Bakewell

Yesterday we drove over to Sheffield to visit my brother and his wife. It was a wet day and I didn't get any pictures. At the end of the day, Roger and Jen returned to Roger's parents to fly back home this morning, but I am staying on with Peter and Judy for a few more days. This afternoon we drove out to Bakewell, a small market town out in the Derbyshire countryside, located on the River Wye, about thirteen miles southwest of Sheffield. It is perhaps best known for being the home of the Bakewell Pudding/Tart. The original dish was known as a Bakewell Pudding. The earliest recorded recipe, by Eliza Acton in 1845, indicates a pastry-less sweet, a dish lined with fruit preserves and topped with egg yolks beaten with sugar and butter, into which a small amount of almond flavouring was added. Then, over the course of the nineteenth century, the Bakewell Pudding came to have a pastry base, and is now generally referred to as a Bakewell tart. We wandered round the town, ducking into the bookstore for a browse while a shower passed through, then walked along the river and had an ice-cream.