Every year the Queen holds four garden parties (three at Buckingham Palace and one at Holyroodhouse in Scotland) to honor thousands of her subjects (30,000 people in all!) Sadly, this year the garden parties have been postponed to 2021, but the palace has released the recipe used for the garden party scones as a consolation prize. The recipe follows the video.
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500 g Plain Flour
28 g Baking Powder
94 g Butter
86 g Sugar
2 Whole Eggs
140 ml Butter Milk
100 g Sultanas – soaked for 30 minutes in hot water
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Preheat oven to 180ΒΊC.
Mix the flour, baking powder, butter and sugar together in a bowl, until a crumb is formed. In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs and buttermilk together.
Add the liquid to the crumb mixture. Continue to mix the dough, until it is smooth.
Add the sultanas, and mix until evenly distributed.
Remove the dough from the bowl, flatten the dough and cover. Leave to rest for approximately 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 2.5 cm and cut to desired shape.
Rest the scones for another 20 minutes. Gently egg wash the top of the scones.
Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
Cool before serving with jam and clotted cream.
Recipe courtesy of: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second
Attendance at one of the Queen’s garden parties is by invitation only. You canβt ask for an invitation. Guests are there to be recognized for extraordinary contributions to their communities. You might not be able to ask to be on the list, but you can ask to be a guest of a guest! Every invitee gets to bring a plus one to the plush event.
Around 27,000 cups of tea, 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 slices of cake are served at each garden party, with more than 100,000 saucers of tea served at the parties each year. The Queen favors Twining tea; Earl Grey is her favorite, and sometimes Darjeeling. It’s just a coincident, but guess which two teas are stocked – right now – in my pantry?
the Queen loves a British confection called jam pennies. They are tiny raspberry jam sandwiches cut into circles the size of an English penny.
There is a very explicit dress code. Men wear casual or lounge suits, while women wear a conservative dress with a hat. Military uniforms are also often worn.
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Not that scones aren’t good news, mind you….
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Scones sarte good news at any time. You can eat ’em or, if you forget about them at the bread tin, they make pretty good defensive weapons.
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Couldn’t find enough stories that I liked today. I’ll do one tomorrow.
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So Ladies…
We’ll get our Invitations next year π·π·π·
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I have a great dress and fabulous hat!!!
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Me too–what I wore to my daughter’s wedding!
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I’m having difficulty seeing Queen E the Deuce in the kitchen, up to her royal elbows in dough. As she looks so much like my English Nana I can sort of work it in…though most Brits over 60 tend to all look alike,
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How many scones (pronounced skawns by my Brit friends) do you suppose are secreted out of the garden party by those who wish a memento rather than a party edible? I’d like one right now.
Btw, apparently the Queen cooked occasionally for her family when Charles-Anne-Andrew-Edward were young and the family went on outings or had bar-b-q…though Philip usually attended the grill. Don’t know about baking, though.
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I know that before she was Queen, and she and Philip were living in Malta, they lived a much more normal life. He was in the Navy, and she was a Navy wife.
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