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First soak the cod overnight, Throw out the water.Throw out the cod.

The farm is still part of a living history site.

david metherell Me too! I can imagine them all still working around the 1600’s farm dressed the same, work the same. Lol. It is all so real though.

david metherell I felt the same way...🤗 until I discovered that the three historyoteers moved on down the road to another year on the Tudor or wartime gardens..or somewhere there abouts. I feel like my dear friends love to time travel..😁

I imagine for a few weeks of back pains after they left-they might have felt they never left either

They wouldn't have actually stayed full-time at these locations. I would assume there were travel trailers like you'd see on a film set, and breaks to go home and see their families. No one would want to leave their child for a year.

The other farm animals don't fare as well. Altogether gruesome series for animal lovers. :-)

@@mortalclown3812 how is it gruesome ??

@@mortalclown3812 Oh for crying out loud. Why would any "animal lover" (vegan I assume) even watch a series like that if they can't face the fact people eat meat, always have and always will.

2005! but still a great watch

@@laurafuoco7046 They look so young when you wach this compared to the later shows.

This is a great series but if this was filmed in 2014 I am king Charles the 1st.

@@noodle9572 It was filmed in 2004.

I know, I had to wince a bit at that. In Italy, salt cod, or baccalà as it's called, is traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve (in northern Italy, anyway) and you have to soak it for 24 hours before you can cook it. Poor Alex. But he's game for anything that boy. I missed him in the later farm series.

@@johannaholmgren8088 what one was he not in ? I saw him in all the other farm series I thought

@@johannaholmgren8088 Same thing in Portugal. Traditionally the salted codfish would be place under running water from a natural spring to remove the salt for 2 or 3 days. Although it´s eaten yearound, it´s the most traditional food for Christmas Eve dinner and in the north of Portugal on Christmas Day people would mix the leftover bacalhau, potatoes and cabbage leaves from dinner in a sort of luke warm salad for lunch.

@@kaveirinhaz Sounds an awful lot like my mother in laws Christmas Eve dinner!

In the January series they took a ham that was supposedly salted into it right in the pot as well. You can tell it was a store-bought ham but still love watching it. I'm sure it's impossible to do everything and live a normal life as well as live a second life on this episode of shows

lol :))

"hold my *pork* " (FTFY)

Pigs are loud but they are tuff handel one they scream bloody murder but they are fine Like a 2 year they scream like you are about too kill em over nothing a

LOL!

Gavin Smith possibly what the first gold pans were

Gavin Smith Same principle heavy stop sinks to the bottom.

Most of the gold planners were just farmers from the prairies.

yeah, I remember that episode. I think I've watched it 2 days ago... or 3 days ago, not more than 3 though. And I've been utterly impressed as well. It takes special people to successfully carry uncommon tasks out

Being that horses are prey animals, its nature for them to run from anything they do not understand. In their mind they could be killed by it. Horses want work. They do enjoy having a purpose in life. And because they are gregarious by nature, they need interaction. Breaking is what the cowboys used to do. Just rope them, throw a saddle on and ride the buck out of them. This is wrong actually and the horse never really gets over the fear of new things. The term horse whisperer is actually not correct. You don't whisper to a horse, you just move slowly and quietly and let them adjust to what you are doing to them. Each new thing they are slowly introduced to that does not "kill them" only instills more and more trust of the trainer. Thats how I trained my horses back when I was a trainer and before I became disabled.

@Oregon Wanderer My brother trains horses the same way, and has since we were kids on the farm. The horses develop a very close and trusting relationship with people and more or less turned into pets for us, despite their being working horses. They loved to play games, so we would tie apples to tree branches and have them go find them. They would let us little kids ride without bridles or saddles because they were so gentle and friendly that they would sort of look after us. One of our best horses, Star, was so calm and motherly that she was bitten by a snake while my sister was riding and she startled a little, but didn't buck or jump, but limped back to the house to let my sister down before she whinnied and bucked like crazy. Another time, she accidentally stepped on my mother's foot and for weeks and weeks after, every time my mom would come up to her, she would put her head down and snuff at her foot until my mom said "It's okay. My foot is fine, Star." I still miss that girl and she must have been dead for 30 years by now, but that's what a loving and good relationship with a horse is. It's like a marriage that way, I think. If it's very solid, it's solid for life.

yeh many Asian country still used the same technic with rice, i remember my mom said its her job if she went to her grandmother house.

