza but triple cheese and triple meat basically, and american Fried chicken uses Buttermilk and much more texture, so its a completly diff dish, this recipe reminds me of asian inspired lemon chicken more than american fried chicken

The food back then was so so much better than it is today..

i think lard is the main thing missing in modern fried chicken, the texture of the skin with lard is amazing.

Love your videos, thank you.

dude its 4 am and i am watching this and i wannt some chicken now xD

Fascinating! I always thought this sort of food was new

One concern about the marinade, for the bay leaf, it is common today to get the dried leaf, but would be the fresh bay leaf used in 18th century? Hope someone could answer this.

This would have been WAY different tasting back then because of the breed of chicken they would’ve used compared to what you are using

you don't strike me as someone who gets hung up on the past :)

The marinade is similar to a Filipino adobo.

This fried chicken looks so super good

The more i watch this video the more i feel sorry for vegans 🌱

No way this is a british recipe it isnt goop OR sludge

There's a fine line between crispy and burned. This recipe races across that line with reckless abandon.

I thought this guy would talk in an English accent for some reason.

Wypeepo don't season day food 🦧

actually verjuice we use it in our armenian and iranian culture in our household! which we use in boiling dishes! makes the food tangy

I’m always in on all the ingredients until he goes for the scrapper 😂& Nutmeg.
Excellent Channel & history. Long time fan.

Didn't hear much of a crunch there at the end though lmao

Love it. Gonna try this on my next fry.