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Dani & Naomi's February Feast (Patreon)

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2024-02-21 16:32:02
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We love delving into folk traditions, and a new tradition is beginning to take hold here on Patreon... Dani & Naomi's ever-popular seasonal chats!

If you haven't experienced one yet, you're in for treat. As one Patreon member recently observed, it's a bit like listening in on two mates having a catch-up, who just so happen to be archaeologists. And that pretty much sums it up!

On this occasion, the pair enjoy a free-range and informal discussion, covering everything from the Ancient Roman origins of February, to 15th century pancake races.

Naomi also takes us on an archaeobotanical journey into seasonal pollen, while Dani considers how the types flowers we see growing above ground may be indicative of archaeology below ground.

So grab a cup of tea (or a bowl of nettle soup?), get comfy and enjoy an hour's worth of insights, banter and archaeological musings.

COMING UP

Still to come on Patreon this month, another Classic Time Team Special, plus a fascinating post-excavation chat on the Winfarthing Lady, featuring Naomi, Helen Geake, Anglo-Saxon specialist Prof Helena Hamerow, and isotope expert, Dr Sam Leggett. 

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Dani & Naomi's February Feast (Patreon exclusive)

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Comments

Evelyn G Kimbrell

I love these chats! Both Naomi and Dani have a wealth of knowledge and boundless curiosity.

Peter Carter

Hi, I come from the southern east coast and the traditional pancake accompaniments are lemon and sugar, although i prefer Maple syrup. Enjoy your conversation.

Dorothy Africa

Maple syrup, also sour cherry preserves are great

Dorothy Africa

A couple enterprising archaeologists would be able to restart the relic trade on the internet pretty easily these days

Sue Tweedie

always lemon and sugar here in the West Country

Kat Shelton

Sorghum or maple syrup with plenty of melted butter for American pancakes, lemon and sugar for British ones. Food archaeology is so fascinating. So many traditions and connections and interactions come together to make something like a box of Valentine candy or a sponge cake. I always wonder at the first human who decided to mix eggs and ground grain and milk and honey and cook it and what kind of person they might have been.

Susan Coe

I've been in the US for 60 years now but we always have pancakes (the thin kind) for Shrove Tuesday and always with lemon and sugar. My father was from Kent and my mother grew up in Somerset so not at all northern.

Ann Wagner

In the US, it’s often butter and maple syrup on pancakes. Others do powdered sugar. But I had never heard of pancake day before.

Georgina Lau

In Canada, we put maple syrup on anything :D But growing up in Kent, it was always lemon and sugar for pancakes!

Patricia Amero

Guess I better grab a snack & top up my mug... this is going to be a good one (as is always the case with this pair) ☕🥧 Bring it on... Oh, and Hi from Canada 👋😁

Eggs Ackley

Watch out with those “eggs ackley” jokes, you might invite a visit from a poultrygeist. 🥚👻

Cheryl Kurucz

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Elizabeth Nickless

I just knew at the first mention of pollen that Naomi would choose pine pollen with its Mickey mouse ears. Lol, been a long time since I looked at pollen grains down a microscope. Great chat, made me laugh. Thanks

Robin Goodfellow

Thanks for sharing your catch up - I look forward to the nettle soup 👍

Fiona D

Thinking of how many eggs would you have for pancakes on Shrove Tuesday... you were just talking about a basket of 1700 year old eggs. Granted they were pretty nasty.

Terri Brown

Just love these ladies... despite the nettles lol

Hazel

Came to Canada as a young child, but growing up always had English pancakes on Shrove Tuesday with lemon and sugar. My family from the Surrey area. Can’t imagine putting syrup on them, but very happily load a stack of Canadian pancakes with maple syrup and butter and would never consider putting lemon and sugar on them. 😁 My parents told me that they had English pancakes on Tuesday, so jealous

Books by Hal Grey

I love listening to these two riffing away, just like listening to "No such thing as eggs" from the QI elves on BBC Sounds, or even the "Infinite Monkey Cage", again from BBC Sounds, Experts taking about something and going off on tangents. In my family it has always been the job of the man to make pancakes, and my son and wife are both into eating them plain, but I love caster sugar and maple syrup, but also love adding orange to the mix when I am making mine, also adding a bit of Cointreau and flambeaing the pancake, you could also add pulped strawberry to your batter (not too much) add a bit of strawberry flavouring as well ( you can still add lemon and sugar if you wish). Keep up the good work Ladies 👍

Ann Parker

We always had lemon and sugar here in south London/north Surrey when I was a child, so I don't think it's just a northern thing. Me and my brother still do have them that way although I also like them with golden syrup.

