Medieval Mardi Gras

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RECIPE
2 quarts (2 liters) Meat or Chicken Broth
Pinch of saffron threads
2 cups (200g) freshly grated Parmesan Cheese plus more for topping
½ cup (110g) Ricotta
10 oz (280g) pork belly
6 oz (170g) boiled or roasted chicken breast, shredded small
6 tablespoons chopped Herbs of your choice
½ teaspoon Black Pepper or long pepper
⅛ teaspoon Cloves
¼ teaspoon Ginger
A mixture of sweet spices (powder douce - sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, little ginger and clove)
2 1/2 cups (300g) Flour
3 eggs
1. the pork in water for 90 minutes or until it's very soft, then chop it small. Either mince, or mix in a food processor, the pork, chicken, parmesan, ricotta, herbs, and the spices (minus the sweet spice mixture). Mix until you have a paste. Set aside and make the pasta dough.
2. Put the flour on the countertop and create a well in the middle. Crack the eggs into the well and, using your hands, mix the eggs together. Then, just a little at a time, start incorporating the flour. Keep working it in until you have a paste come together. Then knead the dough for about 10 minutes until it’s nice and smooth. Set it aside and cover it with a bowl to rest for at least 20 minutes.
3. Once rested, take about a 5th of it and roll it out on a lightly floured surface. This can be done with a rolling pin or pasta roller. Either way, roll it out, then fold it in thirds like a letter, and roll it again. Repeat 4 or 5 times. Then begin to roll it out as thinly as possible.
4. Lay the strip of pasta out on a floured surface making sure not to get any flour on the topside. Then spoon about a teaspoon of filling in a row down the center of the pasta leaving about an inch and a half between them. Fold the pasta over the filling and gently press around each one to seal in the filling. Then cut out the ravioli making sure they’re well sealed and set them on a dish. Repeat with the next piece of pasta dough. Don't attempt to roll out all of the pasta at once or it will dry out and become hard to shape the ravioli.
5. Once the ravioli are formed, boil the chicken broth with the saffron for 5 minutes, then add 4-6 ravioli at a time and boil for about 4 minutes or until the pasta is to your liking. Place on a dish and top with parmesan and sprinkle with the sweet spice mixture.
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Subtitles: Jose Mendoza - IG @worldagainstjose
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Mardi Gras 2019 in New Orleans: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
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@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

For a Shrove Tuesday deep dive, check out last year's video on pancakes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iapjiq6Tvc7RZoE.html

@cousinjake7986 2 жыл бұрын

Happy 2's Max, and Happy Mardi Gras

@alexgeorge501 2 жыл бұрын

Nice party outfit your Mimikyu!

@FoodNerds 2 жыл бұрын

I just adore 🥰 this Pokémon and I’m not a Pokémon collector so I don’t know which one it is so could some tell me so I could add this to my collection. It’s so adorable and would be wonderful to have in my Mardi Gras display.

@alexgeorge501 2 жыл бұрын

@@FoodNerds Mimikyu

@nessuno9945 2 жыл бұрын

Max, the ravioli seems dry because you have removed them from the broth with a 'spider' which drains away all the broth, and is an implement I doubt would've been used or available in the period. They would've served them, ladled-out or spooned-out into bowls, thus capturing the 'brodo' or broth, in which it would've definitely been served, especially since they used precious saffron to color the broth...why do that unless it too was to be consumed? Italians often eat tortellini and other filled pastas cooked and served in the broth.

@roxannebeaman5645 2 жыл бұрын

Max,my dog’s name is Ginger.Every time you say Ginger her eyes go wide and she stares at the t.v.😂

@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@kateholland4102 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@slwrabbits 2 жыл бұрын

what a smart girl!

@kohinarec6580 2 жыл бұрын

🐶❔❗

@trinamorrison2570 2 жыл бұрын

My husband had a dog named Fuzzball growing up. Same thing happened watching Star Wars when Han says to Chewie, "Laugh it up, Fuzzball!"

@zenkakuji3776 2 жыл бұрын

This may have been outlawed in Medieval Europe, but somebody forgot to tell the people in Köln (Cologne) Germany. Carnival begins on February 24th this year until March 2nd so you've got just enough time to get a plane ticket and grab your horns for the revelry! 🥳

@SingingSealRiana 2 жыл бұрын

not even corona stops them . . .

@RosesAndIvy 2 жыл бұрын

Same in the Netherlands! The south still celebrates carnaval every year

@alexcarroll9774 2 жыл бұрын

And Belgium and Netherlands, too. Basically many parts of traditionally Catholic Europe have this tradition, not just Cologne.

@kiddracoify 2 жыл бұрын

Carneval week starts on 24. this year. the whole season always starts on November 11.

@johgu92 2 жыл бұрын

And Mainz.

@davidvanderwoude7911 2 жыл бұрын

This series is a strong case that medieval food wasn’t the bland, mushy, unpleasant stuff people often imagine.

@Dabednego 2 жыл бұрын

A Farewell to Meat is my favorite Hemingway novel. He wrote it during his vegetarian phase, before The Old Man and the Seitan and just after For Whom the Beet Tolls

@Dabednego 2 жыл бұрын

Some people say The Soy Also Rises is better, though.

@ThKiwi 2 жыл бұрын

Omg I snorted my hot cocoa. XD

@therealhellkitty5388 2 жыл бұрын

The Hills Like Blancmange and the Snows of Tastee Freezaro are vastly overrated.

@emc2862 2 жыл бұрын

Pun pals! 🥰

@cleoharper1842 2 жыл бұрын

I have an Abhorrence of Spring Rolls because they make me Toot at First Bite 😳 See what I did there? First AND Last novels. Yes, I am that cool. 😊 💩

@isobelcarroll1664 2 жыл бұрын

Some times smaller ravioli is served in the broth, that would solve the dryness problem.

