For the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the "Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacon Tart" has been concocted. It includes:
- cheddar cheese (to represent England);
- smoked salmon (to represent Scotland);
- potatoes (to represent Northern Ireland);
- leeks (to represent Wales).
It contains other ingredients including typical pastry ingredients (flour, margarine, vegetable fat, cold water) and single cream, eggs, parsley, pepper and butter/oil. Effectively this is a quiche and is not that far from a quiche aux poireaux.
Apparently one has to have 2 or 3 Union Flag napkins. The recipe is at: https://www.cla.org.uk/documents/478/Beacons_Tart.pdf . Of course, this being Canada, everything is better with maple syrup - so drench that quiche and everything else in it. And to be even more contemporary Canadian, adorn your "Jubilee Beacon Tart" with Timbiebs...
The Jubilee Beacon Tart is named after a beacon because one of the practices for this Jubilee is for organizations to construct, erect and light beacons (fires on a pedestal). Be sure not to cook your tart too long, otherwise it will become a beacon...
If you are having a Beacon Tart, why not wash it down with some English tea (all the way from India), with a side of Piccalilli and much on some homemade Empire Biscuits. And don't forget the Timbiebs...
During the 1953 Coronation of Her Majesty the Queen, Coronation chicken was all the rage. It is a combination of cold chicken meat, herbs and spices and mayonnaise. It could be eaten as a salad or used to fill sandwiches. It is flavoured with curry powder or curry paste and might include almond flakes, raisins/"sultanas" or dried apricots. Remember that this was an exotic dish for 1953, a time when the United Kingdom was still on rationing, even though the Second World War had ended 9 years earlier. Coronation chicken was invented by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume, principals of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School in London. Sandwiches of this type are sold in gas stations in the Netherlands and known as "kip met cari". And don't forget the Timbiebs...
Links
- Jubilee Trifle (Don't forget the Timbiebs...)
- Coronation Chicken and More Coronation Chicken
- Coronation Chicken from The Guardian
- Afternoon Tea at Buckingham Palace
- Afternoon Tea at the Savoy (only 95 pounds!) (...think of all the Timbiebs you could buy for that price...)
- Afternoon Tea at Harrods (only 59 pounds!)
- Afternoon Tea at The Ritz London 2021
- Afternoon Tea in the Queens Room aboard QM2
- Afternoon Tea at the Signet Library in Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Afternoon Tea at The Balmoral’s Palm Court, Edinburgh, September 2021
- Tea at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC
- Empire Biscuits