Binging with Babish 7M Subscriber Special: LOTR Part 1
Years in the making (because I kept putting it off out of fear), the Lord of the Rings Special is finally upon us. And it's in two parts instead of three - you know, a trilogy. Babish you're a dumbass sometimes. Anyway we're diving into the make-ahead recipes for this seven-course feast, covering all the major hobbit food groups, and getting into the heavy stuff next week! Thank you so much for helping me reach 7 million subscribers!
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We’ve had one yes. What about second Babish?
yes.
Great episode and an excellent shout out to the Townsends!
What?!
Well played, Babish... Well played.
Do you mean baby with babish?!
In this episode: Babish realizes he has a bag of flaked almonds which is about to go bad.
yes
Yes
yes
Probably so
That and his apricot preserves
Legolas: “Lembas bread. One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a full grown man” Merry: “How many have you had?” Pippin: “Four”
@Miky Miller lmao😂
@Poe Soul and short
What Orlando Bloom referred to as his lembas commercial.
Legolas didn't say "bread". "Lembas" is the proper name, and adding "bread" is incorrect.
@@tavern.keeper like chai tea
Babish: "A very low oven, as low as your oven can go" Me: **turns oven off** " *_Yeah, this is big brain time_* "
INFINITE IQ
Absolute massive brain
No, this is not how you're supposed to play the game
*freezes oven*
*wait. That's illegal.*
"I'm making the mince pies hobbit sized." Babbish you fool, hobbit food is human sized because they love eating so much!
As a hobbit size human I can confirm
Hobbits are dwarves that have faster metabolisms and there spines are normal thickness so there not as big
The only thing about a hobbit that isn’t small is their appetite.
@@projectiledysfunction are you sure about that
@@zackbab7093 where tf are you going with this 😂
Bold of you to assume that “hobbit sized” wouldn’t be twice as big as a normal portion.
Good point
I was like "hobbit sized? i can hold it in one hand!"
Yeah, I'm pretty sure "hobbit sized" in relation to food is *supposed* to mean a double portion haha
This!
Well, they still have to be able to hold and carry it, and they are smaller than a human. I posit that Hobbits would eat smaller portions, but far more of them. One of the race of Men might eat one medium-sized mincemeat pie, but a Hobbit might have two or three or four small ones.
Next episode: "LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!"
MAN FLESH!
Mincemeat?
What about their legs? They don't need those!
Hobbit feet
how do they know what menus are?
Fun fact: the elven lembas bread in the Lotr movies was shortbread cookies made by the production team.
I always assumed shortbread as well based on what we saw
Mmm shortbread. I'd have eaten that the way hobbits eat lembas.
They looked like small cuts of garlic bread to me for some reason
That's disappointing
I always imagined it to taste like plain pie crust. Which tbh isn’t that different from shortbread I guess.
This man said "fingies" with all the seriousness as he would "tiny whisk"
10:25 for a timestamp
I dunno if he has leat fingies though.
This is one of the many reasons why we love him :')
Dan Avidan says fingies!! Chicken fingies! 🤣❤️👍🏻
Only babish can say "fingies" with the cold seriousness of a sergeant telling you your husband died in combat
A Babish is never late, he arrives precisely when he means to.
What a legendary quote
Love it!
...nor is he early ...
2nd to Chuck Norris who is never late the world is.
he arrives when im hungry
Thanks for the shout out! Great video.
Im amazed, I've been subscribed to both of you for years. Never expected the crossover!
omg i love you
AND he used freshly-grated nutmeg!! ;)
A well deserved shout out, your channel is amazing!
I heard the reference and had to see if you commented. Love you guys
I've always imagined lembas bread to taste like Irish shortbread. It just looks so crumbly in the movies and it's supposed to be sweet so my mind immediately made the connection when i was a kid and watched the movies for the first time and I still cannot be convinced that they don't taste like shortbread.
Lol the crew did actually use shortbread as lembas in the movies
This show is such a subtle feat in editing. I have so many restaurant clients that wanna do a “Binging with Babish” kind of video. Let me tell you, it is a tedious couple days in Premiere. Bravo!
Haha I bet. You're a food videographer/Editor?
"Sorry i don't do magic food" Alright then keep your secrets
One does not simply not use magic
@@linktriforce9669 but a good magician doesnt reveals their secrets
@@fmj1978 "all right keep your secrets"
lmao
"What about LOTR special?" "You've already had it." "We've had one, yes." "What about second LOTR special?"
