Comments by "Fu Gu" (@fugu4163) on "Townsends" channel.

  1. If you are on your own or in a small gathering you might find something to eat and build a simple shelter but when 11000 men are trying to do the same then things become really difficult.
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  2. It was exactly the same thing with potatoes in Sweden during the 18th century. People considered it as dangerous but now a days we measure how long you can survive in a crisis based on how much potatoe you have in storage.
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  3. Back then you knew as a little boy what your profession was going to be. The same profession as your father.
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  4. My wife comes from a mountainregion in mainland China. Corn are a very popular staple because it is able to grow everywhere and are used in everything from flour to distilled spirits. One explanation might be that corn actually are a kind of grass.
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  5. I love this kind of content. ever since i made your 18th century emergency bread i am really hooked on the flavours and aromas of the 18 th century.
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  6. Most of the subscribers to this channel should be just fine because we are educated in everything from making an apple pie in a dutch oven to start our own blacksmith business and everything in between.
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  7. It makes sense to keep the potatoeskin on the potatoes because it is very nutritious.
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  8.  @Vaeldarg  It is called communism and a nationalistic people that regard mainland china as the only country in the world. It is actually the same thing with chilli, garlic and ginger. None of those spicy vegetables are chinese but in mainland china they are regarded as such. My point though are that you are able to grow corn almost everywhere including on top of a mountain.
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  9. Seems like USA was the place to be during the 18th century since many fooditems that was exclusively for the wealthy in europe was more common, better and more cheap in the USA.
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  10. In Sweden we ususally have boiled potatoes and pork in that soup. "Soldatens ärtsoppa" =The soldiers peasoup are a classic and a survivalfood.
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  11. If you got a little bit of land or a perhaps only a container of dirt on your balcony it is so easy to grow your own veggies and herbs. Unfortunately most people today shouldnt make it if the grocery store or the supermarkets was closed down.
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  12.  @Luckcu13  I know the attitudes and how people think in mainland China. Besides chinese media are fueling that narrative.
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  13. My wife are an expert on what to eat in the forest. She is chinese and when she found a certain kind of celery that are very expensive in china growing in the wild here in Scandinavia she was very pleased.
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  14. That glassware are beautiful.
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  15. This kind of knowledge might be of good use before we know it. this channel are abviously about historical cocking and the lives of people during the 18th century but it is also educational from a survival standpoint.
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  16. Yes please build something like this. should be a good place for future cooking videos and diary reading.
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  17. Since it takes something like 2 minutes in a microwave to cook oatmeal to porridge and top it with some milk and applepoure it is still a staple food now a days. I guess it took longer time back in the 18th century because you needed to have that fire started.
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  18. Seems like the british used their american colonies like their colonies in Australia. As somewhere to dump their unwanted population. Little did they know about the events that should end up in the independence of USA 1776.
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  19. To discard the eggwhites in a survival situation doesnt seem right to me.
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  20. In italy women has done pasta for centuries before Thomas Jefferson experienced it. They didnt use any machines but rather simple rolling pins and thats how they are made even today in Italy.
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  21. A Swedish man working in London was joining his coworkers for a pint of beer at lunchtime and since he wasnt used to this habit he needed to go home early that day.
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  22. I really love what you are doing. Bringing history to life.
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  23. My wife sometimes boils chestnuts in water and they do have a very sweet marsipan like aftertaste so they are definitevly sweet.
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  24. After you boiled and prepared them nettles tastes like butter.
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  25. Now we know that Jon loves nutmeg but arent a fan of seafood. I am born in a fishing village and during the 18th century salted fish and boiled potatoes was a staple in that village. Besides i really like seafood and should like to see more of it on this channel.
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  26. The first true american are Benjamin Franklin.
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  27. I really likes this kind of historical instruction videos.
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  28. I asked my chinese wife about mushroom ketchup sauce and she doesnt have a clue about what i was talking about, as usual.
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  29. If you burn 5000 calories a day then you are working really hard.
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  30. My mother in law that are an actually chinese do make the best noodles in my opinion. If Tom was stationed in China he should understand why.
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  31. When i think of christmas and the early days of USA i always thinks of the puritans and their attempt to ban the christmas traditions. Fortunately that totally failed.
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  32. Exactly like now a days UK the politcal elite implements laws to fund there own corruption. As usual it is the working class that have to pay for it. Nothing has really changed in that regard the last 300 years.
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  33. A dutch immigrant to USA during the 18th century said "Give me a dutch oven and i will be able to cook anything in it".
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  34. When i visit my mother in law in China she are using a combination of a gasburner and coal briquettes when cooking. She prefer to use the coal because it is way cheaper but it is like if the oxygen dissapears in the ktichen because it becomes more difficult to breathe in their.
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  35. Members of parlament was complaining about students having too much time in the coffeehouses during the 17th century. As usual the political elite doesnt like it when people have time to talk about their corruption and bad decisions.
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  36. This is basically noodles with boiled pork and beef. 18th century edition.
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  37. Is it only me that are wondering if you can make alcohol of pumpkins? Pumpkins doesnt taste much by themselves but after just eating a bowl of pumpkin noodles drenched in chillisauce i admitt that there are much different things you can do with pumpkins.
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  38.  @eldorados_lost_searcher  Perhaps it is time to relocate?
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  39. I do have a dutch oven and you and Cowboy Kent Rollins has made me really interested in pie recipes, thankyou.
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  40. I should like to try this recipe. Can i have a little bit of nutmeg in my stew or are that out of the question?
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  41. Since americans always seems to have prefered anything from france or italy. My guess is that Bourbon which are a french name seemed more fancy than whisky so thats where it got its name from. Perhaps Bourbon are derived from Bourgogne that are an actual province in france. Besides Bourbon are also an caribean island and a kind of coffee.
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  42. I have thought of making waffels like that but there are no depth on those iron plates so ofcourse all the batter get squessed out.
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  43. Another forgotten survival skill that could prove to be useful now a days.
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