A hotel is asking guests to sign the 'Official Secrets Act' after its top secret recipe for sticky toffee pudding was leaked onto the internet.
Sharrow Bay at Lake Ullwater in the Lake District said the ingredients of the sticky treat have been kept under wraps since the hotel was founded by Fracis Coulson 60 years ago.
During a cooking masterclass, a student filmed the pudding being made and posted it onto YouTube. The hotel was livid.
A spokesman said: "Protecting the recipe of the Original Sharrow Bay Sticky Toffee Pudding is something we take extremely seriously. In gourmet terms, getting hold of the recipe is something of a culinary holy grail and we will do everything we can to safeguard it."
If you just can't live without the recipe, sign up for the hotel's cooking classes which begin in 2009.