Dzaki Prakoso Ramadhan the hobbit special?
He needs to do one Po-Ta-Toes
Honestly, as a Canadian, the whole “Metric measurements and Fahrenheit for oven temperature” is pretty normal here up North. Don’t ask me why we do that, we kind of suffer from bi-measurement disorder.
I'd rather deal with bi measurement disorder to be honest.
It stretches further than the kitchen too: we use Celsius for weather temps, feet and inches for measuring people, but cm for measuring objects… 🤷♀️ I know, it’s weird
Bruh no it aint. Imperial system is a disorder... and Im American
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s because our largest customer for export is the states, who refuse to go metric, so a lot of our own at home measurement have been influenced by them
I bet Tolkien is smiling right now. He’d did every thing to make his universe feel lived in and visceral, and I’ve always thought that the food you eat is a big part of who you are, so bringing that bit of his world to life in a way anyone can do at home? Perfect.
"Hobbit size" Not sure why that would imply small, an average hobbit has the appetite of a stoned NFL lineman.
thinking of it another way, if they're small, then it'd allow an ordinary man to feel as though he's consumed as much as an average hobbit
Dyanosis Also because their mouths are smaller so they probably can’t take as big bites as we can.
Easily the best comment on this video, 10/10
"under a broiler or, as the brits call it, a grill" *so thats what a broiler is*
Ikr I never knew what a broiler was
I mean it’s not hard to google
American English is kind of messed up. But grill implies cooking on a mettle grate, while broil means expose to radiant heat. But technically the effect is really about the same.
What do you call a charcoal barbecue? In Canada, at least Western Canada, we just call it a charcoal grill and now I'm confused that in Britain a broiler is a grill.
Pepper Blackburn In the Eastern U.S we just say grill for charcoal and propane barbeques as well
The fact that he just got 7 million three weeks ago and hes almost at 7.5 million.
the pandemic is actually doing him a real solid. His kind of content is barely slowed by the pandemic so he has a leg up against many impeded YTbers fighting for our screen time. He is still pumping 1-2 videos a week which is impressive.
@@yiklongtay6029 and the most important thing, he does what he loves to do
There's no stopping him
now over 8 mil just a few months after that
8 million now
you should’ve made Eowyns Stew, the greatest food in all of fantasy.
The gamiest, blandest stew in the land!
The most lore breaking, impossibly terrible stew on earth!
I love that Eowyn marries Faimir in the end.
@@francesco_navarro *Faramir smh
Link’s Grandma’s soup is way better!
Things I know to be fact from watching: Babish bought too many sliced almonds and needed an excuse to use them.
Lmao
Is there ever a case of to many sliced almonds though
@@matthewmcnamee2864 if youre allergic...probably
And tarbonaro sugar too he used that on everything
I think hobbits would be incredibly miffed at the notion that they would get a smaller pie because of their size!
Very miffed. Remember Mary in pippins excitement over pints!
Shogun Merry? (Sorry to be _that_ person)
Also, those mince pies were only about half size tbh, though it's funny he didn't cover them fully.
Great comment!
As an actual hobbit, I can confirm
If you didn’t sweep those biscotti crumbles onto half a scoop of vanilla ice cream I swear Andrew, I don’t even want to know ya.
Goddammit. I just had an extended edition marathon with some friends. Should've copied this. Instead I made chicken pot pie and hobbit sized pumpkin pies and I created 10 cocktails. One each for the fellowship +Gollum. They had whacky names. They were numbered and were served for specific times jn the movies. It was soooo much work and I saw barely half of the movies. But it wad worth it. It's a memory to cherish.
How dare you tease us like that! Would you consider posting the recipes? I’m curious and inspired.
Who else was so glad when Babish mentioned Townsends?
Ismt that the 18th century guy?
@@finnagetemp3186 yup
@@Linkofvalor ohhh i saw him make cheese soup the other day
I am so pleased to know Andy loves John Townsend 😍 I need a crossover! Now!
Yea good man I want Townsend and primitive technology together
*“Even the smallest Whisk can change the course of the future.”* - Galadriel when she give Elvish Whisk to Babish
“I don’t do magic foods” *sad imaginary pie noises*
Life of Boris fan?
I was kind of sad he didn’t do anything with inducting any into the clean plate club
When I made Lembas Bread I went the hard-tack route as well, but used brown sugar and honey in addition to the regular ingredients. I got something that was an odd mix of hard tack and sugar cookie. It was enjoyable.
