The Queen has been eating a sandwich with jam every day since she was five, reveals her former chef
- The former Queen’s chef has a Youtube video sharing royal recipes
- Chef Darren McGrady said jam sandwiches should always be on the menu
- He said Her Majesty has been eating “jam pennies” since she was a girl, and ever since
- The chef said the jam is usually strawberry, made at Balmoral Castle
The Queen has been eating a sandwich with jam every day since she was five, as revealed by her former private chef.
Darren McGrady was the personal chef to Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana and Princes William and Harry for 15 years.
Mr McGrady has posted a video on his YouTube channel – which has 226,000 subscribers – on how to recreate your own royal afternoon tea at home and the types of sandwiches on offer at Buckingham Palace.
The head chef, who has worked in the castle since he was young, spoke of the garden festivals that were held there with 6,000 participants.
The Queen has been eating a sandwich with jam every day since she was five, as her former private chef Darren McGrady revealed in a YouTube video
Mr McGrady said one of the sandwiches served at royal garden parties must be the jam penny – a jam and butter sandwich – which the Queen has eaten for afternoon tea since childhood and ever since
However, the royal chefs only had to supply the royal tea tent, and there was one sandwich that always had to be on the menu.
That delicacy was the “jam penny” that the Queen was served as a little girl and has eaten for afternoon tea ever since, Mr McGrady said.
He said the timeless recipe was “just bread and jam with a bit of butter, usually strawberry jam.”
“We would make the jam at Balmoral Castle with beautiful Scottish strawberries from the gardens.”
In the video, he then cut the jam and butter slice together, cut them into circles, and added, “They were called pennies, after the size of the old English penny.”
Other popular afternoon tea sandwich fillings included tomato and cheese and cucumber with mint cream cheese.
In the video, he said, “They were called pennies, after the size of the old English penny” and that other royal sandwich favorites were pickles and mint cream cheese, and tomatoes and cheese
In the comments, one viewer said: “The strange thing is that in England anyone who had jam sandwiches went to school was labeled poor!
“And here I find out the queen eats them, I wish I could show the bullies haha!
“A lot of this food seems so simple, but it just reminds me that there are so many naturally beautiful things that aren’t necessary for all of this Just Eat and Deliveroo!”
But not everyone was a fan, and someone said: “The Queen has eaten a jam sandwich every day since she was a child.
“A damn jam sandwich? Boring! If I were queen I would definitely be more boujee than that.’