@NoadiArt 2 жыл бұрын

Smaller raviolis probably would also cook closer to the 2 minutes

@paavobergmann4920 2 жыл бұрын

@@NoadiArt for smaller, freshly made pasta, 2 minutes seems like a reasonable time. But the method of timekeeping by reciting a given text is actually pretty ingenius. I think it´s pretty precise if you get the rythm down.

@Djynni 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you could serve the ravioli in the broth it was cooked in - good idea.

@mordekaihorowitz 2 жыл бұрын

Like German Maultaschen

@patricktuminaro2248 2 жыл бұрын

@@paavobergmann4920 Absolutely. These types of common prayers have a cadence to them which is commonly understood in an area so using this to meter time would make sense for society where it originated. Though with the reach of the church this should be fairly broadly translatable.

@hiyahandsome 2 жыл бұрын

My Italian grandparents made ravioli stuffed with cheese, veal and spinach for every Xmas Day feast. Those were eaten as the pasta course after their wonderful antipasto and before the meat course with all the side dishes. It was a lengthy process to make enough ravioli to feed all our family,15 hungry diners who looked forward to ravioli all year long. So we all pitched in to help under my uncle's supervision. Your making ravioli for Mardi Gras brought back happy memories, thanks, Max!

@kathleenhensley5951 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes, that would be quite a job! nearly heroic for the cook! I remember that custom too. Ravioli, Christmas day... wonderful sauce and whatever antipasto we could afford. Brings tears to my eyes.

@joshschneider9766 10 ай бұрын

That sounds pretty darn good I'm gonna have to try that myself. I presume they used ricotta?

@lellab.8179 2 жыл бұрын

Given they are boiled in broth and not in water, I think they were meant to be eaten with the broth itself. We have a lot of ravioli/tortellini/casoncelli we eat in broth, here in Italy. That's probably why they were a little dry.

@princesssookeh Жыл бұрын

I think so too. Otherwise it's just a tragic waste of fancy-fied broth.

@lauraslittlelife 2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of ravioli and lent - may I present to you the hilarious (but probably completely made up) origin story of German 'Maultaschen'? In Southern Germany we have a dish called "Maultaschen" - they're essentially oversized ravioli (way bigger than 'half a chestnut' 😅). They're made by taking ground meat, mixing it with a generous amount of finely chopped herbs, and wrapping that mixture in pasta dough, giving the final product the appearance of... well, oversized ravioli. As I mentioned, these oversized ravioli are most commonly known as "Maultaschen" today, however, in Swabian German, one of the regional dialects, they're also referred to as "Herrgottsbscheißerle", which literally translates to "little deceivers of God". The origin story behind that name is quite funny: According to folklore, Maultaschen were invented by medieval monks who were trying to find a workaround for the ban on meat during lent. By grinding the meat into a fine paste, using herbs to dye said paste green, and wrapping the resulting mixture in pasta dough, they were trying to conceal the fact that they were eating meat from the eyes of the Lord - thus deceiving Him (or at the very least attempting to do so). 😅 This origin story is probably completely fabricated but I quite like the idea of it being true - I mean, you've got to admire that level of ingenuity, right?! 😄

@sarahgilliss3503 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds tasty!

@binarysunsetoftwins9166 2 жыл бұрын

Fellow Swabian here! Making 'Maultaschen' on Good Friday is probably my favorite tradition, there's nothing better than tasting your first homemade one after a year of that awful pre-made stuff from the store:)

@lauraslittlelife 2 жыл бұрын

@@binarysunsetoftwins9166 Couldn't agree more! I mean, the shop-bought ones are edible in a pinch (especially when chopped up and fried in butter 😅) but nothing compares to homemade Maultaschen. 🤤

@NODnuke45 2 жыл бұрын

After watching this episode and then reading this recipe, all while hungry, my appetite is strong enough to appreciate just about any food I'm about to go eat now. lol

@fonkbadonk5370 2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahgilliss3503 Oh they are. Served with a genorous portion of Käsespätzle, they are amongst the few traditional German dishes I as a (not from that region) German myself consider as one of my all time favourites. Sooo goooood!

@emilygillock3803 2 жыл бұрын

DAAAAW The Mimikyu in the background looks adorable with his little Mardi Gras outfit!

@uncledubpowermetal 2 жыл бұрын

As a Catholic and a cook, I really like two Pater Nosters as a cooking measurement lol implementing IMMEDIATELY

@mwater_moon2865 2 жыл бұрын

In Latin? that might have been why Max was so short....

@ValeriePallaoro 2 жыл бұрын

@@mwater_moon2865 It made me want to look up and learn it just for the cooking.

@SHADOW1414 10 ай бұрын

My great grandma was taught to use Hail Mary's to cook pizzelle. I guess you gotta keep time somehow before clocks were common.

@chefmdecamp 2 жыл бұрын

A couple things to consider, if you found yourself lacking for a sauce, would be that these might be assumed to be served with some of the broth (perhaps just as much would come out if they were pulled out with a large ladle), as "ravioli in brodo" is a super, super traditional dish, and if you were to grate fresh parmigiano reggiano onto the hot brodo/broth and ravioli it would add the fat to dish that you wished for, as the oils from some of that freshly grated cheese would quickly incorporate into the broth as the cheese melted.

@lydiathornton1999 2 жыл бұрын

A pecorino or other sheep cheese would be wonderful too, as it's very fatty. Yum!

@KRYMauL 2 жыл бұрын

A bechamella sauce would be good too

@dianapovero7319 2 жыл бұрын

Also old recipes used "boil" to mean any temp which bubbled the water hence the term a rioling boil later written rolling boil, a light boil meant what we would call a simmer. Recipes back then were written with an asumption of understanding todays cooks do not have. I f you do not boill but simmer the safron broth you will taste the saffron, and it does seem like a good broth was the intent of the recipe, safron is expensive & cooks in the middle ages were paid to be showy, the medieval equivalent of " publish or perish.

