Food Detectives: History Of Hash

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Published 2024-07-21
We are Food Detectives on a quest to uncover the secrets of Hash! Where the heck did it come from? Is it a potato dish? We are looking at recipes spanning over 150 years to find the common threads. Come along as we investigate!

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All Comments (21)
  • @vaylonkenadell
    Michael Dragoo is correct when he says that "stew" is not understood as a noun meaning a type of cooked dish until later. Per the Online Etymology Dictionary: "The meaning 'meat slowly boiled,' generally with vegetables, is recorded by 1756. The colloquial sense of 'state of agitation or worry' is by 1806." Thanks again for another wonderful video. Always good to see Michael Dragoo on!
  • @madamedex5989
    I think you hit the nail on the head with "clean out the refrigerator." Frugality in the kitchen has always been paramount and this recipe seems to serve the purpose of using things up in a tasty way.
  • @tlg8547
    FYI I watched a video a few months ago where a couple from another country made a dish and they chopped raw meat by hand adding some fat then mixed with rice , vegetables , whole CHESTNUT, and I think chopped dry apricot. Then they stuffed it in a large squash and baked in a clay oven. Very interesting. I believe the channel is Far Away Village Family
  • @brick6347
    There's an idiom in the UK: make a hash of it. i.e. a mess. Hash being a jumble of mangled fragments. I always assumed hash the food was... well, that. a jumble. Dishes like 'bubble and squeak' comes to mind.
  • @Lerrinus
    So nice to see Michael Dragoo again!
  • @Havenwyck_Media
    It all looked really good to me. My dad, way back in the 1950's to early 1970s use to make a great tasting 'hash' with leftover venison roast, carrots, potato, onion, parsly, lard, plus salt and pepper. He said his dad made it, and his dad was born in 1875.
  • @ashleighlecount
    When my daughter was little corned beef hash out of the can was one of her favorite foods. She called it cash
  • @steveparker8723
    My parents made us kids hamburger hash when growing up. Simply, hamburger, onion,celery, potatoes, salt and pepper. Easy to make and very filling with a couple slices of buttered bread. I still make it now and then. Great memories.
  • @cjkoehler
    300 year old Sloppy Joes. Back when they were known as "untidy Joseph."
  • @johnanon6938
    Its great to see Michael again, because he always has so much enthusiasm for the foods that I daresay it rivals Jon's interest in using nutmeg.
  • @AYellowPepper
    Hash is the sticky resinous trichomes and fine plant particulate that is collected and pressed into a mass, often a ball or bar. Wait no wrong hash!
  • @robfut9954
    Given the fact that the first recipe specified “raw beef” in the title, I will assume most hash in the 1600’s was also done with leftover meat and to use raw meat as unusual enough that the author had to highlight the fact in the title
  • In parts of the South, we have "Hash and Rice". It consists of finely-shredded cooked meat (usually pork) in a thickened mustard-based sauce served over rice.
  • @mrsfolkartist76
    Didn't you notice how much the early recipe resembles Wimpy's / Sloppy Joes? Jon's recipe reminds me of open-faced roast beef sandwiches which they still make today with a side of mashed potatoes .
  • @regenwurm5584
    Hash is a function that converts input data of any size into a fixed-size value, often used in data indexing and retrieval.
  • @gailsears2913
    Very interesting. The hash I usually make here in the southern US is leftover ham with potatoes and onions. A dry sort of mixture.
  • @FlyTyer1948
    Hash is a tasty & thrifty way to use leftovers. Spicy hash is wonderful with lots of ground black pepper mandatory. Although I prefer drier versions, but that gravy version on toast looks really yummy.