Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance
FAMILY HEIRLOOM RECIPES
Picnics and Family Reunions
Indiana State Fair
August 9, 2013
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
History: 50%
Prepared recipe: 40%
Appearance and display: 10%
Premiums:
1st place – $150., 2nd place – $100., 3rd place – $50.
Premiums sponsored in partnership with Feedstuffs FoodLink.com
Competition was conducted on August 9th, these are the results:
First Prize:
Michael Weaver, Morgantown, Indiana
Image by Peter Engler
Second Prize:
Great-Grandma Cora’s Cranberry Salad
Image by Peter Engler
Third Prize:
Eileen P. Beyer, Shelbyville, Indiana
(Image by Peter Engler)
Contestants:
Babka (Grandmother’s Sweet Bread)
Christine Rienecker, Indianapolis, Indiana
Image by Peter Engler
Phyllis Hine, Waveland, Indiana
Image by Peter Engler
As written in the recipe scrapbook of Ada Strain Wingate
Deborah Green, Fortville, Indiana
Image by Peter Engler
Ellen Pericak Schmidt, Indianapolis, Indiana
Image by Catherine Lambrecht