That doesn't sound half bad. Was it as hard as hardtack?
@@lacriaturadekentucky It was stiff but not too hard. Took some chewing. It was kind of ginger snap cookie quality.
This channel is the very essence of Tolkien's quote “If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world” Thanks for making the world that much better Babish!
Wow love this :)
Babish: "damn this bag of almonds is about to expire... Put it in everything."
Hahaha for real. I hate almonds so that just ruined all these recipes for me.
He opened another packet by the time he got to the carraway cake XD
Yup, that's every single recipe I'm going to have to modify, then.
Yeah, I don’t see almonds as being the primary nut of the Shire. The climate seems much more like walnut weather.
I always pictured lembas as a cookie type of bread. Like a wafer similar to a fortune cookie or something akin to a shortbread. Something buttery and dry but lightly sweet like the books say.
I imagined lembas bread to be more of a big shortbread with a particularly long shelf life, not some bland tooth breaker.
Completely right. It should be sweet and delicious. I imagine like a crispy cookie or shortbread with almond or anise flavor.
It probably is, Gimli sees it in the book and assumes it's cram, even makes a face and says the word before taking a bite. Than eats the whole thing because he's surprised by the delicious flavor. So ideally true lembas bread would look like cram but have better flavor and more nutrition. I've seen several recipes based on travelers breads with a little honey for flavor.
@@arielshuffield4188 Cram/hard tack would make the most sense as Tolkien was drawing from his experience as a WW1 vet and hard tack was still a staple of rations at the time.
Part 3 is, "Potatoes. Boil 'em, Mash 'em, Stick 'em in a stew"
Better than "we ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!"
And bilbos cake
Give it to us raw. And wrrrriigggling
Funny comment!
dang it great minds think alike XD
I think "hobbit-sized" foods would be slightly larger than human portions...
Little Bits
Definitely. Food for a hobbit, and food the size of a hobbit, are definitely different proportions.
@ChillPacks Lil’ biiiiiiiiits
How does something so small eat so much?
indeed, Bread with Butter, Cheese and Cured Meat, Fruit as fresh as you can get, those would just be the Appetizers.
1:38 A Townsend and Babish collab in the future? Don't tease us, dude!
Hai Nhat Phung needs more Nutmeg
Yes absolutely! Townsend's channel is the most wholesome channel around! And it never fails to inform about the history of American cooking.
@@trin7346 I love Townsend too! Kinda like video klonopin sometimes, really chills me out
I can imagine food from something like Barry Lyndon as the Townsends collab. Or maybe The Patriot or some film set in the revolution.
I'll never forget how Ian Holm enriched my imagination with his thoughtful performances. I also will never forget of the kind of childhood traumas he suffered at the hands of his parents he described in his biography. Rest easy Holm, rest easy...
“There is only one Lord of the Tiny Whisk, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.”
Well done sir.
One whisk to rule them all, one whisk to find them, one whisk to bring them all, and in the kitchen, bind them. Sorry had too!
Babish: "I don't make magic food" Also babish: "This week we are making Peter Pan and the lost boy's invisible pies"
That pie was imaginary not magic slight difference. :)
@@omenrose Technically correct!
@@noanoxan The best kind of correct!
For someone as new to baking as I am, Babish say "it's going to be fine" is really what I needed.
I love how all the food channels, (Binging with Babish, Cooking History, and the Townsends) all just shout eachother out and are generally nice with one another. It’s honestly great and they give eachother their well deserved props.
I hope the second episode gives us such wretched creations as orc draught, maggoty bread, and Eowyn’s stew
And hobbit legs since they don’t need them
I've been searching Eowyn's stew for many years already. Long have it eluded me.
LMAOOOOO Savage 😂
Would rather eat maggoty bread than Eowyn's stew
hahaha yes!
Townsends shout-out has to be the most ambitious cross-over in KZhead history
AAAAAAHHHHH, I'M FREAKING OUT OVER IT
Molly?! Bidet!
it's so weird when you realise that youtubers watch youtube too
All he needed to do was mention nutmeg in the recipe and I was set!
I was going to look for this comment and was pleasantly surprised to find it right on top! Love Townsends! Babish knows the good stuff! :D
As a kid, I always imagined lembas bread as really big croutons for some reason.
