What Medieval Peasants Ate During War, Plague, and Famine

They ate each other.

Fern roots? Ferns do not have roots.

nice video, learn something new thanks

Sadly, I have read of people in Haiti, eating soil during their hardship periods and nutritional deficiency.. the clay thickened soup reminded me of this. One pot soups/meals cooked in a thick metal pot also economized on the amount of fuel needed for fire and potentially made for less prep time cooking, freeing someone's time up for other work. And that heavy, thick cooking pot had insulating qualities when the fire was out, keeping food warm longer and were slower to burn foods than thinner metal pots when the fire was extremely hot. I really enjoy these food history and food culture videos. Some of these foods and food techniques are passed down today as gourmet delicacies or gourmet horror in our eyes. It's a fascinating topic. It's a wonder anyone survived with some of the Medival periods hardships and harshness.

good timing of this video. America is not far from this under this current 'admin'.

Meanwhile, rice is the staple food in Asian countries. And inside the wall city, there're paddy field for food during war.

i watch u every day

You cant eat soil. But grass and sorts is probably what u mean. Soil has no nutritional value but might help kill u faster

Seaweed? Garlic? Would be fuckkng awesome if your starving. Thats like having a steak 😢 boil that up even for a normal feed and its nice. Get some muscles or shellfish or fish, bit of seaweed if u got garlic thats a bonus. Brew that up and its actually really nice! And good for you

IF ACORN FLOUR MAKES BITTER BREAD, IT IS BECAUSE THE TANNINS HAVE NOT SUFFICIENTLY BEEN SOAKED OUT OF THE ACORNS. IT IS AN BEAUTIFUL FLOUR THAT MAKES THE ABSOLUTELY VERY BEST COOKIES.🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍞🥨🥞

🏞 Acorns can be placed in an onion bag, and left securely anchored in a creek, to soak those tannins out. If soaking in a bucket, change the water twice daily, for a number of days. Please do look it up.

Is the narrators voice AI or is it the actual creators voice?

Never heard about wild turnips, but any which way, sounds like turnips were eaten a whole lot back then.😊

THE LIST ACCORDING TO THIS VIDEO 😊
* bread, made with other ingredients, such as acorn flour, (after soaking all the tannins out the acorns, which takes a number of days, and changes of water twice daily at least.)
🏞 acorns can be placed in an onion bag, and firmly anchored in a creek, to wash tannins out, for several days
* 🌳🌲 Bark flour, made from the inner cambrian layer, from certain trees, such as green pine trees, and birch.
* bean flour, made of lower quality beans, meant for animal feed, adding proteins and minerals meals
* sawdust, no flavor nor nutrients, just a filler
* chalk, ground up, just a filler
* stale hard bread soaked in low quality ale
Or made into soup. 🍲
* boiled nettle leafes in springtime preferably, made into soup
* Dandilions, the entire plant being edible
* Turnips, wild or cultivated, turnip greens too
* Fern rhizomes, of edible varieties, learn which are edible
* Thistles, tap root, peeled stems, cooked into soup
* Wild garlic, young grass shoots
(not crabgrass though, not even the goats eat it )
* certain types of seaweeds, fresh or dried
* 🌳🌲 tree moss boiled in water, little nutrition
* Soups, stews, broths,
stretching whatever little there was available
* onions, available even in lean times, also leeks
* pea soup, lemtil soup, very nutritious
* clay thickened soup, in times of desperation
* garden snails, broth and snail meat
* Cabbage, or pickled cabbage soup
* frog stew 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 seasonal
* horse meat scraps, when a horse became injured
* dog meat as a last resort, likewise cats
* crow meat, hard to ketch those birds
* hedgehog meat cooked on hot stomes, after removing the spines
* fish heads and bones cooked into a nutrient dense soup
( the leftovers from the higher ups)
* fish guts, even preserved as to waste nothing
* Smoked eel and other fish
* rats, then mice, on skewers
* preserved provisions for the winter months
* Pickled cabbage, and sauerkraut
* Pickled onions, whole or cut up, garlic in brine
* Dry peas, lentils, beans
* dried apples from autumn, sliced and hing on a string over the fireplace
* Butter, stored
* Cheese preserved in cool places
* Beer, with herbs added when sauer
* fall apples boiled, once cleaned up, kids favorite
* boiled shoe leather, broken belts, boiled for hours to release colagen
* moldy grains, tossing the most severely affected portions
* animal feed, cleand up, sorted, boiled
* frost damaged vegetables, cooked
* clay eating in extreme desperation, also added in small amounts to soup as a thickener
* yeast, from the bottom of the barrel, from beer
* adults not eating to feed the children

... and most horrifying even :
* infanticide, known to occur in extreme starvation

Love your videos ! Would you consider making one about Medieval arts and crafts and artists lives during that time ? :D Just can't get enough of the medieval cat depictions ! :D

I do not know why, but the like button jùst will not work, again. Happens too often. 😳

I keep getting the reminder that if I was to be tossed suddenly into the medieval ages, i would last like a fart in the wind.

Food again? Really. Bye.

You had me at wet carpet. Great episode!

Fish head soup for famine?
We had that all the time here in Asia , and I am from a rich country. 😂

The church & nobility ate well, no matter what

interesting video

Glad that I live nowdays

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I love your social histories of the Middle Ages. You bring light to subjects we take for granted (grocery shopping) and explain what the people of the Middle Ages had to do instead. Thank you.

They survived war, plague, and famine with nothing but hope and boiled weeds. Makes me wonder—would any of us last even a week back then?