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in the old cookbook show today we're
going to do a recipe out of this little
cookbook
it's called the northern counties school
of cookery and household economy
cottage cookery recipes from newcastle
on tine now this was part of a three
book series
cottage cookery household cookery and
high class cookery and the cottage
cookery is the is the lowest one the
recipes are
less complicated
using ingredients that are less
expensive and easier to get your hands
on
uh and so today we're going to do a
recipe out of this
that i
i feel might be a little bit divisive
and i'll i'll tell you why we're gonna
make
hot pot and so this cookbook is from
1899.
uh
i brought out just a selection random
selection of cookbooks that i have from
england from this time period from say
1750 to
1940 1939 i think is the is the latest
one there
and
within england and scotland um there's
two schools
of thought around what goes into a hot
pot and if you want to break it down
there's east coast west coast
and this is an east coast
recipe and all of the east coast recipes
follow pretty much what's in this hot
pot
then there's the west coast recipe which
is
a little bit more involved
and i suspect is probably more flavorful
we'll find out
because i will eventually do the west
coast version and then the scottish
version is pretty much just a take on
the west coast version
with even more flavors than the english
version so
we'll get into this one
it starts out by saying remove
everything disagreeable from the meat
and cut it into nice sized pieces
prepare the vegetables and slice them
put a layer of meat in the bottom of an
earthenware dish then a layer of
vegetables sprinkle with seasoning now
the seasoning um
one salt spoon of salt and a quarter
salt spoon of pepper
not a lot of seasoning not a lot of
seasoning at all and the only other
sort of real thing that they want you to
do is make sure that you stop at the top
with potatoes so
i guess you know there's
three things that go in here so i'm
gonna put down a layer of meat
i don't have the correct earthenware
dish to do this in so i'm gonna do that
do the dish in
in this pot because it has a tight
fitting lid and tight fitting lid is one
of the things that you really need to
make this work
so there we go layer beef
layer of sliced onion
and a layer of potato
and then
another layer of beef
oops there's so little seasoning and i
almost forgot to put it on so we'll
sprinkle on
the tiniest little bit of salt
and the tiniest little bit of pepper
and then we'll just continue layering
um there's really not much to this at
all
when you look at the when you look at
the west coast versions
they are mutton or mutton and beef
there's kidney and and there's a bunch
of other things in there that i think
you know there's stock instead of water
there's a lot more going on i think it
would be a more flavorful dish
but you know maybe this is going to be
great
as well and this is not
this is not something that i ever ate
growing up it's not something that i've
ever eaten really as an adult i don't
know that i've ever had hot pot
even though you know my family comes
from england
and that's our lineage
this was never part of cooking here
so let me know
what you put in your hot pot
down in the comments i'd love to hear
what's in your family hot pot
okay finishing with the last layer of
potatoes
now this this gets baked in a slow oven
it says for two hours
and then you lift the lid at the end and
brown the potatoes on top
so i'll get the last layer in here
last potatoes i'll make sure i get the
last of that pepper on
all of the pepper because there's no
other flavor
and
a quarter pint of water
cover that with a bit of grease paper
put the lid on
and into the oven
hey glenn hey friends hey jules what do
we got going on
hot pot
a hot pot a hot pot
well i usually think of hot pot as being
really quite liquidy for some reason
that's what i thought too but but that's
just you know it could just be i mean
who's to say it's a pot it's hot this is
the first the first time i've ever had
hot pot
my only experience with hot pot is
betty's hot pot from the rover's return
on coronation street
that's funny okay so okay fair enough
but that being said i
i was actually thinking of hot pot as in
like
like a chinese like a chinese hot pot
like a chinese hot pot yeah so that's
where i got i mixed too but i hadn't
thought of of of the rover's return hot
plot or or french pot of food
which which becomes
in
which becomes full in other places yeah
so clearly hot pot just means you know
all sorts of things so this is
this is east coast hot pot apparently
judging by the recipes in in our english
cookbooks there's an east coast west
coast kind of thing
it's so good circa what 1710 like yeah
yeah well pretty pretty much yeah i mean
of course kind of comforting well it's
got all the onion pepper yeah
yeah
you can and you know i can see how you
can expand with you know some parsnips
some carrots
so that's what you start to see
in the west coast and scotland
some other root vegetables so you see
carrots and parsnips
this was just cooked with water salt and
pepper
you start to see broth
and
parsley
honestly well eventually you have a
class don't you no or do you ever have a
grasp it's always just a hot pot
yeah
and so you you see differences i mean
kidney
made with mutton or mutton and beef and
kidney so i mean there's
let us know
how you make it
or you know is this something that is
this
tv my experience is from tv right
people go to the pub
and they get a half pint of bitter
and and and a hot pot and they sit
around and they gossip is that actually
what happens in england or does it just
happen in manchester on tv i am not
eating this gracefully but it is very
good it is it's comforting
i would dare i say add a few things to
it though really but on its own it's
good it is it is that kind of mine's
almost gone warm comfort food
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