Bakewell pudding

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References to "Bakewell pudding" appear earlier than the term "Bakewell tart", which entered common usage in the 20th century.

In the Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, it is claimed the earliest reference to "Bakewell pudding" comes from The Cook and Housewife's Manual by Margaret Dods, published in 1826.{{cite book|last1=Davidson|first1=Alan|title=The Oxford Companion to Food|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199677337|page=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RL6LAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54|access-date=16 January 2017}} This is, however, erroneous as no recipe for "Bakewell pudding" (or indeed Bakewell tart) appears in the 1826 edition.{{cite book|last1=Dods|first1=Margaret|title=Cook and Housewife's Manual|year=1826|location=Edinburgh|edition=1826|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_AGx2L5UPEC&q=bakewell+pudding|access-date=15 January 2017}}{{syn|date=July 2022}} A recipe for "bakewell pudding" does, however, appear in the 1847 edition.{{cite book|last1=Dods|first1=Margaret|title=The Cook and Housewife's Manual|date=1847|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Co.|location=London|page=480|edition=8th|url=https://archive.org/stream/cookandhousewif03johngoog#page/n479/mode/1up|access-date=16 January 2017}}

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The pudding originated in the Derbyshire town of Bakewell.{{cite web|url=https://bakewellonline.co.uk/documents/the_history_of_the_bakewell_pudding/ |title=The Bakewell Pudding |website=Bakewell Online |access-date=12 June 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.bakewellderbyshire.com/pages/tart-pudding.html |title=Famous Bakewell Tart & Pudding |website=Bakewell Derbyshire |access-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003154748/http://www.bakewellderbyshire.com/pages/tart-pudding.html |archive-date=3 October 2013 }} The origins of the pudding are not clear, but a common story is that it was first made by accident in 1820 (other sources cite 1860){{cite news|first=Max |last=Davidson|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/centralengland/720985/One-of-our-famous-tarts-I-dont-think-so.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115063619/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/centralengland/720985/One-of-our-famous-tarts-I-dont-think-so.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 November 2011 |title=One of our famous tarts? I don't think so |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=18 April 1998 |access-date=12 June 2018}} by Mrs Greaves, who was the landlady of the White Horse Inn (since demolished). She supposedly left instructions for her cook to make a jam tart.{{cite web|url=http://www.bakewell.co.uk/bakewell-pudding-or-bakewell-tart |title=Pudding or Bakewell Tart? |website=Bakewell |date=6 January 2012 |access-date=12 June 2018}} The cook, instead of stirring the eggs and almond paste mixture into the pastry, spread it on top of the jam. When cooked, the egg and almond paste set like an egg custard, and the result was successful enough for it to become a popular dish at the inn.{{cite book|last1=Lord|first1=Peter|title=Clarence Whaite and the Welsh Art World: The Betws-Y-Coed Artists' Colony, 1844-1914|date=2009|publisher=Coast and Country Productions|location=Llandudno|isbn=9781907163067|pages=13–14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wglXHiBzc0C&pg=PA13|access-date=25 May 2016}}

The dates and/or premises given in this story are unlikely to be accurate as the White Horse Inn was demolished in 1803 to make way for the development of Rutland Square and subsequently the Rutland Arms Hotel.{{cite web|url=https://bakewellonline.co.uk/documents/putting_the_record_straight/ |title=The Bakewell Pudding - Putting The Record Straight |website=Bakewell Online |access-date=12 June 2018}} Additionally, Eliza Acton provides a recipe for 'Bakewell pudding' in her book Modern Cookery for Private Families which was published in 1845, making the pudding's creation date of 1860 impossible.

One of the earliest verifiable examples of a Bakewell pudding recipe comes from The Magazine of Domestic Economy issued in London in 1836.{{cite book|title=The Magazine of Domestic Economy|date=1836|publisher=Orr and Smith|location=London|page=219|edition=Volume one|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ztOAAAAYAAJ&q=Bakewell|access-date=16 January 2017}} Eliza Acton published a recipe in her 1845 work Modern Cookery for Private Families{{cite book|last1=Acton|first1=Eliza|author-link=Eliza Acton|title=Modern Cookery for Private Families|date=1845|publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green|location=London|edition=1st}} and Mrs Beeton published two recipes for Bakewell pudding, one which used a pastry base and one which used breadcrumbs, in her Book of Household Management in 1861.{{cite web |author=Mrs Beeton |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bakewellpudding_3375 |title=Bakewell pudding |website=BBC |access-date=12 June 2018 |archive-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926171823/http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bakewellpudding_3375 |url-status=live}}{{cite book|last1=Beeton|first1=Isabella Mary|title=The Book of Household Management|date=1861|publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux|page=630|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgPhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA630|access-date=16 January 2017}}

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• [http://britishfood.about.com/od/specialty/r/Bakewell-pudding-recipe.htm "Bakewell pudding" on About.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127000831/http://britishfood.about.com/od/specialty/r/Bakewell-pudding-recipe.htm |date=27 November 2011 }}
• [https://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/some-early-bakewell-pudding-recipes.html Some Early Bakewell Pudding Recipes on Food History Jottings]

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