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Privacy prevents pudding plan plunder

A Lake District hotel is asking guests and kitchen staff to sign a secrecy clause to protect its recipe for sticky toffee pudding. The famous pudding is believed to have been invented at the Sharrow Bay Hotel on the banks of Ullswater 40 years ago, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Locked in a vault on the premises, the recipe has been kept a closely-guarded secret ever since.One couple nearly exposed it after sneaking a camera in to a masterclass on how to make the pudding and posting the footage on YouTube.

A spokesman for the four-star hotel said: “There is a tremendous amount of interest among our guests and in the industry about the precise ingredients of our Sticky Toffee Pudding and the recipe is as important to us as the Coca-Cola formula is to its makers. “In gourmet terms, getting hold of it is something of a culinary holy grail. We will do everything we can to safeguard it.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .