Queen, the sun does not fall, and her kitchen | flavor world

Last Thursday, the oldest queen Elizabeth II in British history died.

When she was born, the world was still printed and colorful painting; when she left, the world was dominated by smartphones and online streaming media.

In 1996, everyone's daily life changed, but she could not change.

As the most important representative of the monarchy, her birth means the continuation of the tradition, and when she ascended the throne, she also vowed that she would never abdicate in this life.

Today's flavor planet, we will take 14 precious photos and "Royal Food: Cooking Recipes and Memories from the Royal Palace Kitchen", "Growth Queen: Victoria's Diet and Royal Secret", take everyone Entering the kitchen of the royal family of the Emperor of the British Emperor, see what the queen's main royal diet, what it looks like.

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Buckingxi is a unique anniversary of the monarchy for 70 years. The photos of this queen and Paddington are from the celebration day of the Queen Bai Jinxi this year.

In the picture, the queen is drinking afternoon tea with Paddington Bear. This is the queen's dietary habit every day. She is accustomed to British Earl or Assam black tea, usually accompanied by some desserts.

"Generally eat a small piece of cake, she likes chocolate cake; then eats half of Sikang, and finally the fruit of the day." In "Royal Food: Cooking Recipes and Memories from the Royal Palace Kitchen", the queen chef revealed that it was revealed to Essence

Royal Diet: Cooking recipes and memories from the palace kitchen

Elizabeth II is not a gourmet enthusiast, and food is just the basis for maintaining her life. If there is no national banquet or she needs her participation, she can eat almost the same exactly the same every day, and her noon and dinner are basically light.

She has never eaten garlic and onions in this life, but this has nothing to do with her personal good and evil, but a requirement of an unwritten requirement: All monarchs are banned from eating onion and garlic.

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Although they do not catch a cold, all the banquets hosted by the royal family, regardless of the size, the final decision of the menu is the queen himself. The picture shows the queen's dining table display in 2015 receiving the Chinese President's Dinner in 2015.

For Elizabeth, the banquet is a way of continuing the royal tradition.

The majesty of the royal family, the hospitality of the royal family, and the information that the royal family needs to pass in the size and details of the banquet. What desktop decoration and which banquet foods are presented.

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The royal kitchen is borne by cooking and showing the royal tradition. The picture shows the kitchen of Buckingham Palace. With the premise of not changing the old structure, the Queen has made modernization on it.

Buckingham Kitchen has a large distance from the Queen's bedroom, so in the past without heating equipment, the kings or queen almost eaten warm or cold rice. Even today, delivery to the queen is a difficult speed and physical work: the staff should quickly use the insulation cart, and send the hot rice to the queen's room with a special fast channel.

Moreover, the royal family is particularly fixed: I have breakfast at 9 am, lunch on time at 1:15 pm, afternoon tea is usually between 3 and 5 o'clock, and dinner is at 8:15.

As long as there are not noble guests, the chefs hardly bother to "what to eat for the queen":

"She eats very restrained and light, and she is almost the same food every morning. Lunch and dinner is just red or fish, with a piece of vegetables. She does not like carbon water."

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In the face of a major dinner, the royal family has maintained the tradition of French menu as the main language of the menu.

The above two pictures are two menus of different eras. The first is the royal national banquet menu when Elizabeth II received Singapore's Prime Minister in 2014. The second is the 19th century. Essence The menu is all French.

The tradition of the British royal family used French menu began in the 11th century. In 1066, the Duke of France's Norman Duke William invaded and conquered England, making French the official language of England. In the past few centuries, the identity of French as the main second foreign language as the royal family has never changed. Elizabeth II is also proficient in French.

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Buckingham Palace was not the official residence of the royal family. Let it be the first official residence of the royal family, and to pay so much attention to the kitchen is Queen Elizabeth's great -grandmother Victoria. Prior to Elizabeth II, she had been holding the title of "Britain's oldest monarch".

Queen Victoria was called "the most greedy queen" by historical biographies. Especially after the death of Prince Albert, food became Victoria's emotional vent.

Contrary to Elizabeth, Victoria eats rich in each meal. During her tenure, Buckingham's kitchen has always maintained a scale of more than 80 people, and continuously produced foods that conform to Victoria's taste every day.

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In the era of Queen Victoria's governance, it was also the era when the kitchen and banquet tradition had changed tremendous. The picture is the production dinner in the Windsa Castle Kitchen in 1818.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the main fuel of the kitchen was coal and wood. The ventilation environment of the kitchen usually had serious problems. Carbon monoxide gathered in the closed space made the chef's health problems. limited.

At that time, the royal family maintained a French banquet tradition: this is a form of dinner with "gorgeous exaggeration". "A large amount of food is presented on the table at one time, and there is usually a whole roasted animal. The dishes are particularly symmetrical, and the accuracy is accurate to measure the ruler even if it is served."

After the first round, all the food was withdrawn, and then the second round. Hot vegetables are almost impossible. After such a big move, the food has long been cold.

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Based on this exaggerated dinner tradition, when Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace, Queen Victoria was built in the kitchen of Buckingham Palace. Essence

So far this "wall furnace" is still retained in Buckingham Kitchen.

Before Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace, the kitchen revolution had quietly started. The more ventilated stove, the more advanced kitchen management system spreads in France first, also affects the design of Buckingham Kitchen. She built a royal kitchen that meets the requirements of modern kitchen with reference to her favorite Windsor Castle and the latest kitchen management system at the time.

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Observe these two pictures: Is there a clear difference between the display display of the desktop?

The above picture was drawn in 1844. At that time, the British royal family still used French banquet style. The desktop was empty, and the location was left to all kinds of fancy foods that were about to be displayed.

The picture below was drawn in 1923. At that time, the British royal royal family had eliminated exaggerated and open -style French banquet traditions.

In the later period of Queen Victoria's administration, the royal dinner presentation also upgraded itself. The dishes are the French dinner with a visual center of gravity. They are replaced by Russian single dishes+menu. The empty desktop also indirectly becomes the "second battlefield" of the royal family to show its strength.

Flond sugar cakes, such as exquisite visual dessert, were also popular at that time.

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The annual summer garden party of the royal family

Figure above: 1887

Figure below: 2017

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The royal family meets the national banquet of the heads of various countries

Figure above: 1837

Figure below: 2019

Looking back at these two groups of photos for more than 100 years, you will find that no matter the scale, pattern, or appearance of the banquet, almost no change has occurred.

This is also the place where Elizabeth II is extraordinary: Although the times have turned the sky, she has maintained the continuity of the royal tradition with her own power, and also dominated the royal family to embrace modern changes and replacement.

Author: Mei Shanshan

Capture: Mei Shanshan

Edit: Si Xiaole

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