Bakewell
53.2130°N -1.6780°W · Q2462719
3 English words in this atlas trace back to Bakewell. It sits in United Kingdom.
The almond tart is named for a Derbyshire town.
Bakewell in the Peak District gives its name both to the pudding and to the later tart.
The town's pudding and the supermarket's tart are not the same thing.
Bakewell in Derbyshire has claimed the pudding since at least the 1830s, with a well-worn local tale of a cook at an inn who misread the instructions. The Bakewell tart, with its frangipane and white icing, is a later and quite different sweet that borrowed the town's name.
Bakewell's own specialty is a different pudding; the iced tart is an upstart.
The Derbyshire town of Bakewell is known for a jam and almond pudding whose origin is told in several incompatible stories, most of them involving a cook's mistake. The iced cherry tart is a later commercial relative, and locals will point out that it is not the original.