High Tea - Eggs Drumkilbo
High Tea @ "Sketch".
"Lobster, crab & Oscietra Surgeon caviar with Lightly scrambled egg"
Aristocratic chi-chi dish?
I have never heard of it nor encounter it till now.
Eggs Drumkilbo seems to be one of those quintessentially and quirky British dishes. As the story goes, it was invented in the kitchens of Drumkilbo House in Perthshire, for some late arriving guests who had the audacity to miss dinner. This posh 'prawn cocktail meets eggs mayonnaise' dish is one of the favourite dishes of the Royal Family. It was the first course on the wedding breakfast menu of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and the late Queen Mum (Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Elizabeth II's mother) was particularly fond of this dish.
I would best described it as "cold seafood medley meets Chawanmushi"?
Yes, it's some sort of custardy egg except it was savoury (lightly salted) in taste and the cold morsels of decadent seafood enjoyed along with the custardy egg.
Could they not steamed it together I mused when I was daintily having my little baby mouthfuls, yearning for something warmer.
Yes....Chawanmushi would have been great! (I chuckled a laugh to myself)
Yes, these were the finer side of life and I should be savouring the moments (and tastes) but quite frankly, being the first dish to serve for The High Tea and myself being quite famished, being dainty was not on my cards.
High Tea - Eggs Drumkilbo
High Tea @ "Sketch".
"Lobster, crab & Oscietra Surgeon caviar with Lightly scrambled egg"
Aristocratic chi-chi dish?
I have never heard of it nor encounter it till now.
Eggs Drumkilbo seems to be one of those quintessentially and quirky British dishes. As the story goes, it was invented in the kitchens of Drumkilbo House in Perthshire, for some late arriving guests who had the audacity to miss dinner. This posh 'prawn cocktail meets eggs mayonnaise' dish is one of the favourite dishes of the Royal Family. It was the first course on the wedding breakfast menu of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and the late Queen Mum (Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen Elizabeth II's mother) was particularly fond of this dish.
I would best described it as "cold seafood medley meets Chawanmushi"?
Yes, it's some sort of custardy egg except it was savoury (lightly salted) in taste and the cold morsels of decadent seafood enjoyed along with the custardy egg.
Could they not steamed it together I mused when I was daintily having my little baby mouthfuls, yearning for something warmer.
Yes....Chawanmushi would have been great! (I chuckled a laugh to myself)
Yes, these were the finer side of life and I should be savouring the moments (and tastes) but quite frankly, being the first dish to serve for The High Tea and myself being quite famished, being dainty was not on my cards.