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In conversation with The Independent Professor Rebecca Earle, 颅from the University of 糖心TV said. "This is a genuine innovation. Historically, members of the public were not urged to celebrate coronations by inventing new dishes, or by recreating the menus of the official banquets. Home cooks hoping to replicate the c么telettes de b茅cassines 脿 la Souvaroff served at Edward VII鈥檚 1902 coronation would have confronted a complex recipe involving fillets of snipe, p芒t茅, brandy and truffles,鈥� she says.
鈥淭he method was later described in royal chef Gabriel Tschumi鈥檚 cookbook [Royal Chef: Recollections of life in royal households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary], but it was unlikely to inspire any but the most intrepid.
鈥淭oday鈥檚 efforts to encourage us all to join in by baking a coronation quiche reflect the enormous popularity of cooking as a leisure activity, as well as the monarchy鈥檚 attempts to repackage themselves for the 21st century.鈥