@mikah4973 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Max, an actual historian. This recipe probably assumed you boil it in the broth you serve it with. This is a variation of a classic medieval recipe found across Italy and much of Europe.

@GaldirEonai 2 жыл бұрын

The paternoster timing method isn't found in modern _cookbooks_ much, but it's still very much in use among older generations or those who have recipes inherited from them.

@Lemoncatsf 2 жыл бұрын

My mom uses the Hail Mary to time boiling eggs 😂 🙏🏽

@emmitstewart1921 2 жыл бұрын

@@Lemoncatsf Sure beats, "one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three......".

@kathleenhensley5951 2 жыл бұрын

It reminded me of my grandmother putting little crosses on her homemade bread. My mother told me she did. Its actually a very good way to tell time.

@NODnuke45 2 жыл бұрын

Since Max said it was too short of a time just saying the prayer, I assume it means chant it slowly instead.

@krankarvolund7771 2 жыл бұрын

@@NODnuke45 He also said his raiviolis are too big, so that didn't help ^^

@folofus4815 2 жыл бұрын

When I saw the Title, I was scared cause I thought Lent began tomorrow and I wasn’t ready! 😂

@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

You have 1 more week 😁

@NunontheRun 2 жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory we can make it Semaine Gras ! Fat Week!

@alicetwain 2 жыл бұрын

In Italian, a short amount of time is still called "un paternoster" and an even shorter time is "un fiat" (voluntas tua). In modern day Italy, meat filled ravioli are usually served as a soup in the broth they have been boiled in. I would suggest trying these as a soup too because that wonderful broth with saffron seems a bit wasted if you don't eat it. Anyhow, if you drain them you need to also add butter (not oil, unsalted butter!) And your pasta dough was just on point!

@scaevolaludens679 2 жыл бұрын

huh, im realizing "carne levare" makes a lot of sense as in northern sardinian it's Carrasegare from "carnem secare", to cut meat

@GG-uv9ok 2 жыл бұрын

Could it be that you're supposed to eat the ravioli with the broth, like a soup? I have a feeling that this might be what's missing here.

@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

Very possible

@GG-uv9ok 2 жыл бұрын

@@TastingHistory That might make sense why one would go to the trouble of putting saffron in the broth... I've seen a lot of ravioli and other stuffed pasta videos and often they are served in a shallow soup bowl with the broth ladled on top. Love the show, by the way.

@gregmuon 2 жыл бұрын

Quite likely. It's my understanding that pasta in broth used to be more common and perhaps the default. Fun fact: there's a special word in Italian for pasta that is _not_ in broth or soup: "pastasciutta," and it's still used by my older Italian relatives.

@fabio1160 2 жыл бұрын

Italian here, adding my 2 cents. Stuffed pasta in broth (or stock, rather) is a very normal thing, in Italy (especially in the Emilia-Romagna region, but also elsewhere). In fact, some would argue that "tortellini" or "anolini" (a type of small pasta "pockets", about the size of "half a chestnut", nudge-nudge wink-wink) are best served in hot meat broth, maybe with a sprinkle of parmigiano on top. The filling is also often meat-based for those dumplings (either the meat that was boiled in the same broth, or leftovers from a roast, or long-braised "stracotto" beef). Ricotta and cheeses are more often found in herb-based or potato-based ravioli nowadays, but the recipe above looks like something that can be found in Italy even present day.

@ValeriePallaoro 2 жыл бұрын

@@fabio1160 not even Italian .. and I would argue for your points agressively. Just on texture. If you don't serve them 'in-broth' then you have to put, sauce or (my favourite) a whole lot of very good butter with them to add that moisture and richness.

@gandalfgrey91 2 жыл бұрын

That King of fools thing seems like a carry over from Saturnalia

@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

Very much so. Almost identical in the king of fools part.

@erraticonteuse 2 жыл бұрын

"A Farewell to Meat", one of Hemingway's less successful works 😂 Also, have you considered looking into the history of cookbooks as fundraising tools? I was at a Smithsonian the other day and in the gift shop they had a reprint of "The Woman Suffrage Cookbook", which looked to be a pretty standard cookbook, but was originally published and sold to raise money for a suffragist organization.

@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea. It was quite popular to do so for all sorts of causes.

@arnaudmenard5114 2 жыл бұрын

I collect antique cookbooks myself, and it's rather interesting how some of the older ones are promotional tools or community made. I've got one from 1930 made by "the ladies's guild of Shawinigan falls" It's full of sponsorship for stuff like local stores and asbestos companies.

@baldeagle5297 2 жыл бұрын

@@arnaudmenard5114 Here in small-town America, we still do this, particularly churches.

@ryand.3858 2 жыл бұрын

@@baldeagle5297 I actually have a few of those from back in the 30’s, they belonged to my grandmother. It’s interesting because they always give credit to the person from the community that submitted that particular recipe. Sometimes it will include a couple sentences from the individual. I’m glad these still exist.

@jackieheidorn5875 2 жыл бұрын

Pancake dinners/breakfasts are also a good fundraising activity.

@matthewtopping2061 2 жыл бұрын

This is possibly the episode that makes me hungrier and more homesick than anything else. I've lived in Japan for over a decade, and it is impossible to find filled pastas here.

@lindenshepherd6085 2 жыл бұрын

Being in a place without stuffed pasta is the best excuse to start making them yourself! If you’re still living in Japan, you also have access to some of the best eggs in the world, if you’re so inclined to make your own ravioli!

@angelodiavolo3915 2 жыл бұрын

Is crazy to believe that's pretty much exactly how my grandma used to make ravioli every Sunday. We Italians can really stick up to a recipe 😍

@flyingninja1234 2 жыл бұрын

I find Italian cooking before tomatoes, to be quite fascinating. Supposedly carrots were used in spaghetti sauce, before tomato sauce.

@sabrina6720 2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering what plush you have in the background for a Mardi Gras themed episode and I am not disappointed 🥳

@leannsmarie 2 жыл бұрын

Mimikyu was a fine choice, was it not?

