Cathy & Peter Have Their First Meal in the Cabin | Cabin Build

[Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so i'm not exactly sure of the burn rate of the um of the new fireplace yep but i made an assumption this is going to be enough to get me through a day so breakfast or breakfast roughly in the winter so in the summer time they use summer kitchens and we're going to use our primitive shelter it should serve us quite well for that keep in mind if you if you wanted a spot of tea or a cup of coffee head to light fire so sometimes in the heat of summer having one in the small cabin would have been unbearable so yeah like i said this the primitive shelter's gonna work very well for that and i really won't nodal this winter whether this is going to be uh adequate size box or not but pretty simple to build so anyway i've got a number of uh furnitures that i've built for the cabin i'm just going to scout about now and see where i want to hang some stuff [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so i'm getting a bit fancier as i start to build the furniture about here um this piece is uh basically it's a reproduction of one that was circa early 1700's and it's sort of a unique piece with the scroll work so took the dimensions off an original piece including the wooden hinges and basically made a single shelf inside of it and we're gonna hang that guy up so yeah they they didn't want a little style in their life so they they would quite often and this piece stripes me as being rather unique they didn't want a little flare i guess in there in their home just like we do today so we're gonna get this piece hung up here over our kitchen counter so what i've got here is a recreation of a pipe fox uh long tavern pipes they were the most common small drawer in the bottom that held twist tobacco it's not wasn't sold like it is today as a loose tobacco it had to be chopped and it would be a rare cabin indeed that didn't have one this one's painted sort of a blue green milk paint which was another common color in the 1700s wee bit of history behind tobacco um they believe it dates back to 6000 bc so if we fast forward what 7 500 years to the year 1492 and that fellow named christopher columbus he he comes across the ocean blue and lands in the west indies he's introduced to tobacco for the first time takes it back to spain within 80 years it's pretty much worldwide the use of it extremely addictive people liked it and by the 15 15 75 or so there's accounts that doctors in europe were writing papers on its health benefits of smoking tobacco everything from curing lockjaw to toothaches even curing cancers at the time how ironic is that anyway in the colonies if we look at the chesapeake bay area virginia area it was ideal conditions for growing tobacco both the weather and and the soil conditions in fact the tobacco industry uh essentially fueled the slave trade because it was very labor intensive crop um so for the first time by the around the late 1600s early 1700s in the americas slaves were being used to grow tanned harvest and ensure tobacco and essentially it was like gold it it could be used as currency in fact was used as currency sort of like a gold standard we have today so so everybody smoked women even children young children so the pipe the simple clay pipe was a common item now this was a tavern pipe that the stem has been broke off they're generally about this long provides for a cool smoke and i've got to replenish my pipes because they're all broken um yeah so everybody would have had it they'd have twist tobacco and in the in most cabins they'd have a cutting board specifically for the cutting the twists of tobacco certainly they'd have them in taverns like the cedar hall tavern and they'd have a special knife sort of a curved knife and it was a shell curved plate essentially so they'd open the drawer take out the plug of tobacco plug sorry the twisted tobacco chop enough to fill their little bowl have a smoke and then get on with their day so so this is a pretty exciting day we're uh we're actually cooking up our very first meal in our new log cabin so i've got a little venison roast on the spit here kathy's gone off to the garden to get some new potatoes and some beans it's a great time of the year because we're starting to finally reap the benefits of our hard labor of planting this past spring so yeah we essentially eat wild meat we're getting pretty depleted now we're down pretty much down to it but we're only uh six weeks away from our fall moussant uh hopefully successful moose is our favorite meet uh and we're eight weeks away from our deer hunt so yeah anyway i'm gonna manage this roast and that should be a long pretty short with some fresh vegetables so so [Music] so this here knife was gifted to me by a fellow by the name of nick skinner it was out there in nova scotia eastern canada there and uh as far as i'm concerned one of the finest blade makers in canada anyway we're going to see if it cuts meat here nick see how it does yup seems to be working oh and that meat is just about done to perfection so what do you think a toast to our new cabin a wee bit of satisfaction no absolutely wow we did it we did it first of many meals and we're starting off with new potatoes warms the cockles of an irishman's heart right here but let me try the meat good that's a lot it's a lot which shoulder is it right or left [Music] so what do you think of the two-time fork [Music] the third one kind of purpose no kidding like how do you how do you ever load a p in that thing i'm thinking they use these historically accurate knives were huge for what's up to the fork used to like to shovel [Music] hmm we need a successful moose on this boat we'll be snaring a lot of rabbits this fall short of rabbits [Music] it's fine [Music] me [Music] [Music] good you

Channel: The Woodland Escape

Views: 172,485

Keywords: green woodworking, do it yourself, 18thcentury, 19'thcentury, americanhistory, canadianhistory, history channel, jas townsend, logcabin, rustic life, frontiere, wilderness, bushcraft, homestead, offgrid, pioneer life, 1800s, 1700s, native culture, black powder, flintlock, blacksmithing, handtools, woodworking, self sufficiency, self reliance, sustainable living, gardening, food preservation, root cellar, foraging, living history, living archeology, hunting, fishing, rumford fireplace, fireplace

Id: tUSGpoe-3DQ

Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 07 2021