Bakewell tart (or Bakewell pudding) is more of a tart than a pudding, but was always known as a pudding until the 20th century. It is still so called in the Derbyshire town of Bakewell, but the name ‘

Garrett (c.1895) points out what a difficult task it is to define the meaning of this word: The term itself, which, according to Skeat, is of Celtic origin, is in culinary parlance extended so wide

jam a mixture of fruit and sugar boiled together, poured into jars, and sealed to give a long-keeping preserve with a wet semi-solid consistency, known to a food scientist as a gel. There are distinct

tart a term which overlaps with flan, subsumes quiche and pizza, and is largely replaced in N. America by pie. A tart is a flat, baked item consisting of a base of pastry, or occasionally some other f