I always thought it was like expired pita
I always thought it was similar to naan
@@KarissaGaskill it's practically naan
It's fancy hardtack so you're not too far off.
What brits call “mince meat”. Aussies, Kiwis, and Brits: hold my tea
As a kiwi i would agree thats fruit mince
Hello new zealander, Im a southerner, right down the bottom... We call it Fruit Pies, not mince meat or fruit mince...
If you don’t eat a cherry tomato very grossly in the next one, I’m going to be dissappointed
I was hoping this would come up
You gotta bite the lip, get that blood drainage ya know.
Don't forget about biting into that chicken leg!
When you eventually hit 10 million you should do No-Face’s feast from Spirited Away
that's a death wish meal.
Oh man, don't get my hopes up
Yes that would be awsome
YES
This is a underrated comment
Mincemeat pies were originally made with "mince" or "humble" which was cheaply sourced ground meat or animal organs like liver, flavoured with a bit of fruit and spices. As the industrial revolution kicked in, and fruit and spices became cheaper, the amount of meat gradually decreased, and the amount of fruit increased, until the only thing left in "mincemeat pies" was fruit, spices, and some beef suet or fat to bind it all together.
Me at 1:20: "Oh, I see that Andrew too is a man of culture who has partaken of Jon Townse.... NAILED IT"
man now I'm thinking about having a LOTR-themed party, maybe for one of the solstices... imagine the *aesthetics*
There's plenty of food ideas in the books tbh. The meal at Bree, the meal at Bombadil's, even the meal at Beorn's in the Hobbit
The after party has to be The Hobbit theme. Specifically, when the dwarves visit Bilbo. The night will end with deep, bassy, manly singing.
Well ya just missed the summer solstice, but this food would be great for Mabon I think. Second Harvest and Autumn Equinox.
Imagine the price
I did that once, when we got all the extended edition discs. Second breakfast to start at ten a.m. and then another meal put out at every disc change, and finishing with the theatrical version of the last film. The menu was medievalish rather than full on authentic Tolkien, several of the meals were repeated, and hot dishes were only hot on the first serving.
I just love that the seven million subscriber special hasn't been out for a month and he's already almost halfway through to eight.
"I wanted these to come out Hobbit sized" so you mean twice as big? Lol
All of us history buffs just felt so happy when he shouted out Townsend
now thats a collab i hope happens one day
@@TheGcd1 only if Babish dresses in 18th century garb
BRUH
and then made hard tack
Wow I'm so proud of them! I met them at the Feast of the Hunter's moon in Lafayette before I even knew they had a KZhead Channel. I was interested in their mushroom ketchup, so when I got home I looked up how to make it. Imagine my surprise when the top result was a video of the guy who was just selling it to me! I've followed ever since.
Things I did not expect: -A Townsends shoutout
there's nutmeg as well
Nutmeg daddy getting his dues!
Yes. I was happy to hear that, too. So many neat recipes over there.
My heart got all warm when that happened!
So happy to hear that shout out. It's a great channel.
I always imagined the seed cake being full of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, etc. Caraway seeds somehow never crossed my mind. haha
I don’t understand a single reference in the comments but I’m still happy to be here!
Lembas is the equivalent to the US military MRE "Wheat Snack Bread" and tastes like it will keep you alive.
"Tastes like it will keep you alive" is a phrase I need to remember for reasons.
If this ain't the truest thing I've ever heard 😂 wheat snack bread and jalapeño cheese spread
@@edwardc1688 a delicious combo, but in a different way from peanut butter atop a chocolate pound cake
Hard tack lol
I'm just saying if you get enough of the ones by Pangea Bakery you could make yourself some body armor.
It will not ever cease to amaze me how many carbs Hobbits can stick away.
It all goes right to their feet.
It's for all the mischief
Keep in mind, Hobbits are farmers. They NEEDED that many carbs to give themselves the energy to do that much hard work.
@@erikjaroy8214 After seeing how they work with cattle and pig twice their size Yeah i can see why....
@@erikjaroy8214 Still, Tolkien wrote that Bilbo's relations where especially eager to bring all their children to the party, because you get that much food hardly anywhere and apparently Hobbit children can eat you into ruin. And don't tell me they're still growing. They're not. They're Hobbits :D
“Enough Horsin’ Around” *Bojack Horseman flashbacks*
Hey, aren't you the horse from Horsin' Around?
What is this, a crossover episode?
