Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

FAMILY HEIRLOOM RECIPES

Picnics and Family Reunions

Wisconsin State Fair

August 3, 2014

 

 

(Image Catherine Lambrecht)

 

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 sponsored in partnership with The Spice House :

 

 

 

 

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

4th Prize: The Art of French Pastry by Jacquy Pfeiffer, who is a Midwesterner by choice.

 

 

Competition was conducted on August 3rd, these are the results:

 

First Prize:

Grandma’s Mincemeat Cake with Caramel Icing

Beth Campbell, Belleville, Wisconsin

 

 

 

Second Prize:

Quick Cocoa Cake

Susan Elle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

 

 

Third Prize:

Krumkaker (Norwegian Cones)

Lois J. Trongard, Pewaukee, Wisconsin

 

 

 

Fourth Prize:

Crowley Family Bean Pot

Carlie Jewell, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

 

 

 

Competitors:

Plum Jelly Squares

Jim Papala, Cudahy, Wisconsin

 

 

 

Scottish Dundee Cake

 

 

 

GaGoots

Teresa Herbst, Greendale, Wisconsin

 

 

 

Pasty

Nannette Piasini, West Allis, Wisconsin

 

 

 

WINTER VEGETABLE SALAD

Terri J. Magestro, Oak Creek, Wisconsin