UPDATE: The first Buckingham Palace garden party of the year was held yesterday, May 12, 2022. Princess Anne hosted in the Queen’s absence. In honor of Queen Elizabeth, here is her scone recipe. This post was very popular the first time around in 2020, so I’m repeating it for those who didn’t see it the first time, or who would like to try their hand at baking the Queen’s scones.
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, the 2020 garden parties were postponed, but the palace 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 (17.6 ounces, or roughly 4 cups)
28 g Baking Powder (5.5 teaspoons)
94 g Butter (6.6 tablespoons)
86 g Sugar (6 tablespoons)
2 Whole Eggs
140 ml Butter Milk (0.6 cup)
100 g Sultanas – soaked for 30 minutes in hot water (3.5 ounces)
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Preheat oven to 180ΒΊC (356 degrees F).
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 ( 1.0 inch) 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.
Queen Elizabeth has missed several important events this year. I fear that her health is steadily decreasing, and it is difficult to imagine this world without her.
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Another scone recipe – Lemon and fresh Cranberry!
Scone:
3 cups (300 g) all-purpose flour
ΒΌ cup (50 g) sugar
1 Tbsp (15 g) baking powder
ΒΌ tsp (1 g) salt
1 Tbsp (6 g) finely grated lemon zest
Β½ cup (115 g) cool unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Β½ cup (125 ml) whipping cream
ΒΌ cup (60 ml) 2% milk, plus extra for brushing
1 large egg
1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
1 cup (160 g) fresh or frozen cranberries
Glaze:
1 cup (130 g) icing sugar, sifted
1 Β½ (22 ml) Tbsp lemon juice
1. Preheat the oven to 375 F and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
2. Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the lemon zest. Cut in the butter until the mixture is rough and crumbly but still small pieces of butter are visible.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the cream, milk, egg and vanilla together. Add this to the flour mixture and stir to just bring the dough together, turning out onto a work surface to complete bringing it together with your hands. Flatten the dough out and press the cranberries into the dough, folding it over and flattening it out a few times to incorporate the cranberries.
4. Shape the dough into a disc about 10-inches across. Cut the disc into 8 wedges and place them on the prepared baking tray, leaving a few inches between them. Brush the scones with a little milk and bake for 20 to 25 minutes until the scones are lightly browned on top. Cool completely before glazing.
5. For the glaze, whisk the icing sugar and lemon juice together and drizzle over the scones using the whisk or a fork. Let the glaze set for an hour before serving.
6. The scones are best enjoyed the day they are baked.
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Good morning, Stella, and thanks for sharing these!
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You are welcome!
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From what I have been reading on the internet, the Queen isn’t ailing, exactly, but she does have mobility issues, meaning that long periods of walking or standing are not possible. She just appeared at the Royal Windsor horse show.
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Long live the Queen – and when the time comes, may the crown skip a generation! Lord knows, her son is no match for her. There is some hope for William, though.
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My mother was British, and I remember her watching the Queen’s coronation on TV when I was quite little (she still had her English accent then), The Queen has been a good and faithful steward to the Empire.
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Yes, I believe that the Queen has done a very good job.
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