Wartime Kitchen and Garden Episode #4

My granddad told me about straw box cooking, saved on fuel. He called crockpot updated version.

True, it is possible to use everything a pig has to offer and many people also say except for the squeak, as did Ruth. However, we cannot us the fart nor the faeces. Unfortunately, most people are not aware that the pig is an unclean animal and if the truth be known it eats its own faeces.
'nuf sed.

Are the books still available for sale? Your garden and stories are so good I am sure it can work today 2019 . Thanks for the upload 👍😊

This takes me back to helping my mum make brawn in the 70s!xx

Dad used to tell me stories of how his Grandmother would render pork fat or beef tallow and make soap. One year my Sister and I did the same and gave soap as Christmas gifts to our family members in memory of our Great Grandmother.

What are marrows?

Pig processing --glad I am Vegetarian, but maybe during the War things might have dictated otherwise.

So, we helped the Russians and they repaid us by getting as much technical information from the Germans as they could and eventually tried to blockade Berlin and construct the wall....

I'm enjoying seeing how to use the nose to tail method of cooking a pig.
I am very intrigued by the method used to store the harvested potatoes in straw and dirt above ground with air ventilation using a pipe.
And the straw box method of cooking has been used since then by creating very insulated pots that you heat up and put into an insulated bag for transport on a trip. However, the box and straw are much cheaper to implement. I think all the "Preppers" should learn the techniques shown in this series.
I'm glad this series is keeping these ideas and methods alive.
I'm concerned about the copper sulphate being too toxic for food application. Maybe the potatoes need very dry mulch under the leaves.

She's making souse or head cheese.

The cooking in straw reminds me of my grandma putting pots into the bed to finish cooking potatoes and such.

Now “Potato Pete” is going to be stuck in my head forever and a day!

Sorry, but I almost gagged when I saw the pig head!

I love these. Thank you

I think the narrator has been at the wine - It's Bordeaux Mixture, not Burgundy!

Socks with heels...😂

Ugh...I had to fast forward from the tongue being cooked. It almost makes me gag to look at it.

poor mans crockpot

I love these series and am now preparing my own vegetable garden during our winter so by spring my hardened off plants can go straight into the warming soil..

I knew the spray they call burgundy as Bordeaux Mixture

Has anybody else noticed that they only fixed to plates of food? Where is the little boy?

"Growers were pressed to increase their yield of staple crops, potatoes and wheat for bread." How was bread made with British wheat? Until the Chorleywood Process only high protein wheat such as Canadian wheat could be used for bread making. Britain didn't produce high protein wheat, true it could substitute in other roles but not bread.

This should be compulsory viewing for our squeamish PC brigade. My Mother made this during the war and I am old enough to testify it was very tasty.

Mystery potatoes is more sinister than it should be. I'd love to try them.

Making head cheese.

The straw box, how interesting!!

Scrap food from schools used to go to feed pigs until fairly recently. Then health and safety took over.

My favorite section of Longwood Gardens which was a home of the Dupont family ie; they were so rich that the fortune they made during WW1 that they did WW2 at cost. During the turn of the century their green house practiced esplanade to grow fruit trees in the winter, peaches,, oranges and their favorite tangerines and ship them to the richest people in America as a favor because these weren't available to anyone else in north america! Imagine that fresh fruit was a gift of the Uber rich at this time.

Head Cheese. Was what a hog’s head was used for. Couldn’t stand it.

Annie's clothes are always pristine. I would totally be wiping my dirty hands on my pant legs...

Excellent, really enjoyed it and brings back memories of what we ate when I was a kid in the UK

The hay box= 1940s edition crock pot

Did they have the use of refrigerators then? I didn't see any in the viewing. Peace and happy blessings.

Mmmm scrapple!

After the piggy prep your hands would be so soft. Piggy fat very moisturizing.

she know her shit love it :)

That fungicide is Bordeaux Mixture. It was invented in the Victorian era, by a French farmer, to stop passersby from stealing grapes from his vineyard. The spray made the grapes taste terrible, which stopped people from stealing them. Then, he discovered that it also protected the grapes from blight.

The haybox would be very useful today, with fuel prices so high.

Wonderful series. Thank you very much!

I always found it amusing that after the first episode or so the little boy paul disappears leaving the mother joyce there.

Thank you! This is the one episode I hadn't been able to find before. :)

OMG! this is so barbaric and gross!

I miss the members of my family who were from The Great Generation. I wish I'd had more time to listen to them.

Brings back memories of my lovely mother. I miss her so much.

I'll be looking up haybox cooking now. (I've written out the chocolate pudding recipe from the last episode.) Can hardly wait to make up a box & try it out!

The narrator Peter Thoday only died a few months ago - in May 2023

Every spring we raise baby pigs and calves & every fall we butcher. We render the fat each fall after butchering. Nothing healthier or tastier than homegrown meat & fat for winter cooking.

Across the pond we make hog's head cheese. Hog brains are scrambled with eggs for breakfast with sausage, gravy and biscuits. This isn't war time food. An alternative is to use potted meat with the eggs. What do you think potted meat is? And she's so right about chitlins.

There is NO way I would eat pigs head.... NO way. I could survive on vegetables, thank you.