Official Coronation Quiche - UPF

[RidersOnTheCalm]

Just had a look on royal.co.uk - I'm a bit peeved that the recipe for quiche uses '1 or 2 block of ready-made shortcrust pastry'.
Not only is this dearer thank making it yourself, I'm pretty sure its a UPF. Certainly not clean eating - there was me hoping to make a wholemeal version, as I much prefer wholemeal flour and its obv healthier too.
I slightly despair - on this momentous occasion, can't we just be encouraged to do it properly. Its not that hard!!!

What is a UPF?

Ultra processed food.

you can just make the base as you’d normally do and then make the filling?

😂

It gives the recipe for making your own pastry, just gives the option for ready made.
There was fuss when it was published for using lard in the pastry - just can't win!

And YABU. Just looked it also gives the receipe for the pastry. However not everyone has the confidence or skills to make pastry. It’s about making the receipt accessible to all.

Good grief, it’s a recipe for a celebration.

It’s meant to be joyful, for a party, not an exercise in perfectionism, and presumably they want to help as many as possible to get involved.

If you want every single morsel of food that passes your lips to be correct and you want to make yours with homemade whole meal pastry, what’s stopping you from adapting it accordingly?

You can make it with whatever pastry you like

Life is too short to make your own pastry

Use whatever pastry you want. People tweak recipes to suit all the time.

there was me hoping to make a wholemeal version

What do you think the King will do if you do?

How is it going to not be an UPF? Just eat the raw egg with some tarragon if it bugs you

Orf with her head!

I'll be learning the pledge of allegiance. No time to make pastry when there's oaths to swear. I still take my brownie promise to love thy king very seriously

As everyone else has already pointed out, assuming this is where you looked, the website first gives the ingredients for the pastry and then ready-made as an alternative. You know, for those people who can't make pastry (which could be for all sorts of reasons, including a disability). YABVU.

https://www.royal.uk/the-coronation-quiche

😂good one!

You should also chaff your own wheat and milk a cow for fresh milk whilst you’re at it.

Whatever, don't make it then.

Anyway it's NOT a quiche according to the French. Its a tart!
So now we know.

It has to be your own local organic cow ideally

Ideally from the Duchy of Cornwall 🤣

And why haven’t they provided a substitute for lard in the recipe?

Pork fat is a no no for so many.

If you’ve nothing better to moan about than what type of pasty to use in your quiche then ……

Pastry, not pasty!

I seem to recall the recipe encouraged people to make their own variations or at least the PR puff piece that accompanied the recipe encouraged making it your own. The entire idea was to make a flexible recipe that could be made to suit the ingredients people would have available.

I didn't even realise the tart was compulsory-and I hate spinach. I am going to risk not making one. There will be too many of us to send to the Tower surely?