Australian Jake Smith’s collection, including an 1845 menu from the king of Hanover, shows some dishes favoured by previous British monarchs that are definitely not on King Charles’s menu
In a time before coronation quiches, a new monarch might diligently work through dozens of courses.
They might slurp through a turtle soup or pheasant consommé or brave a maupygernon – which one UK MP described as a grim recipe “based on hogs’ kidneys and flavoured with ingredients suggesting the witches’ cauldron in Macbeth”.
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