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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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mainsfed · 02/05/2023 21:08

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/05/2023 20:59

Possibly they weren't told about it sufficiently early to be able to roganise industrial production of the Coronation Quiche. I don't think they were selling Platinum Jubilee Trifles last year, were they?

The official recipe is here. https://www.royal.uk/the-coronation-quiche It says to use ready-made pastry if you like. I do think it's odd that the official recipe for an otherwise vegetarian dish (NB: not vegan) specifies half lard, half butter, but anybody skilled enough to contemplate making their own pastry is hopefully knowledgeable to know that lard is pork fat and if that's a problem use all butter, or half and half with a vegetarian/vegan fat, or just the latter.

Agreed, I just think it’s odd. I agree people would work out a sub, but some may just look at the bit about lard and decide it’s not for them.

anniewaitsforthelasttime · 02/05/2023 21:12

mainsfed · 02/05/2023 20:58

@anniewaitsforthelasttime i think it takes months to create and launch a new product in supermarkets, they probably don’t think it’s worth it for one day. But then I have seen coronation sweets etc, so a cquiche doesn’t seem unfeasable 🤷🏻‍♀️

One day? If coronation chicken sandwiches and sandwich filling pots are anything to go by...

SpringIntoChaos · 02/05/2023 21:41

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Here's a thought OP...just make whatever fucking pastry you want! Nobody cares 👍🤷‍♀️

Kaaplumff · 02/05/2023 21:46

I despair that you're so miserable you're triggered by quiche 😂

elm26 · 02/05/2023 22:20

🤣

LadyPenelope68 · 02/05/2023 22:38

toomuchlaundry · 02/05/2023 18:48

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

@toomuchlaundry
bottle of wine and chocolate is the perfect substitute! 🤣

kitsuneghost · 02/05/2023 22:45

Make your own pastry if you want. And wholemeal pastry isn't any healthier than any other pastry, even premade

TheodoreMortlock · 02/05/2023 23:04

It's fine OP I have a clean eating version here:

Ingredients:
Pastry:

  • 125g wholemeal spelt flour
  • Pinch of disdain
  • 25g cold butter, thrown away
  • 25g {we do not speak of this}
  • 2 tablespoons milk / mylk / mxlk
  • Or 1 x 250g block of ready-made shortcrust pastry, penance available on instagram later

Filling:

  • 125ml milk
  • 175ml double cream
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon,
  • Salt and pepper
  • 100g grated cheddar cheese,
  • 180g cooked spinach, lightly chopped
  • 60g cooked broad beans or soya beans

Method:
Line the quiche tin with a single look of horror from beneath a raised eyebrow. Combine all pastry ingredients in the bin.

Heat the oven with a single scorching word.

For the filling, combine the milk, cream and eggs, and add them to the pastry ingredients in the bin before carefully folding in the cheese.

Finely chop the tarragon. Combine with the cooked spinach.
Arrange the spinach / tarragon mixture on a plate, and top with the broad beans. Garnish with judgement.

NotMeNoNo · 02/05/2023 23:16

You can get vegetarian lard substitutes but they are more processed.

Actually if you have a food mixer shortcrust pastry is easy to make. As long as I've remembered to buy lard and I always have flour and butter for baking, I would make it rather than buying.

I guess that's why they have the options. Its quite hard to satisfy non-UPF, vegetarian and dirt cheap. Jacket potato maybe? Certainly not a quiche.

anniewaitsforthelasttime · 03/05/2023 05:26

mainsfed · 02/05/2023 21:15

Hmm, I suppose so.

Looks like Morrisons have created one actually.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23484515.morrisons-creates-coronation-quiche-bradford/

Brilliant! Thank you. Saved the day there Morrisons.

broadbeanquiche · 03/05/2023 05:29

I like quich Lorraine which I always used to think was named after Lorraine Kelly.

Ossification · 03/05/2023 05:34

noblegiraffe · 02/05/2023 17:40

there was me hoping to make a wholemeal version

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

9ff with her head...
And the wrong quiche alongside!

Ossification · 03/05/2023 05:37

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.

how daft to you need to be to ask this question? Surely it isn't outwith the realms of common sense to substitute the lard...
How much spoon-feeding do people want?

MudLady · 03/05/2023 05:46

I voted YANBU because (stupidly) I took the OPs word for it about the recipe. But then another poster gave the link. YABU OP, and disingenuous to boot.

I agree about the wholemeal pastry but presumably it's not impossible to sub that for white. Really, talk about creating drama where there is none...

nofusspot · 03/05/2023 05:50

Ossification · 03/05/2023 05:37

how daft to you need to be to ask this question? Surely it isn't outwith the realms of common sense to substitute the lard...
How much spoon-feeding do people want?

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Yeah if you don't eat lard and don't know what to substitute it with you can always Google.

BarbaraofSeville · 03/05/2023 05:53

I foresee further drama next weekend anyway as there was at least one poster last week who insisted that 'most lard was vegetarian these days anyway', being seemingly oblivious to the fact that, by definition, if its lard, its very much not vegetarian.

nofusspot · 03/05/2023 05:56

BarbaraofSeville · 03/05/2023 05:53

I foresee further drama next weekend anyway as there was at least one poster last week who insisted that 'most lard was vegetarian these days anyway', being seemingly oblivious to the fact that, by definition, if its lard, its very much not vegetarian.

Oh dear me

lljkk · 03/05/2023 05:59

I'm baffled by anyone who has the skills to

care about the event & recipe
find the recipe
read the recipe
gather the ingredients
follow the instructions
make the quiche

but lacks skills to figure out what kinds of fat or fillings to use as substitutes, how to modify a recipe.

Making your own pastry, including whole meal, is a flipping doddle. How can you have all the other skills but feel lost at idea of how to make own pastry?

Youtube is your friend.

ActDottie · 03/05/2023 06:08

Surely you can make the base as you’d like it and then add the filling?

mainsfed · 03/05/2023 06:23

Ossification · 03/05/2023 05:37

how daft to you need to be to ask this question? Surely it isn't outwith the realms of common sense to substitute the lard...
How much spoon-feeding do people want?

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How daft do you need to be to not RTFT? This has been covered already.

PurposefulBear · 03/05/2023 06:26

YABU, and anyway it’s so much better with puff puff pastry. Use whatever pastry you like.

nofusspot · 03/05/2023 06:36

@NoFault2023 I get that but just don't make the quiche if it's an issue

NoFault2023 · 03/05/2023 06:39

nofusspot · 03/05/2023 06:36

@NoFault2023 I get that but just don't make the quiche if it's an issue

Yes.