Peasant cookery

[Wifezilla]

I have been watching "Edwardian Farm" and the cooking segments have been very fascinating. Ruth talks a lot about what was normally eaten by the farmers and how most of the "good stuff" was sold to market. The farmers used the scraps and odd pieces for themselves and used a lot of root vegetables to stretch what meat they used.

On one of the first couple of episodes she made a baked sheep's head. It looked pretty scary, but apparently it tasted good

Coming from a blue collar family, a lot of our favorites might be considered peasant food. Chicken pot pie, baked beans with ham, shepherd's pie, lots of soups, etc...

 

[abifae]

Having grown up with Pennsylvania Dutch being the sort of core reference point in my mother's cooking, I have absorbed the same sort of orientation and I tend to think of "peasant cooking" as simply "normal cooking" as opposed to "things all gussied up restaurant- or magazine- or foodie-style" LOL

*laughing* I foodie style my peasant cooking!

When I do frittatas, I carefully arrange the veggies on top into patterns, and grate the cheese evenly over the top after cooking so it bakes with an even color....

The kitchen is my art place though. I can't toss together a peanut butter sandwich (when I ate sandwiches) without doing something to make it "foodie style".

 

[ORChick]

Did you see that latest link I added to my pigervention recipe thread? It was a bunch of very old recipes, many of which I recognized from my Memere's table when I was a kid. She was born in the late 1800's

Free, is that the one with the Acadian recipes? I bookmarked that to look at more closely later. It looked like it had some good things.

ORChick this is a wonderful topic.
Did yo say you had read some book with recipes?
I think I cook a lot like this as well.
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The book I mentioned was "The Old World Kitchen" http://www.amazon.com/Old-World-Kit...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294510690&sr=1-1 (Wow! The price on Amazon is unbelievable! Look for it in the library ) She has a lot of interesting recipes, but I read it more as an historical work. There is another that she did after this, because she had acquired so much information, and recipes, and had too much for one book: it's called "The Barracaded Larder", but I couldn't find it on Amazon. Both books are from the 1980's.

Anna - your pasta sauce sounds lovely. Can you share any more recipes from your Italian books?

 

[ORChick]

I have been watching "Edwardian Farm" and the cooking segments have been very fascinating. Ruth talks a lot about what was normally eaten by the farmers and how most of the "good stuff" was sold to market. The farmers used the scraps and odd pieces for themselves and used a lot of root vegetables to stretch what meat they used.

On one of the first couple of episodes she made a baked sheep's head. It looked pretty scary, but apparently it tasted good

Coming from a blue collar family, a lot of our favorites might be considered peasant food. Chicken pot pie, baked beans with ham, shepherd's pie, lots of soups, etc...

Don't do this to me I am living quite happily without television, and have been for ages, but this sort of comment makes me long to figure out some way to get reception here. Maybe it will be on Netflix?

 

[Wifezilla]

Even better! It's free on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10TJT87BaU

 

[ORChick]

 

[Denim Deb]

At first glance, I read this as pheasant cooking, then read it as pleasant cooking.

 

[redhen]

Even better! It's free on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10TJT87BaU

Been watching them also... cept they only go up to episode 9... he never finished putting the rest of the series up...
And i cant find the last (episode 10) episode of it anywhere else on youtube..
DId you see the Victorian Pharmacy one also?

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

At first glance, I read this as pheasant cooking, then read it as pleasant cooking.

pleasant pheasant cooking?

;-)

 

[miss_thenorth]

Pleasant peasant pheasant cooking