AFTER 150 years the famous Bakewell Pudding is bidding for legal status.
Pudding makers in the North Derbyshire market town are banding together to apply to get Protection of Designation of Origin (PDO) or Protection of Geographic Indication (PGI) for their product from the EU.
Jemma Pheasey, business manager of the Old Original Pudding Company, is getting the paperwork ready.
"It's to safeguard the recipes and flavour of the pudding," says Gemma, whose company claims to have a recipe dating from 1860.
She's joining forces with Marion Wright, boss of Bloomers Original Bakewell Puddings, on Water Street, which has a recipe from 1889.
Jemma says: "Like the Melton Mowbray pork pie (which also has PDO status), there are different recipes."
What doesn't change is the need for puff pastry, strawberry jam and real almonds, not essence, in a pukka Bakewell Pudding.
She adds: "There are so many variants to the Bakewell Tart (with which the pudding is often confused but which is a completely separate entity).
"We want to stop it happening with the pudding before it starts."
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