The Old OriginalBakewell Pudding Shop

The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop trades from a building on the Square that dates to the late seventeenth century and once belonged to the Duke of Rutland. Around 1860, Mrs Wilson acquired what she claimed was the true recipe for the local pudding, a dessert said to have first appeared at a nearby inn after a cook spread egg and almond filling over jam rather than stirring it into the pastry. The Wilson family bought the building outright in 1921 and the shop has made puddings by hand from the same closely guarded recipe since. The ground floor sells puddings, tarts and other baked goods across the counter, while the upper floor operates as a licensed restaurant. The shop also runs a mail-order service that ships puddings by post to customers well beyond Derbyshire.