Royal connections: Coronation chicken and Laura’s pavlova

To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year, here are two recipes with royal connections.

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2nd June, 2012

Sixty years is a long time to hold the same job, especially when the greater part of it is appearances at state and social occasions. Queen Elizabeth II has no doubt eaten more official meals than most monarchs during her long reign over the Commonwealth. She has seen food fashions come and go, as a variety of dishes have made their way into food history. The young queen was no doubt mindful of hosting the representatives of other countries who were invited to her coronation at Westminster Abbey in 1952. She requested that students at Winkfield, the resident school of the London Cordon Bleu, ...

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