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Official Coronation Quiche - UPF

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RidersOnTheCalm · 02/05/2023 17:34

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!!!

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Stopthatknocking · 02/05/2023 17:53

No one is going to be able to make it anyway, with the huge lack of eggs at the moment.
So just pastry and tarragon then! :)

ClaraThePigeon · 02/05/2023 17:55

No one is going to be able to make it anyway, with the huge lack of eggs at the moment.

Is it area dependent? I've had no trouble getting eggs.

MysteryBelle · 02/05/2023 17:57

Are you putting the beans in? Regardless of any precedent for including that ingredient in quiche, I think the chef or whoever wants to see how many people will just go along with what they’re told and put beans in 😂

Not for me, thanks.

MysteryBelle · 02/05/2023 17:59

I doubt Charles eats ready made crust so why should the little people? Make your whole meal pastry, op. Stand strong with the rolling pin.

ArcaneWireless · 02/05/2023 18:03
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I wouldn’t be worrying about clean eating. Your peevey froth will wash anything processed away. 😉

SaveMeFromForearms · 02/05/2023 18:09

What kind of mad bastards think quiche is celebratory? 😆

piglet81 · 02/05/2023 18:13

Let them eat quiche

BarbaraofSeville · 02/05/2023 18:36

mainsfed · 02/05/2023 17:46

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

Pork fat is a no no for so many.

Maybe they thought that anyone who doesn't eat lard would be able to work it out for themselves that they could swap the lard for all butter, or the lard and the butter for Trex or whatever? Or use ready made pastry, which has the added benefit of offending the OP. Likewise with the flour, just use wholemeal flour if you prefer. Or, shock horror, do away with the pastry completely and just have it crust free.

It's not like the Quiche Police are going to be examining people's efforts for authenticity and confiscating those from anyone who didn't follow the recipe to the letter.

MarinatemysoulinSprite · 02/05/2023 18:41

mainsfed · 02/05/2023 17:46

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

Pork fat is a no no for so many.

Well if pork fat is a no-no then work out what you could substitute for that.

Literally from the recipe The pastry includes lard, but you can swap this for butter to make it vegetarian

What about people that don't like broad beans?

Should there be a separate recipe for those people?

What about people who are on a low fat diet - special version of the recipe for them?

People who loathe tarragon - special version for them?

Vegans? Special recipe for them?

Dairy free? Another version?

What if you don't like quiche?

It's just a recipe.

Make it or don't make it.

FreddiesTeeth · 02/05/2023 18:41

Celebration Quiche is an oxymoron surely?

Qilin · 02/05/2023 18:42

there was me hoping to make a wholemeal version

Why can't you?
Lots of recipes use remade pastry. The average person isn't going to be making their own pastry in my experience but there is always the option to make your own and use it in the same recipe.

FreddiesTeeth · 02/05/2023 18:43

FreddiesTeeth · 02/05/2023 18:41

Celebration Quiche is an oxymoron surely?

Sorry that was in response to Forearms

AndrexPuppy · 02/05/2023 18:43

This is the second “UPF” thread I’ve noticed in as many days. Is it a new fad?

Shhhquirrel · 02/05/2023 18:44

ATerrorofLeftovers · 02/05/2023 17:37

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?

I can honestly say I can’t find anything remotely ‘joyful’ about broad beans 🫘

Qilin · 02/05/2023 18:44

RidersOnTheCalm · 02/05/2023 17:34

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!!!

Actually - you mean this recipe: https://www.royal.uk/the-coronation-quiche

But it DOES give the ingredients and recipe to make your own pastry.
It just also says you can use pre made if you want!

BarbaraofSeville · 02/05/2023 18:45

Is there even any lard or ready made pastry in the shops anyway?

This sort of thing usually leads to millions of people who've never bought either in their lives rushing to the shops to buy it, only to be met by empty shelves if they were beaten to it by others with the same idea, leading to a load of sad faces in the media of people who's Coronation party is 'ruined' because they won't be able to serve the quiche.

LudicrouslyCapaciousBag · 02/05/2023 18:48

We’ve only just had a thread complaining that the official recipe, which does include instructions to make it from scratch, uses lard.

It turned out that one unfortunate MNer thought that all lard was vegetarian ‘these days’ and had been blithely feeding pig fat to her vegetarian DD Confused

toomuchlaundry · 02/05/2023 18:48

Do they do an alternative version for someone who doesn't like lard, broad beans or quiche 😂

bellac11 · 02/05/2023 18:48

Clean eating?

DietCokeUser · 02/05/2023 18:48

I’m a UPF bore too, op, and even I can’t get bothered about this. They tell you how to make the pastry. If you want to do a wholemeal version, do it Confused

Clymene · 02/05/2023 18:49

They give the recipe cor making your own pastry. You're being ridiculous

Vegetus · 02/05/2023 18:52

Wholemeal pastry sounds incredibly sad.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 02/05/2023 18:53

Gets on my nerves. Food magazines even specify blocks of shortcrust pastry now - if you're reading food magazines, surely you can knock up some shortcrust. Lazy writing, frankly.

Disclainer: Ready-made puff pastry and filo are among the very few UPF I allow in the house, however 🙈

Mrsjayy · 02/05/2023 18:54

I mean you could work out the weight and make your broad bean quiche knock yourself out 😄

JumpToRecipe · 02/05/2023 18:55

RidersOnTheCalm · 02/05/2023 17:34

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!!!

This post is batshit.

1 - the recipe offers a full list of ingredients to make your own pastry and only suggests ready-made as an alternative

2 - there is literally nothing to stop you making a wholemeal version

3 - I don’t agree that ready-made is more expensive. You can’t buy just 25g of lard and of butter and by the time people have bought a block of each they will have spent more than the £1.80 cost of a block of Jus-Rol.