Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

FAMILY HEIRLOOM RECIPES

Picnics and Family Reunions

South Dakota State Fair

August 31, 2014

 

 

Contestants entered their best scratch family heirloom recipe suitable for a family or community dinner.  Recipe should originate before 1950.

 

Contestants brought a prepared dish along with a brief story of who passed the recipe down to them, ethnicity, if relevant, number of years the recipe has been in their family and any interesting information about their recipe.

 

JUDGING CRITERIA

Taste: 50%

History: 40%

Appearance: 10%

 

Premiums:

1st place – $150.,  2nd place – $100.,  3rd place – $50.

 

 

Competition was conducted on August 31st, these are the results:

 

First Prize:

RAHMSTRUDEL

Mary Helen Wipf, Huron, South Dakota

 

 

 

Second Prize:

PFEFFERNUSSE COOKIES

Glenda Maxted, South Dakota

 

 

 

Third Prize:

Orange Salad

Marie Harvey, Ree Heights, South Dakota

 

 

 

Contestants:

GRANDMA PIBAL’S KOLACHE RECIPE

Tammie Dewald Milbank, South Dakota

 

 

 

 

Oatmeal Wafers

Yvonne Simmons, Huron, South Dakota

 

 

 

GRANDMA OCHELTREE’S SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Ruth Ann McManns, Reliance, South Dakota