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I expected to see John add extra nutmeg to the dish while Ryan's back was turned.

Happy Thanksgiving to Townsend staff!

Ryan just casually cracking eggs with one hand while talking like an absolute legend. Love this channel, always have always will. Have a great thanksgiving and holiday season!

Just finished watching your 'why our channel exists' video, and then saw this was uploaded, what a joy! The connection your videos provide to our past is priceless, and (befitting the season) is something I'm ever thankful for.

Now this would be interesting as a pie filling! Nice job Josh!

Thank you Townsends for being true to the spirit since day 1. You all are awesome!

I looked it up. Whortleberries can be several fall berries, including lingonberry, which is a relative of our cranberry.

I always love going to Williamsburg in Virginia they have bakeries and taverns to dine in with some traditional food. One breakfast item is a ham biscuit made with Virginia salted ham it's so good but the kitchen they sell the items out of remind me of the space you have made to cook here rakes me back to when I was a kid. I can only imagine how it smells in there with the wood fire and everything cooking. Keep up the good work. I love history and I love food so this show has such a great combination of both and your craftsmanship is stellar.

I love the Fall season as well. Whether it's something like pumpkin pie or sweet potato pie even butternut squash soup or acorn squash or a hearty potato soup when it cooler outside. Walking around my neighborhood as a kid and the houses that had chimneys always had fires going and you could smell that in the fall air. This dish for Thanksgiving also looked great. I am going to have to try this. Have a good one.

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!

This recipe is one I am definitely going to have on my Thanksgiving table this year. I think it might be nice to cook the peeled and cored apples in the oven with the sweet potatoes. The sugars would get nice and caramelized in the oven, too. You need to take a trip to Louisiana, my home state. We are just barely seeing the leaves change, and we certainly have an "autumnal" winter. The food is pretty awesome too. Happy holiday season to everyone

I live in Australia and absolutely love this channel. Townsends are awesome. Thankyou so much.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, too. I am surprised, having just discovered your channel a few months ago, how much I enjoy it, and how comforting it is. Thank you so much for nourishing our souls. Great Nutmeg!

Well I was wondering what I was going to take to Thanksgiving.... now I know! Thank you for this video!

Almost at 2 mil! Almost there, guys! Great content as always. Keep up the great work!

I discovered two years ago combining a Granny Smith apple with sweet potatoes with lots if cinnamon and pumpkin spice. I peel the potatoes cut if half inch slice, the cut the circle of apple in half. Then take a large roasting pot or glass bowl, you can do it in the microwave, cut sweet potatoes in half inches also, then I layer them starting with sweet potatoes with sprinkling of brown sugar over them and generous dusting of cinnamon.. Next layer is the tart apples since you bake or cook the peels they are soft. Repeat the spices of cinnamon and apple pie spice or pumpkin spice , the sprinkle of brown sugar. Start by cutting up a stick of butter in 1quarter inch, like mincing, little block size, drop or sprinkle those between the different layers, the butter creates a wonderful liquid “juice with the liquid from the apples combining with the spices. When half the cook time is thru, then pull the pot and stir up the layers. Bring ones towards the bottom and middle to the top you can tell where the sweet potatoe isn’t quite soft enough. Spoon the “spices juice” over the potatoes and apples on top. And bake, cook in microwave maybe a number 5 minutes. The smells will tell you when it’s done. If you aren’t heavy handed with the brown sugar, it carries a low glycemic count or tastes like homemade apple pie, the whole thing without eating larded crust, wasted calories. Give me the pie filling. I love Granny Smith so versatile and adaptable to variety of spices. Try mine out. See what you think.

Great job Ryan....that dish looks amazing! Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! Mike 🇨🇦

Happy Thanksgiving to the entire Townsends crew and their families!

These videos always put me in a relaxed and nostalgic mood. Thank you, fellas!

Ryan, always love it when you're in the kitchen. You're one hell of a cook, and I always learn something from you.

Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you have the opportunity to spend time with family and friends

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! 🫐🥚🥂

I like this as a pudding 😋 We have baked chopped yams, apples, raisins, pecans together with butter & honey also.

I love videos like this. It shows how passionate you are about history and its food. As a food service industry worker I love it even more. Thanks for another great video

I made this recently at a hearth cooking class at Historic Londontown, MD. It was my favorite dish from the class, and certainly a great idea for the Thanksgiving table.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Hope you are all blessed beyond measure !

Oh delicious. My mom used to make sweet potato pudding 🍰. Very nice indeed, thank you 💞 A very happy thanksgiving to all

You all have done it again a great dish and a find video happy Thanksgiving to all at Townsends

Going to make this one!! Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving everyone

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! May you be blessed with plenty all your days.

Happy Thanksgiving, to all the Townsend's folks. Your channel serves up history so beautifully. Thanks.

