The Queen’s Bread.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 464, 19 April 1890, Page 3

The Queen’s Bread.

The Queen’s partiality for Viennese and French! bread runs into all sorts of shapes. There are .long French loaves, and twist 8 and rolls,,and;the Viennese bread is shaped into all sorts of curves And twists. There is oheroli made like a little mannikin. This is supplied for-.the edification'and amusement of the Queen’s small grandchildren when they sit at her Majesty’s table. The Queen is always supplied with this bread when at B uekingham .Palace. Her (.baker is Mr S. •I’e'tr‘6zy'wafeki,‘,a - ='Pdlish ? -refugee, in whom the Prince -Consort’took: a great interest. •This fancy bread is-only supplied for the Queen’s table; for the rest cf the household the Palace .baker, .bakes. Some of the larger loaves supplied to the Queen cost tenpence.each. She did have this bread from London sent down to Windsor, bub owing 'to the late arrival of tfie train thato conveyed it, or something of that sorb, this was given., up. When the Empress Frederick, was staying- with the Queen, rye bread, of which the Empress is fond, was sentVtq the Pala.ce, , The Queen’s bakers have -always * be4n - able to satisfy .the.;;Queens/ : She * pays- regularly once a month, and does not demand Sunday bakings. When some'-/of Mi: Petrozy- • ciistomeis .feayeVgrumbled that they didn’t -get ,ftesh.-bread op; Sundays, Her Majesty’s forbearance Was .quoted, and this usually stops.tHeir' - CQpiipkintß.‘ The same baker 'also supplies Hie "Princess of Wales .arid- other mephers.of ; bhe-dloyal Family, ;ai)d though ;thb;Queen. Always ,-nas her confectionery. and c.akes made'.j.in her own kitchen, the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Connaught, wfio share the characteristics of 'having a 'sweet tooth, occasionally order lunch, -caffes and other . good-things. ,:The ifcipay be mentioned, doesn’t' likef,lreshly- ; (3ayed bread. . It is alwajfs’a little stale.- * • .'■,, / ■ • 1 ' - -. •».*/ . :j ViS'j i The. Hop» .JRandalli Johpgtpn is now on to jibw Zealand/ ‘'.'He-Aill bake his seat'.ib.the* next session' : pf (.tfie’-’Legislative Courieil, ap’d wili theu s return'to England' for some .years/;, bAving' established a home for his family at Exeter. : M.At. the, sale of blood stock of Mr W. M. Broughton, at Napier, Bed Comyn was sold to Mr L, Lyons for 20 ; guineas. The Dove was passed in at .25 guineas; and the Vasco-.di-Gama—M'ari6 r Antpine'tte colt, who has :‘a ' number '"of" engagements io fill, was bought in at 38 guineas.* • At the sale- of the..late.>Mt? C. Nelson’s horses; held at : Marten, the istallion Tor'pedo, by-Musket—Fanny Fisher, was purchased by Mr Douglas,)of Hawke’s Bay, for £255. The Torpedo, filly wa s taken by. Messrs Hearn and JKehnedy. at £2O, and , the hurdle racer- - j)ac6h by Mr J. Driscoll,