Staff sign sticky toffee pudding secrecy clause
A hotel is forcing staff to sign a secrecy clause to help protect the recipe of their highly regarded sticky toffee pudding.
The desert has been the highlight of the menu at the Michelin-starred Sharrow Bay Hotel for over 40 years and the recipe a closely guarded secret stored in a vault on the premises.
Recently a number of people have attempted to discover the secret and as a result all staff who come into contact with the cake are asked to sign a contract preventing them from divulging the recipe.
In one attempt at discovering leaking the recipe someone smuggled a video camera into a staff masterclass on how to make the pudding.
But the quick thinking chef spotted the cam before the instructions on how to make the desert were revealed.
Sharrow Bay on the banks of Ullswater in Cumbria has always been famed for its desserts; originally know as ‘icky sticky toffee sponge’ the hotel invented sticky toffee pudding in the 1970’s and is still made from the same recipe today.
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.
"The recipe is as important to us as the Coca-Cola formula is to its makers."
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