Yeah, he did. And now we know why you freshen salt fish before cooking.

If you don't soak fish that's been salted enough to preserve it, it's pretty much inedible.

I had a horrible flashback to Lutefisk, enjoyed in Scandinavia and Minnesota. Excoriated everywhere else in the world.

He's hot now.

Me too!

Well you had to,didn't you? Otherwise people would starve

I know! So much for being an expert. I've never cooked salt cod, and I know that soaking it is essential to make it edible.

Valley Farm was Stuart’s project.

Yes thinking the same thing - not just Jamaican. Surely they would've soaked it first - it would be really horrible to eat still salted.

Or Nova Scotian ones. I have two packs of salt cod in the fridge. It's something that is still eaten on a regular basis.

I know. Salt cod is still eaten around the world. But the salt must be soaked out first.

@@cayannap6752 soak salt cod 24hrs fresh water change every4 to 8 hrs

Did the men take over the kitchen and cooking tasks? I was amazed to see Stuart hands on the meal preparation, totally unexpected.

Backbreaking actually!

Actually, I'd rather that they return to this farm with the experience theyve had of the other farms ...

​@@johannaholmgren8088Yes that would be good

@@johannaholmgren8088they’re all 20 years older; it might be considerably more demanding physically. Not to mention established careers that would be hard to take time off for that long. They still do smaller pieces, like the trains series.

@@sgrannie9938 I know. I agree. Just wishful thinking. Lol

@@johannaholmgren8088 agreed

One of them looked like a horn.

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Yep, and not just U.K..

That's his alias.

That was Peter's nickname back in 2005, when this was filmed.

They do mention this in the Tudor Monastery Farm series.

As Ruth mentions, most of the beer they drank was of the weaker "small" variety, while the strong variety was typically only drunk in the evenings.

5:13 m8

I guess the alcohol kills the germs s and parasites in the water. Apparently they didn't drink a lot of water for that reason

I'm not.

I thought that when he said it. I'm going to start using it.

What else would she say?

Penny Elliot That is how it is pronounced in the UK.

@@ruthgoebel723 I thought so, thank you for sharing ! I love her accent!!

I was hoping to hear someone say 'aluminum'. :-)

Has anyone noticed that ‘intestines’ has been pronounced three different ways? 😊 (I love all the regional differences still heard today.)

Long yes, groomed not so much

Yes I must admit, as a retired RN, Ruth's nails give me the heebie-jeebies. The jobs they had to do in the farm, and long nails? Unless you are washing and scrubbing your nails with a nail brush (and even then...!!) there's no way those nails are clean.

Hm. I know after Catholicism fell out of favour people didn't follow the same rules. Could be why.

Eggs are permitted in Lent, as they have no meat taste, at least nowadays. Possibly by this time, eggs were permitted. Easter eggs are more of a Pagan tradition of birth.

In the 13th century no eggs were permitted, along with milk and meat. The idea was you don’t eat the meat, or any product of the animal. I’m not sure when this went out of practice, but certainly the break from practicing Catholicism in England could account for the change.

@@sparkybish 040922. MissMargaret" In the 13th century no eggs"

@@sparkybish I can not imagine that anyone held to that. In England the products of animals were the sole basis of fat. What would they cook with?

Where do you get yours?

@@alliemackenzie1575 I live in Virginia. Do usually caught up north and boxed and salted. The guy I get them from gets 50lb box because they're very popular here on cold days . Island seafood is the name.

Even a prairie girl like me knows how to cook salt fish. No vinegar required 😂😂

I’m so glad that you commented about the fish. I’ve Never cooked it without soaking. It would have been delicious if done right.

@@birdali2 Never liked Stuart Much but he's all about Gervais Markham and "book cooking'- it's best to do it like yer Mum or Grandma did. ;)

@@birdali2 ...or Grandpa...

Lol salted fish has existed for thousanda of years, you didnt invent anything

I suspect cats kept the rodents out of the grain, just as they do today.

