Name: Bakewell tart
Yield: For 6-8 people
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: flour, for dusting; 150 g (5½ oz) butter; 2 eggs; 1 tbsp rosewater; 50 g (1¾ oz) fresh white breadcrumbs; 1 quantity of shortcrust pastry; 150 g (5½ oz) almond meal; handful of flaked almonds; 20 g (¾ oz) apricot kernels; 75 g (2½ oz) raw (demerara) sugar; 3 tbsp raspberry jam; pinch of grated nutmeg

Preparation info

For
6-8
people

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

In Bakewell you’ll find a bakery on every street corner, each claiming they bake the one and only original Bakewell pudding that made the little Peak District town famous. Who actually invented the Bakewell pudding? According to the most popular story, the Bakewell pudding originated around 1850 when the maid of the local Rutland Arms pub made a mistake when reading a recipe from her mistress, Anne Grieves, thus creating a new bake that they then baptised as Bakewell puddin