Looooove Townsends channel, as well as BWB! Good to hear them mentioned on a larger channel. They have so many awesome and informative videos and deserve lots of ❤️
"He knows about second breakfast doesn't he?"
I don't think he does pip
What about elevensies?
Luncheon? Afternoon tea?
Dinner? Supper?
Dinner, supper
Babish shouting out James Townsends made my day. May your food be well seasoned with Nutmeg, Andrew.
goes on the list of things I never quite expected.
I concur. I use Townsend recipes every day.
Same!
Right???
I actually flipped out. Can they do a collab please???
10:24 "Mix with a rubber spatula and eventually your *Fingies..."* Seriously caught me off guard, especially how you said it so casually like it was an entirely normal thing to say.
He saved us the pain of watching him attempt to eat the hard tack
Imagine being friends with Babish and him calling you to say he has leftovers and you see THIS
In the words of Rhett from GMM: “this could be my heaven”
lmao right
This man is single-handedly keeping the flaked almond industry alive
And kosher salt industry
@@vojtechnovacek7776 I think the Kosher salt industry is doing just fine, between professional chefs, restaurants/diners/food industry and average people who actually cook/bake at home. Do you really find his use of Kosher salt so surprising, or is this like an inside joke or something on the channel? I go through boxes of the stuff; a lot of it for salting pasta water alone.
@@somni2246 It is indeed an inside joke.
8:20 "hobbit-sized" should be supersized lmao
He said hobbit-sized, not hobbit-portioned
the "Mincedmeat pies" arent called that in England, we just call them minced pies, minced meat is ground up meat over here. also ive never had or seen a recipe for minced pies that has nuts in them at least not such large pieces, the filling isnt supposed to have any crunch it is supposed to be soft and fruity
I agree with not having nuts in it, especially not in those sizes. However, I've always called it 'mincemeat', however they are just 'mince pies'
@@johnhawthorne1084 I'd say the filling is called mincemeat, but the pie itself is a mince pie. That's what I call it.
@@helena2787 but it shouldn’t be crunchy
in new Zealand when we say "mince pie" we mean a pie with mince in it.
@@user-ez9is7lb9p yeah definitely not in the filling. I think crispitude is acceptable in the crust though, especially if it's a crumble topping.
"Is it bothering anybody else than I'm using metric for measurements but not temperatures, I bet it is" Welcome to the life of cooking in Canada
celsius is for the weather, farenheit is for cooking
@@HKgaming86 that is interesting can I ask why you guys make that distinction? As an American
@@annettecruz8830 It's because we tried to convert to metric but really half-assed it. people just didn't care to switch. So we now have this awkward metric-here-imperial-there kind of thing going on.
Sunkyu Park yup pretty much
@@annettecruz8830 also most of our appliances are imported from america and have Imperial Scale. And back when we switched long duration purchases (like ovens) didn't get rebought just to have a metric scale. This is also (partially) why human weights are often in lbs to this day, even if food weights are usually metric now. Oh, and it wasn't a seamless transition. Someone added too little fuel to a plane because of the conversion and it ran out of gas mid-air. I add this for the obvious LOTR tie-in that it's known as the 'Gimli Glider'. (Note not really a LOTR reference.)
Babish: “I don’t do magic foods” Harry Potter episode:
That was majorly disappointing. I made lembas myself, messed up (they were like sweet biscuits rather than flatbread) and I did better than him. I was looking forward to him making them so I could see a legitimate way myself.
Hmm... doesn't say he can't, though...
@@James11111 he did lembas bread in the HP episode?
Coolchilion no
@@James11111 Feel you on that. I was thinking he'd add protein powder or something to up the calories so it could fill a man for an entire day...
Kudos for shouting out Townsends! Another Great cooking channel that is both unique and refreshing!
I love how the 7M special has 7M views, very satisfying
Townsend's is probably the most underrated channels on KZhead, they show you how they did things hundreds of years ago. It's very interesting and worth a sub
Love that he gave my dude a shoutout. Now we need a nutmeg episode.
Him and tastinghistory, they do basically the same thing but instead he does specifically cooking
@@mikep1530 where did do the shoutout? I mustve missed it.
my dumbass thought u were talking about andros townsend 🤦♂️
@@HeavyMetalMike it was when he was putting the pork in the container and filling it with more salt
"Is it bothering anyone else that I'm using metric for measurements but not temperatures?" I see you too are Canadian.
