Bakewell and Prejudice". Bakewell Bakewell is a small market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, well known for the local confection Bakewell pudding. It is located on the River Wye, about thirteen miles (21 km) southwest of Sheffield. In the 2011 census the civil parish of Bakewell had a population of 3,949. The town is close to the tourist attractions of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall. Although there is evidence of earlier settlements in the area, Bakewell itself was probably founded in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell was in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The
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