@blackdragon7979 2 жыл бұрын

@@leannsmarie so that's who it was. I knew it was familiar, almost thought Pikachu in a mask but the ears weren't right. Agreed, it was a perfect choice

@kato6690 2 жыл бұрын

In some areas of Alemannia in southwest Germany the "fasting night" before Ash Wednesday is still celebrated in public as described in the history section from 06:15 on - with traditional wood masks and costumes, often horned, some as specific animals. There are specific roles that are played which were first documented around the time this recipe is from, although most of the current costume styles are from the 16th and 17th centuries. It's interestingly also the same area where localized ravioli-style pasta in Germany - to some extent made much the same way as in this recipe - come from.

@cahallo5964 2 жыл бұрын

Alemannia is a part of Germany?, in Spanish we call the whole country Alemania

@Erkorlad 2 жыл бұрын

@@cahallo5964 Alemannia is a historical region, but within modern Germany's borders it'd be within Baden-Württemberg and Swabia. The Alemanni people were a Germanic people living in those regions (and also extending into areas of France like Strasbourg), and the modern German dialect is still known as 'Alemannic' German. Different countries have different names for Germany, depending on their historical encounters with them; France, Spain, and Turkey - among others - refer to the country as words descended from the Latin 'Alemannia', which itself simply comes from 'Alemanni' - the Alemanni peoples. Italy's name, for example, comes from Latin 'Germania', which ultimately comes from 'Germanus', a roman term for the germanic tribes to distinguish them from others (like the gauls).

@cahallo5964 2 жыл бұрын

@@Erkorlad Germania also exists in Spanish but it's not the common term

@ROMANTIKILLER2 2 жыл бұрын

In a town in Northern Italy nearby where I was born there is a peculiar tradition on Mardi Gras, namely the battle of oranges: the districts of the town have traditional teams joined also by people from the surrounding villages and town, and they battle one another by throwing a bunch of oranges. Spoiler alert: oranges in the eyes hurt.

@marmotarchivist 2 жыл бұрын

I love this. In the Fasnacht (Carneval) of Basel, there are also oranges. But because they are/were a bit more scarce on the northern side of the alps. So they were given out to children as a rare treat, rather than being used as a projectile weapon.

@pepintheshort7913 2 жыл бұрын

Ouch!

@SoulSpectar 2 жыл бұрын

I have never been more sad to have rather boring American traditions, than I am right now after reading about your birthplace. That sounds like a riot and a half!!

@zeideerskine3462 2 жыл бұрын

You would probably love making and going into the history of Leberkäse (the greatest misnomer ever) and the gargantuan Ravioli made of them called Maultaschen or Herrgottsbescheißerle.

@gamzee3610 11 ай бұрын

Maultaschen my beloved

@hildahilpert5018 6 ай бұрын

Lieberkase means I believe liver cheese.My grandmother would make liver dumplings.She made griebenschmalz.Its rendered bacon fat with onions in it.She would save bacon grease and added onion to it. Daddy said they would spread it on bread and eat it .She also would use rendered goose or chicken fat to make special Christmas cookies.

@zeideerskine3462 6 ай бұрын

@@hildahilpert5018 The "Leber" bit in Leberkäse refers to "Leib" or "Loaf". Although, indeed, "Leber" does mean "Liver" in modern High German. There is no liver in Leberkäse, though.

@inkaraingod2507 2 жыл бұрын

To preface: I love the show and this episode is no exception. But I was so full of hope when you told a story about carnival in Nürnberg, Germany, but when you tell me that New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro were the ones to keep the tradition alive? I cannot let that stand! The great (german) tradition of Weiberfastnacht is alive and well, just as street carnival and plays, dances and so on. German carnival may have had a short hiatus thanks to Napoleon, but it never really stopped and there are tons of traditions that are kept alive from that time and before. My favourite one, Weiberfastnacht, dating back to before Napoleon when nuns dressed up as men and washerwomen decided they would turn the world on its head by storming city hall to take control from the men - Weiberfastnacht, one of the first fights for equality between men and women ;-)

@Nope-fd1sq 2 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting Thank you for sharing it

@jtplays7411 2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to guess Wieberfastnacht means something like before fasting night.

@inkaraingod2507 2 жыл бұрын

@@jtplays7411 no, "Weiber" is basically a word for"women" and it is the women's day - storming city hall, dressing up as men, and more recently cutting off the tip of the men's tie as a sign of taking power from them, stuff like that

@ValeriePallaoro 2 жыл бұрын

I too 'love' Max, but his historical and contemporary knowledge (as well as his understanding of recipies) is much coloured by his American and Disney background. Sad ... and we can forgive him, but I often have to stop my self from rounding off at these lack of research skills. I also love the German traditions of Krampus and how while embracing Halloween (for all it's consumerism) it's still celebrated in a particularily German way. I didn't know about the carnivale though. Will have to have a good google then.

@jgrandson5651 Жыл бұрын

The same still happens in Galicia, the most western land in mainland europe. Here carnival is a very rooted tradition, people dressed with traditional clothes and huge masks will hit you with different anoying objects if you are not in a costume. Also men dress like women, women like men, or like some politician or cleric, get wasted and then the local priest gets angry. Pretty good celebration.

@TioOlavoDoBaralho 2 жыл бұрын

As a Brazilian, Carnival is a holiday very dear to me. I loved everything about this episode, from the recipe to the history. Your channel is a gem, Max!

@anceptus Жыл бұрын

Coming from the future to ask: how was your Carnaval this year, after three years of not being able to celebrate properly? Hope you had fun! Mine was chill but pretty good.

@TioOlavoDoBaralho Жыл бұрын

@@anceptus cathartic, liberating. Thanks for asking 😁👍

@laurenbeck2634 2 жыл бұрын

Heads up Max - @ 2:29 the audio and subtitles say 1/8 teaspoon cloves but the printed instructions on the screen say 1/2 teaspoon cloves. Quite a difference and confusing for viewers not using audio. Awesome channel & amazing work. Thank you!

