Food Prospectors Ate to Survive the Gold Rush
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Salmon was also eaten a lot during the California Gold Rush. there used to be big salmon runs in central and northern California. Pacific salmon swam into San Francisco Bay and continued up the big rivers that drain into the Bay. The salmon would spawn in the foothills on the Sierra Nevada Mountains and at even higher elevations in some areas.
Also, the sourdough bread was definitely not unique to or invented for the Gold Rush. Back then, most bread was made from a starter slurry of water and flour. Most bread was at least slightly sour so it'd have been redundant to call a basic bread a sourdough bread back then.
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Salmon was also eaten a lot during the California Gold Rush. there used to be big salmon runs in central and northern California. Pacific salmon swam into San Francisco Bay and continued up the big rivers that drain into the Bay. The salmon would spawn in the foothills on the Sierra Nevada Mountains and at even higher elevations in some areas.
Also, the sourdough bread was definitely not unique to or invented for the Gold Rush. Back then, most bread was made from a starter slurry of water and flour. Most bread was at least slightly sour so it'd have been redundant to call a basic bread a sourdough bread back then.
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Scott
I can't believe they missed Miners Lettuce! Also called Claytonia (which is its biological name) these tender and succulent salad greens grow at high altitudes and could provide important nutrition early in the dpring for a month or two. Would have been a literal life saver after a miner would be depleted of nutrients after a long winter and on the brink of scurvy
Nowadays it is something I make a living with. It groes especially well after forest fires!
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I can't believe they missed Miners Lettuce! Also called Claytonia (which is its biological name) these tender and succulent salad greens grow at high altitudes and could provide important nutrition early in the dpring for a month or two. Would have been a literal life saver after a miner would be depleted of nutrients after a long winter and on the brink of scurvy
Nowadays it is something I make a living with. It groes especially well after forest fires!
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Brian
I'd like to see a video of the lumber/mining industries on the Iron Ranges(Mesabi, Cayuna, and Vermilion) of northeast Minnesota. Lots of history there, as well as their connections to the Head of the Great Lakes in Duluth, MN and Superior, WI. I love your videos, you can make a seemingly mundane topic super entertaining and engaging as well as funny. I already love to learn and this is a very fun way to do it.
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I'd like to see a video of the lumber/mining industries on the Iron Ranges(Mesabi, Cayuna, and Vermilion) of northeast Minnesota. Lots of history there, as well as their connections to the Head of the Great Lakes in Duluth, MN and Superior, WI. I love your videos, you can make a seemingly mundane topic super entertaining and engaging as well as funny. I already love to learn and this is a very fun way to do it.
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Basement
The Cornish Pastie is a staple today in the UK. It hails from Cornwall in England. It was used by farmers and such to be able to take a full meal out into the fields in one neat pastry pack. They are delicious, I expect as it has been adopted it has been adapted to local markets but I do know a true Cornish Pastie is something to behold. LOL Oh and it's not pronounces Paystee it's pronounced pa stie
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The Cornish Pastie is a staple today in the UK. It hails from Cornwall in England. It was used by farmers and such to be able to take a full meal out into the fields in one neat pastry pack. They are delicious, I expect as it has been adopted it has been adapted to local markets but I do know a true Cornish Pastie is something to behold. LOL Oh and it's not pronounces Paystee it's pronounced pa stie
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John
Fun fact about cornish pasties: the knurled edge was never meant to be eaten! The miners would have toxic materials on their hand from working the mines, and taking a pastie to work for lunch would enable them to eat the mincemeat and pastry in the center, while only handling the knurled edge with their hands! Eat the middle, toss the outer edge and don't get metal poisoning
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Fun fact about cornish pasties: the knurled edge was never meant to be eaten! The miners would have toxic materials on their hand from working the mines, and taking a pastie to work for lunch would enable them to eat the mincemeat and pastry in the center, while only handling the knurled edge with their hands! Eat the middle, toss the outer edge and don't get metal poisoning
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Paul
I HATE NETTLES! I learnt about nettles while fishing a small stream in Michigan while wearing shorts and a tank top. I was probably about 15 then. I walked through a patch that was roughly waist high. I learnt what they looked like real quickly. My dad thought it was funny as heck! Thank goodness if you go in the water it helps the burning-itch!
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I HATE NETTLES! I learnt about nettles while fishing a small stream in Michigan while wearing shorts and a tank top. I was probably about 15 then. I walked through a patch that was roughly waist high. I learnt what they looked like real quickly. My dad thought it was funny as heck! Thank goodness if you go in the water it helps the burning-itch!
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Franklin
The quote There's gold in them thar hills was not in reference to the west coast discoveries, but the gold already being mined in the Eastern Gold Belt, primarily in Georgia and the Carolinas. Those hills are what was reference as containing gold, in a plea for the local miners to not pick up and move west in '49.
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The quote There's gold in them thar hills was not in reference to the west coast discoveries, but the gold already being mined in the Eastern Gold Belt, primarily in Georgia and the Carolinas. Those hills are what was reference as containing gold, in a plea for the local miners to not pick up and move west in '49.
