In the South we get a small tart with white icing and a cherry on top otherwise known as ‘Mr Kipling’. However, when I went ‘up North’ to Bakewell, a Bakewell Tart is completely different! Why? Has the Southern Bakewell tart been ‘Americanised’?
I love what I suppose is the northern ‘Bakewell Tart’. It’s really delicious.
I went to a Farmers Shop in Kent a while back and they stocked lots of British cakes. but they also had the ‘Southern or Americanised Bakewell Tart’.. It would be lovely to get the gooey Northern Bakewell Tart down here.
Will Toad in the Hole be tampered with in the future…. maybe they will make one with bloody waffles?
Now, here’s my favourite Bakewell Tart Shop..but even they know call themselves ‘a patisserie’ . A patisserie in England? Eh?!
www.bakewelltartshop.co.uk
A Bakewell tart is a Derbyshire prostitute. A Bakewell Pudding, in the other hand…
They are very insistent on this point down there in the Midlands!
Ha Ha
Well this famous Bakewell Tart shop isn’t very ‘politically correct then’! I think I remember it being called a Bakewell Pudding too when I was up there in some places.
I’ve just had another look at their website and they’re also calling it a Coffee Shop.
Bring back tea shops