Bron Lloyd

This was just lovely - keep them coming! I feel that this is something that we Patreons are lucky enough to see exclusively when so much of TT is available for everyone on the Classics YT channel as well now. We really need to let people know about this extra content! And yeah I had lemon and sugar on pancakes growing up in Australia too…..my grandmother was Manx, so not sure if that was the source?

Gillian Gordon

I live on the south coast of England and all my family are from London, where I was also born, and we always had pancakes with lemon and caster sugar, so I don’t think it’s just a northern tradition. Thanks for this, it was fascinating, I always learn something new ☺️x

Corellia S

We don't have a tradition of Pancake Tuesday in Norway, we eat them year round, with bilberry jam. When I lived in Iceland, they served pancakes with rhubarb jam and whipped cream.

Corellia S

I'm guessing the thing in whalebone corsets Dani is talking about is the wooden busk. These were often carved. When it comes to nettles: we used to make nettle "tea" from young nettles. Boil them in water, strain the water into a cup. It'll be dark green, but if you add lemon juice it turns pink. (We also added sugar). Then we used to eat the boiled shoots with a bit of salt. I guess I have to look out for young nettles when spring finally arrives here. You're talking about snowdrops, and we still have snow...

Mac Whatley

Extra content is good, but it’s such a long time between digs it’s looking like those are the “extra” content now…

TimeTeamOfficial

Hi Mac, with Spring on the horizon, we're all eager to get back out into the field for more excavations as the new season gets underway. Luckily, 2024 looks set to be our busiest year yet since Time Team's return! There's a range of very exciting projects coming up, and we're preparing to share more details of imminently. We're also gearing for the release of last year's digs. Watch this space for more announcements. Thanks

Andy Quick

We usually think of maple syrup on pancakes here in Ontario, Canada. But the other traditions sound good too.

Bethanny Allain

I so enjoyed listening to Dani and Naomi. I live in Western Massachusetts. No daffodils snowdrops or any other Spring flower here. I will have to check the marshes as the first Spring flower is my area is skunk cabbage.. I hope to see a new dig soon. I have learned so much from watching past Time Team videos on YouTube. Just love listening to Tony and company. I look forward to the next chat.

Gastromoped

Crepes, pancake, Pfannkuchen or Palatschinke... anything like this... is just a carrier for Nutella... ^^ :o)

Robin Kark

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this conversation. Learned so much. Learned about Pancake Tuesday. Not a tradition here in the states I have heard of before. And, I won't be licking the nettles! Too funny. Until next time...

Tina Kreißler

Concerning putting silver coins on bleeding wounds: I started medical school almost 30 years ago, and an old GP recommended putting large coins on bleeding varicose veins as a first aid measure. It works brilliantly, but since there are not so many silver coins in circulation any more, we use 2€ coins instead. (Disclaimer: preferably clean coins and ONLY as a temporary measure to stop the bleeding)

Denise Jones

Had my first "British" pancake last year! The lemon and sugar was so amazing because I love sour stuff.

Maggi Einars

Here in Iceland we ither eat them with rhubarb jam and whipped cream. In my home town we celebrate the time when the sun reaches over the mountain in end of jan we have pan cakes. Diffrent ruls for every famaly. My grandma was strickt on it had to shine in through her kitchen window.

Linda-Teresa Merwood

Sugar and lemon juice on pancakes, def. Not the north, but Devon.

Dennis William Nicholson

In reference to the use of a silver coin, in Cecil County Maryland, normally on the last Saturday in October, an event, called the Apple Butter Festival, is held. Events include the showing of old farm implements, people in Colonial and other period costume, etc. Yet the best of all are the huge Cauldrons of boiling apples being turned into delicious apple butter which often sells out very quickly. And, what is the method used to keep the apple butter from sticking to the bottom of the cauldron? A silver dollar is used.

Hazel Uzzell

Really interesting chat. Learned something new about bluebells!

Lewis Buckingham

i live in australia, but my father came out from England in the 50s with my grandparents - 1 from Norfolk and one from Lancashire. I had no idea until my early forties that anyone ever ate pancakes in any way except with lemon and sugar. thinking about bonfire night to valentine’s day for chickens laying eggs, could this give an indication that shrove Tuesday was instituted when the weather was warmer than today?

Patti Wicksteed

Once upon a time... My mother decided to learn how to make lace. Lace bobbins were often love tokens. The very special ones were carved with tiny balls in the stem :)

defythemachin3

I had to pause the video to go make pancakes, lol

Virginia Ross

I have always loved Time Team but the extra content has made the people involved seem like my personal friends. It's like a chat with my mates. Loving it big time!

John Melka

The corset stiffeners were made of whalebone and called stays. Whalebone and teeth were carved and the cuts dyed to firm scrimshaw.

Donna Oldenkamp

I live in California and the California Poppy explosion has just started. Hopefully we will get a real show!