@GiangiotheDwarf 2 жыл бұрын

My fiance recite the "pater noster" when boiling pasta XD It's neat to see how our cultural traditions (we're italians) go so back in time!

@lydiathornton1999 2 жыл бұрын

I've seen the use of Latin prayers as timers in French medieval recipe texts too. I bet it was all over Europe.

@mimi_j 2 жыл бұрын

Way to pray at all times loll that’s so funny

@ohariana3150 2 жыл бұрын

Mardi Gras and Tasting History are the only things to look forward to on a Tuesday 🎊🥳🎊

@ommsterlitz1805 2 жыл бұрын

Literarily means "Fat Tuesday" in French, they just know what's good in France 😅

@EvilGreenHat 2 жыл бұрын

It was so fun to try to translate the text at 1.05, I could not understand half of it and i am italian If you need help with italian translation and italian food tips just ask Max! I'll be happy to help! Nice video as always

@diegostecca7319 2 жыл бұрын

Uguale, capisco bene o male le carni e cosa vuole farci, ma il testo è davvero complicato da tradurre ahah

@iorfidasimone 2 жыл бұрын

Per dare ad intender qual carne merita andare arrosto, et quale allesso: carne grossa di bove , et de vacca vole esser allessa: carne de vitello, zio (?) e il pezzo davanti, e, bono allesso, et la lonza arrosto, et le cosseri (?) polpette: carne de castrone tutta bona allesso, salvo la spalla, ch e bona arrosto ecc ecc

@artemisios Жыл бұрын

@@iorfidasimone il pecto (petto) davanti/ le cosse (cosce) in polpette...

@curtisdecoste9345 2 жыл бұрын

Shoutout to Shrove Tuesday! 😂 I remember as a child we would hide coins in the pancakes and the lucky ones would find the coins … and also hopefully not choke to death on coins in your food. 🤪

@LeesaDeAndrea 2 жыл бұрын

Or break a tooth.

@danielulz1640 2 жыл бұрын

Kinda like the baby in the king cake.

@suzannax 2 жыл бұрын

My nan used to to that with Christmas pudding

@Miarth3000 2 жыл бұрын

we do the shame thing in new year's eve, hiding a coin in pie. the one who finds it is considered the lucky person of the year

@SimuLord 2 жыл бұрын

"Your child died like a legend." "How so?" "Well, you know the legend of how Marcus Licinius Crassus died by having molten gold poured down his throat by the Persians? It's all just money, after all..."

@CadetKosmov 2 жыл бұрын

It's better not to use a grinder for the filling. As the recipe says the best you can do is boil the meats together until so tender you can mix everything together with the cheese and ricotta. The texture while you chew the ravioli is completely different.

@Mtonazzi 2 жыл бұрын

A member of my reenactment group studied medieval music at college (she's now an orchestra director) and she taught us the Pater Noster as gregorian chant. It takes about 1 minute to sing, so cooking for 2 minutes was about right, rather than 4 minutes.

@marmotarchivist 2 жыл бұрын

I love that you used “The Ricotta Eaters” 6:36, it is one of the paintings that I still clearly remember from my visit in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. Concerning the festivities in Paris, I doubt that the interdiction by the Council of Basel would have had much influence. Unless, the local officials really used force, people usually just continued with their traditions. And there authorities were loath to forbid them, because that would make them unpopular, so they mostly let it slide, unless there was just an extraordinary amount of debauchery or violence. And in Switzerland, as in many other European countries, there are some continuous Carneval traditions, e.g. in the catholic Lucerne and ironically also in Basel, which became a reformed (swiss protestant) city, but not even the reformation could stop Carneval or Fasnacht as it is called there. And the wild men tradition is really fascinating to me. They are most prevalent in alpine regions, some appear during Careval season, some are part of the Saint Nicolas traditions in early December and in the mountain valley were I grew up, which is also a reformed rather than catholic region, we don't have a Carneval, but we have the Ubersitz festivities, which start on Christmas Day at midnight and last till New Year’s Eve. There are masked people that march in the streets, ringing big cowbells and playing the drums. In the past only unmarried men were allowed to do this and they chased or spooked unmarried women. There is the Schnabelgeiss, a creature half-goat half-bird that snatches the hats of the spectators with its long beak. Some of the masked men wear old, traditional womens clothes and some wear natural costumes, like the wild men, made out of pine branches, moss, bark and chamois pelts. And I recomend you google "Wilder Mann Charles Frégers" for some pretty pictures of European wild men.

@Miarth3000 2 жыл бұрын

In Greece we celebrate on Thursday, instead, "Tsiknopempti" wich translates to Smoky/Grill Thursday. There are carnivals for four Sundays and big parades happen in a few cities. Basically two weeks before Lent we have Smoky Thursday where people eat a lot of grilled meat and drink. Then the last Sunday is the biggest carnival, on wich people stop eating cheese. Last but not least, the day after, Monday, is a holiday. We eat traditional Lagana (flat bread only made in that day), white beans on oven or other fasting foods (lentils, chickpeas), halva ( of semolina or tahini) , olives, and other pickles, and most importantly, fly kites in the suburbs!!! people usually go for picnic that day🃏🎭 🎊

@anufoalan 2 жыл бұрын

Who else would like to see a collab between Max and Anne from How to Cook That, she does some historical baking/confectionery videos and I think it would be super entertaining

@chizzieshark 2 жыл бұрын

Seconded!

@mwater_moon2865 2 жыл бұрын

I'd be amused, she did do a Victorian wedding cake that might make for a good THwMM, though to be fair, collabs between Aus and USA right now are gonna be iffy...

@catc8927 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been thinking the same thing too! Watching how her kids react to historical recipes is part of the fun.

