Pour 100ml of the milk and all but 2tbspns of the beaten egg into the flour mixture.
Mix the flour, baking powder, and butter cubes, as shown below, then stir in the sugar and sultanas. Although the latter might raise a few eyebrows, most of the menu would be greeted as rapturously today as it was all those years ago. Heavy rain on June 2, 1953, meant that many of the ‘street’ parties took place in village halls and gymnasiums, but that didn’t deter people from laying on magnificent spreads of what the historian David Kynaston records in his book Family Britain as ‘a huge swanky tea’ of sandwiches, jellies, ice creams and blancmanges. They were held to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, and (after a period on the wrong side of the law after the First World War, when they were thought to be encouraging ‘rowdiness’), they honoured George VI’s coronation in 1937, and they’ll forever be associated with the late Queen, whose coronation was marked with celebrations that were all the more moving set against the still-solemn post-war backdrop.
Street parties - bunting-decked, cake-laden, joyously singalong affairs - are as British as lighting the fire on a Sunday evening and saying ‘sorry’ when you mean ‘excuse me’. Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardenersĮmma Hughes collects the best recipes from some of Britain's best-loved chefs and food writers.
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