Well attestedNamed from the place
Bakewell pudding
noun · first attested 19th century
The town's pudding and the supermarket's tart are not the same thing.
A Derbyshire dessert of pastry spread with jam and filled with a rich almond and egg mixture.
53.2130°N -1.6780°W · Q2462719
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Bakewell
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Bakewell pudding
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.
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