@laragiardini8119 2 жыл бұрын

I strongly suggest to eat them with the broth. "Pasta in brodo" is very much delicious and oh so comforting 🙂 Thank you for another amazing video ❤

@lydiathornton1999 2 жыл бұрын

you'd get more of the saffron flavor that way too. Seems a shame to waste it, given how expensive and delicious it is!

@MossyMozart Жыл бұрын

@laragiardini8119 - That is undoubtedly why the recipe calls for making such small ravioli - size of "half a chestnut".

@DoloresJNurss 2 жыл бұрын

The phrase, "The game ain't worth the candle," came from outsiders observing Venetian Carnivale, which ended with a game involving drunken people snatching lit candles from each other, before all of the candles went out at midnight for the start of Lent. The problem was that every so often the game started fires.

@hellspawn22001 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it’s just me but I can’t hear the title burgermeister without thinking about those stop motion Christmas movies.

@roxannebeaman5645 2 жыл бұрын

Yes,The Burgermeister Meisterburger from Santa Clause is coming to town.😂

@chesthoIe 2 жыл бұрын

Here in Philly, we have the Mummer's Parade, where the local unions, real salt of the earth plumbers and electricians, all dress up in what seems to be half drag and half medieval court jesters, and parade themselves down Broad street and get drunk.

@lawriefoster5587 2 жыл бұрын

Yes and that is on New Years Day.

@augusthavince8909 2 жыл бұрын

These look delicious. With closed captions on, when Max eats and chews the ravioli several times, you will read [CHOMP]. KZfaq is making Max seem like a wild man to the hearing impaired.

@ThinWhiteAxe Жыл бұрын

hehe sneaky Jose

@TuckerSP2011 2 жыл бұрын

A fun episode Max. Some of the later episodes were quite grim, especially Roman and Viking based recipes. I definitely think you're supposed to serve the broth with the (much smaller) raviolis.

@paulwagner688 2 жыл бұрын

I'm listening to the history part and I'm thinking of Carmina Burana, with its themes of Fortune, Spring, Drunkenness in the Taberna, and Sex. Secular Flemish poetry at its finest. Thank you Carl Orff. For your music and your contributions to music education.

@fedra76it 2 жыл бұрын

Well, well... Max, you're quite proficient in making ravioli. The discoveries about your talents are endless! I too liked the boiling time instructions of this recipe; in the absence of watches they were somewhat useful. A friend of mine, to instruct his little kids about properly washing their hands during the pandemic, told them to keep soaping and washing while singing "Happy Birthday" twice.

@loonyTlu 2 жыл бұрын

In Russia, Malsenitza literally translates to “Butter Festival”, as the Russian word for butter is Masla.

@AysKuz 2 жыл бұрын

Karneval is really big in Cologne Germany. We also say to it the 5th season of the year. The official beginning is 11.11. every year. On that day people go out during noon and drink and celebrate. The "wild" time begins with Weiberfastnacht (this year 24h Feb) where women have the say. The following days every district of the city has it´s celebrations and parades. Monday is Rosenmontag and there is the big official parade of the city that also runs along the Cologne cathedral. Tuesday is Veilchendienstag and the last day of celebrations. Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and the fun is over.

@pavanneveltman 2 жыл бұрын

Are you sure you’re not supposed to serve the ravioli in the broth? Whenever I see recipes for holiday ravioli cooked in broth, they are served that way (check out pasta grannies). PS - this was a particularly awesome episode! 😃👏👏👏

@cogsandglimmers 2 жыл бұрын

This recipe sounds really neat because it's something that, before being explained in a much easier to understand way, I think I could definitely take a crack at it. It has fairly important measurements and that cook time is a bit of a fun method. Though, if I do make this, I'll still probably use your instructions instead

@crabcultist4614 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! As a New Orleanian myself it's great to see the history of my favorite holiday. I'd love to see you make a King Cake sometime, It's basically a law that you eat at least 10 during the season down here, and they have a fairly interesting history dating back to the 12th century.

@madcat789 2 жыл бұрын

Raise thy thatched homestead, my good man!

@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@Cybonator 2 жыл бұрын

Scotland and the towns around the Firth of Forth still have "Burry Man" festival where I guy wears a suit made entirely of burrs, runs around the town, getting free drinks

@Lauren.E.O 2 жыл бұрын

Pancakes and sleigh rides? Now THAT sounds like a fun holiday! 🥞 ⛄️

@GiselleMFeuillet 2 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early, Venice didn't have a Carnival yet...

@bleutitanium6513 2 жыл бұрын

Deep. That was really deep. "there can be no Batman without the Joker".... deep. Great episode. I've always wondered about Mardis Gras... thanks !!!

@Reynevan100 2 жыл бұрын

This thursday in Poland we observe Fat Thursday, a day when we eat all sort of sweets and cakes and especially our doughnuts - pączki!

@mateus_o_oficial 2 жыл бұрын

might have been a good idea to serve them with the broth...especially since it's colored with the saffron you might also want to serve that too, otherwise it's kind of a waste

@jarnvag1564 2 жыл бұрын

Putting on skins n horns and running around howling in the streets? Sounds like a medieval furry convention to me

@Digimistake 2 жыл бұрын

This is the funniest comment I've seen on this channel

@aidanfarnan4683 2 жыл бұрын

*Some medieval priest* "And there was a great debauchery, where men and women became as beasts, hid their faces in masks, cross-dressed and partook in every vice of the flesh!” *Me* "Ah... Rainfurest."

