Bakewell pudding: Difference between revisions

References to "Bakewell pudding" appear earlier than the term "[[Bakewell tart]]", which entered common usage in the 20th century.<ref name="bakewellonline"/> In the ''Oxford Companion to Food'' by [[Alan Davidson (food writer)|Alan Davidson]], it is claimed the earliest reference to "Bakewell pudding" comes from ''The Cook and Housewife's Manual'' by [[Margaret Dods]] and published in 1826.<ref name="oxford">{{cite book|last1=Davidson|first1=Alan|title=The Oxford Companion to Food|date=2014|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford|isbn=0199677336|page=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RL6LAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=16 January 2017}}</ref> This is, however, erroneous as no recipe for "Bakewell pudding" (or indeed Bakewell tart) appears in the 1826 edition.<ref name="Dods">{{cite book|last1=Dods|first1=Margaret|title=Cook and Housewife's Manual|location=Edinburgh|edition=1826|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=c_AGx2L5UPEC&q=bakewell+pudding#v=onepage&q=bakewell%20pudding&f=false|accessdate=15 January 2017}}</ref> A recipe for "bakewell pudding" does, however, appear in the 1847 edition.<ref name="Day">{{cite web|last1=Day|first1=Ivan|title=Some Early Bakewell Pudding Recipes|url=http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/some-early-bakewell-pudding-recipes.html|website=Food History Jottings|accessdate=15 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Bettercite source neededbook|reasonlast1=blogsDods|first1=Margaret|title=The aren'tCook reliableand sourcesHousewife's Manual|date=1847|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Co.|location=London|page=480|edition=8th|url=https://archive.org/stream/cookandhousewif03johngoog#page/n479/mode/1up|accessdate=16 January 2017}}</ref> One of the earliest verifiable examples of a Bakewell pudding recipe comes from ''The Magazine of Domestic Economy'' issued in London in 1836.<ref name="Day"/> [[Eliza Acton]] published a recipe in her 1845 work ''Modern Cookery for Private Families''<ref name="Acton">{{cite book|last1=Acton|first1=Eliza|authorlink=Eliza Acton|title=Modern Cooking for Private Families|date=1845|publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green|location=London|edition=1st}}</ref> and [[Mrs Beeton]] published two recipes for Bakewell pudding, one which used a pastry base and one which used [[breadcrumbs]], in her book ''The Book of Household Management'' in 1861.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mrs Beeton |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bakewellpudding_3375 |title=BBC Food website |publisher=bbc.co.uk |date=1970-01-01 |accessdate=2014-01-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Beeton|first1=Isabella Mary|title=The Book of Household Management|date=1861|publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux|page=630|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgPhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA630#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=16 January 2017}}</ref>