 Hello, thank you for joining me. Today I'm standing outside the Palace Hotel in the beautiful Derbyshire town of Buxton. I've come here today because I've been invited by rail trail tours to join one of their groups for the morning on their festive Chatsworth and the Peak District tour. So this tour is based here in Buxton, staying at the Palace Hotel. It's very conveniently located for the railway station over there with its famous found window. The town centre is just down there across the road and there's also the famous Buxton University where it's actually a branch of Derby University but it's a famous university. One day we'll come and do a video on that. So what's happening this morning is we're going to join the group and we're going to go to Bakewell and we're going to just see really what happens if you go on a rail trail tour. Now this one is a festive one, obviously they do tours all over the year which go to various different places all over the UK and Europe and indeed some further afield places such as Australia, India and America. So what I'm going to do now I'm going to go and find a group and we're going to go to Bakewell and see what we see. So the coaches now arrived, the guests are boarding ready for their scenic journey across the Peak Districts to Bakewell. When they get to Bakewell we're going to visit the Bakewell pudding shop and we're going to see how Bakewell puddings are made so it's going to be quite an exciting day. So we've arrived in the beautiful Derbyshire town of Bakewell. This is the bridge over the River Y. You can see the River Y stretching off in that direction and there's the town itself with the church up on the hill. It really is a lovely town you can do some lovely walks in this area in the Peak District and if you want to be noisy some man's blowing leaves to make the town look even nicer. But today on the rail trail tour what we're going to do we're going to go and see how they make the world famous Bakewell pudding. Now you may have had Bakewell tarts you can see them in most supermarkets but the real ones are Bakewell puddings and they're made here in Bakewell and as you can see the weather isn't great today. It's not stopping me or the people on the rail trail holiday enjoying themselves. It's everyone's you know excited as we're going somewhere exciting. The place we're going to is where they make the Bakewell puddings and it's just up here so we're just going to walk through the town centre and then we're going to go and see a Bakewell pudding being made which I'm really excited about because I've never seen a Bakewell pudding being made. I've always always not used to like having the Bakewell tarts as a child and indeed I still do but to see the real thing the Bakewell pudding can be quite exciting. There's a lot of outdoor type shops here in Bakewell lots of gift shops it's an area where lots of people when they explore the Peak District it's one of the towns everyone usually will come and visit. It's got some lovely stone buildings and here is where we're looking for the old original Bakewell pudding shop that's where we're going to and that's where we're going to go and see the puddings being made so if you look at the windows you can see a very exciting array of puddings and etc and this side there's more that's like there's even an ale I might even have to buy that myself. Let's go inside and see what we see. So this is inside their shop. There's a lot of things up here to do with the Bakewell puddings. We're going to go upstairs and then we're going to join the group and we're going to get our aprons ready for our demonstration. We're actually going to go and make them or the group's going to make them. I'm going to film on how a Bakewell pudding is made. So here we are for upstairs. The group is just having teas and coffees before their pudding making experience so I'm going to go and join you. So we're now in the Bakewell pudding shop and I've been given this rather nice aprons to wear. We're going to go in and see how they make a pudding so we just came upstairs to get the aprons. I'm now going downstairs and the group has gone ahead of me. I'm just trying to see where they've gone. There they are, they're up there. So we're actually going to go and see a Bakewell pudding being made which I'm really quite excited about. This is their shop. You can see all the different things you can buy in the shop. We're now going to go through into the room where they make the puddings. Has everybody got a photo? This is very much a blue Peter here is one we made earlier. As you see we're on a small area. This is not our main bake house. This is what we call our test bakery. Our main bake house is about 14 miles off site. We used to be out there and then we were baking so much both for ourselves and other people that we had to have a rethink so we now have a purpose built bakery. Everything's done in house. All the cakes, the breads and of course the puddings are all done in house but they are done off site so when we had the alterations done we had this little area for to our site. Yours? Now then full container and a piece of puff pastry. Pop it in and when you get it in you just need to use your thumbs because you need to stretch the ones of you who bake know that pastry as it bakes shrinks back. Swing this out till you can't see any more of your foil. Don't do it till it's like a pole open with a hole in it, you're not doing screw it off. Now could somebody just pass me that bag of jam down? Right so I don't want that. Now don't go mad and think I'm going to have the jammiest bake well pudding in bake well because the ones of you who makes your jam tart will know that if you get too much and it will boil out and you'll have a real mess on the baking tray. Now I don't have to clean that up, you don't have to clean it up but I know the person who does and that will be in the laptops all day. So you won't about a