Coronation Quiche

Exactly. What fresh hell is this?!

Agree. When I first saw the picture, I thought it might be asparagus quiche, and that would be good. Spinach quiche - OK. Spinach with broad beans - I suspect the British Broad Bean Farmers Association has a hand in this dreadful decision! 

There has to be a reason 

I like quiche but broad beans? no thank you. And my family would rebel at the spinach also.

I'll be passing on this recipe. It's bad enough they put spinach in there, but then to add in broad beans (also known as fava beans) is just too much! Is there a Broad Bean Association that pushed to get them added to the dish?

I didn't either until I googled to see what a broad bean was (had not heard that term). While I typically like beans, the fava/broad bean has never grabbed my fancy. Something about the taste and/or texture.

I’ve never had a broad bean, to my knowledge.  Is it similar or maybe the same as a Lima bean?  

I did notice that they use lard in the crust.  My mom and grandmother used lard and everyone that I knew in California would never use it in their pastry.  I did, because making it without just didn’t taste as good as Mom’s pastry.  She actually used half lard and half Crisco or butter, depending on what the pastry crust was for.  Is the use of lard a typical English thing?

It's an older fashioned thing but seems to be gaining popularity again. I think a mix of that and butter for flavour would work well.

Broad beans are a new item to me. I have never heard the term before this post, so obviously don't know the vegetable.

This is all a bit rich from a country that serves spray cheese, velveeta, grits, jello salads, biscuits and gravy and casseroles made with 'cream of...anything.

Hey now, I'm all about these!

I don’t find English food to be awful at all. My grandmother was born in England and married a man and moved to Canada where my mother was born. Mom had only eaten her mother’s cooking all her life. She told us the first time she went out to eat at a restaurant, she was 14 years old.

Then Mom grew up and married my father whose parents were from Ukraine. Dad’s mother had worked as a cook in a restaurant. She met my grandfather when he was a customer at that restaurant. They married and she quit her job. They ended up having 7 kids, 6 boys and 1 girl, so she was still cooking in large amounts. She taught all the kids to cook. My dad loved learning her recipes.

So here you have a woman used to only English foods and Dad, only used to Ukrainian foods. Mom said they shared cooking duties, and she tasted foods she had never even heard of. Dad was forever cutting recipes out of magazines and the newspaper for them to try, so Mom’s palate was slowly expanded and she learned to love the variety.

And obviously that meant we grew up eating Dad’s Ukrainian foods and Mom’s English dishes along with all the new foods Dad was always introducing. I never found Mom’s English dishes to be boring or bland. Maybe Dad had helped her modify them over the years, I don’t know. One thing Mom made that was my absolute favorite meal from Mom’s family, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. It was my request every birthday. That is a typical English meal, isn’t it? I’m going to have to try making it myself one of these days. I rarely ever eat beef, but I will make an exception for this meal. I have many of Mom’s recipes in a book she made me and I’m pretty sure the Yorkshire pudding was one of them.

Those of you that don’t like English foods must not have had a good sampling. And yes, I’ve heard many people say that all English foods are bland. Having been raised eating several English dishes, I politely disagree.