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News Releases
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, The Orangery restaurant at Kensington Palace and the New Armouries restaurant at HM Tower of London will feature a special World War II luncheon and afternoon tea menu NEWS RELEASE Kensington Palace Rations Food for D-Day Commemoration LONDON - (April 5, 2004) - To commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, The Orangery restaurant at Kensington Palace and the New Armouries restaurant at HM Tower of London will feature a special World War II luncheon and afternoon tea menu, beginning June 2004, for one year only. The wartime menu will also coincide with the opening of the new exhibition, Queen, Couture and Country: Behind the Royal Wardrobe, at Kensington Palace in June. The chefs have worked with curators at both Kensington Palace and HM Tower of London to develop the war time menus, which will be available alongside the more modern menus at The Orangery and the New Armouries. The menus will appeal to visitors’ sense of nostalgia as well as the modern palate. Both menus are inspired by original 1940s recipes, which ingeniously used the limited amounts of ingredients available to keep meals fun and nutritional in times of rationing. For example, "Dr. Carrot’ and ‘Potato Pete’ were characters introduced to encourage people to eat homegrown vegetables, which were plentiful. Sugar was also rationed. However, when there were adequate supplies, the Ministry would release a little more for jam making. During the Second World War the British Government introduced food rationing. Each person was issued a ration book, which was full of coupons to be cut out and used to buy a fixed amount of rationed food each week. A point scheme was introduced for other non-rationed foods and each person had an allowance of 16 points per month. One typical week’s allowance: three pints of milk, three quarters of a pound to one pound of meat, one egg, three quarters of an ounce of cheese, four ounces of bacon, two ounces of tea, eight ounces of sugar, two ounces of butter, two ounces of cooking fat, and 16 points a month. Meals eaten away from home were ‘off ration’ and a popular alternative for individuals who could afford it. The ability of the rich to enjoy almost pre-war levels of gastronomy, led to such resentment that the government prevented restaurants charging more than five shillings a meal. War Time Lunch Menu - Two-course: 11.50 GBP, Three-course: 14.50 GBP War Time Afternoon Tea Menu - 10.95 GBP or 8.50 GBP (without wine) Kensington Palace State Apartments & Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection is part of Historic Royal Palaces, a registered charity. Registered office is Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, KT8 9AU. Historic Royal Palaces is a registered charity, which is responsible for the care and conservation of: The Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, The State Apartments and Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection at Kensington Palace, The Banqueting House at Whitehall and Kew Palace with Queen Charlotte’s Cottage. For more information on these London landmarks and other special events, please access Historic Royal Palaces’ web sites at: www.hrp.org.uk.
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