That is correct. Thats why farms always had cats and dogs. They both hunt mice. Though the dog also provides protection. They do it as a game, not because they are hungry. Even the most well fed cat and dog will hunt mice. Mine sure do. They have never wanted for anything.

Its spikey, and very dense, so would have been a deterrent. No doubt some got through.

@@christinegreen6736 Bracken is a fern, it's not spikey.

@@theclumsyprepper with you go stick your face in a bunch and see how it feels lol. The stuff they were laying down was more like gorze which is VERY spikey.

FREEEEDUMMM

+Felicity Wright I think if you took porridge oats, barley malt and some watered-down vegemite or marmite (a big dollop in a mug, about a tbsp to 150ml, though might be a bit salty) you'd get a fair approximation. You could possibly also get warm water and yeast to make a sludge to add in too if you wanted it more bready. It'd probably work quite well with Bonox too by the sounds.

+Catherine Cook Thanks. It's just weird that there don't seem to be any references to it elsewhere.

@@felicitywright791 Maybe it was just a local recipe? Each area has it's on specialities on a basic dish?

Jerusalem's Pottage

nope they will heard them back to the barn...or the pigs will run away xD

It was heated with coals, which don't smoke.

Joseph Strutt: The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the Earliest Period (1801), p. 246.

Peter is his name. Fonz is his nickname.

@@irisjoosten8669 Thank god they dropped that nickname in later series. You can really see the others having to strain to use it, it just doesn't sound like it's his genuine nickname at all. For some reason the director must have thought they needed nicknames, to make them more "relatable" or something. One of those typically british television cliches that messes up the natural flow of interactions. Mind you, still 1000 times more natural than american television.

@@gladtobeangry I read somewhere that in college Peter Ginn did an excellent Fonzie impersonation. I'd love to see that.

@@irisjoosten8669 Thanks for answering this question for me. I asked the same question in a previous episode. I am glad they dropped the nickname in a later series. Take care everyone.

@@gladtobeangry Actually Peter and Alex were friends before this series and it is probably he knew of and used Peter's nickname before coming into this series.

If you eat all the eggs, you don't get more chickens. Eggs were far more valuable. They didn't raise chickens for meat, but would have eaten them when they got too old to lay. The phrase "a chicken in every pot" in the US in the early 20th century was a way of suggesting a comfortable financial situation would be had by all. Today chicken is ubiquitous because of factory farming of birds in gruesome industrial settings with timers, grow lights, drip waterers and especially plucking machines and conveyor belt killing. Modern practices also introduced salmonella into both chickens and eggs on a global scale, meaning that people can no longer eat them raw.

@@QuinniMundo wow. Tyvm idk this. Ty

Omg. Ok. If you had 6 chickens, no way of getting more, how long before you have no chickens and NO EFFING EGGS! you failed maths at school I take it? Smh I despair at the ignorance of some ppl. You couldn't just go to the bloody supermarket and get more. To get more chickens they had to leave the eggs to hatch, meaning no eggs. That means NO PROTEIN at all for some time. You know how long it takes to rear animals?

@@christinegreen6736 did u failbasic humanity?!

Fonz / "the Fonz" ... look up "Happy Days", a TV series from the 60s. Peter probably is "popular with the ladies".

A bit out of the time period, eh?

i think that is why he goes by Peter now.

This was the first one they did, they changed it after.

'Fonz' not 'Fauns' . . . think Fonzie from Happy Days the television show.

POPPIES! Poppppeeeezzzz....

Yes, "small beer". I promise, I'm not making this up! Google it :)

There were 3 different strengths, Strong beer, one that was everyday and lower in alcohol, then small beer, which was made from the 2nd use of the mash, which was theoretically low alcohol - 0.7% (although some have come out at 9.5%) which would have been given to children and servants. It could be quite thick and porridgey and was nutritious because it had lots of the malt and other makings left in it. Labourers and people like these farm workers would drink up to 10 pints a day.

Andrew Greaves Yes - as HogwashMcTurnip explained, there were different strengths of Beer and the beer they drank as their main beverage, everyday, was low alcohol. As Ruth explains in this episode, unless you had a mountain Spring on your property, you couldn't drink water without serious risk of illness from naturally occurring pathogens, and all the crap that businesses ( tanneries, mills, etc) would dump in the water. Because the water in beer had been boiled and processed it was much safer to drink, and was very important nutritionally, providing carbs, iron and other micronutrients. When the temperance movement came to the fore in London and England as a whole, they caused terrible increases in deaths from malnutrition because the poor were no longer getting that nutrition from the low-alcohol beer.

