Fancy a Tart? - Bakewell - 233 km

A short trip South into the Peak District sees us arrive into the town of Bakewell, home of the famous Bakewell tart. However, it is in fact not home to the tart, but the Bakewell Pudding! If visiting you should be aware that Bakewell tart, a jam and sponge shortcrust pastry with almonds, is not the same as Bakewell pudding!

The story goes that Bakewell pudding originated by accident almost 150 years ago. The cook at the Rutland Arms was asked to make a pudding by spreading jam over an egg mixture stirred into pastry, but she poured the egg mixture on top of the jam by mistake, inadvertently creating a dessert that was well received by diners. Many of the things around today, in cooking, science and technology were indeed made or discovered by accident! Probably the most famous of accidents was the discovery of the antibiotic Penicillin by Sir Alexander Flemming in 1928.

In the year 1811 Jane Austen revised the manuscript of her famous book "Pride and Prejudice". It had been written in 1797, but Jane Austen, who travelled in Derbyshire in 1811, chose to introduce the beauty spots of the Peak District into her novel. She visited Chatsworth, only three miles away, and was so impressed by its beauty and grandeur, that she made it the background for "Pemberley", the home of Mr. Darcy