Bakewell Tart
In Bakewell you’ll find a bakery on every street corner, each claiming they bake the one and only original Bakewell pudding that made the little Peak District town famous.
Who actually invented the Bakewell pudding? According to the most popular story, the Bakewell pudding originated around 1850 when the maid of the local Rutland Arms pub made a mistake when reading a recipe from her mistress, Anne Grieves, thus creating a new bake that they then baptized as Bakewell pudding. However, recipes for this pudding appear two decades earlier in two manuscript recipe books, and in print in “The Magazine of Domestic Cookery” published in 1836. In “Traditional Fare of England and Wales” from 1948, a recipe says that: “A Mr Stephen Blair gave £5 for this recipe at the hotel at Bakewell about 1835.”
Whanganui couple finally home after Covid-19 turns two-week holiday into nine months stay
20 Dec, 2020 04:01 PM
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Irene Wolmarans (L) and Abigail Marthinusen in transit on their way home to New Zealand. Photo / Supplied
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui couple Irene Wolmarans and Abigail Marthinusen have finally arrived back in New Zealand after the Covid-19 pandemic caused a two-week holiday to their native South Africa in March - a few weeks before New Zealand went into Covid-19 lockdown - to stretch into a nine month stay.
New Zealand has been their primary place of residence since 2016, but as they had not yet secured permanent residency, securing flights back into the country was difficult and they were left stranded and forced to put life in Whanganui on hold.