teaspoon full and it will find its own level. So there. This is just a little bit about the bake well pudding because puddings are the one that you only get in bake well. They are unique and traditional to bake well and it all started about the 1880s. This is the local town legend. I am not local. So I'm telling you what was told to me but in the 1880s some noble men were out hunting in the woods that then surrounded the town. They were out hunting all day and they came back to what is now the Rutland Arms at the head of our street. It was then called the Old White Horse Inn and they went to ask the manager, the owner if they could have some strawberry tarts because they were hungry. Now why if they were hungry they wanted strawberry tarts? I don't know. I don't want to say it can chips but anyway they asked for strawberry tarts. Now the copper was just having a really bad day. Some versions of the story even say she was drunk and she didn't put any flour in the mix and basically she made a mess of them but they didn't look very pre-possessing. When you get your bake well puddings back you'll think what are these? But they tasted nice and the noble men liked them and this bake well pudding as they came to be known took off in the town in the mild sort of the way. Now that's legend we're coming on here to fact at that time in the front of our shop a man named Mr Wilson was a tallow chancler, he made candles. His wife Mrs Wilson got hold of this accidental recipe and she started making them here on these premises commercially and they've been made here ever since. We make small ones, medium, large. We make an awful lot of them hundreds and hundreds in the busy season a week. We sell them in our shop, we serve them in our restaurant, we deliver them over the local area and we post them all over the world and we can post them because this in here is whoops it says I say only just come out of the fridge very stiff. It's a very rich recipe in here you've got butter, sugar, eggs and ground almonds plus the secret ingredient I've had to shoot you all if I told you it would make an awful mess on the floor so we won't do that but it makes a very nice thank you they call pudding right so now we're going to ask you you're going to put your own dollop in and it is a dollop a derbyshire dollop we don't do imperial or metric again as with your jam and as I say it's stiff that's about right you don't want a lot if you have too much it will it will all boil out and again a mess on the on the trays now it comes to the part which most people manage this part beautifully it's the little bit at the end of the get wrong the secret oh I do know I had all sorts of guesses for the secret nobody ever has a guess but really it is only I shouldn't tell you this but I will it's only a bit of something just to preserve our mystique you know it doesn't take it vital like people have guessed apples they've guessed honey they've all had all sorts of things it isn't my car do you want to come and put your name or your initials on two squares and I'm very pleased you've all got your jam in your puddings you know sometimes I have a real job cleaning up afterwards so I've just had a very interesting experience of seeing how a bake well pudding's been laid I've just been having tea in the tea room upstairs above the bake well pudding shop now I've got here John he is the tour manager of this tour so John would you just like to tell us a little bit about what what's happening on this tour yes um delighted to all of our clients arrived into Buxton yesterday some the majority by trade we organize rail inclusive arrangements for clients some clients can drive self drive options are available and we can accommodate whichever request can't once clients had settled into our rooms last night we met for dinner and then this morning we've caught coach from Buxton down to bake well we've been made very welcome and a really fun explanation on the making of bake well puddings the secret ingredients haven't been shared with us but a really informative and enjoyable morning clients now have gone their different ways within bake well just to explore the town and take in the sights then this afternoon we're catching a coach to Paul's cavern where we'll go underground to see the stark tights and staff nights and then back to the hotel prior to a walking tour of Buxton in the morning then at lunchtime we travel to Chatsworth to see the Christmas market display on the exterior of the property and then going into the house which is dressed for Christmas to see Christmas in its fine style within a short time in Derbyshire so yeah a lovely group and looking forward to getting to know all about the bags thank you very much John so as you've heard it from the tour manager himself it's people gonna really you know have a great time they're gonna see Derbyshire in a run-up to Christmas so it's um yeah great tour in this in this festive time of year so thank you very much John and enjoy the rest of your tour I'm sure you're gonna have a great time enjoy everyone out of a great time Chatsworth tomorrow so that was a very interesting and enjoyable experience seeing how the Bakewell puddings are made now before we leave Bakewell I've got somebody else who would like to say hello this is Lisa Lisa organized the tour she's from the rail trail office so yeah we're now gonna head back across the Peak District and we're gonna leave the client to explore the rest of the beautiful town of Bakewell so I hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching and um if you'd like to travel on a rail trail tour then do ring up the office you can speak to one of their friendly members of staff they can send you a brochure in the post and um maybe we'll see you on a future tour so thank you very much for watching and thank you very much for rail trail tours for allowing me to join them this morning I've had a great time and so is Lisa bye