Yup that about sums it up for living in Canada
Large or Liquid in metric while dry/small amounts with imperial. Oh, Canada...
He’s from NYC
A given temperature is the same regardless of what you call it, but metric is better for baking, which needs to be precise, because it measures mass, not volume like imperial units. Think of it this way, a cup can fit a varying amount of flour depending on how much it's packed, but 500g of flour is the same amount regardless of how packed or loose it is.
@@canadious6933 exactly sums it up for us
I love Townsends. I’m so happy you gave him a shoutout ‼️
I always liked to think the “lembas” as dense short bread. But I love short bread.
The “honey cakes” make me so happy, Andrew definitely didn’t skimp on the research!
Ha, a true follower of Binging with Babish ....you remembered that his name isn't "Babish".
Ron 3, you are correct sir.
except for potatoes: boil, fry, stick them in a stew
I think his name is Bing
In England we call them "Mince Pies" not "Mincemeat Pies", it can be confusing as the main ingredident is reffered to as "Mincemeat" , over here "Mince Meat" is what Americans call "Ground Meat", it's easy to confuse the two but they are different things
THANK YOU
A channel called How to Cook That actually made one of the ye olde ones with meat. It looked disgusting, but worth a watch
@Jeffrey Grimes i'm a Brit and have always wondered why the fruit was called mincemeat. Thanks for that!
To be honest this just confused me more. But on the other hand there is a lot more I'm confused about in american english. Then however I'm german and we describe the shit out of things. And then there is French.
We call them "mince pies", but the filling is very often called "mincemeat". "Mince meat" is also ground meat or "minced meat".
Any mincemeat I've ever had was made with ground (or minced) meat and suet. My grandmother and mom used to make it with ground deer meat to help use it up. I have never had a version that omits the meat, I'm guessing leaving it out is cheaper (since it is no longer necessary as a preservation method) and makes it an easier sell to people wary of meat in their desserts.
I believe it’s called mince meat because when meat was very expensive and only the wealthy could really afford to have things like pork they would put a bit of the minced meat in the pie with the fruit and nut mixture to essential show their guests how wealthy they were, the more meat the more wealthy.
Babish really be out here pronouncing the T in “soften”
This is the same person who says "saucepn" so it's expected.
Vigilant Cosmic Penguin I guess 😂
**proceeds to have a stroke trying to pronounce Worcestershire**
@@michaelmyers8596 worst-esh-pesh-cesspool-jester-abracadabra-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-shire
@@michaelmyers8596 "Whatyoursistersaidsauce" Easy.
When my friends did a food and movie marathon for lord of the rings, our lembas was a buttery shortbread that also had ground almond replacing some of the flour that was, in fact, very filling and lasting
That sounds much better, tbh.
Niiice. I’d love to have something like that!! 😍
Timothy Engelstad I mean yeah it’s fucking hard tack
Babish should try this.
Babish did pretty good with what he had, but Lembas was presumably sweet and softer. In the Lotr wiki, it made reference that Gimli first thought it was Cram, but was found sweet and pleasant. It was then described as a wafer. All in all, he did amazing, and I can't wait until part 2 comes out :D
Lembas for me is more of a short cake, kind of like biscotti, baked until lightly browned. Cool and then bake again at a low heat until it's really dry. What you made was indeed cram.
Mincemeat did traditionally include meat - a fruit and meat mixture like a non-dried version of pemmican. This was back before industrially produced, pre-packaged foods were a thing and nearly everyone made their own food. Over time, food producers substituted out more and more meat to cut expenses that it eventually became just fruits, nuts and spices.
In case anyone cares, “mince meat” comes from the sweet meat pies of the Middle Ages: they didn’t have desserts per say but fruit were mixed into many dishes. So mince meat, once upon a time, contained actual minced meat.
@Dyanosis I don't think there was such a strong distinction between sweet and savoury dishes like we have today. It was commonplace to have both elements feature quite prominently in the same dish, hence mince meat pies as OP describes.
That's not the etymology linguists subscribe to since its language external. "Meat" has only exclusively referred to animal flesh for a relatively small and recent frame of time, with it having a more general definition of "food" or "meal" from Middle English all the way back to Proto-Indo-European.
Care of Mr Googlepants: Filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices called 'mincemeat', mince pie ingredients can be traced back to the 13th century. ... Mincemeat developed as a way of preserving meat without salting or smoking 500 years ago. The filling comes from the medieval tradition of spiced meat dishes, usually minced mutton.