@markedis5902 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a Thursday

@ffwast 2 жыл бұрын

*OH NO*

@georgina_2746 2 жыл бұрын

In some places in Germany they still do this! They try to keep that tradition alive.. which I think, while terrifying (at least when you see this as a 5 year old on tv) is a billion times better than blackfacing and dressing as indigenous people..unfortunately a lot of people here use carnival as an excuse to do that and saying it's not bad because it's "dressing up for fun"

@pazzoacul6323 2 жыл бұрын

I live in a small country side city in Italy and we still do make this recipe for Carnival but the ravioli are meatless, basically just ricotta and spices, and we deep fry them. I wonder if the "carne levare" thing got misunderstood over the years. The ravioli cooked in broth however birthed a different recipe altogheter: "tortellini in brodo" BTW the Pater Noster thing is very real

@OrlindeEarfalas 2 жыл бұрын

Another great episode, I loved all the research and illustrations! Some raviolis recipe include serving them in a bowl with the broth, so maybe that's why they seemed dry? Perhaps the sarffon flavor comes through when you eat it with a spoonfull of broth with it! :D

@soxpeewee 2 жыл бұрын

Or because they are too big

@J_Gamble 2 жыл бұрын

Great history! My Italian aunt used to make a special ravioli for special occasions. Ground blanched walnuts with plenty of nutmeg and a little clove. Reminds me of these :)

@dannyfriar5653 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Please can we have a follow up that looks at carnival in the Americas where carnival has an African influence (especially in the Caribbean).

@psalm91rdwlkfpgrl 2 жыл бұрын

ooh, that would be interesting!

@paulwagner688 2 жыл бұрын

I just became a Dean of the Larder on Patreon. Been meaning to do this for a while, and now I have the means. You are one of the top highlights of my Tuesdays and I can't wait till I come home from school, relax with some wine, and enjoy. Always captioned because Jose is a genius.

@dzhellek 2 жыл бұрын

The lowliest person gets to be king. Kind of a back handed compliment. "Whoever sucks the most come and get your crown."

@Meganedere 2 жыл бұрын

I do love Mimikyu's lil costume for the holiday 🥺

@TastingHistory 2 жыл бұрын

He’s very festive

@deirdrezema7123 2 жыл бұрын

"Light butter sauce" sounds like an oxymoron to me.

@lilykep 2 жыл бұрын

"Sweet Spices" really were the Pumpkin Spice of their day.

@Awoken_Remmuz 2 жыл бұрын

Now I picture a modern cookbook go like this. "Now fry the ingredients for as long as it takes you to sing Dancing Queen by ABBA two times"

@barbaros99 2 жыл бұрын

Flashbacks to watching Hudson Hawk.

@shaventalz3092 2 жыл бұрын

"Blanch for the length of two Rickrolls."

@jasonroskom7430 2 жыл бұрын

Tasting History is making history! I can just see, vendors at Carnival will start serving this traditional meat day ravioli! Love what you do Max!

@Chakfor 2 жыл бұрын

Max, don't forget the Carnival tradition in the carribean. I was fortunate enough to enjoy Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago several years ago. Several of their traditions there mimic those discussed in this video. Also, the food in Trinidad is amazing! I think you might enjoy covering some of the recipes and how they resulted due to the slave trade and immigration to those nations.

@paulw6550 2 жыл бұрын

Do not forget, the Burhger Meister in Neuremburg also outlawed toys. (except maybe yoyos)

@tana3875 2 жыл бұрын

Argent Android come the community post predicted correctly! Mardi Gras episode 💓 surprised it’s not King Cake though but ravioli sounds great

@oldmanbiscuit7518 2 жыл бұрын

I'm disappointed it's not funnel cakes

@argentandroid5732 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think I would have arrived at Medieval Raviolis on my own, lol. I should have realized that this is Max and he is going to go on way more of a deep dive. I really want to try those raviolis though, they look delicious.

@flameendcyborgguy883 2 жыл бұрын

Well, in Poland it is not Tuesday but Thursday, but the gist is the same. It is still celebrated and in fact, kinda loved. We eat Polish donuts with rose jam, Carnaval Roses( if someone has the tenacity to make them :P) Cheaskacke round donuts, and so on. Even, though it is from my own experience in the matter, workplaces give out donuts to every worker.

@bigred9428 2 жыл бұрын

Really? I never heard of the day of the week being different. We never did anything for Tuesday, but always had fried flounder on Ash Wednesday. I liked the ashes and holy feeling, but I hated my mother's fried flounder.

@catc8927 Жыл бұрын

Rose jam on donuts sounds amazing!

@NOISECAUSEDCANCER 2 жыл бұрын

Yet another inspirational video , always leaving me in deep thoughts ... in Bulgaria we have a dish called maslenitsa , which is kind of bread with high content of fat and cheese :) it is often cooked in the winter season to early spring .

@MatConlon 2 жыл бұрын

That pasta needs a sauce; my Italian friends would die of shock.

@e.urbach7780 2 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily; ravioli and tortellini are often served in broth in Italian families. Max should have left some broth on the pasta when he put it in his bowl!

@sorbusaucuparia188 2 жыл бұрын

Love to see Nürnberg mentioned again! And I love the detail on something I only vaguely remember the name of. "Schembart" means bearded mask, had to quickly look up how that was related to butchers :D My favourite carnival related food must be doughnuts (without a hole) but filled with rose hip jelly, which is apparently mostly unknown outside Franconia.

@RJFord-xs2os 2 жыл бұрын

Well “Victor”, that was a great episode! Thank you so much. I appreciate your research and visual presentation. Your humor is on point!

@adambarron4015 2 жыл бұрын

Forty days in Lent as the Sundays are considered mini-Easters. This also means that if one gives up something for Lent, they are allowed cheat days on Sundays. If you haven't tried it, toss a cheese ravioli with oil and either air fry or cook on a wire rack in a convection oven. Then serve with a dipping sauce.

@KayElayempea 2 жыл бұрын

I never actually counted or knew that you were allowed Sundays off until my sister told me last year.

@kathleenhensley5951 2 жыл бұрын

It is amazing how little the recipe has changed over the centuries. My mother was native Italian and usually didn't put meat in her ravioli, that i can remember, but it is very close. I rarely put spices in my mine, though, I have experimented with fresh herbs from my garden. What is different is all the spices, but I think they would improve the taste. I know tomatoes hadn't made it over to Italy yet, (I mean in the medieval times, generally) but I'd be tempted to have a decent tomato sauce as dipping sauce, at least... or, as you said, sir, butter or olive oil. I'm alone now, but I might make myself some ravioli, I could freeze them and have them now and then. The store bought ones are so tasteless.