My grandma used to make a sweet tater pie that was amazing! It was better than any pumpkin pie I have ever had. Sometimes she would make little fried pies with the filling.....those were my favorites. Mom said she used fresh honey and Damsons ( cooked and mashed ) in her filling. We used to have wild Damsons growing up around here when I was a kid. Fresh off the tree they were really bitter but made really good jams and jellies.

on my dad's side of the family its not uncommon for mashed sweet potatoes to have a splash of OJ mixed in (with of course seasonal spices) , its quite tasty considering I usually don't go for sweet potatoes as a lot of people around here make them "candied"

This is a fine recipe for a Thanksgiving or Christmas dish!

I just love coming to this channel and learning something new. Can't wait to mention whortleberries at the thanksgiving table and see a bunch of eyebrows rise. Hope y'all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Is there a special episode on Amelia Simmons and her Cookbook? The woman invented CUPCAKES! She deserves her own holiday!

Did this dish for Thanksgiving. Did it in a 7x11 Pyrex pan. Almost has a cornbread taste to it. Thanks for the great sweet potato dish.

Just want to say thank you for your channel. I soak in the wholesomeness like the warmth a bath. Love you guys!

Good evening from Syracuse NY brother and everyone else thank you for sharing your live history videos

I must say, whoever’s idea it was for the music change once you try the food is a genius…I don’t think I could watch without it . The sound is special …like when mister rodgers changes clothes at the end of the day 😊

Thank you Townsend crew!! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!!

There are very, VERY few pages I will tap like on without listening to the entire video first. Townsends is one of them 😊 Still I watch most of them and this one is no exception.

I’m with ya give me more autumn. 🍂🍁

Made for Thanksgiving, going to make it every Thanksgiving from now on, absolutely fantastic and easy to make, thank you so much for the recipe!

This is awesome I never thought a thanksgiving feast could be so sweet and savory at the same time.

Sweet potatoes and yams both pair beautifully with apples, so this recipe sounded extra good to me! For everyday autumn meals we often mash sweet potatoes with sweet cider, a little butter, and salt and pepper; but I might try this pudding for a more involved meal. Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for sharing!

Autumn is my favorite too Ryan 🍁🍂

The use of the term "whortleberry" is interesting because it is more common to a couple of European relatives of the American blueberry. There is one species commonly called whortleberry that is native to North America and that is the bog whortleberry. It goes by a couple of other common names, but the scientific is Vaccinium uliginosum. Thank you for you patience in letting me geek out in my specialty!

First visit to this channel and I am loving the content and the vibe! I also have to mention the top notch filming and editing on these videos! Well done!

I've been a fan of this channel for quite a while, but never thought to say how much I appreciate the time you all put into these videos. It is the most heartwarming thing to me when I see someone having such a love in history, in knowledge, and sharing that love to all. That wonderful stuff seems so rare, and the pure joy and warmth you radiate is an 18th century light in the dark. (Maybe a candle?) I am thankful for you, Townsends family. All (almost 2M at the time of writing) of you! P.S. I'm currently writing on one of your videos for a college assignment.. Can't help getting wrapped up in my own curiosity when I watch, and I end up doing a deep dive into cheeses.. 🧀

Great Job Ryan. Loved your interview with Ethan a few days ago. Definitely going to try the sweet potato, apple and whortleberries dish for Thanksgiving. Have a blessed one!

May you all have a swell thanksgiving

These videos are like living history such as reinacting in Jamestown or Plimouth Plantation or experimental archaeology. Well done!

I have to say, for KZfaq, this show is always beautifully filmed!

A Wonderful Thanksgiving to all you Fine Folks at J. Townsends! I am very Thankful for all you do and share! Many Blessings with Love, Light, Peace and Joy of Being! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

You guys have wonderful personalities. You both seem to be such Godly men.

Thanksgiving wishes to you and all of the Towsend/Nutmeg Tavern viewers

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

What a nice warm and quiet way to present a Fall dish. Makes me appreciate the season. Thank you.

I hope all of you with Townsends have a very Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for discovering Townsends and for all of the wonderful and invaluable videos that y'all have made over the years.

Happy Thanksgiving, Townsends.

First time in a while I got some free time, Im happy I get to spend it watching your content, it looks great I might actually give the recipe a go, it kinda looks like my mom's sauerkraut, tomato and potatoes mix :)

So close to 2 million. I hope this week will elevate you to this awesome milestone. It will be well deserved and hopefully some sort of compensation for the effort you have all put in to this channel. Best wishes and happy Thanksgiving!