@Dyanosis Personal idiolect. Additionally, @Ghonosyphlaids is quite correct: at those times people didn’t eat courses but had the entire meal presented to be eaten at once and strict desserts were quite uncommon (but not unheard of). @AdvancePlays while you may be correct from a etymological perspective, I hope I was clear in using the contemporary definition of “meat”. And @Ursula Hirzel, thanks for doing the Google I couldn’t be bothered to do.
What I'm hearing is that pies were the multipurpose cooking and eating medium that Burritos hold today.
Babish - "I don't do magic foods, sorry that is Babish store policy." Also Babish - Monster Cake from Breath of the Wild
He’s learned from that
It's not magic though, it's just a durian cake that uses one special ingredient.
its not magic? but okay monster dosent = magic
What about Imaginary Pie from Hook?
I broke the 420
I'm so glad you did the seed cake when I was listening to the audiobook I heard "sea cake" I was very confused and intrigued still intrigued and can't wait to try this
this reminds me of my family’s tradition of having harvest feasts with all our friends!!
Pippin: We have salted p- Babish: *pulls out every ounce of kosher salt he has in his pantry*
And it's called "mincemeat" because in Tudor times sugar and spices were for the rich, and combinations of sweet and savoury were the thing you ate when you were rich. The mincemeat was half the filling for a pie. It was mixed with minced (ground) meat, and put in a pie. As tastes changed over the centuries, the meat was left out and the pie became a sweet treat.
Wow this is going in my history report
I'd eat that. Then again I'm French
Mince meat pie used to have meat in it. It was used to vastly prolong the shelf life of meat without having a jar or anything to put it in. The shelf life is not effected after only being protected by a thick pie crust, and having meat in it. Apparently it isn't as bad as you'd think, and the taste doesnt change. (The person I watched eat it put it in a jar for 6 months though)
In my experience, mince pies have a closed top. A big part of the experience is how much pastry crumbles all over the floor. It's why we only really eat them at Christmas.
Babish: "You might notice that these are pretty small. That's because I wanted them to come out Hobbit sized." Me: "Then shouldn't they be bigger?"
Exactly what I thought
I'm British and my grandmother's famous mince pie trick is to add about a tsp of fresh orange zest to the pie crust, also about 2 tbsp of the juice, makes it crumbly and compliments the flavours of the mince meat! Absolutely delicious. Tradition in my family. lol I don't know why it's called mince meat either
I'm a bit late here, but from what I understand, the "meat" part of mince meat was once, in fact, actual meat. Specifically, old meat that was most definitely past it's prime. The fruit flavors were (supposedly) strong enough to help cover up the unpleasantness that is expired meat. It was meant to try to avoid food wastage in hard times, especially during war times or famine when you literally couldn't afford to let things go to waste.
Also instead of butter, folks would often use beef suet!
@@kattrielladoesstuff my family still adds the meat. Pork or veal are best
@@kattrielladoesstuff thank you. I was curious why it was called mincemeat pie when there was no meat in it.
There's another KZhead channel that delves into food history & did a story on the origins of mince pies. It's called "Tasting History with Max Miller" & is very informative & entertaining.
Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and sometimes beef suet, beef, or venison. Originally, mincemeat always contained meat.[1] Many modern recipes contain beef suet, though vegetable shortening is sometimes used in its place. Variants of mincemeat are found in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, northern Europe, Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. so, uh, yeah, do with that incredibly easily acquirable information what you will
Love how he called the mince pies "Hobbit sized" yet I'm sat here thinking they are normal size lol
"We've had nothing but maggoty bread for three, stinking, days!" "Yeah! Why can't we have some meat?! What about them? They're fresh!"
They are NOT for eating!
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LittleCheebs what about their legs? They don’t need those!
So about the taters: will you be boiling, mashing them, and sticking then in a stew, or not?
Ah early memes..... I remember discovering this on Albino black sheep along with a few other LOTR clips
What’s taters precious? What’s taters?!
@@jg1335 PO-TAY-TOES
Yes
@@babishculinaryuniverse Even you wouldn't say no to that.
If you don't have a"fluted pastry cutter," you can just use a biscuit cutter. They are the same thing as far as I know. For lembas, I make a buttery cookie which is a little bit like a scone. I like to put in chia seeds and ground-up pumpkin seeds to make it somewhat sustaining.
Thanks for name dropping tbe Townsends channel! They really deserve the attention