The American-Scottish Foundation® - Events
Coronation Brunch Celebration
To purchase your tickets for the ASF Summer Raffle, and to make your reservations, click here to download a reply form..
Tickets for the ASF Summer Raffle at $10 each or 5 for $40. The raffle drawing will be at 3.30pm. Expect great prizes! Such as:
A two-night stay for two at the Churchill Hotel, London, including breakfast - King View room. Subject to availability
A Barbour jacket (can be exchanged)
A one-night private house stay for two in Edinburgh. Subject to availability
A unique Saks 5th Avenue Tartan Kilt in their own black & white tartan
A Coronation-themed Gift Basket from Harneys
A Walkers Deluxe Gift Basket
Wonderful Restaurant Certificates... and more.
VIP Courtyard Tables are available, in two limited sittings of 11.30am and 1.30pm, for a donation of $20 per person (or $80 for a table of 4). A portion of your donation will go to support ASF Creative Arts Bursaries. Brunch menu and drinks are at additional charge.
We greatly look forward to seeing you at the event and to toasting Her Majesty The Queen on this significant occasion!
Rosemary Hume's Coronation Chicken
The original coronation chicken recipe, concieved by Rosemary Hume for Elizabeth II's Coronation lunch in 1953.
The famous coronation chicken served at the Queen’s coronation lunch is usually attributed to Constance Spry. Popular lore has it that Spry based the recipe on its similarly rich and spicy royal relation, jubilee chicken, prepared for the Silver Jubilee of George V in 1935, which mixed the chicken in mayonnaise and curry.
However, it was Rosemary Hume who was actually behind coronation chicken, the recipe for which went on to appear in the first edition, in 1956, of The Constance Spry Cookery Book and is indeed still to be found in the modern edition.