Hi from NobodySpecial 268

[Ksihkehe]

I saw a BBC documentary where they found some historians and got them to live on a farm as people did in seventeenth century England.

They have around a half dozen of these in different time periods with some specials on holiday feasts and such for anyone that likes this kind of show. Right up to the World Wars where they maintained all the civil defense gadgets in the conditions they had at the time. I have always been fascinated with day to day life in other periods and locations. I think daily life tells you a lot more about things than the monuments to their societal achievements. The big events are interesting and epic, but life is found in the day to day.

I don't imagine ever having to rake hay into giant mounds to hold through the cold and wet, but if I do I now know why and how they made their piles. I like lost ingredients too, things that don't get used or get used far more restrictively than they once were. I'm always interested in seeing their cooking techniques and how they adapted to food availability and cooking capacity.

It's the type of TV that I wish we were funding with our tax dollars instead of activist nonsense. I think they're all still on Tubi streaming for free. Highly recommend them.

[NobodySpecial268]

Hi ya Ksihkehe.

Seventeenth century is interesting. On that BBC series, they also made lye from ashes. They had a wood barrel with stones in the bottom and a tap. Over the stones was a layer of hay. Then a layer of ash. They poured water carefully on top and the lye came out the tap. So simple.