London two months. The fortifications failed their only test when the New Model Army entered London in 1647, and they were levelled by Parliament the same year. London was plagued by disease in the early 17th century, culminating in the Great Plague of 1665–1666, which killed up to 100,000 people, or a fifth of the population. The Great Fire of London broke out in 1666 in Pudding Lane in the city and quickly swept through the wooden buildings. Rebuilding took over ten years and was supervised by Robert Hooke as Surveyor of London. In 1708 Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral
Bakewell pudding edition. A recipe for "bakewell pudding" does, however, appear in the 1847 edition. One of the earliest verifiable examples of a Bakewell pudding recipe comes from "The Magazine of Domestic Economy" issued in London in 1836. Eliza Acton published a recipe in her 1845 work "Modern Cookery for Private Families" 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. The pudding originated in the Derbyshire town of Bakewell. The origins of the pudding are not clear, but a common