Bakewell pudding

Noun

Bakewell pudding (countable and uncountable, plural Bakewell puddings)

1. An English dessert consisting of a flaky pastry base with a layer of sieved jam and topped with a filling made of egg and almond paste.
   • the bakewell pudding. Having covered a dish with thin puff paste, put a layer of any kind of jam about half an inch thick, then take the yolks of eight eggs and two whites, half a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter melted, and almond flavour to your taste; beat all well together; pour the...1837, [attributed to Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall], “Puddings, Custards, &c.”, in The Housekeeper’s Book, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: William Marshall & Co. […], →OCLC, page 114
   • And everyone should do their part to help settle the debate over which of the Bakewell pudding shops in town actually invented the famous dessert (see boxed text, right).2005 March, David Else, Oliver Berry, Fionn Davenport, Martin Hughes, Sam Martin, Etain O’Carroll, Becky Ohlsen, “Bakewell”, in England, 3rd edition, Footscray, Vic.; Oakland, Calif.; London: Lonely...