Canuckmom1958 To add on to that the main point was that the alcohol killed the majority of the bacteria. This, a combination of boiling and fermentation did the job.

Of course they did! They couldn't drink the water. A LOT of children and elderly died from dehydration from a case of severe "runs"! This was preventable by drinking "small" beer .

I was just looking for the reason in the comments, too.. maybe he just did not want to be known by his real name, he probably thought it was a one time thing...and at that time, they did not know this was not going to be the last series of this kind😊 and they did not know the series were going to be so loved as well❤

They’re not actors.

@@lisettegroot3789they introduced him by his real name in the first episode, pointing out that Fonz was a nickname. At that time they wouldn’t have known he’d be in more Farm series.

They are historians and archeologists, not actors.

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The law gives them the right.

The difference is that you're doing this at your own risk, rather than at the behest of an employer.

Nillie Exactly ! It's not like they are a bunch of hippies who have decided to create a commune - they are working for the BBC, and therefore they fall under labour code laws, which probably state that there has to be running water, proper sanitation, Health and Safety crew ( Medics) on duty, etc. If they were doing this on their own, and there were no children involved, I suspect they could do what they want.

@@Canuckmom128 A long, looong time ago I watched a "We Live Like Iron Age People" BBC doco. There were kids, and they wound up having to be removed from the site and shoot. Some poultry gave everyone a stomach thing. Health & Safety, as well as CPS got involved.

The only thing in this episode that might be illegal in modern England or Wales is the privy

Because he liked Happy Days. It ,probably,a nickname he got when he was a teenager at school. It’s Americans who seem to get annoyed about it,for some strange reason.

@@manchestertart5614 I'm not annoyed, just confused. I'm kinda sad they stopped.

@@unforgrettable Lots of Americans here expressed various levels of dislike or confusion about the nickname

@Sheila T. I've seen lots of discussions comparing the winters. The Brits who live in the Midwest/PA-NY/New England basically tell their countrymen to shut up, they know nothing. I can't speak for Alberta or the prairie states, but what I saw on this program for a whole winter didn't even make an average November in NE Ohio.

@Sheila T. Exactly.

I am sure -- being historians and archaeologists -- that they were recreating the planting habits documented in historical writing.

Yoking 2 together would impede their ability to root & feed. They'd probably end up competing & one wouldn't grow as well.

Old boot leather goes very tough and hard compared to supple new leather

wut?

Oh you were there then? Sorry we didnt realise ppl lived for 400 years! God save us from armchair experts.

@@christinegreen6736 I am not 'an armchair expert', I grow broad beans every year and don't have blackfly problems as I have plenty of predators for them. Is there any written evidence that this was a problem 400 years ago?

@@christinegreen6736 The point is still well taken. More predators (birds) competing the same prey (bugs) means less crop damage. It was nature's way to balance. We've most certainly changed that with the Big Ag of today.

@LASummer swine.

How rude

some people are just fiber and no muscle no matter what they do. I personally know a lot of such people, my cousin included who's one of the most hard-working people I have ever known and he's still as tall and fiber-y as he's been as a teenager. And he works like a horse, yet he can't put muscle on no matter what. Alex is the same type

Yeah cos Olympic swimmers are built like weightlifters arent they? Wtf is wrong with ppl? Much of the work was cardio vascular, and protein IF YOU WERE LISTENING.. wasnt consumed every day like it is today. Ffs go away if you cant be bothered to watch and LEARN. I take it you've NEVER heard of mesomorph, ectomorph, etc? I take it you've NEVER met a tall slim person who no matter what they eat doesnt gain weight? To build muscle you need protein and resistance. Guess you missed the bit about eating seasonal foods and food being scarce in winter. I give up. Go watch real housewives you prob think that's more realistic.

Hardly a priority for a farmer in 1620,as that is what they are trying to create .

Calm down 😂

Nick. Nasty bit of stuff you bring.

Lol bit much

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