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<blockquote data-quote="WPLG" data-source="post: 66057" data-attributes="member: 158">Queen Elizabeth II has eaten jam sandwiches every day since she was a toddler, according to her former private chef.Darren McGrady claims on his YouTube channel that the monarch favors a strawberry preserve made from fruits picked in her Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland.“The queen was served jam pennies in the nursery as a little girl. She’s had them for afternoon tea ever since,” he says in a recently surfaced video published in July last year. The sandwiches are made from bread with a little butter and a spread of jam, then cut out into circles the size of an old British penny.As part of the genteel tradition of afternoon tea, McGrady, who says he was a chef to the queen for 11 years, also revealed the monarch’s solution to a familiar quandary for British scone lovers: jam first or cream?“The queen was always jam first,” he said in a separate video. “The jam went on followed by that delicious, clotted cream.”As well as the preserve, the 96-year old monarch has always been partial to fresh strawberries. “The queen would eat strawberries three or four nights a week in Balmoral if they were in season,” he says.But woe betide anyone who tried to give her out-of-season berries. A January batch at the supper table would mean “off with your head,” joked McGrady.The Palace would not comment on the queen’s sandwich preferences.___Follow all AP stories on British royalty at <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii.</a><a href="https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2022/08/21/what-does-the-queen-like-with-tea-jam-sandwiches-every-day/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WPLG, post: 66057, member: 158"] Queen Elizabeth II has eaten jam sandwiches every day since she was a toddler, according to her former private chef. Darren McGrady claims on his YouTube channel that the monarch favors a strawberry preserve made from fruits picked in her Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland. “The queen was served jam pennies in the nursery as a little girl. She’s had them for afternoon tea ever since,” he says in a recently surfaced video published in July last year. The sandwiches are made from bread with a little butter and a spread of jam, then cut out into circles the size of an old British penny. As part of the genteel tradition of afternoon tea, McGrady, who says he was a chef to the queen for 11 years, also revealed the monarch’s solution to a familiar quandary for British scone lovers: jam first or cream? “The queen was always jam first,” he said in a separate video. “The jam went on followed by that delicious, clotted cream.” As well as the preserve, the 96-year old monarch has always been partial to fresh strawberries. “The queen would eat strawberries three or four nights a week in Balmoral if they were in season,” he says. But woe betide anyone who tried to give her out-of-season berries. A January batch at the supper table would mean “off with your head,” joked McGrady. The Palace would not comment on the queen’s sandwich preferences. ___ Follow all AP stories on British royalty at [URL='https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii']https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii.[/URL] [url="https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2022/08/21/what-does-the-queen-like-with-tea-jam-sandwiches-every-day/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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