Welcome Friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to Sunday morning
in the old cookbook show um today we're
going to do a recipe out of this
cookbook it is called the G cookbook
this was published um in the
1890s uh in an area of Southwestern
Ontario called G this was a pivotal
cookbook um in Canadian cookbooks it uh
it's it's an early example of a
community cookbook fundraising cook book
um that shows the Canadian experience
and the recipe we're going to do today
is is sort of an outlier um in that it's
called fres
compos um compound beans and fris is is
spelled with a Y instead of a j which
kind of shows an interesting point to me
I think says to start off by soaking
white beans so these are white pea beans
that I've soaked um they would have been
very common in this part of the world at
that time so I'm going to put them into
a pot and we're going to cover them with
water maybe a little bit more put a lid
on okay so lid on bring this up to a
boil boil it for about an hour until the
beans start to soften and then we move
on what drew me to this recipe is that
it it it's one of those recipes that's
an
outlier it has a very as in 2024 looking
back at it it has a very Spanish Spanish
Mexican type influence to
it um it is definitely an outlier in
this book um most of the recipes in here
are even though they're canadianized
even though they show a sense of
place they are decidedly very much
English recipes British recipes uh some
of them are heavily influenced by
Germany
given this geographic location a lot of
towns around GT were settled heavily by
Germans so much so that many of the
towns around G had German names up until
around I don't know World War II when a
lot of the names changed to more English
names um that's part of our history so I
find it interesting that this that this
recipe ends up here and I'd like to know
who Mrs Koch was and what was her
influence in in sharing this recipe
obviously proud of the recipe because
she put it Forward into this community
cookbook had her name on it she was very
proud of
it I'm interested to see how it turns
out I think it's going to be great okay
the beans are done and most of the water
has boiled off so I'm not going to have
to pour any water away meanwhile in this
Frying Pan um maybe a little bit hotter
I've got some chopped up leftover ham
and I'm supposed to fry it and I guess
just to get some Browning on the outside
side so fry that off okay I'm going to
say that's good enough so that goes into
the
ham
H um there's some brown in the bottom of
that pan I'm going to De glaze the
bottom of that pan with a little bit of
the Tomato liquid so I'm supposed to put
the tomatoes in just scrape up some of
that fwn get the
flavor okay so get all that flavor from
the pan into the pot with
beans I'm supposed to put in chopped up
onion and
celery
salt and
pepper now for the tomatoes it said
canned tomatoes I have made a giant
assumption that you probably if living
in this area in the 189 you were making
home canned tomatoes uh canning your own
Tomatoes every fall and based on that um
what my family did is uh a a canned
tomato that was a stewed tomato so you
took your Tomatoes you stewed them with
some celery and onion and then you Cann
them so that's what I've used in here
kind of home canned
tomatoes uh now I'm supposed to put a
lid on this and what does it say leave
on the fire at the back of the leave on
fire until thickness wanted so uh I'm
going to say probably an hour or two on
a low low flame yes chicken yes chicken
I
know it's Tomatoes you don't like
tomatoes no you
don't okay here we go this is looking
really good smells fantastic too
what do we have today Glenn uh beans
let's get to the right
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section fres
composes conos compos conos oh P yeah
compound compound beans although frees
spell with a Y um because you would you
would probably spell it phonetically you
wouldn't know necessarily that it was a
j
oh that's a really good
Bean that's really nice mhm it's it's
it's and it's got such a clean simple
flavor yes yeah
unlike thank you
Miss kach K unlike the beans that my
family would have been eating in rural
Ontario in the 1890s which would have
been heavy with molasses and yeah yes
and super overcooked like baked for
hours and and then you got to wonder
what inspired Mrs kanok to you know how
did this recipe do these things right
yeah how did this recipe end up in G
yeah you know very small rural Ontario
Town in the
1890s um how did it get there cuz it's
fantastic I like it very much and what
is the origin of this recipe so if you
are from a background where where
something like this is made in your
family tell us how you make it to get it
to this point like really there's no new
way to make food someone out there makes
this and eats this on a regular basis
just cuz it's new to us mhm you know we
certainly didn't invent it but that's
what I mean mhm there's probably a long
family tradition of people who are
making this what is it where did it come
from please I'm liking it though tell us
my bowl is empty almost I got two bites
left all right thanks for stopping by
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