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debm
I'll add to the mispronunciation debate. Yes, they are called 'past-ees'. 'Pays-tees' - more often spelled 'pasties' are certain accoutrements that burlesque uses wear. And that comment about Take that, Great Britain is off-base. Wales IS part of Great Britain. It would be more accurate to say Take that, England
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I'll add to the mispronunciation debate. Yes, they are called 'past-ees'. 'Pays-tees' - more often spelled 'pasties' are certain accoutrements that burlesque uses wear. And that comment about Take that, Great Britain is off-base. Wales IS part of Great Britain. It would be more accurate to say Take that, England
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Elaine
I'm not sure where some of the information comes from, but in my 48 years of frequenting pubs in Britain I could not agree that Welsh rarebit or rabbit is a popular pub food. Very rarely seen would be more appropriate. So many US based posts make a lot of cockeyed statements about what happens over here.
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I'm not sure where some of the information comes from, but in my 48 years of frequenting pubs in Britain I could not agree that Welsh rarebit or rabbit is a popular pub food. Very rarely seen would be more appropriate. So many US based posts make a lot of cockeyed statements about what happens over here.
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RiDDimCheF
Absoloutly true that any starter will change its profile according to the flour and local yeasts and bacteria. Take a SF starter and feed it in London with local flour and it will be different to the original.
I dont think sourdough was invented in SF. Process been used for thousands of years
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Absoloutly true that any starter will change its profile according to the flour and local yeasts and bacteria. Take a SF starter and feed it in London with local flour and it will be different to the original.
I dont think sourdough was invented in SF. Process been used for thousands of years
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Motley
I would LOVE to hear about the history of African-American soul food. you can even make these videos based on the states like, How Did African-American Soul Food in Mississippi Come to Be? Or How Did African-American Soul Food Come to be in Alabama.
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I would LOVE to hear about the history of African-American soul food. you can even make these videos based on the states like, How Did African-American Soul Food in Mississippi Come to Be? Or How Did African-American Soul Food Come to be in Alabama.
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locutus155
I may be Devonian (the ancient enemy of the Cornish) but even I know not to mispronounce pasty.
It's Pass Tee.
I will not protect you when the Cornish come knocking.
You are on your own!
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I may be Devonian (the ancient enemy of the Cornish) but even I know not to mispronounce pasty.
It's Pass Tee.
I will not protect you when the Cornish come knocking.
You are on your own!
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education
And rarebit isn't a gloop. rather a thick cheese sauce, spread on toasted bread, then put under the grill (broiler)to bubble n brown. And never ever seen it served in a pub in UK!
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And rarebit isn't a gloop. rather a thick cheese sauce, spread on toasted bread, then put under the grill (broiler)to bubble n brown. And never ever seen it served in a pub in UK!
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education
Lol I still make savory meat pies to go for hiking camping and day trips for my family, its filling, hearty and you can use anything you have. Super funny that thats weird food.
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Lol I still make savory meat pies to go for hiking camping and day trips for my family, its filling, hearty and you can use anything you have. Super funny that thats weird food.
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education
The wesh rabbit bit is wrong. It's rarebit. not rabbit. It's a brchamel cheese sauce with specific condiments. Spread on toast and grilled. I doubt anyone makes it like this
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The wesh rabbit bit is wrong. It's rarebit. not rabbit. It's a brchamel cheese sauce with specific condiments. Spread on toast and grilled. I doubt anyone makes it like this
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Nix
I love nettle soup. It's very helpful when you are sick and can't eat much. When you are well, add chunks of potato to the pureed nettle/potato base and maybe some bacon as well!
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I love nettle soup. It's very helpful when you are sick and can't eat much. When you are well, add chunks of potato to the pureed nettle/potato base and maybe some bacon as well!
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History
Quick question did Alaska had a gold rush too? I thought California had a gold rush in the 1850s but Ive never heard of an Alaskan gold rush (never mind I just looked it up)
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Quick question did Alaska had a gold rush too? I thought California had a gold rush in the 1850s but Ive never heard of an Alaskan gold rush (never mind I just looked it up)
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Adam
For the love of God please stop calling them 'PAY-stees'! It's 'PAST-ees'! spelled 'Pasty's'. Everyone in England is cringing at how it's pronounced in this video. Rant over
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For the love of God please stop calling them 'PAY-stees'! It's 'PAST-ees'! spelled 'Pasty's'. Everyone in England is cringing at how it's pronounced in this video. Rant over
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Basement
I think your talking utter bollox about Welsh Rabbit being eaten a lot in pubs in the UK. I know. I am English and have been to a lot of pubs.
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I think your talking utter bollox about Welsh Rabbit being eaten a lot in pubs in the UK. I know. I am English and have been to a lot of pubs.
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Andries
I don't know if I misheard but how is English Monkey a vegetarian dish and feature in a Vegetarians cook book? It has cheese and eggs in it?
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I don't know if I misheard but how is English Monkey a vegetarian dish and feature in a Vegetarians cook book? It has cheese and eggs in it?
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