I live in Devon, in the SW of the UK, edge of Dartmoor. Whortleberries grow wild and in some abundance on Dartmoor and other heathland areas, amongst the heather. They are a small (up to about 5mm diameter) berry, best likened to what you would today know as a Blueberry. In the last century, after the coming of the railway up to Princetown (yes, Hound of the Baskervilles territory!) women and children would take a day out up to the Moor and collect a basketful of berries, often using a broad-toothed comb. Then go sell them to a grocer back down in Plymouth. Given that a probable majority of seafarers and travellers to North America embarked from Plymouth and other Devon ports, the use of Whortleberries (and their name) was probably common. Today here most people have forgotten about them. They make a pleasant little snack in the Autumn while out hiking. Hope that's of interest!

That looks really good! I will have to try this! Happy Thanksgiving!

I love Autumn as well. I too live in a part of the world where autumn weather is a short season and we already have snow ❤️

Happy Thanksgiving to Ryan and Jon, two of the most gentlemanly people I have ever met.

John, you and Ryan and your team are fabulous. Happy Thanksgiving to you all and may God bless you.

First off, thank you for showing the recipe. Long story short, I HAVE to cook everything from scratch, so it helps me to read it. Also, one of the issues with old recipes is they tended to leave out ingredients or techniques so that they could serve “The best version” themselves. That said, this recipe read like a combination of the modern Pumpkin and Apple pies combined, which leaves me suspecting that more apple pie spices should be added, such as cinnamon, cloves, and grain of paradise, as well as more bread crumbs to give it a more bready consistency, like modern dressings have. Either way, thank you for posting this, it’s definitely this year’s experiment dish (there’s always one every year in this household)!

Sounds like a delicious addition to any Thanksgiving table. Thank you for sharing.

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁🦃 from southern Massachusetts

Happy Thanksgiving guys! 🦃 Thank you for years of wonderful content and enjoyment 🥰

My family in Mississippi always adds raisins to sweet potato pudding/casserole. I’ve also had it with pears or apples in it as well, but not wine, which makes sense for the Baptists! 😂 I also love making an old Creole style sweet potato pone with orange water & black pepper that Eugene Walter published.

Excellent video, Ryan! A Very Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Your videos are so cozy, happy Thanksgiving to you lads as well.

I’m the farthest thing from a gourmand. My appetite hasn’t changed since the bachelor days as a poor college student - saltines, beef jerky, tap water, and cheap beer are still my diet. That said, I love these videos! Always have, always will!

Growing up in the Devon and Cornwall, UK I fondly remember going on to the moors with the rest of my family to gather wild Whortleberries (as well as Blackberries and Raspberries) to make into jam, never would've considered mixing them with sweet potato and apple.

I prepared this dish for Thanksgiving. Surprisingly, I had a copy of "American Cookery" and with Ryan's description it was wonderful to make. The pudding had fantastic complex flavors and was the hit of our feast.

Happy Thanksgiving, friends. I for one remain thankful for all you do and share with us.

Your videos have such a "feel good" vibe I can't describe it yet felt the need to drop a comment on it. Great videos to drink evening tea to and learn something new

That sounds delicious. I will definitely try it this weekend. 😊❤

Really good episode! Thanks, and have a great Thanksgiving.

I make a sweet potato w/apple dish every Thanksgiving for the past 33yrs & my mom did it 18yrs prior to me. It calls for pecans to be in it w/spices & after its been baked you can choose to sprinkle mini marshmallows on top & brown it in the oven. It's delicious as I'm sure this recipe here is. I think I may break my tradition & make this one. Thanks for sharing & Happy Thanksgiving to an itty 990

Just made this dish... It turned out amazing!! It was a hit.. thank you for the easy to follow directions. Nutmeg added an amazing extra flavor.

Almost at 2 million subs!!! Congrats

I'll be making this for my Vet buds for tomarrow nights 'din, din' at our Vet dinner at church.🤗"Thanks!" I can smell it now....

Always a treat watching you all perform your crafts!

I made this to go with our Thanksgiving today. It was absolutely delicious! I think you've started a new tradition.

I'm going to give it a go! I love all the elements of this pudding, thank you!!!

Wow! And Congrats on 2 million, guys 🎉🎊🙏👍👏👌😮😁 Well earned. Any day now. I hope you hit it before Christmas x

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. We have SO much for which to give thanks. Especialy family and friends.

needed something new to try for the holidays thank you !

What better way to celebrate the coziest season than with the coziest KZfaq channel?

I recommend piercing the yams in several places with a sharp knife or tines of a fork to prevent the yams from exploding. I also suggest replacing the rose water and wine with a quality dark rum. Use dark brown sugar instead of white for more depth of flavor.

I love every bit of autumn but this is definitely a special time during the season. My mother loves your cooking specials :)

Well, now I'm wondering if I can get the ingredients together in two days so I can take this to Thanksgiving feast with my "adoptive" family. That's friends who've adopted each other as family. This looks amazing!

I could watch videos like this all day

Happy Thanksgiving Townsends !!! 🇺🇸🦃🥧🍷

One of my favorites thus far. Happy Thanksgiving to you both.