The Queen has met a former cookery school student who helped create coronation chicken - the dish indelibly linked to the start of her seven decade-long reign
., she chatted with Angela Wood, who as a 19-year-old spent days cooking and perfecting the iconic recipe.
Poulet Reine Elizabeth, or chicken Queen Elizabeth, as it was originally known was first served to 350 foreign dignitaries during her coronation banquet and has gone on to become a national salad and sandwich-filler staple.The Queen chatted with Angela Wood, who as a 19-year-old spent days perfecting the iconic recipe
With the country was still living under post-war food rationing the recipe had to be simple and inexpensive. The two women spoke at a reception held in the ballroom of Sandringham House where members of the local community gathered to celebrate the Queen's 70 years on the throne with a cake.As it was explained the decorated Jubilee cake was placed upside down to her for the press cameras, the monarch sparked laughter when she said:"Oh they can see it. I don't mind. I don't matter."
The event was the largest in-person public engagement the Queen had attended since last October's Windsor Castle evening reception for delegates who had attended the government's Global Investment Summit earlier that day.
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