@MrGrimsmith 2 жыл бұрын

Ah, so proud of you Max! You're experiencing a YT shadow purge. It appears to happen to those who actually create content of worth rather than just cranking out trash. In your place I'd see it as a compliment :)

@CiviteitRN 2 жыл бұрын

About the coocking time, I remember that my grandmothers (and people of that age in general) boiled eggs in Hail Marys, as in for example, a soft voiled egg might take two HAil Marys and a hard boiled on four (dont recall if those where the exact numbers, but that is the idea)

@emaarredondo-librarian 2 жыл бұрын

Old Chilean tradition (maybe in other places too): hard-boiled eggs are cooked in the time it takes to say three Creeds.

@jonperry4580 2 жыл бұрын

You can always feel the passion and desire for quality in Tasting History videos. Best of the best, for youtube or any other medium. Great work and thank you for making every one of my weeks better with your content.

@lararabb8888 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your honest assessment of the foods you cook. It lets us know whether it is worth our time & money to make the dish.

@CyanideChamber 2 жыл бұрын

It always makes me happy when I see one of your videos in my feed. Thanks for making these Max. ^_^

@xxxoooyyyttt 2 жыл бұрын

RAVIOLI RAVIIOLI GIVE ME THE FORMULONI

@jollyjohnthepirate3168 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing as usual. You have one of the best cooking/history channels in KZfaq.

@davidonfim2381 2 жыл бұрын

I kinda love the little swooshes on the e's at 1:25 I think they should make a comeback.

@elennapointer701 2 жыл бұрын

That picture of Nuremberg at 10.45 will be familiar to anyone who's ever read 'The Faithful Executioner' by Joel Harrington - it's certainly the first place I saw the picture. The book is about Franz Schmidt, Nuremberg's long-serving public hangman (and head-chopper, and burner, wheel-breaker, whipper, mutilator, interrogator, torturer and, worryingly, medical doctor). Because being an executioner in Germany at this time was one of the most dishonorable trades a person could have, Schmidt was forced to live in the abbatoir district of the city (apparently in quite a nice house) and conducted his gruesome business outside the city's walls. At the bottom of that picture we can see Schmidt's actual place of work. The T-shaped structures are the gallows he would have used. There was a pit beneath them; the bodies were not cut down, but left to decay and then fall in bits into it. To the right of the gallows is what's possibly the most horrific place in medieval Nuremberg: that innocuous-looking grass-topped rectangular structure. This is the "raven stone" and it's where the bloodiest and nastiest public executions were performed - breaking on the wheel, quartering and burning at the stake. It's a good guess that the reason these horrifying structures are front and center in an otherwise quite attractive picture of a medieval city is that the city's Council, which probably commissioned the picture, wanted to warn any visitors who might be considering embarking on a life of crime in Nuremberg that if they did try anything, the raven stone was where they'd end up. At 13.18 is the 'Flesh Bridge', another of Schmidt's workplaces. This bridge was where public mutilations were carried out. Harrington mentions a specific instance in which an anonymous city worker (a glazier) had the tip of his tongue cut off by Schmidt as punishment for blasphemy. Body parts cut off by the executioner were then thrown into the river, hence why the bridge had that nickname. In the case of the glazier, though, Schmidt disagreed with the punishment and thought it was wrong, though he did it anyway. His disagreement was that he thought it was too mild. He wanted to cut out the whole tongue, feeling it was the least a blasphemer deserved, but he followed his orders and only sliced off the tip.

@RealHogweed 2 жыл бұрын

I think grinding the filling to a paste was an error, having bigger pieces makes the consistency more interesting. Also why didn’t you eat them with the broth like tortelllini in brodo? Anyway, it was a nice video :)

@nedwardmumford7525 2 жыл бұрын

Such a fantastic video! I think my favourite of yours yet. It was so interesting, and has given me some really fun tattoo ideas from those wonderful artworks you showed.

@Brockohliflower 2 жыл бұрын

This was a tremendous episode. I thoroughly enjoyed the historical section. I was completely absorbed and enjoying myself a lot. Thank you for the video and all your diligent research!

@MissSkittlestar Жыл бұрын

Should try making cabbage 🥬 rolls I always loved when my grandmother would make it for me growing up

@SessaV 2 жыл бұрын

I went to the grocery store yesterday and saw paczkis and nearly had a heart attack, thinking lent was now. Waking up to this video did the same thing lol, until I actually woke up woke up haha.

@frydemwingz 2 жыл бұрын

You've been making these videos for years, yet you still keep these interesting and fresh and the food looks great. Good job, bro.

@taekwongurl 2 жыл бұрын

With all the cheese that goes into the recipe, it's not surprising that some modern day ravioli recipes only have cheese for filling. It's like some housewife got mad at her husband for complaining about too much cheese/not enough meat and now that's all there is in his ravioli. This isn't a real story, this is just my personal take on what *might've* happened.

@highlander723 2 жыл бұрын

The way I see a Valentine's Day and Mardi gras go perfect for each other... Valentine's Day it's about romance and sweethearts and such but a Mardi gras it's just a time to go wild!!

@Boom12 2 жыл бұрын

Ravioli, it's not as fluffy as a pancake but I don't mind the meat. Lent though...as much as I love the tradition, I'm such a terrible example of a Catholic lol. I've almost never fasted during Lent.

@lipstickzombie4981 2 жыл бұрын

I'm only catholic for government purposes 😅. Turning back from that cult was the best decision for my mental health in the past 25 years.

@suzannecooke2055 2 жыл бұрын

I am beyond impressed at the research you do! Gathering appropriate pictures and the more esoteric history is worthy of a masters degree and you just toss it off while we wait for the FOOD!. God, I love you!