Queen Elizabeth’s beloved recipe for pancakes goes viral online

We can all get a taste for what life is like as a Royal, thanks to Queen Elizabeth’s recipe for pancakes, which has gone viral online in the wake of her death.

WE can all get a taste for what life is like as a Royal, thanks to Queen Elizabeth II’s beloved recipe for pancakes, which has gone viral online in the wake of her death.

Queen Elizabeth II penned the recipe – which is actually for Scottish drop scones, so named because the mixture is dropped onto the cooking surface – in 1960 to then US President Dwight Eisenhower.

The Queen wrote to the President after meeting with him and his wife Mamie at Balmoral Castle.

The British Monarch met with Eisenhower for the first time in 1957 when she was 31 at a White House state banquet and offered up her delicious recipe three years later.

The Queen loved her pancakes aka drop scones.

Queen Elizabeth passed away at age 96 at Balmoral Castle on September 8 but the recipe and the pancakes live on, after it was listed on Reddit.

The Queen was considered something of an expert when it came to cooking breakfast but pancakes were apparently a rare sugary indulgence as she stuck to a strict diet, according to former Royal chef Darren McGrady.

According to Queen Elizabeth II, the right pancakes require ‘a great deal of beating’ in a recipe including a mixture of butter, eggs, milk, cream of tartar, sugar and bicarbonate soda.

“Seeing a picture of you in today’s newspaper standing in front of a barbecue grilling quail reminded me that I had never sent you the recipe of the drop scones which I promised you at Balmoral,” the Queen wrote in the letter to President Eisenhower.

“I now hasten to do so, and I do hope you will find them successful.”

Queen Elizabeth II pancake recipe. Picture: US National Archives.

Of the pancakes themselves, the Queen wrote: “Beat eggs, sugar, and about half the milk together, add flour, and mix well together, adding the remainder of milk as required, also bicarbonate and cream of tartar, fold in the melted butter.”

She said the recipe could and its measurements could feed up to 16 people but often alternatives if there was less than that.

“When there are fewer, I generally put in less flour and milk but use other ingredients as stated. I have also tried using golden syrup or treacle instead of only sugar, and that can be very good too,’ she wrote.

The correspondence has since been saved in the US National Archives.

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